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Robert Ross & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Small stain to frontispiece and title page. Paper stuck over inscriptions to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Ring mark to front board. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
VERTUE XXXV by Humphrey Barton - 1955: MARINER'S LIBRARY #31
by Humphrey Barton
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VERTUE XXXV: MARINER'S LIBRARY #31
by Humphrey Barton
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Between 1947 and 1968, the English publisher Rupert Hart-Davis published The Mariner's Library. The library is 47 'salt-water' books, all related to sailing, adventure and exploration. Most are true stories.
I have 34 left, which I have posted individually. You can find them all under 'Maritime, Ships, Boats.'
If you'd like more than one at a reduced price, please message me.
The original owner collected the set and had the dust jackets professionally wrapped/laminated.
All of the books are the same: 5" x 7 1/2". Light blue boards. Unless otherwise noted, none of them have any shelfwear or dogears, and most have the darkening of the paper that you would expect. Unless otherwise noted, all have maps and/or photos and/or drawings. Unless otherwise noted, they appear to have been read once and are in pristine condition.
This one is Number 31: VERTUE XXXV, by the British yacht design and surveyor Humphrey Barton (1900-1980). It was first published in 1950.
In 1950, Humphrey Barton and one mate took Vertue XXXV on a legendary trip across the Atlantic. Barton wrote that the Vertue was the most perfect small ocean-going yacht ever built. She was the first Vertue to cross the Atlantic and, at 21', one of the smallest vessels to do it--and survive a hurricane along the way. This book is a record of technique and skill and is highly instructive.
This copy is the 2nd edition, Mariner's Library first edition, printed in 1955. 180 pages.
Dust jacket is price-clipped and glued to the cover.
Otherwise perfect condition.
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Louise Aird
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- Format/Binding Perfect, with laminated dust jacket
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition Near Fine
- Edition 2nd edition
- Publisher Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication United Kingdom
- Date Published 1955
- Pages 180
- Size 5" x 7 1/2"
- Keywords Sailing
- Size 5" x 7 1/2"
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Vertue XXXV
by Humphrey Barton
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Vertue XXXV
by Humphrey Barton
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Robert Ross & Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. Second Impression. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
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Vertue XXXV
by Barton, Humphrey
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- first
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. small octavo. worn dust jacket 180pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, index, No. 31 in the Mariners Library. Vertue was one of the smallest vessels ever to cross the Atlantic from East to West. Neat ownership signature o/w very good copy in a worn dust jacket
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Vertue XXXV
by Humphrey Barton
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Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. Hardcover. Good +/good.
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Vertue XXXV
by Humphrey Barton
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. 180 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.
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Vertue XXXV
by BARTON, Humphrey
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Southampton/ London: Robert Ross & Co/ George G. Harrap & Co, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Southampton/ London, Robert Ross & Co/ George G. Harrap & Co, [c.1950] (second impression)/ [1950]. Octavo; blue cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little chipped and torn. The endpaper maps show 'The Voyage of the 5-tonner 'Vertue XXXV' Westward across the Atlantic' from Lymington to New York.
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Vertue XXXV [Mariners Library #31]
by Barton, Humphrey
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Some adhesive tape stains to rear endpaper. Dust-jacket has strips of adhesive tape on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1955 "Mariners Library" reprint edition of a title first published in 1950. First Mariners Library printing. 180 pages + 9 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. In-text illustrations. 1 double page map, and several small in-text maps. Beige cloth boards with blue lettering on spine, blue compass illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 182 x 121mm. "When Vertue XXXV crossed the Atlantic Ocean from east to west she was one of the smallest vessels ever to have done so. Humphrey Barton and his one companion undertook this adventure partly to satisfy an inborn urge to challenge the 'Western Ocean', partly with the object of earning dollars. His description of the hurricane which struck Vertue…
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Vertue XXXV: [An account of the author?s voyage from Lymington to New York]
by Barton, Humphrey
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Hardcover
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Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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$67.21
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Robert Ross and Co., Ltd, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.
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