Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdade. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948.
SLOCUM, Captain Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the World and Voyage of the Liberdade.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Hardcover (no dust jacket).
The definitive 1948 vintage printing of Captain Joshua Slocum's legendary single-handed global circumnavigation. Features the classic introduction by Arthur Ransome along with historical maps and illustrations.
• Binding & Cloth: Original light brown cloth boards featuring a blue stamped compass design to the front panel. Cloth is distinctly rubbed, bumped, and displays noticeable handling stains/foxing with faded titles to the spine wrapper.
• Spine: Shows distinct reading wear, including heavy creasing and uniform chipping to the cloth ends. The underlying structural text block binding remains entirely firm.
• Interior: 384 pages. Map endpapers are intact. Text leaves are foxed and age-toned throughout. Name inside.
• Overall: A heavily weathered, authentic vintage survivor of a classic nautical travel epic, priced down strictly to account for advanced environmental storage wear.
ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.
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