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Published by Horace Cox 1893, 1893
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Rebound, double pages, reading copy only. Octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1949
Seller: Caffrey Books, Oundle, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ torn and faded.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1951
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers and dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket has strips of adhesive tape on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket now protected in archival cover.; "Mariners Library" reprint edition. 1951 reprint of a title first published in 1869, with a third edition in 1931, and first published in the Mariners Library in 1949. 328 pages + plates. Oatmeal cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and blue compass directions illustration on front board. Maps of the English Channel on endpapers. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm. With a 10 page Biographical Foreword by Arthur Ransome. Ransome's Foreword is dated "1931.1949" but the date of its writing from internal evidence appears to be 1931. The 3 page Introduction by Dixon Kemp is dated 1893. " Series: The Mariners Library, #7.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1949, 1949
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Hardback. A near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a couple of edge tears and spine has slight fading and marking with chipping at ends. 1st thus Mariners Library edition with Biographical Foreword by Arthur Ransome.