By an Officer of the U.S. Navy Nathaniel Hawthorne editor. Journal of an African Cruiser; Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, The Cape de Verds;Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa. Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 179p octavo. A very good copy in a 3/4 green leather binding with marbled boards. Leather very rubbed, wearing at the corners. Exlibrary but with no external markings and just a label on the inside front panel. Bound with Big Abel, and the Little Manhattan and Scences and Thoughts in Europe by an American. Contemporary name on preliminary page.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

An Officer Of The Navy edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne. JOURNAL OF AN AFRICAN CRUISER; COMPRISING SKETCHES OF THE CANARIES, THE CAPE DE VERDS, LIBERIA, MADEIRA, SIERRA LEONE, AND OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. Wiley and Putnam, New York & London, 1845.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback in Very Good condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 224 pages. Original blue decorated cloth binding. Corners bumped; some minor foxing througout and fraying to spine ends. Hinges are tight with a solid binding . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *

Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.

[HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, editor]. [BRIDGE, Horatio].. Journal of an African Cruiser: Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa.By an Officer of the U.S. Navy.. New York, Wiley and Putnam,, 1845.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, second issue. Small, thin 8vo. Half title. 179 pages. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over rubbed green cloth (with original printed front wrapper from the issue in wrappers tipped-in; chip at top of spine). Very good. This was edited by Hawthorne for his old college chum, who had underwritten the cost of Hawthorne's first book(1837). With the bookplate of William Temple Emmet's with his pencil signature on the front free endpaper and ink signature on the wrapper leaf. BAL 7597.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

(Hawthorne, Nathaniel) [Bridge, Horatio]. Journal of an African Cruiser . by an Officer of the U.S. Navy. Edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wiley & Putnam, New York, 1845.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, BAL printing B with 3-line copyright, Clark's presumed second printing. [iii]-vi, [v]-viii, 179 pp., lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends, with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1837) and gave the proceeds of this popular work, his first, to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.b(1) Three quarter morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g, by Stikeman. Foxing and staining to text throughout. Bookplate of Agnes Neustadt [iii]-vi, [v]-viii, 179 pp., lacking first blank and half-title. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, BAL printing B with 3-line copyright, Clark's presumed second printing.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (editor); An Officer of the U. S. Navy. Journal of an African Cruiser : Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and other places of interest on the West Coast of Africa. Wiley and Putnam, London, 1845.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 30mm tear to cloth at head of spine. 20mm tear to cloth at tail of front joint. Moderate foxing.; First English edition. Uncommon. [1-2 (blank)] (i)-vi (v)-viii 1-179 [1 (blank)] pages. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Yellow endpapers. Page dimensions: 190 x 129mm. Blank leaf preceding the half-title page has not been opened (it is still joined to the half title leaf along upper edge). Two different preliminary leaves are both paginated "vi" on the recto. [References: Clark A14.1.a2 - "Sheets of the presumed first printing with an English title leaf inserted"; "500 sets of imported sheets". c.f. BAL 7597 for the American edition.]

Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (editor); Horatio Bridge. Journal of An African Cruiser. By an officer of the U. S. Navy. Wiley and Putnam, New York & London, 1845.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo (19 x 12.3 cm). [i]-viii, [v]-vi, 179 pages. Complete with half-title and 16-page advertisements at end. Early 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, by the Club Bindery, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (bookplate; his sale American Art Association, 28 April 1920, lot 774, part). Holden formed a very sizable book collection and was an early member and president of the Grolier Club; his bookplate was created by Edwin Davis French (1851-1906), one of the most respected bookplate engravers of his era. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (the title with 4-line copyright and a cancel), wrapper 1 (three works listed under Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books: including Poe's Tales). Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends, with Bridge at times offering needed encouragement and financial aid. Bridge helped finance the publication of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1837) and gave the proceeds of this popular work, his first, to Hawthorne. Bridge published his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1893. BAL 7597; Clark A14.1.a1. Some light rubbing to joints; very pale marginal dampstain in lower gutter, but overall a very handsome copy 8vo (19 x 12.3 cm). [i]-viii, [v]-vi, 179 pages. Complete with half-title and 16-page advertisements at end. Early 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, by the Club Bindery, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (bookplate; his sale American Art Association, 28 April 1920, lot 774, part). Holden formed a very sizable book collection and was an early member and president of the Grolier Club; his bookplate was created by Edwin Davis French (1851-1906), one of the most respected bookplate engravers of his era

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

[Bridge, Horatio] Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal Of An African Cruiser; Comprising Sketches Of The Canaries, The Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, And Other Places Of Interest On The West Coast Of Africa. By An Officer Of The U.S. Navy. Edited By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wiley and Putnam, New York & London, 1845.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Small octavo, viii, [v]-vi, 179pp, [32pp ads]. Original printed wrappers, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint dampstain to leaves at end of volume, not affecting text, Kennebec Historical Society bookplate on half-title, a very good example. Price "Fifty Cents" listed on front cover, tape remnant on front cover, wear to spine. BAL's printing A and wrapper 1, including misnumbered page "x" with "vi" in Preface, copyright information in four lines, and three titles listed under "Library of American Books" on rear cover. (BAL 7597) (Moebs 80) In custom brown cloth clamshell with title printed on paper label. Signed by J.H. Williams on front cover. Joseph H. Williams (1814-1896) served in the State legislature of Maine as both a Senator and House Representative, and he was also Governor of Maine for one year. Williams was a relative of the author of this work, Horatio Bridge (1806-1893). Bridge, a U.S. Navy officer, served aboard the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga off the west coast of Africa from 1843-1844. The USS Saratoga was stationed there to protect American citizens and suppress the slave trade. According to correspondence, Bridge's roommate at Bowdoin College, Nathaniel Hawthorne, allegedly inspired Bridge to keep a journal of his travels, which Hawthorne helped edit and compile into the Journal of an African Cruiser.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.