A Yachtswoman's Cruises, and some Steamer Voyages.
by SPEED, Maude
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1911. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with circular colour illustration laid down on front cover; pp. xii, [2], 266, colour frontispiece, colour plate and plates in black and white, all after the author's accomplished watercolours; light rubbing to extremities, toning and light offsetting to and from endpapers; a good copy, with authorial, signed presentation inscription to the Conservative and Unionist Club of Yarmouth (their stamp on front fly-leaf and half-title). First edition. Part one of the book gives accounts of small yacht journeys in British, Dutch and Belgian waters whilst the second part describes cruises on big steamers to Portugal and in the Mediterranean.
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- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2107269
- Title
- A Yachtswoman's Cruises, and some Steamer Voyages.
- Author
- SPEED, Maude
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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About Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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