A Yachtswoman's Cruises and Some Steamer Voyages
by SPEED, Maude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. xii, 266 p. 21 cm. 2 colour plates, 25 b&w plates. Blue cloth with gold impressing and illustration. Light wear to spine ends and corners slightly bumped. Bookplate removed from front pastedown endpaper, signature on page 1, some foxing.
Chronicles of the author's voyages with her yachting husband along the English and French coast as well as Holland. The book also records their holiday adventures on large steamers and liners, visiting Morocco, Lisbon, Sicily, Cyprus as well as other destinations.
Chronicles of the author's voyages with her yachting husband along the English and French coast as well as Holland. The book also records their holiday adventures on large steamers and liners, visiting Morocco, Lisbon, Sicily, Cyprus as well as other destinations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100663
- Title
- A Yachtswoman's Cruises and Some Steamer Voyages
- Author
- SPEED, Maude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Voyages, Ships, Travelogue, Britain, France, Holland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Britain;
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- Bookplate
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- Morocco
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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