LAST OF THE WIND SHIPS by Alan J. Villiers - 1934

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1935. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ex library book with the usual library labels, remains and stamps. Grubby red cloth boards, stained and marked. Gilt titles on shelf darkened spine. Edge, corner and spine wear. Cut edges darkened, mottled. Endpapers tanned, faint spots, Age yellowed text block, text clear. Double page rough chart of the Parma / Sail and Rigging sketch. 208 b/w plates by author. Light wear throughout. Binding firm.

(London: George Routledge and Sons: January 1939) Reprint. Cloth pp. xviii, 62 & 208 illustrations (being from photographs by the Author, and printed on art paper) (253 x 195 mm) Doublespread ‘Rough Chart of the voyage of the four-masted barque “Parma” of Mariehamn 1933 – 83 days’; also doublespread ‘Sail and Rigging Sketch of a Four-Masted Barque’. Near fine copy.

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1935. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 60 pages, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR, covers browned, inner hinge weak and has had a very crude repair, a good only working copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 174.

MORROW Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST NO DJ..

George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. No edition remarks. 59 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are moderately tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Light water staining to pages throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

London: George Routledge, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good with a darkened spine, light bumps to the corners, an ink notation on the front endpaper.

New York - London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Not paginated. 10 in x 13 in. Lovely book of Alan Villiers photographs. Introductory text by Basil Greenhill. Beautifully illustrated with 55 photographs, most full page and many 2 pages. Pages v/g condition. Endpapers illustrated. Small stamp on front paste down endpapers behind dust jacket flap. Grey cloth, silver titles. B/w dust jacket illustrated on both covers. DJ not price clipped. VG+/VG+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Villiers, Alan.