GIVE ME A SHIP TO SAIL by Villiers, Alan - 1958

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Seafaring Tales. Part 1, "Some wandering adventures", Part 2 "The Mayflower Story". Frontispiece has a B&W photo of "Mayflower II". Illustrated with a few other B&W Photos. Light blue cloth cover with Silver lettering to spine. 256 Pages, 8 1/4" Tall. 420g. Slight loss of colour to cover (see photo). No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Some tanning to spine. Light rubbing to surfaces.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, edge worn and scuffed in places. There is sporadic foxing on the early pages, but very little in the body of the book, there are other minor age related marks. The book is complete with all plates as called for. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Notable staining to front hinge. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to price-clipped jacket. Small bookplate. .

London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1958).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. 256; frontispiece, list of illustrations, technical appendix; original cloth, minor foxing to chipped and rubbed dustjacket, price clipped; page edges flecked, endpapers foxed; a good copy.

hodder and stoughton london 1958. first edition 256pp ills. VG- (pale blue cloth w.gilt lettering to spine,sl.rubbed and stained,sl.sunning towards edges w.mod.sunning to spine,extremities sl.bumped,dealer's blind stamp to ffep,bookplate to ffep,prelims.sl.foxed,contents clean,edges sl.soiled/foxed,sl.cocked) in VG- d/w (sl.rubbed and stained,sl.sunned,sl.bumps w.minor wear to extremities,price-clipped) a clean and tight copy

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1958. octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy) inscribed: all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, (1958). First U.S edition; 8vo; pp. (vii), 312; 24 pages of b/w plates, 1 map, technical appendix, index; original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, worn cloth, worn dustjacket, a good copy.