Search Results: Authors starting with N from Ari Dictum

416pp. With additional pages of advertising to the back. Ink blot marks to last few pages. 8 colour plates and 60 bw illustrations. Good condition with some marks, some minor stains to cover and minor shelf wear.

Blue cloth with indigo tooled titles to spine. Pictorial endpapers with a map of William Beckford's estate at Fonthill. Clean unmarked copy with binding good but front hinge starting. Cover with edgewear and lightly bumped.

110 pages with 69 reproductions in colour and monochrome and 18 drawings in line. Ex Chelsea and Westminster library with Ex Libris plate and blindstamped to cover. Library markings on spine. Barcode sticker to FEP. Some fading to cover. Stamped to cover and embossed stamps to some pages.

SIGNED by author without dedication. Condition: Very good with minor shelf wear. Slight discolouration to upper spine. Dust cover with some folds and minor scuffs. 3cm tear to dustcover top left front cover. Synopsis:The British author was the first woman to sail alone around the world via Cape Horn, and she holds the femalerecord for the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. Here she recounts notable adventures by current and historic seafarersMagellen, Bligh, Shackleton and Tom McClean, who rowed single-handed across the Atlanticas well as two instances of survival on life rafts (117 days, 38 days) in the Pacific and the disastrous Fastnet Race of 1979. One story, of Frank and Ann Davison, is a tale of bad luck raised to the nthstet power, while the misadventures of John Caldwell on a transpacific voyage are an example of sublime foolhardiness. David Lewis attempts a lone circumnavigation of Antarctica; Robin Knox-Johnston and Donald Crowhurst provide triumph and tragedy in the first… Read More

Ex library copy with stamps and tape. Plastic bound cover. Tanned pages and label to spine with bumps and scuffs to cover.

Very good, as new condition. Unmarked copy. 62 pages illustrated in bw with some colour illustrations.

A very sweet book with colour illustrations. Condition good with minor moisture mark to Front endpapers.

Good with lightly tanned pages. Inscribed to FEP in pencil with previous owner's name. Signed by the author to frontispiece. Dustcover with moisture discolouration to edges.

Very good. Includes subscription card for 'Now and Then'. Original dustcover with some wear and tears.

Very good unmarked copy. Tight binding. Original dustcover with very minor edgewear.

254pp. Very good with minor tears to edges of dustcover, jacket illustration by Felix Kelly. Tight binding - minor bumps to lower and upper spine.

Very good. Dustcover with slight wear and edgewear.

Two volumes. Very good with light edgewear.

Good with crayon inscription for owner "Fritz Schulze" in Sütterlin to inside cover. Signature and notations to title page in pencil. Tanned pages and minor 1cm square less to lower left front cover. Fold out piano and with musical notation printed.

Very good with minor shelfwear. Sunned cover and spine in parts. Original dustcover with price clipped. Slight finger marks to FEP. Slight fading and marks to back flap of dustcover. Minor foxing to back endpaper and upper page edges.

Good. Westminster Press Edition, 8th impression 1928. Sunning and water marks to cover. Gilt embossed signature stamp to front cover. Endpapers with minor dust marks. Dustcover fair/good. Intact with tanned spine and losses to upper and lower dustcover spine.

Fair copy, marked in fountain pen with previous owner's name dated 1942. Spine worn with cracks and loose front cover.

Good clean copy with tight binding. Some warping to front few pages.

Good with crisp and clean interior. Tanned endpapers. Full calf binding with wear and minor losses.

Very good. Clean and crisp with good binding. Unmarked. Dustcover with upper spine bumped. Small 4mm abrasion to back dust cover.