6 volumes: Edge of the Jungle. 7½x5¼, cloth. First Edition. Henry Holt, 1921. (Pp. 239-246 torn across middle, gift inscription to front free endpaper). * The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition. 77 illustrations from colored plates, photographs, maps. Color decorative endpapers. 9¼x6¼, green cloth. Fifth printing. Putnam's, 1926. * Beneath Tropical Seas: A Record of Diving Among the Coral Reefs of Haiti. Plates from photographs; color frontispiece of "No-Man's-Land Five Fathoms Down" by Zarh Pritchard taken from coral reef in the Lagoon of Maraa, Tahiti. 8¾x6, green cloth. First Edition. Putnam's, 1928. (Front hinge cracking). * Nonsuch: Land of Water. (Explorations in the Bermuda Island waters). 8½x5¾, blue cloth, jacket. First Edition. Harcourt, Brace, [1932]. * Zaca Venture. (Ship adventure off the Gulf of California). 24 plates from photographs. 8½x5½, cloth, jacket. First Edition. Harcourt, Brace, [1938]. * Book of Bays. (Adventures along 3000 miles of Pacific Coast from Mexico to Colombia). Plates from photographs. 8½x5¾, cloth, jacket. First Edition. Harcourt, Brace, 1942. (Ex-tape stains to cloth & free endpapers, offsetting to rear endpapers, long gift inscription to front free endpaper).
Classic sea adventures by a well travelled and experienced author.
Condition:
Three titles with jackets with sunning to jacket spines, short tears and nicks to edges, soiling; cloth with shelf wear, soiling; some of the hinges loose; otherwise very good; three with jackets in about very good to very good condition.