Last Voyage
by Davison, Ann
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Peter Davies, 1951. Written by the first woman to single handledly sail the Atlantic Ocean. Describes her life in the early 1930s as an aviator and her marriage to Frank Davison, another aviator, with whom she bought and ran a small commercial airfield. Mostly it is about their ill-fated purchase of "Reliance". With refurbishment debts a writ of repossession about to be nailed to the mast, Ann and Frank hurriedly set sail for the West Indies, with the boat unfinished, and into the teeth of a gale. CONDITION 248 pages with half tone photo plates, tidy name to first free end page, lightly foxed mainly at ends and edges, Brown cloth faded to edges corresponding to loss at spine ends of DJ which is a bit tatty. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14339
- Title
- Last Voyage
- Author
- Davison, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Peter Davies
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea;
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...