Eighty Years Adventure (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Arthur Stockwell Ltd., Ilfracombe, 1988. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Author's inscription and signature on front free endpaper. Dark green boards. Gilt lettering to spine. With 13 illustrations. Dustjacket. Press cutting from the Henley Standard 21 October, 1988 entitled "Fred (88) looks back on an exciting life" loosely inserted. A near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 140pp. Illustrated throughout - full page plates. Interesting topography biography reference literature. The book is boldly inscibed and signed by author on fep. The book is in very good condition - clean and bright in like d/w. It presents nicely on the shelf. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG trade paperback with moderate general wear. Signed w inscription on tp. Photos. Travel Americana. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Signed and inscribed. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Shaw, Frederic Greenhalgh. Sailors Great Britain ; Biography. Adventure and adventurers Great Britain. Voyages and travels. Adventure and adventurers. Sailors. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. *SIGNED DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR*. THE DUST JACKET IS LIGHTLY BUMPED ALONG THE EDGES. THE PRICE HAS BEEN CLIPPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Signed and inscribed. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Shaw, Frederic Greenhalgh. Sailors Great Britain ; Biography. Adventure and adventurers Great Britain. Voyages and travels. Adventure and adventurers. Sailors. 1 Kg.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. STORIES FROM EIGHTY YEARS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Frederic Greenhalgh-Shaw. Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., Ilfracombe. 1988 First edition ISBN 0733222739 142pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine unmarked condition in a fine price clipped dust wrapper. This is an adventure story, the story of Fred G. Shaw, some time seaman, gold prospector, bootlegger's runner and full time adventurer 'I wanted travel and I wanted adventure and I found both' This is how Fred Shaw from a small village near Henley on Thames, sums up his world-wide wanderings, Covering more than a million and a half miles, including seven times around Cape Horn and five circumnavigations of the world. During this time he diced with death, met millionaires, film stars and Royalty in California, and even went panning for gold in the High Sierras. And so opens the autobiography of the eighty years travels of Lieutenant-Commander F Shaw, RNR. His is a remarkable history, spanning prohibition and the Great depression in America in the 1920s and 1930s, to the early years of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela: the Spanish civil War in 1935 and Malta Convoys in the Second World War. Indeed there are not many men who have been several times round Cape Horn, a cannibal, jailbird twice, murderer, smuggler, bootlegger and crook! Ref BB3.…