Search Results: by way of cape horn by villiers alan

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Very good. No dust jacket. Very light wear, clean pages. 1 xv p., 387 p., [40] p. of plates: ill., maps; 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. eng pp. Very good. No dust jacket. Very light wear, clean pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Hodder and Stoughton. Good. 18 x 11cm. Paperback. 1957. Reprint. 258 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Thick Octavo. Thick 8vo. xv (iii), 387 (1) pp, illus. Throughout with Charts, Plans and Photographs by the Author. First Edition with Scribner "A" and colophon on the copyright page, 1937. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown. Minor edge wear to corner tips with lightly age toned bottom and fore- text block, and a dust line to top text block edge, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean and white. 6.75" x 9.25". Green boards with off-white Conrad figurehead on front board, off-white lettering to front board and spine, and map on endpapers..

Melbourne, Ibex / Heritage Book Group.1996. . 8vo. 266pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . Reprint of the 1930 original, with a 1952 preface by the author.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. 388 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ has wear, tear, and chipping to extremities. Illust. w/ charts, plans, and b/w photos by the author.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

IBEX 1996. super octavo hardcover ( Near Fine) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. Boards have age sarkening to spine and a touch of wear to spine tail. Internally there is age toning to endpapers, light foxing to closed edges else generally very clean tight and unmarked. 320 pages. map endpapers. 8 illustrations. 10 diagrams and charts in the text. Includes a glossary of terms. The author details his adventurous around the world voyage in one of the last surviving frigate's - a single-tops'l full-rigged ship crossing three royals, she was 100 feet on the waterline, 25 feet beam, drew 12 feet, grossed 212 tons. She was built in 1882 in Copenhagen of Swedish iron and had been used as a training ship. 11. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

(London: Hodder and Stoughton: 1952) Fourth Impression. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 265. Illustrated with Photographs taken by Ronald Gregory Walker and the Author. Doublespread map by Betty Deverall. Top edge dusty; corners of rear board lightly bumped; an about fine copy in dust-jacket whose spine is lightly sunned but with is overall very good.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939. Clean light green cloth on boards with blindstamped angled impression and black titles. Edges: moderate foxings. Eps: ffep with owners small name/address sticker and a signature 18/10/42; light age shadowing to eps margins. Few only faint foxings to a few only pages margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 285p. Dj: mild dusting of soiling and rubbings. Spine: head & foot with thin wear and chips; rubbing to side edges. Front top-edge and front flaps top-edge with paperthin wear and couple of chips. Foot of front flap with 3 x 9 cm section neatly trimmed away; small price-cut.. Third Edition (First in this form). Hb. VG/VG.

New York: Henry Holt, 1930. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth 336pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. map, Australia to England around the Horn in the Grace Harwar. Ownership inscription o/w VG copy in faded cloth

Melbourne: Ibex, 1996. reprint. Fine. octavo. dust jacket 265pp., b/w pls., map, Australia to England around the Horn in the Grace Harwar. Facsimile of 1930s original. Nice production

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937, 1st ed., : xv, 387 p., 40 pages of plates; 24 cm. Very good/none.The voyage round the world in the three-masted, square-rigged ship the Joseph Conrad during 1934, 1935 and 1936-from England with stops in the Bahamas and America, where the vessel was driven ashore in New York harbour and collided with Brooklyn Pier; Rio and Cape Town; the East Indies and north of Borneo; a number of Melanesian islands, including a grounding on a coral reef; tacking south through the reefs of the Coral Sea; Lord Howe Island and Australia, Tahiti and round the Horn ending in New York.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. 387 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including maps), plates ; 24 cm.

London: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1937. Original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration, pp xv, 387, b&w illus, endpaper maps. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition. Cloth Boards.

Melbourne: Ibex, 1996. 1st ed. thus. As New. octavo. dust jacket 265pp., b/w plates, map, Australia to England around the Horn in the Grace Harwar. Facsimile of 1930s original. Nice production

London: Geoffrey Bles. 1930. Royal octavo, original cloth boards with gilt title, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xii, 227. Previous owner's bookplate, and earlier owner's signature.Protected in later glassine wrap. Very good condition. A voyage aboard the three-masted sailing ship 'Grace Harwar', illustrated with photographs taken by Ronald Gregory Walker and the author. 1st edition. Boards.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940 VG/VG-. 12mo. original grey cloth in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges rubbed with fraying to extremities & tiny loss to spine ends); pp. 320, with 8 illustrations & 10 charts / diagrams. A very good copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. VG/VG-.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952 4th imp The experiences and adventures of the author on a nightmare voyage from Australia to Queenstown. HB, 265pp, 16 b/w photographs taken by the author and Ronald Walker, b/w map. Ex Lib stamp with previous owners name date and price.l to fep. . Light bumping to spine. Dust jacket is chipped and slightly browned. A VG copy and DJ. Pictures available.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good; Light cover creases, light edge and shelf wear, light foxing. ; . Hodder C281. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork uncredited. . Scarce in this edition.. 1957. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 256 pages; First hand account of a harrowing journey aboard a square rigged sailing ship from Australia to Queenstown in Ireland during 1929, by way of Cape Horn. .

dark brown leather: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. Hardback. Used: Acceptable. Condition good, book has leather dust jacket that has no text. 2 blank pages front and back brown