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FORESTER, C.S.. The earthly paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$3.84 + shipping
Description: 1st UK edition. Cloth nastily soiled with loss of colour & browned spine - suitable for rebinding. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dustjacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C. S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$5.12 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1940. Bookplate & brief inscription on front end paper. Stain & loss of colour across back board, with stains on end paper & pages below, diminishing in size. Most of text clean; binding firm Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise.. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1940.
Price: US$9.21 + shipping
Description: An adventure novel of set at sea, including visits to Trinidad, Haiti and Cuba in the Carribbean. 319 pp. Maroon cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Two water stains on front board. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
FORESTER,C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. michael joseph london 1940, 1940.
Price: US$9.43 + shipping
Description: first edition 319pp VG (red cloth,mod.soiled w.spine browned,sl.bumps to extrems.,remains of paper label to ffep,content edges sl.foxed,spine cracked and sl.shaky) lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Bookplate. Spine slightly cocked, otherwise a very nice copy
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
FORESTER,C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. michael joseph london 1940, 1940.
Price: US$10.47 + shipping
Description: first edition 319pp VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and stained w.spine sl.sunned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,boards sl.shaky,owner's sign.to ffep,edges sl.foxed,sl.cocked) lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
C S Forester. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition First Impression in facsimile dj with incomplete rear flap.textblock is tight and clean.good reading copy. Book is bumped to corners & spine and is rubbed and stained
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Forester,C.S.:. The Earthly Paradise. London Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition,sm8vo,319pp text with pale lemon end papers with map of the Caribean.Very good in red cloth,silver titles with torn pictorial D/W.Piece missing from base of spine and larger piece missing from rear.Front illustration by Philip Gough is intact.D/W protected.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Description: Story of an aristocrat who accompanies Columbus on his third voyage. VG in Fair jacket which looks ok but is extensively repaired internally with loss to the base of the spine.
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. THE EARTHLY PARADISE. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 319 pages. Dust jacket good with some general wear and rubbing, light chipping to head and tail of the spine, a little marked, price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good and bright with a few marks to base of the front board, slight lean. Contents clean and tight, original yellow end papers with map, spotting to page edges. A very good first edition copy. Size: 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Forester, C S. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Michael Joseph, 1940. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. With clean red fabric boards and silver lettering to spine. Chart printed in red to ffep; price written in red ink to fep. No dust jacket.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$19.85 + shipping
Description: Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition in Good dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. The Dj is chipped at corners and spine ends with some minor loss, mild rubbing to edges. Book has some scattered foxing to fore & upper edges but text block is clean. Small signature to front free endpaper. Map to front pastedown. 207pages. A novel about lawyer who accompanies Christopher Columbus on his third voyage - a 15th century liberal in the New World! Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Forester, C.S.. THE EARTHLY PARADISE. Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1940.
Price: US$23.06 + shipping
Description: 319pp. Original red cloth, silver lettering. No jacket and owners marks on f.f.e.p. Attractive yellow map end-paper at front. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Forester C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in silver and red. In a good plus dustwrapper which has smallish edge nicks and tears. The wrapper, which is not price-clipped, is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Book Society ex libris plate on front free end-paper. 319 pages.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S. (Cecil Scott) (1899-1966). The earthly paradise. London : Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$30.70 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 319p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Columbus, Christopher ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1940.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket bumped and chipped and corners and spine ends, spine lightly rubbed, rear cover rubbed with several small chips to head, boards clean and tidy, light spotting to closed edges, small round red sticker to fep, text clear to read, binding sound. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
FORESTER C.S.. The Earthly Paradise.. , 1940.
Price: US$33.08 + shipping
Description: London: Michael Joseph 1940. 8vo. Original cloth. 320pp. With map on front endpaper. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Forester, C. S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph (1940), London, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's name and address inked out on front endpaper. Chips and tears to corners of dust-jacket and to ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 319, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with silver lettering and circular panel on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. Map on front endpaper, showing "Journey of Narciso Rich". A novel. "Why he decided to accompany the aging Columbus on his third voyage, Don Narciso never quite understood. The king wanted an active young lawyer to investigate the New World activities of his high-handed Admiral." - from dust-jacket blurb.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Forester,C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$35.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's original red cloth with silver lettered title to spine in a Very Good - Dust-Jacket,nice and bright with a little miniscule nicks to the wrapper at head and tail of spine and with small closed tear to bottom right corner of the upper cover.There is a little dustiness to the white's of the rear panel of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped and with NO previous names or inscriptions present.Includes map to front pastedown,yellow endpapers.Uncommon title in dust-jacket and a nice one for the collector,8vo 319pp First Edition 1st Impression [1940]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: jacket is rubbed, chipped and a bit tapped. edge wear on boards. tanning, foxing and soiling. ownership plate. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
FORESTER, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise.. , 1940.
Price: US$43.01 + shipping
Description: London: Michael Joseph, (1940). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped dustjacket. (320pp.). With front end-paper map. 1st ed.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Forester, C.S. (Cecil Scott) (1899-1966). The earthly paradise. London : Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$43.60 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 319p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Columbus, Christopher ; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FORESTER C.S.. The Earthly Paradise.. , 1940.
