Vertue XXXV by Humphrey Barton - 1955

Robert Ross & Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. Second Impression. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Robert Ross & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Small stain to frontispiece and title page. Paper stuck over inscriptions to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Ring mark to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. small octavo. worn dust jacket 180pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, index, No. 31 in the Mariners Library. Vertue was one of the smallest vessels ever to cross the Atlantic from East to West. Neat ownership signature o/w very good copy in a worn dust jacket

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. 180 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Southampton/ London: Robert Ross & Co/ George G. Harrap & Co, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Southampton/ London, Robert Ross & Co/ George G. Harrap & Co, [c.1950] (second impression)/ [1950]. Octavo; blue cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little chipped and torn. The endpaper maps show 'The Voyage of the 5-tonner 'Vertue XXXV' Westward across the Atlantic' from Lymington to New York.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Some adhesive tape stains to rear endpaper. Dust-jacket has strips of adhesive tape on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1955 "Mariners Library" reprint edition of a title first published in 1950. First Mariners Library printing. 180 pages + 9 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. In-text illustrations. 1 double page map, and several small in-text maps. Beige cloth boards with blue lettering on spine, blue compass illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 182 x 121mm. "When Vertue XXXV crossed the Atlantic Ocean from east to west she was one of the smallest vessels ever to have done so. Humphrey Barton and his one companion undertook this adventure partly to satisfy an inborn urge to challenge the 'Western Ocean', partly with the object of earning dollars. His description of the hurricane which struck Vertue… Read More

Robert Ross and Co., Ltd, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.