The Sea and the Jungle

London: Duckworth, 1912. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Frontispiece. Large 8vo. Original dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, front cover with gilt vignette, top edges gilt; in a dark green cloth folding box. First edition of Tomlinson's first book, signed by him on the front free endpaper. The book recounts the voyage of a tramp steamer from Swansea across the Atlantic 2000 miles to Brazil, up the Amazon, and then back home in 1909-10. A very good to fine copy. Bookplate of Estelle Doheny (with usual offset). Laid-in is Jake Zeitlin's typed description offering this copy for sale for $250 in the 1930s.