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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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Whaling in the Frozen South : being the story of the 1923-24 Norwegian whaling expedition to the Antarctic.

By: VILLIERS, A.J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1931

Seller ID: 9570

Second US edition. 302pp, frontis portrait (Captain Larsen), 42 illustrations, endpaper maps. Original purple cloth; spine faded, rear panel with uneven fading, extremities a little rubbed. Short closed tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper, title-page yellowed and with contemporary inscription, edges yellowed. Otherwise a good clean copy. ***Villiers was the press correspondent on this expedition, which comprised the factory/mother-ship Sir James Clark Ross - then the largest whaling ship in the world - and five 'catchers'. The fleet 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 Quest for the Schooner Argus : a voyage to the Banks and Greenland.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1951

Seller ID: 5803

Illustrated with the Author's photographs. First edition. 256pp, frontis, 46 plates, 4 maps, endpaper maps, 1 diagram. Navy blue buckram with dustwrapper (dulled, edges rubbed and with a few small chips, now in protective sleeve). Some spotting on the edges and offsetting on the endpapers, otherwise a good clean copy.
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The Way of a Ship: the story of the square-rigged Cape Horner.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1954

Seller ID: 5804

Illustrated with the author's photographs, and diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill. First edition. Tall 8vo. 288pp, well illustrated with black & white photographs, line illustrations, endpaper maps. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (spine a little faded but quite rubbed, as are the edges, large chip from head of spine, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy in a good-only wrapper. ***title continues: "Being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of her handling, her voyage-making, her personnel, her economics...
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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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The Set of the Sails : the story of a Cape Horn seaman.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1949

Seller ID: 5657

Illustrated with the author's photographs. First edition. 8vo. 248pp, frontis and 31 sepia-toned illustrations, one full-page and two colouredendpaper maps. Top edges tinted purple. Green cloth with dustwrapper (extremities a little rubbed and a few light spots, price-clipped, now in protective sleeve). The edges slightly yellowed and with a few light spots; otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's name.
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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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