From World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 06 April 2009
No edition remarks. 348 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Some wrinkling to cloth. Seller Inventory # 1724776425DPB
Title: Fifteen Thousand Miles in a Ketch
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 1111
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 348 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Pen mark on rear. Seller Inventory # 1732181522TBE
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Thrilling account of the Author's venturesome Voyage in a little French Fishing Ketch, the "J.B. Charcot" from September 1907 to July 1908. With 5 companions he sailed from Boulogne across the South Atlantic and Antarctic and Indian Seas to Outside Melbourne Harbour, a distance of 15,000 Miles. Undated Edition, in "The Nelson Classics" Series. Red Dustjacket unclipped, original price 3/-. 348 p. pages, 6 1/4" Tall. Fly leaf has an original fine Half-tone sketch of the J.B. Charcot, rendered in Lead Pencil and Black Biro, on the front free endpaper. Signed by the Artist. This is an original sketch, not printed. No other inscriptions. Jacket has a very small closed tear at top corner of spine (repaired from inside.). Seller Inventory # 022321
Quantity: 1 available