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To the Frozen South.

By: VILLIERS, A.J.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Hobart, Davies Bros. Ltd.: [1924].

Seller ID: 5385

First edition. 4to. [viii], 96pp, portrait (Capt Larsen of the Ross Sea Whaling Expedition), 48 full-page photographs by the author, full-page map. Original cloth-backed papered boards, staple-bound and cut flush, title and decorations in gilt on front cover. Spine sunned and with slight loss of cloth at the head, the boards in nice clean condition. Gift inscription on title-page. A few small silverfish holes near the lower corner; in all other respects a nice clean copy. ***Villiers' first book: he accompanied the Norwegian Ross Sea Whaling Expedition, which left Hobart in November 1923, as a...
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Sea-Dogs of Today.

By: VILLIERS, A.J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co.: 1932

Seller ID: 22027

First UK edition. 284pp, frontis & 31 plates (half-tone photographs). Original navy blue cloth, title blocked in gilt on spine and in blind on the upper board; extremities a trifle rubbed. Bookplates of the National Maritime Museum on front paste-down, and what would seem to have been a small ink stamp on the rear paste-down obscured with liquid paper. Edges a little yellowed, as are some of the plates, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. *** The first two chapters concern Captain Anton Larsen, the Norwegian whaling captain. Villiers accompanied Larsen's 1924 whaling expedition to the so...
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Whalers of the Midnight Sun.

By: VILLIERS, A.J.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles: 1934

Seller ID: 36581

Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles Pont. First UK edition. 286pp, frontis and 9 plates (one double-page), endpaper maps. Original orange cloth; spine a little faded, a couple of slight splits at the head and a little rubbed at the tail. A good+ clean copy. ***Fictionalised account of a whaling expedition, based on Villiers' experiences as a newspaper correspondent on the Norwegian Antarctic whaling expedition, which departed Hobart for the Ross Sea in November 1923.
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Vanished Fleets : sea stories from Old Van Diemen's Land.

By: VILLIERS, Alan

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1974

Seller ID: 23855

Illustrated with photographs and maps. Facsimile reprint (first published 1931). xii, 298pp, b&w frontis & 20 b&w photographs, endpaper sketch maps. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0858530163 ***Early days, convict ships, whalers and clippers.
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Give me a Ship to Sail.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1958

Seller ID: 18974

First edition. 256pp, illus. Original cloth with dustwrapper (slightly rubbed). Gift inscription. Good to very good. ***Part 1 - 'Some Wandering Adventures'; Part 2 - The 'Mayflower [replica] Story'.
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The Coral Sea.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Museum Press: 1949

Seller ID: 36477

Maps by Stephen Voorhies. First edition. 310pp, illustrated, maps and endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper (lacking small pieces from most of its corners, spine sunned, now in protective sleeve ). Edges yellowed and with some light spotting, the first 20 pages also with light spotting; otherwise a good clean copy.
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Vanished Fleets : ships and men of Old Van Diemen's Land.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1931

Seller ID: 7524

Illustrated with photgraphs and maps. First US edition. 8vo. x, 298pp, frontis, 8 plates (10 illus), endpaper sketch maps of Tasmania. Original green cloth; spine and margins faded). Top edges tinted green (also faded), the others uncut. A good to very good clean copy. ***Early days, convict ships, whalers and clippers.
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Author:VILLIERS, A.J

To the Frozen South.

Sea-Dogs of Today.

Whalers of the Midnight Sun.

Vanished Fleets : sea stories from Old Van Diemen's Land.

Give me a Ship to Sail.

The Coral Sea.

Vanished Fleets : ships and men of Old Van Diemen's Land.