Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1954. Translation. 243 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: ILAB
First Edition
Octavo, boards. First edition in English. Translation of Le Vent dans les Voiles (1948). "Witty and charming fantasy in which a retired French infantry officer finds himself in the shoes of a piratical ancestor." - Tuck (1974), p. 344. Reginald 11321. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#51613).
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954
Seller: Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st UK edition, 8vo, 243pp, edges a little dusty previous owner's name to ffep o/w VG Copy in sound DJ that is not price clipped but which has some mild rubbing and age-darkening, is internally reinforced, and which has a few minor nicks to extrems Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
First Edition
Blue Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 243pp. A very good copy of this first edition. Light foxing to fore edges. 4 tiny black spots - either heavy foxing or burn marks to page 7. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. There are several short tears to the periphery of the wrapper - the largest 2 being 8mm in length. A very good copy.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor tears along the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to the spine ends and corners of the blue cloth boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The story involves a retired French soldier being magically taken back in time to sail with his seventeenth-century Pirate ancestor. Originally published in French in 1948 as ''Le Vent dans les Voiles'' 243pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954
Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. 243pp. Translated from the French. Blue cloth with blue /green printed dustjacket, mended on the inside bottom of the spine.