Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$18.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 282 pages. No dj. Cover faded. Text foxed. Spine tanned. Name on contents page.
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is clean, tight and unmarked in blue cloth. The DJ has an 18 s price on front flap. Shows some soiling to white background on rear panel and some minor chipping.
Seller: WILLIAM BLAIR BOOKS, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Steinbeck, John. THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ. Heinemann, London, 1958.
Price: US$66.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PRICE NOT CLIPPED. Fox-spotting to end papers & page edges. Dj slight water staining, chipped & rubbed at extremities. Internally generally clean with exception of slight water staining to bottom corner of a few pages. Otherwise a good clean copy.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
Price: US$97.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Log from The Sea of Cortez - The narrative portion of the book Sea of Cortez with a profile "about Ed Ricketts" by John Steinbeck. Publisher: Heinemann, London, 1958. First British Edition. Very good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards. Minor compression to corners and spine. Fading to spine ends. Some unknown signatures to reverse of Contents page. Pages are very good, light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Closed tear to edge of page xli. Jacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with small tears at edges. Not price clipped. (18s net). 282 pages with 2 black and white photos.
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Steinbeck John. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. London: William Heinemann LTD. 1958, London, 1958.
Price: US$115.58 + shipping
Description: First U.K.Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is very good +. binding tight pages mostly white with tanned edges and occasional spotting, blue cloth has bumped corners , gilt text to spine is sharp and clear, jacket is very good with tanned chipped and rubbed ends, pp 282, log glossary index, frontis, endpaper maps. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, Australia
Steinbeck John,. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Heinemann, London, 1958.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine, the Heinemann blindstamp is present on the rear board. No internal marks or imprints or writing, Map endpapers. The DJ is price clipped. The copyright page states First published in Great Britain 1958. The DJ is a bit soiled and darkened. Presents nicely in mylar. G&P A-15d. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.
John Steinbeck. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Heinemann, London, 1958.
Price: US$608.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first UK edition of John Steinbeck's narrative about the marine specimen collecting trip he undertook with his great friend, Ed Ricketts, in 1940. The first UK edition, first impression of John Steinbeck's non fiction account of his voyage on a marine specimen-collecting boat alongside his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a double sided portrait frontispiece.Steinbeck discusses the six week expedition made at various sites along the Gulf of California.He provides a eulogy to Ricketts at the start of the work. Ricketts shaped and inspired a number of characters in Steinbeck's fiction, including Doc from 'Cannery Row'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to spine tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper age toned to back strip, rear wrap, and head of front wrap. Three small closed tears to back strip head. Handling marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom