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NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1933. Portion of dust jacket glued to half title page, age toned gutters, else textblock is clean and tight. Mapped end papers. Blue cloth, sunned spine, bumped head and foot of spine and to the corners, scuffed covers. Lacks dust jacket; 487p.. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Mapped End Papers/Charts. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Good. Edge wear to spine ends, bottom edges of covers have some fraying, corners worn. Inside is good, pages clean with no markings or writing. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Murray Hill Books, Inc., 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Murray Hill Books, Inc., 1944. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

FARRAR & RINEHART, 1933. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - Binding is a little off center - My shelf location - 28-a-21*

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1933. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Fifth edition. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears. Cloth spine head and spine base faded, ink name. 1933 Hard Cover. xii, 487 pp. “The Sea Witch” offers historic fiction at its best. Rooted in true facts surrounding one of the fastest sailing ships in history..., the novel is populated by fictional characters, who are truly genuine to their time and place. The ship itself, a swift and beautiful American clipper [plying] the China tea trade and the California gold rush, is the pivot around which the lives of three brothers revolve as shipmaster (and his wife), first mate, and carpenter. Adventure, romance, and...greed, send them literally across the oceans. While the impetus might have been trade and profit, “The Sea Witch” whips up magic far beyond ports of call and cargo manifests. Bitter business rivalries and fiery romantic… Read More

NY: FARRAR & RINEHART. OWNER'S BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTE-DOWN. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1933.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. VG. 1933. The clipper as a class was built during the 1840-60s and developed in America and the Sea Witch is the dominant character . in this story. Marbled boards, blue spine & end tips. Edge wear, owner name flyleaf. .

Murray Hill Books. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1944. First illustrated. Hardcover. Tight unmarked book in DJ with long tears and a chip from top edge. 16 illustrations; 487 pages .

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Murray Hill , 1944. Bound in dark blue cloth with image of sailing ship stamped on upper board and gilt lettering on spine; map endpapers. Minor wear to edges of boards. 487 pages plus a number of illustrations in full colour.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Grant.

London: Thornton Butterworth, Limited, 1933. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound, red cloth boards. Fades spine with some marks. An ownership stamp and foxing on the end papers. Minor creases on top corners of the first few pages. Fluid and other marks and creases on some pages inside. No jacket.

NY: MURRAY HILL BOOKS. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SMALL CLOSED TEAR TO THE P/C DJ. CLEAN, UNMARKED COPY! . VG. Hardcover. 1944.

New York: Murray Hill Books, 1946. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. Gordon Grant. 487p., illus.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First printing (FR symbol on the copyright page). Marbled paper half-bound in blue cloth. 487 pp. plus advertising. A fine, sharp, unmarked copy in a tight binding with hinges intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Murray Hill 1944, 1st Illustrated edition. (Hardcover) 485pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, map endpapers, illustrations, color plates. Minor edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Book about Roger Murray. Illustrations by Gordon Grant. (Fiction, Seafaring Life).

New York: Murray Hill, 1944. Book. Illus. by Grant, Gordon. Very Good. Hardcover. First Illustrated Edition. 8vo.. (xii) 487 pages, b/w illustrations and 6 color plates by Gordon Grant, Bloomsbury astist, map endpapers; blue cloth. Very good condition, spine ends and corner tips lightly worn, cover edge slightly sunned, endpapers lighly toned; dust jacket good-, edgewear, hole at spine, piece missing spine end and top rear, light soil.

The Sea Witch: A Narrative of the Experiences of Capt. Roger Murray and Others in an American Clipper Ship During the Years 1846 to 1856, Laing, Alexander; Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Published by Murray Hill Books, Inc., New York, 1944. First Illustrated Edition. Blue cloth boards with light blue ship illustration front boards, spine titles in gilt with blue horizontal lines. Illustrated mapped endpapers, frontispiece and five full-color illustrations along with numerous black and white illustrations throughout.. Personal owner's book plate versus of frontispiece; no other markings. Small lower corner tear page 44 preceded and followed by lower corner page folds;light toning. Clipped jacket has tiny chips and 2 small closed tears back edges.