Search preferences
Skip to main search results

Search filters

Product Type

  • All Product Types 
  • Books (6)
  • Magazines & Periodicals (No further results match this refinement)
  • Comics (No further results match this refinement)
  • Sheet Music (No further results match this refinement)
  • Art, Prints & Posters (No further results match this refinement)
  • Photographs (No further results match this refinement)
  • Maps (No further results match this refinement)
  • Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles (No further results match this refinement)

Condition Learn more

  • New (No further results match this refinement)
  • As New, Fine or Near Fine (No further results match this refinement)
  • Very Good or Good (5)
  • Fair or Poor (No further results match this refinement)
  • As Described (1)

Binding

Collectible Attributes

Language (1)

Price

  • Any Price 
  • Under £ 20 
  • £ 20 to £ 35 (No further results match this refinement)
  • Over £ 35 (No further results match this refinement)
Custom price range (£)

Free Shipping

  • Free Shipping to U.S.A. (No further results match this refinement)

Seller Location

  • Jacques Perret

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954

    Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

    Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    £ 12.87

    £ 4.82 shipping
    Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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.

  • Perret, Jacques

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

    Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

    Association Member: ILAB

    Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars 4-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 19.31

    £ 5.25 shipping
    Ships within U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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).

  • Perret, Jacques

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

    Seller: Roger Lucas Booksellers, Horncastle, United Kingdom

    Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 7

    £ 18 shipping
    Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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.

  • Perret, Jacques

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954

    Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars 4-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 15

    £ 21 shipping
    Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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.

  • Seller image for The Wind in the Sails for sale by Jim's Old Books

    Perret, Jacques

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

    Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom

    Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars 5-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 6.50

    £ 30 shipping
    Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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.

  • Jacques Perret

    Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1954

    Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom

    Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars 4-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    First Edition

    £ 12

    £ 65 shipping
    Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.

    Quantity: 1 available

    Add to basket

    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.