Price: US$49.63 + shipping
Description: London: Michael Joseph 1940. 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket. 320pp. With map on front endpaper. 1st edition. Previous owner's name on front fly-leaf otherwise a fine crisp copy in like dustjacket.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966). The Earthly Paradise. London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$61.48 + shipping
Description: [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.319 [1]. Publisher's red cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Map to front paste-down. Contents clean, owner's bookplate to front fly-leaf, jacket with a few chips. Very good. Enthralling historical adventure set in an age haunted by superstition and Inquisition; Don Narciso Rich, an ambitious legal aide to the King, accompanies the ageing Columbus on his third voyage to the New World in 1497.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FORESTER C S. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1940.
Price: US$70.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 319pp. Red cloth boards with silter gilt titles and colophon to spinen in protected unclipped dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Very lightly bumped at spine extremities. Dustwrapper bright and complete with chips and small losses at spine extremities. text block clean bright and tight. A very nice copy indeed.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
C S Forester. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG First UK Edition in a Good, unclipped DJ, Clean & tight with lightly soiled top edge and a little lean to the spine.top of spine faded in line with a small loss to the top of the DJ.DJ is a little darkened to the spine with some fingermarks to the rear panel.a nice copy
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$117.84 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with map in red on front paste-down; red cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter with two or three short closed tears. Dustwrapper artwork by Philip Gough. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Forester, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. London Michael Joseph Ltd 1940, 1940.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1940. A very good + book with some slight bumping to the head and base of the spine. Some spotting to the text block, front/rear paste downs and end papers. Book plate present to the front free end paper. In a good unclipped wrapper with loss to the head of the spine and several neat tape repairs and spotting to the reverse.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
C. S. Forester. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1940.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, first impression of this novel by well renowned English author C. S. Forester. First edition of The Earthly Paradise by Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, writing using his pen name C. S. Forester.In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Forester was an English author of the twentieth century best known for his adventure tales of naval warfare.This is one of his later novels, which strays from his typical storytelling and is a historical novel featuring the fictional character Don Narciso Rich, who accompanies Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. There is some wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper, including a few small closed tears, some creasing, and light marking and age toning. There is also some water damage to the inner leaves and tape marks. To the binding, there is some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The hinges are slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper.Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some light age toning. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Forester, C. S.. Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph Ltd, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 1st edition; Very Good- in Very Good- unclipped dust jacket; dust jacket has mild chipping and wear to extremities and panels; Book Society Choice sash around jacket; mild wear to cloth, bumping on corners; occasional spot of discoloration to pages, but no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
C.S. Forester. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very handsome first edition copy of The Earthly Paradise by the well-known novelist C. S. Forester. The first edition copy ofThe Earthly Paradise, by well-known novelist C.S. Forester. In the publisher's original red cloth.This novel follows the story of Christopher Columbus and his third voyage to America, told by the point of view of Don Narciso Rich, a 15th century liberal in a New World. That voyage was said to be the most disastrous for Columbus, who was sent back to Spain still in chains after being captured. This is a tale not only of history, but also of greed, ambition, thirst and jealousy.With unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with titles stamped in silver to spine. Externally, very smart with minor shelfwear only. Spine is slightly bumped to head and slightly fainted. Dustwrapper is unclipped and smart, with minor chipping and closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Signed by previous owner to front free endpaper, dated 23.9.40. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
FORESTER, C.S.. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 319pp. Hint of a forward lean, lower front corner gently tapped (though still sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few short closed tears; a Very Good+ example, lacking the Book Society wraparound band. A novel of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the New World.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Michael Joseph, 194071. First Editions apart from The Captain from Connecticut which is a Mermaid Books paperback. 12 volumes, octavo. In the publishers original cloth binding with the original dust jackets. The Captain from Connecticut is a paperback, first edition thus. Some spotting to a couple of leaves, a good set. All first editions, first impressions apart from The Captain from Connecticut. A "lost" novel of Forester's, The Pursued, was discovered in 2003 and bought at an auction and was published by Penguin Classics on 3 November 2011. Approximately 7 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition with gilt titles, some bruising to the top and base of spines. Joints good condition. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition clean. Page edges good condition some foxing spots, tanned. Dust jackets good condition see photos. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition. Paste downs good condition tanned. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned with some foxing. Pages good condition some light foxing, and a few finger marks. Binding good condition solid. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1940-71 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
C. S. Forester. The Earthly Paradise. Michael Joseph, London, 1940.
Price: US$608.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: a first edition copy of this novel by popular author C. S. Forester. The first edition copy ofThe Earthly Paradise, by well-known novelist C.S. Forester. In the publisher's original red cloth.This novel follows the story of Christopher Columbus and his third voyage to America, told by the point of view of Don Narciso Rich, a 15th century liberal in a New World. That voyage was said to be the most disastrous for Columbus, who was sent back to Spain still in chains after being captured. This is a tale not only of history, but also of greed, ambition, thirst and jealousy.With price-clipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally very handsome with minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is price clipped and lovely, with only minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom