Search Results: Captain James Cook by Alan Villiers

Scribner, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Paper Back. Fair. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Spine is cocked. Moderate rubbing to the edges and corners of the paper wraps.

Scribner. Trade Paperback. Good/None. Pages and covers tanned and sunned. Edgewear. Spine creased.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Scribner's (SL198), 1967. A-1.70 [C] . Soft cover. Very Good+. No names, clean text maps, b/w repros. very good+, trade paper, pict. siena/white covers. Tight 307 pgs

Hardcover. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967, 307 pages, hardcover in a very good dust jacket, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons - A Lisa Drew Book, 1967. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Good. 5 1/4" x 8. 307 Pages Indexed. Beyond the cocked spine is a tight book with flawless interior text pages. No marks or stamps. This book is primarily the story of Cook's three great voyages to the Pacific : 1768-71 on the Endeavour, 1772-73 aboard the Resolution, and 1776-79 again on the Resolution, this last voyage interrupted by Cook's death on the island of Hawaii in 1778. It is also a fascinating picture of the British Navy and seamanship of the time. Captain Villier's account is marked by great expertise and his use of seafaring terms gives his story an Elizabethan richness of language. Illustrated throughout with maps, line drawings and paintings. Contents in 18 Chapters: A Way of Life, At Whitby, Becalmed, On Patrol, Captain Hugh Palliser, A Saucy Little Schooner, The Portuguese Pioneers, In the Roaring Forties, Alexander Dalrymple, Profile: H.M.S. Endeavour Bark, Deptford, Sir Joseph Banks in… Read More

NY: Scribner. VG+/VG+. 1967. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 307pp . Slight stain to foreedge. Bit of edgewear to DJ. .

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1967. Trade Paperback . Used Very Good/yes .

Scribner, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. No Edition Stated. 307 pages. Orange dust jacket with black lettering over blue cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to half title page. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners, with past tape repair. Mild soiling to DJ.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Good trade paperback, some wear and creasing.. Trade Paperback. Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition. First printing Very good+ in gilt decorated dark blue cloth covered boards with only hints of rubbing at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with several tape stains to the lower quarter of the spine area. 307 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices, text and illustrated with contemporay art and maps. The author, who had an extensive background sailing square rigged vessels in all the oceans of the world, an in-depth provides biography of Captain James Cook.

Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. The definitive biography of Captain James Cook. Illustrated, bibliography, index, 307 pages. First printing with the Scribner's A. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding very nice. Dust jacket price clipped, paper scuff on front panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Book. Illus. by Small, Adrian - drawings and maps. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xii + 307 (1) pp, First Edition, 1967. list of illustrations, & maps, Preface, 14 titled chapters with footnotes, Appendix - Sense of the sailing ship, bibliography, index. Binding tight with forward lean, light external wear, pages clean and unmarked, Price clipped. Inked name ffep. Tiny chipping to bottom edge spine dj. 6.5" x 9.5". Blue cloth with small compass on front board, black title plate and gilt lettering to spine, light brown top text block, and map on end papers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector..

Scribner. Trade Paperback. Good.

Book is in Very Good+ condition, with very light edgewear to cover. Small soil spot at top of rear pastedown and mirrored on inside of rear jacket flap.
Dust jacket is in Very Good- condition, with light edgewear to cover, 1/2" tear at top of front jacket edge corner.