Search Results: Pacific and Far East from Trench Books

New York: Rinehart, 1947. First Edition . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Light wear to corners, clean and unmarked. Jacket edgeworn, soiled, small tears. December, 1941: "The little ship steamed across the Pacific from east to west.".....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First Edition . Illustrated Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear, yellow covers quite soiled; text clean and unmarked, sound copy. "Adventures with a Camera in the New Hebrides". Numerous B&W photos. Fascinating.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1931. First American Edition . Black Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate shelfwear, pencil notations inside back cover, numerous pages have pencil underlinings. Many B&W photos. This is the second volume in Grousset's "Civilizations of the East" series.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1940. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Soiling to covers, text clean and unmarked. Adventures in the south seas.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition . Cloth. Good+/Fair. A well read copy with bumps and minor wear to corners and spine ends, shelfwear/soiling to bottom edges, orig owner's name at top of flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Jacket quite worn at edges and corners, tears to rear flap fold, chipping to spine ends. A scarce title, especially in jacket. If you're reading this, you know about Ropati and I need say no more. Photos on request. Not ex-library.

Monterey CA: Webb Travel, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear, unmarked. Oversized booklet of 56 pages; 100 color photos.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1936. Reprint . Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Good. Light edgewear, faint crease to spine, prev. owners signature and date at bottom of flyleaf. Chips and closed tears to edges of jacket (title unaffected). Illustrated with numerous B&W photos from the Goldwyn film.

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1936. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Covers faded, light soiling; sound copy with clean and bright text.

New York: Century, 1929. First Edition . Red Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear/soiling, pronounced lean, unmarked. "The true story of an imaginary American boy's travel-adventures all over China". Illus with B&W photos; mapped endpapers.

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1960. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good+. Minimal shelfwear, corner of flyleaf clipped; clean and unmarked. Jacket in great condition with only light soiling to back. A classic in the annals of the sea!

Boston: LIttle Brown, 1937. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. W. Alister MacDonald. Lime green cloth with illus of palm trees on the shore. Bumps to lower corners, spine and edges very slightly faded, clean and unmarked, exceptional condition. Scarce jacket shows minor wear to corners and spine ends. The story of Ropati's first five years in Tahiti, beginning in 1920. Additional photos on request.

Christchurch, NZ: George White Publications, 1955. Gray Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Covers show wear and soiling at edges, text clean and unmarked. Hundreds of clear B&W photos showing life down under; appears to have been geared towards tourists. Heavy, oversized volume, extra postage will be required outside the US.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1963. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Richard Rosenblum. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket show slight edgewear, minor rubbing. A 1960's travel guide that covers the whole Pacific region.

New York: Morrow, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Inscription on half title page, otherwise a nice unmarked copy. Jacket shows light rubbing. Ilus with several B&W photos.

New York: Harper, 1951. Gray Tweed. Very Good/Good+. Minimal wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Price clipped jacket shows edgewear, 2" chip at base of spine. A critical study of General MacArthur. "Japan, Korea and the Far East".

Akron: Saalfield, 1937. Pictorial Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Edges quite worn, writing on endpapers; sound copy with unmarked text. Written for young people, an interesting look at pre-war Japan. Many B&W photos.

Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1958. Fourth Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Wear at edges, creases to spine, clean and unmarked. A definitive guide to the seashells of NZ. Originally published in 1937 as 'Shellfish of New Zealand", this is a revised edition. Many drawings, a few photos, some in color. Paperback, approx. 6x9 1/2", 203 pages.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Bumps to corners, edges a bit worn, foxing to edges, shelfwear to back. Illus with many B&W photos.

London: John Murray, 1930. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear, clean and unmarked. "Wisdom of the East", translated from the Japanese, this is a collection of essays about life.

Simpson-Doyle, 1963. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Light wear to covers, a sound and clean copy. "An unglamorized, frank report on the pitfalls as well as the pleasures of traveling in the Land of the Rising Sun". Japan as it once was. Mr. De Mente wrote over 100 books, most about Japan.