The Sea and The Jungle: Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910
London: Duckworth, 1930. Clare Leighton. First edition with woodcuts by Clare Leighton. Hardcover. 343pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good, with moderate bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the covers. The pages are a bit tanned. In a very good dust jacket, with much sunning at the jacket's spine, and along the edges (the title is still printed boldly on the spine). The edges are just a trifle chipped, and one of these chips has been backed with a small piece of tape. Item #45111
With 16 woodcuts by Clare Leighton. The first illustrated edition of Tomlinson's "The Sea and the Jungle."
Price: $250.00