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George Allen & Unwin, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. First Edition. 292 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth. Includes black & white plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Sticker to front pastedown. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.

George Allen & Unwin, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1958 Reprint HB Unwin; no dust jacket

George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in excellent condition: slight handling, owner's name neatly inked with date inside the front cover, otherwise unmarked. The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover, and is in VG condition: price-clipped, slight corner wear, slight undulation. 292 pages. "First Published in 1957" on copyright page. [1.3 lbs]

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957 Illstd with b&w photos. Tight and square, a small store stamp in front, faint foxing in rear endpaper. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded, minor edge wear, light foxing on rear panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Allen & Unwin, 1958. slight wear to covers, otherwise book clean and tight. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good clean copy with and ownership stamp to the fep and closed page edges. The jacket is clipped with very light edge wear. 3 Danes travel 36,00 miles around the world aboard the 'Nordkaperen' a 1905 two masted schooner.

London: Travel Book Club, 1958. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor indentations to fore edge and one to spine) with near Very Good dustjacket. 292 pages. 1 map. Translated from the Danish by F. H. Lyon. Carl Nielsen and two other amateur sailors made plans to sail 36,000 miles round the world. The Nordkaperen, a two-masted schooner built in 1905, had to be stripped down to the keel because of wood-rot and rust. Hardly out of sight of the Danish coast, they found themselves being driven hrough a mine-field, while the engine refused to start. And so it continued throughout the voyage, wherever the three Danes went they seemed to have an infinite capacity for attracting the most exciting adventures. In mid-ocean they were struck again and again by gales and heavy seas. The rigging snapped, the sails were torn and in one frightening storm the boom cracked. Several times they found themselves aground on coral reefs. A1E. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Hardcover. 1958 Hardback (see my photo). Same Day Dispatch