[Rarebooks] SEAS OF CORTEZ

[Serendipity Books]

A15b   SEA OF CORTEZ.  New York: The Viking 
Press, 1941. Blue cloth, illus, 598pp, map 
endpapers.  First hardback edition, printing the 
text in its entirety, with illustrations, some 
colored. A fine copy in worn, repaired dust 
jacket, priced $5.00.  The jacket has some chips. 
This copy is inscribed in pencil by Ed Ricketts to his wife Alice Campbell:

"To Alice from Ed. October 31, 1947. For 
remembering a belt that looks like a wood 
carving, 'for us a measure of continuance.'"

Enclosed is the marriage certificate (#148484) of 
Alice and Ed signed by a justice of the peace in 
Las Vegas, with a vintage photograph of Ricketts, 
(5" x 7"), black and white, with the original 
negative. The book has no printed dedication.   $20,000.00







A15b   SEA OF CORTEZ.  New York: The Viking 
Press, 1941. Blue cloth, illus, 598pp, map 
endpapers.  First hardback edition, printing the 
text in its entirety, with illustrations, some 
colored. A fine copy in dust jacket, priced 
$5.00.  The jacket has a small chip at one corner. This copy is inscribed:

"Monterey /  Mch 4 – 1942 / With the compliments 
of one of the authors, the other being some 3,000 
miles away at this writing  / Ed Ricketts.".    $9000.00



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