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Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. the original boards are shelf worn and a little marked. the book has a previous owner's inscription. the binding is excellent and the book is complete with all plates as called for.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1940T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Hodder & Stoughton, 1940 first edition. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Alan Villiers. An uncommon first edition of Villiers's fascinating account of sailing around the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and East Africa in an Arabian dhow. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Rare due to the print run being mainly lost in an air raid. A map of the voyage to the front and rear free end papers. An advertisement for another travel book by the same author to the first blank page following the half title. 36 plates including the frontispiece, containing the author's 50 fascinating photographs of dhows and his fellow shipmates. Collated complete. Alan Villiers (1903-1982) provides an engrossing account of his 18-month voyage on the 'Triumph of Righteousness', a dhow which travelled the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and East Africa. He vividly describes the navigation techniques and the Arabian dhow-owners and merchants that he meets and sails with. Born in Melbourne,… Read More

New York Ny: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xv, 429 Pp. Red Cloth. First American Printing, With Scribner's Seal And "A" On Copyright Page. Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Very Bright And Clean, No Fading Slight Wear Along Upper And Lower Edges. Generically Inscribed By The Author.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited,, 1940. First edition, first impression, retaining the scarce jacket in lovely condition, of probably the most desirable of the author's numerous publications and much enhanced by his superb photographs. The Australian master mariner Villiers was described in the American jacket blurb as "the best-known and the last of the great deep-water sailing shipmen". Alan Villiers (1903-1982), "a sea captain in the true sense of the word and an outstanding personality", embarked on his nautical career at the age of 15. "There followed many projects requiring his formidable skills of seamanship, command and organisation: sailing with the Parma in the 1932 and 1933 grain races; as proprietor of the sail-training vessel, Joseph Conrad, in 1934-36; training as a pilot, 1937-38; sailing with Arab dhows in the Persian Gulf, 1938-39; and captaining a replica of the Mayflower in its Atlantic crossing in 1957" (ADB). In 1936, following his circumnavigation of the globe in the Joseph… Read More