Glory by Blyth Chay (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, London, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto. Assumed First Edition. Copyright 1974 with no other date indicated. Hardcover (15 x 22 cm), 222 pages. ISBN: 034018518X. Full-bound red cloth boards with gold lettering along spine. Boat (contestants) diagrams on front and rear pastedowns/endpapers. Colour and black & white illustrations. Bumped. Rolled at head & foot of spine and corners. Some soiling/fading noted along board edges. Cracked, slanted spine. Tight binding, clean textblock. The dj is bumped, scuffed. Rolled, chipped at edges. The dj is tanning/yellowing. Some soiling noted along edges. Spine appears slightly faded. The dj is not price-clipped. Shows original price of £3.50 net in UK. The dj is about .5cm shorter than the boards it covers. "This is a book about one boat's part in an exciting ocean race, about the exhilaration of creaming along in the trade winds, the suspense of broaching in the Southern Ocean, the pride of sailing round the world faster than anyone else. But is is also about the transformation of a bunch of paras, most of whom had never put to sea before. When they put a reef in the mainsail on the first leg of the race it took them half-an-hour. Doing the same job on the last took seven minutes. Chay Blyth had moulded them into a hard-working, tough and dedicated crew, who could handle a 77-foot boat and give the best ocean racers in the business a real run for their money. And in the end - theirs is the glory. Weight: 485g.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 222 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and there are pieces missing from top coner, but still presentable. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.…

HARDCOVER. Very Good in mylar. 1st edition. 222pp, octavo. clean boards, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good+.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original red boards gilt in dustwrapper (price-clipped, extremities rubbed & nicked); pp. 222, with illustrations. A near fine copy.

1st Ed. 222 PP with 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 b/w & 12 colour photos. Eps: The 16 yachts competing. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Short note at top of title page. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, dust jacket rubbed and chipped, o/wise very good. 22 x 14. Great Britain II and the Round the World Race .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author, as pictured. Very good+ condition, in a very good DW. Chay Blyth?s 1974 book Theirs is the Glory chronicles the 1973?1974 Whitbread Round the World Race, focusing on how he trained a crew of inexperienced British Paratroopers to victory aboard Great Britain II. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. 222. 8pp. coloured illustrations. 16pp. black and white illustrations. Double-page coloured illustration of boats taking part in the race. Maps. Contemporary full blue morocco lettered gilt on spine and upper cover gilt dentelles all edges gilt bound especially for Mr & Mrs J. Hayward (named in gilt on upper cover). Marbled endpapers. Printed dedication 'To "Union Jack" Hayward. Presentation copy: 'To Jean & Jack, For keeping the "Great" in Britain. Chay. A.W.G. Toone, Len Price, John Rist, Eric Blunn, Peter Bates, Alec Honey.' Sir Jack Hayward (1923 Ð 2015) chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers, businessman, property developer and philanthropist funded three international racing yachts Great Britain I, II, and III. Chay Blyth (born 1940), the skipper of the Great Britain II, gives his account of his experiences in the first Whitbread Round the World Race which took place in 1973. Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. 034018518X Spine faded, otherwise very good. Signedes.…

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