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Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: Black and White illustrations. Bound in leather with blind stamp decoration; raised bands. Marbled boards. Very Good-.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: The first edition of two exciting nautical adventure novels by Captain Marryat, complete with plates. The first edition.Two exciting nautical novels by Captain Marryat.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and eighteen plates.Half-title is present.Collated, complete.'The Pirate' and 'The Three Cutters' are both thrilling maritime adventure novels, based on the author's own experiences serving in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.Marryat was an early pioneer of nautical fiction with his brilliant semi-autobiographical novels. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and started his literary career in 1832 when he became the editor of 'The Metropolitan Magazine'.Illustrated by Clarkson Stanfield.Ink inscription of Margaret Hegge to the half-title. In a full rebacked calf binding. Externally, front board is detached but present. Light marks and rubbing to the boards and spine, including a very small tide mark to the front boards. Light bumping to the extremities with a little loss of leather, and light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A couple of small chips to the spine label. Surface cracks to the spine. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots, mostly to the plates. Small closed tear to the frontispiece. Ink inscription to the half-title. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Description: pp. (vi), 315, (i). Portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title and 18 engraved plates. Full polished calf, pallet signature of the binder - WEBB, LIVERPOOL- plus early pencilled notes - 'large paper, proof plates' - all edges gilt, plates and adjacent leaves foxed, good copy overall.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$167.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'The Pirate and the Three Cutters' by Captain Marryat. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman 1836 first edition. Complete with engraved title page and frontispiece. Modern half leather binding with marbled boards. Small inscription to title page. A nice copy. Good++.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$243.08 + shipping
Description: 3 leaves, 315 pp. With 20 engravings, including a portrait of Captain Marryat to frontispiece and a vignette half title. First edition. - Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. - Binding somewhat stained, edges slightly rubbed, spine faded, margins of plates slightly foxing, one plate with edgewaer to corner, one plate with three small marginal defects, frontispice and engraved title-page waterstained in the upper margin, previous owner`s ink inscription to title, else a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0
Seller: Antiquariat Joachim Lührs, Hamburg, Germany
Captain F. Marryat. The Pirate and the Three Cutters. Longman, 1836.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Pirate, and the Three Cutters" by Captain F. Marryat. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne, Green, and Longman, 1836, 1st ed., (10),315p., steelengr. frontisp., title-p. and 18 plates by C. STANFIELD, all on chine collé, contemp. gilt darkblue hmor. - Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on title-p. in pen and ink. Upper joint trifle rubbed. = Sadleir 1594b.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands