Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this being one of 270 bound in buckram. Cloth, gilt cover-title and device, 4to, 27 cm, x, 105, [2] pp, colour ills. Attractively printed. Copy No. 213. Bookplate of Gerald R Gaunt on front pastedown endpaper. An ex-library copy with a sticker taped around the spine, a librarystamp on the front pastedown endpaper, a lending record sheet tipped-in to the front free endpaper and 2 stamps (one with accession marks) on the verso of the title-page. Save for the library marks, Good in a used and chipped dustwrapper which also has a small library sticker taped around the spine).
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: pp. x, 105. 4to. Bound in full blue buckram,Boards bumped at corners. Buckram a bit spotted and lightly soiled. Gilt lettering and design bright. Former owner's bookplate inside front board. Contents clan and very bright. A good plus copy. Of this book, three hundred copies have been printed on cream wove hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 171.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
CUBBIN, Thomas. The Wreck of the Serica, A Narrative of 1868. Dropmore Press, 1950.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 105pp. Octavo. Tight binding; Copy #144 of 300; Blue Bukram cover, cream wove paper handmade by Hodgkinson of Well in Somerset; corners lightly curved; cover scuffed; writing on pastedown; Colored illustrations throughout; interior clean throughout; Good.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: First edition (hardback), limited to 300 numbered copies (this is copy number 245). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), x, 105pp. Text engravings. Original blue cloth, gilt titling and decoration to front board and the spine. There is some minor sunning of the spine, else this book is in very good condition.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Cubbin, Thomas. The Wreck of the Serica : A Narrative of 1868. Dropmore Press, 1950.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: limited edition,No.60/300. shelf wear on boards. light marks. ownership sticker. page ends are roughly cut and uneven. sound binding. good condition.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. #104/300. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Number 46 of 300 copies. Slight wear and lean, otherwise very good indeed.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 179 of 270 (300) copies set in Bembo and printed on Hodgkinson cream wove paper. Illustrated with 7 wood-engravings in colour, 3 being full-page. Full blue buckram, titled and stamped in gilt. A very good copy. Originally published as: The hurricane wreck of the ship "Serica", Simpkin Marshall, 1870.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Cubbin, Thomas. THE WRECK OF THE SERICA: A narrative of 1868. The Dropmore Press, London, 1950.
Price: US$165.42 + shipping
Description: With wood engravings by John Worsley. Pp. [vi]+x+106(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 3 text illustrations (2 full page), plus pictorial head & tailpiece, the publisher's device at colophon printed in orange; cr. 4to; blue buckram, lettered & decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges speckled, others uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and split, front flap heavily price-clipped; edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Dropmore Press, London, 1950. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this being one of 270 thus bound. Ridler 20. *The Serica was bound from the Mersey towards Aden on the Red Sea coast, but was wrecked in the Indian Ocean.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Cubbin, Thomas; Tomlinson, H M. The Wreck of the Serica. The Dropmore Press, 1950.
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 106pp. One of only 30 copies signed by both the artist and author, this being No. 21. With an introduction by H M Tomlinson. Set in 14 point Bembo type and printed on cream wove paper handmade by Hodgkinson of Wells, Somerset. Bound in full blue Morocco leather with gilt decorations. Top edge gilt, otherwise deckled edges. With wood engravings by John Worsley, and colour frontispiece. A fine and magnificent volume, produced by the small, Fine Press, Dropmore. Hint of toning on endpapers. Ridler 20. The Serica was bound from the Mersey towards Aden on the Red Sea coast, but was wrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1857.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Cubbin, Thomas. The Wreck of the Serica: A Narrative of 1868. The Dropmore Press, London, 1950.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ONE OF 30 SIGNED COPIES First edition. 10 1/4" x 8". Illustrated with wood engravings by John Worsley. Eight page introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. Dust jacket (price clipped; short tears, small chips). Bound in full blue morocco, t.e.g. Binding is fine, jacket as described. 105 pages. No bookplates or other signatures. Number 15 of 30 copies signed on colophon by Worsley and Tomlinson.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.