RARE Early 1932 First Edition 10,000 Leagues Over The Sea by William A.Robinson
Book in good condition - May be the only treal 1st Edition - First printing of this beautiful book.
Green boards with gold gilt titles. Spine and binding tight. Little shelf wear on corners etc. Interior clean; edges a little browned.
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This is the first edition from 1932 with the green cloth cover boards and the gold lettering. Pages are all very nice with slight wear on lower corner. The book is in Good Condition pages and binding are intact. Has the owners name written on the inside cover from 1941. Authors Picture is also set in the middle of the inside cover. There is a inscription the first page It seems like something the writer may have inscribe but it is not signed. There are 35 illustrations in the 379 pages. Item Description: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, New York, 1932. Green Cloth, Cardboard.
Book Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket (We do think this edition had none D.J created by the very first editor). 6 x 9. Real First Edition.
Brewer, Warren & Putnam went bankrupt in 1932, leaving other publishing houses to finish the runs of many of their books, this one, I surmise having been one of them.
It was after published in 1932 by Harcourt, Brace.
Incredible story of a man who sailed around the world in 3 years, from New York west through the Panama and Suez Canals, and at Moorhead NC. Track of the trip on endpaper maps. Sailing/ Memoir.Exciting reading from NYC to cannibalistic headhunters to friendly Muslims and back. ALL TRUE ! A full-page cover illustration depicting Robinson seated at the helm of his Ketch. The son of a midwestern newspaper publisher, William A. Robinson circumnavigated the globe from 1928 to 1931 in the 32-foot ketch "Svaap", the smallest ship to ever do so at the time. He recounted his adventures on the cruise in this book "Ten Thousand Leagues Over the Sea" (titled "Deep Water and Shoal" in Britain). He paid his way by selling articles to magazines and newspapers. He was married to Florence Crane who he'd first met upon his heroic return to New York in 1931. Following their wedding in 1933, they set sail for the Galapagos to celebrate their honeymoon, were shipwrecked in the Panamanian jungle by flash floods.
Then they set sail again to the Galapagos. William Albert fell seriously ill from acute peritonitis and only had his life saved in extremis thanks to his wife and the help of an offshore fishing boat equipped with radio transmissions and the American Navy which used seaplanes from Panama and a large warship which arrived in time and where William Albert was immediately operated on and finally had, by the grace of God, after a very long convalescence: his life saved.
-- Information gathered from the web page of the Essex Oyster Smak "Betty CK145"
This is a very nice copy of this real collectible vintage book.
Would be great for any book collector.
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