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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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Author:VILLIERS, Alan

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

Give me a Ship to Sail.

The Quest for the Schooner Argus : a voyage to the Banks and Greenland.

The Way of a Ship: the story of the square-rigged Cape Horner.

The Coral Sea.

The Set of the Sails : the story of a Cape Horn seaman.

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