Vanished Fleets: Sea Stories from Old Van DiemenÕs Land by Villiers, Alan - 1974

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1975 [1931]. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Illustrated with photos and maps. 296 pages, agewear.

GB: Patrick Stephens, 1974. Ex library with usual stamps and marks. Some damage and taped repair to the end papers and half-title page. Minor pencil annotations at the end of the book. Very good clean text throughout. Top and base of spine have some damage and book is in a permanent polythene protector.. 1st Thus. Hardback. G++/No DW.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. (1974). Hardcover. 0684141124 . Ex-library, usual markings, contents are bright and clean, a Good+ copy in dj. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint. Octavo. 297pp. Illustrated. Fine in a lightly worn, just about fine dustwrapper. First published in 1931.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Hardcover. As New/As New. (Originally published, 1931) Sturdy book, quality blue cloth, very bright gilt facsimile signature at bottom front, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a map of Tasmania and four sailships inside covers and adjacent end paeprs, 297 pages, glossy photos throughout. DJ glossy beneath mylar, a color photo of a ship, blue sky and dark water on front, spine and back. DJ and book, both As New.

NY: Scribner. VG in VG DJ. (1974). Men who built a faraway colony. Maritime history of colorful land known as Tasmania. Slight tanning to page fore-edges, . Colony for the British Crown - girl ships which carried free females from Britain to the Colony. The first shipload was worse than women convicts, who could be locked up. The free females demoralized the sailors. Owner inscription top front endpaper. .

Introduction to this New Edition by the Author. (Hobart, Tasmania: Cat and Fiddle Press: 1974) First publication of this edition (title first published in 1931). ISBN 0 85853 016 3. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xiv, 297. Illustrated with Photographs and endpaper Maps. Fine copy in like dust-jacket.

Villiers, Alan: Sea stories and Maritime history from Tasmania, 1974 reprint of 1931, bound with dustwrap 297 pages with photographs. Sea Stories from old van Diemen's Land