Tai Ki, To the Point Of No Return

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear, chipping to edges and spine and staining along top edge. Price clipped. Foxing to text block and on some pages. Illustrated plates throughout. Record # 2230839

London, England: W H Allen, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First British Edition stated, First Printing; translated by Rita and Robert Kimber. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in blue cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine book in Very Good unclipped DJ w/ short tears… Read more about this item

Boston. : Little, Brown Co. , 1970.. First American edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

W H Allan., London, 1976.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, near fine n lightly edgeworn blue pictorial dj. Translated by Rita & Robert Kimber. Color pictures throughout text. 276 pages; endpaper maps, full page map, Eight sailors aboard an ancient replica of a Chinese Junk sail across the Pacific! A significant event.

London England: W. H. Allen, 1976. Eight men on board the authentic replica of a two-thousand-year-old Chinese junk sailed directly into the path of hundred-mile-an-hour howling winds and gigantic waves - a harrowing succesion of typhoons - in an attempt to prove that ancient mariners once voyaged from east Asia to Central and South America. Tai Ki tells the story… Read more about this item

Little, Brown and Co, publishers, first English language edition 1976 hardcover, 7" x 9½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Map endpapers ('The Route of the Tai Ki'), 96 full-colour photographs (few double-spreads), and maps. TAI KI tells of the unforgettable adventure of eight men on board the authentic replica of a… Read more about this item