Search Results: the islands by lee w storrs

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 3.2000 in x 7.8000 in x 5.3000 in. 1966. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Ex-Library Hardcover with usual markings, stamps, and stickers. 408 pages. Dust jacket has some surface and edge wear.

Holt, 1966-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 3.2000 7.8000 5.3000. Minor wear and creasing, tearing pages yellowed

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Library discard with good dust jacket. Most stamps and stickers removed. No notes or marks inside. Free shipping in USA.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Good/Good.Ex libris. Cloth in dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. A discussion on the major groups which emigrated to and molded the present day Hawiian Islands.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First published in this edition, stated. Boards clean and solid, light shelf wear. Top edge of text block with some foxing. Hinges with a bit of play, though binding still quite sound. Contents clean, unmarked. DJ price clipped, edges gently rubbed with a few short closed tears; minor shelf wear. Clean and whole, spine a bit sunned..

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. First Edition. Original Two-tone Cloth. Fine/Fine.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x5x1. Olmsted, Francis Allyn. First edition. Jacket edges bumped with some chips and tears. Top edge stained. 1969 Hard Cover. xiii, 360 pp. Preface by W. Storrs Lee. The first significant book about the whaling industry. Experiences, journal entries, and sketches by Olmsted during a whaling voyage that took him across the Atlantic to the Azores, to the South American coast, the Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, across the South Pacific and around the Horn to Brazil, and back home again almost a year and one half later. This work is also an early source for the history of Hawaii (called The Sandwich Islands by Europeans at that point, so named by James Cook in 1778).

Bell Publishing, New York 1969 (first published in 1841). 21.0 x 14.0cms, 360pp, lithographic prints, very good hardback & dustwrapper Olmsted was a 'highly moral and literate young Yale alumnus' when he sailed on the "North America' and wrote about the whaling industry of the 1830s. He visted Hawai'i and the Sandwich Islands.