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Ox Bow Press, 1994. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Readers Union and Robert Hale, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light soiling and shelving fading. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Dodd, Mead, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Small chip to jacket at top of spine. $5.00 price on jacket. .

Harcourt, Brace & Co. reprint,1924. Good/- hard cover. 12mo,cloth,447pp,fsp. shelfwear,rubbing cover. foxing end pages & edges. text yellowed. owner name & statement of when book reviewed front end page.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1924. Hardcover. Fair. Sound, readable copy with ksome significant wear. Spotting on the cloth cover, mildew staining on spine, soiling on back cover, and foxing to top and bottom page edges. Corners are bent and the head/tail are slightly worn. Previous owner's name is penciled on the front end paper and the front and back joints are slightly cracked. There is a water mark to the fore page edge. May 2023 box 4

Dodd, Mead & company, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Readers Union. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Writing inside. With the bookplate of Mendel Peterson. Peterson was an American pioneer in the field of underwater archeology and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, becoming known as "the father of underwater archeology". (cape horn memoir travel geography florida)

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Very good copy. 1939. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to, 452 pp. .

New York [1924]: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Eighth Printing, New Preface . Brown Cloth. Fine/No Dust Jacket. With a new preface, dated 1937, for this printing, with details about the ship not in the original book.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940. Book. Illus. by William Briesemeister (charts); Gordon Grant (frontis.). Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dark blue buckram, lettered in gilt. 2nd ptg.: Jan. 1940. Light shelf wear, spine panel a bit faded, text block edges somewhat toned by age. Firm binding, clean interior. xv,452 pp., illus. w/ color frontis., maps (some double-page/hinged), b&w plates..

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First thus. Hardcover. VG. No jacket. Spine darkened. A few pages having foxing.. 452 pages with index. "The story of the Cape Horn region, including the Straits of Magellan, from the days of the first discoveries, through the glorious age of sail, to the present time, recounting the exploits of Magellan, Drake, Schouten, Fitzroy, Darwin, Melville and many others, including the author's own experiences." 7.5 by 10.5 inches.

London: Readers Union, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. . Map on endpapers. Illustrated. A clean, straight copy.

London: Readers Union Ltd., Robert Hale, 1950. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tears and marks on jacket with a little paper loss at the top of the spine and on the top corners.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+. 1940. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an inked previous owner's name on the front pastedown page. "Riesenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He later attended the New York Nautical School graduating in the class of 1897. Afterward, he secured a position as a deck officer in the merchant marine, being part of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and also serving in the Naval Reserve until 1909. Riesenberg was hired by Walter Wellman to be a part of the support crew in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole by airship in the summer of 1906. [1] He was rehired by Wellman the following year to be the navigator aboard the three man airship America in a second failed attempt… Read More

London: Robert Hale, 1941. Hardcover. Good condition. 452p. illus. , fold. maps

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. William Briesemeister (Charts). Text/Brights As New w/soil spot to page 1. Blue linen boards/NF; strong & sound, showing light edge wear & faint discoloration. DJ/VG w/nips, chips & faint creasings to edges & discoloration to spine. Map to endpapers. PO label to front cover verso. First published 1939; this is a reprint. Maritime history. Chronicle of milestone adventures and expeditions that sailed Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, major clipper route prior to opening of the Panama Canal (1914). Its treacherous waters remains a challenge in yachting. An icon in sailing culture for centuries, classic accounts include Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana, Jr.), The Voyage of the Beagle (Charles Darwin), besides experiences of Sir Francis Drake, Megellan's fleet, and, of course Dutchman Willem Schouten who discovers the Cape and names it in honor of his home town, Hoorn. Add to past adventures are… Read More

Robert Hale,, 1941T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Robert Hale 1941 edition. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.

Readers Union, UK, 1950. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Boards and interior very clean. No Jacket..

Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. No Edition Remarks. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.