Once Is Enough

Foxing to page edges. Adhesive tape stains to endpapers. Some adhesive residue to spine. Dust-jacket has adhesive tape stains on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1960 "Mariners Library" reprint edition of a title first published in 1959. First Mariners Library printing. 205, [1], [2 (blank)] pages + 26 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. In-text illustrations and maps. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "'Once is enough,' says Miles Smeeton, having tried twice to sail round South America from Pacific to Atlantic. Both times Tzu Hang, a 46-foot ketch built in Hong Kong, was turned right over and dismasted, almost every scrap of rigging being lost. Both times she made port under an improvised jury-rig. The first part of the voyage from Sydney was deceptively uneventful. The reader enjoys a pleasant cruise, getting to know the ship and her crew, while Pwe, the Siamese cat, stalks albatrosses." - from dust-jacket blurb. Dust-jacket illustration from an oil-painting by John Purser.

Product Info

Publisher: Rupert Hart-Davis

Year: 1959

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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