The Castaways: (Tauchnitz Edition No. 4769) by W.W. Jacobs - 1927

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth board. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a moderate forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Very Good HC in Poor DJ. Tan cloth over boards, black letters. Clean covers and spine; slightly faded at spine ends; tightly bound; light foxing on end papers; owner signed name 'Henry [Steele] Commager' (noted author and historian – NYU, Columbia & Amherst) on front free end paper; clean interior; slight age darkening at page edges. DJ is clean, lightly scuffed; some age darkening; top half of spine missing; 1 chip from spine laid in; DJ is fairly brittle. 12mo, 249 pp.

NY: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1917. Text block clean and tight; sunned spine; light wear to boards; embossed gilt seal on front board.. Reprint. Boards, Cloth Spine. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton no date. not stated . Hardcover. Very Good+. Name front endpaper, a bit of light foxing. Solid, tight, attractive illus. title page by MMR. very good+, no dj, pict. blue cloth, light edgewear 282 pgs

Methuen and Co., 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. Reprinted. 200 pages. Blue dust jacket over brown cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Jacket is in plastic covering. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. 36pp, cloth rubbed & worn, pages foxed, spine sunned, a reading copy. Seafaring fiction from an author today remembered for the short ghost story 'The Monkey's Paw'.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. First edition. No jacket; blue cloth boards with titles on spine, design on top board. Rather worn, sunned at edges and on spine; cloth nicked at head and tail of spine. Gift dedication on front endpaper; last few pages foxed. Contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. First Edition. hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Paperback. Very Good.

Methuen. hardcover octavo (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

New York: Scribners. 1917. First Edition. Very Good+, slightly cocked, spine browned, decorated covers .