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Master Of Cape Horn. The Story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World. William Andrew Nelson, 1839-1929. Signed copy.
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London. Victor Gollancz LTD. 1982 1st.. 10.0 x 7.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Author’s inscription to early page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 160 pp. With 10 colour plates, b/w photographs and some illustrations in text. Taken from William Nelson’s logbooks and brief autobiography, this is an account of the life of one of the last men to captain a Square -rigger sailing ship, making his last voyage, aged 70. Captain Wilson died in 1929.
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- Master Of Cape Horn. The Story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World. William Andrew Nelson, 1839-1929. Signed copy.
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- FALKUS, HUGH:
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- London. Victor Gollancz LTD. 1982 1st.
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- BIOGRAPHIES/LETTERS/DIARIES Dustwrapper First Edition Illustrated Books Maritime Foreign travel History Signed
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Dorchester, Dorset
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
