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Good in blue boards with faded spine. Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels-General An 18th Century Royal Navy saga. John Byron became a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy but, as a midshipman, his ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia. The survivors decided to split in two teams, one to make its way by boat to Rio de Janeiro, the other, John Byron's, to sail North and meet Spaniards. UL-XXXXXX. 288pp, ills, maps.
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC. Collins, 1975. First UK edition-first impression. Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, tow small nicks on the cover) with Dj(small tear on the edge of the back Dj cover, some creases and nicks on the Dj cover), both in VGC. Illustrated inside the front and back cover, b/w photos, maps. Nice and clean pages with a small mark and slightly tainted on the outer edges, two small creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.288pp including List of illustrations, sources, index. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Book New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First American Edition, with publisher's review slip laid in. Clean red cloth boards with gold ship illustration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean illustrated endpapers with very slight browning to edges of front endpapers from a newspaper clipping; no names, writing or bookplates. 288 pgs. with index. Illustrated with black & white plates. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, has very slight wear at top spine edge, water stain to reverse side of dustjacket invisible on printed side, no damage to book or outside of dustwrapper. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. One of the most powerful stories in the history of the sea, the wreck of the Wager, a 40-gun English supply ship detailed to accompany a squadron searching for Spanish teasure ships in the Pacific in the 1700's. 8vo. Ships & Sailing.
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Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. pp. 288. ISBN: 0-698-10669-5. 29900 shelf. Based on John Byron's journals of 1740. No names, clean text illus endpapers, b/w repros. near fine, vg+ chipped dj, gold-stamped red cloth, tight 288 pgs.