Long Pennant by La Farge, Oliver - 1961

Very Good. 1933 blue and black boards

Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933. Author won 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Navy cloth boards are rubbed, spinecover sunned, tips chipping. Front inside hinge weak. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933. First edition. A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Small label removed from title page else book is fine. Dustjacket spine is faded with some minor loss of a few centimeters at crown and heel. Naval fiction set during the Age of Sail.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1933. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. A very good copy in a very good unclipped ($2.50) dustjacket. A sturdy copy in black cloth with blue lettering and pennant decorations to front board. 305 pp. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Edgewear to one top edge--some of the board is worn away--about an inch. Also some wear to the rear board at the top where a little of the cloth has been worn away. Dusty paper edges. Otherwise a tight sturdy copy with clean interior. Dustjacket has edgewear and chipping to the top and a little at the heel of the spine--some darkening to the spine as well--not a near fine copy--but certainly a very good copy with a colorful front dustjacket. Author won the pulitzer prize for "Laughing Boy".

Boston / NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small owner label on the front pastedown, light wear to the boards, about fine in very good dustwrapper with a few small chips. Adventures of a Rhode Island privateer seeking to prey on British shipping.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933., 1933. First edition. First edition. Author's third book. Very good in dust jacket with some shallow chipping at spine ends and a two inch closed tear at top edge of rear panel. The brig Glimpse sails from Chog's Cove, Rhode Island as a privateer to make the fortunes of its officers and crew by preying upon British commerce in the Caribbean. For a time all goes well until the capture of a sloop of dubious registry causes trouble for all aboard the Glimpse. Scarce.