Sheila in the Wind by Adrian Hayter (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket over the red/brown boards. Slightly faded spine and some light yellowing to the pages. Book weighs over 500g when packed and may incur extra postal charges if ordered from overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No DJ. Tanned edge paper. Rub and wear to the cover.C24.

Condition: NEW.

Condition: Good. 1959. Second Impression. 319 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild foxing. Moderate water staining to front panel. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Pencil to spine.

Condition: Good. 1959. Second impression. 319 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Condition: Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 319 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Boards are bowed. Minor wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 1959. 319 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 475.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the English Channel.His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance sailing voyages were rare. Adrian, then thirty-four, was a soldier, not a sailor.In the previous decade he had been a close observer of the Partition of India and fought as a soldier in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. The latter, Britain's brutal reaction to the Communist uprising of 1948, had driven his decision to sail halfway around the world, single-handed.More than sixty years later, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of Adrian's death, Lodestar Books is republishing the story of that voyage, Sheila in the Wind, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation. As a writer he is trying to make sense of the humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. Sheila in the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; it's a story of the human spirit.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 336 pages. 8.50x6.14x1.06 inches. In Stock.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with a little fraying to the spine ends. Leans vaguely. Age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with black titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.9 kg); pp 319; Index; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Maps to the lining papers; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199973 ||.

Paperback. Condition: New. When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the English Channel.His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance sailing voyages were rare. Adrian, then thirty-four, was a soldier, not a sailor.In the previous decade he had been a close observer of the Partition of India and fought as a soldier in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. The latter, Britain's brutal reaction to the Communist uprising of 1948, had driven his decision to sail halfway around the world, single-handed.More than sixty years later, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of Adrian's death, Lodestar Books is republishing the story of that voyage, Sheila in the Wind, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation. As a writer he is trying to make sense of the humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. Sheila in the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; it's a story of the human spirit.

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some wear to edges and overall foxing but remains good. Tear to bottom of spine. . . . .

Condition: New. 2020. Paperback. . . . . .

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some wear to edges and overall foxing but remains good. Tear to bottom of spine. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. 2020. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1st Ed. 319 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w Illustrations (portrait and 8 photos). Fp: Portrait of Adrian Hayter, by Maureen Connell. Eps: Map with route taken by"Sheila II" between Southampton and Nelson in New Zealand. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Sellotape marks on edges of dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 22 x 14.5. A wonderful single handed voyage that took 6 years.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

HARDCOVER. 1959, First edition. A good copy with light sun fading and fraying at the head of the spine. Light tanning/foxing on the edges and dedication page but otherwise the contents are fine and unmarked. The d/w is unclipped and poor.

Condition: New.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60001854: 1959. In-8. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 287 pages, hardcover. Black & white photos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

2nd imp. dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 319pp., frontis., b/w pls., ep maps, index, Account of a six-year single-handed sailing voyage from London to New Zealand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by Albert Strange, the author discovers both the world and himself.