The Making of a Sailor: The Photographic Story of Schoolships Under Sail
by Villiers, Alan J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Routledge: 1938) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 48 plus over 200 photographic illustrations (255 x 195 mm). First Edition. An about fine copy in very good dust-jacket sunned on spine and stamped Overseas edition on the front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 198994
- Title
- The Making of a Sailor: The Photographic Story of Schoolships Under Sail
- Author
- Villiers, Alan J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- maritime education sailing ships
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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