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	ALBANOV, VALERIAN In the Land of White Death an Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic NY: Modern Library, c. 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0679641009. Name embossed on half-title, else Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Gray cloth, bright gold lettering. Map endpapers. Index. 5p maps. 2p b/w photos. TRUE ADVENTURE. In 1912, Valerian Albanov set sail from Alexandrovsk (Murmansk) as second in command on the good ship SAINT ANNA, bound for Vladivostok, 7, 000 miles away, across treacherous Arctic waters. His ship was trapped in the frozen Kara Sea. Eighteen months later, with supplies running perilously low and his vessel more firmly locked in the ice than ever, Albanov abandoned ship and led thireen men southward in a desperate fight for survival. Albanov turned out to be both a gifted writer and an uncommonly honest diarist. He wrote a spare, astouding, utterly compelling book, here published in English for the first time. Preface by Jon Krakauer, Introduction by David Roberts. Translated by Alison Anderson. Additional material from William Barr's translation from the Russian. ; 7-3/4" Tall; 205 pages. VG/NF . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 26163 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ALINE, COUNTESS OF ROMANONES The Spy Went Dancing . NY G. P. Putnam's Sons C 1990. Hardcover. 278pp. 8p B&W photos. 8vo . Blue boards w/bright gold spine lettering. Adventure. Real life spy story. Recruited by the OSS and trained as a spy. Moving from the drawing rooms of the ultrachic to harrowing encounters in dark, dangerous alleys, this is irrestible, real-life intrigue . Moderage dW edge wear. VG + / G + .. USD 6.75 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 596] Book number: 2813 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ANDRIST, RALPH K. Heroes of Polar Exploration . NY American Heritage Publishing Co. Stated First Edition 1962. Hardcover. 155pp. Index. Two double-page maps of the routes of exploration, one at beginning of book, one at end of book. Hundreds of illustrations (photos, paintings) , many in color. 10-1/4" X 7" . Illustrated cloth with black spine lettering, white front cover lettering, full color picture on front cover. "The cover is of impregnated 56-square cloth over hard=rolled binders board. It is washable, damp-proof, and soil resistant. It meets textbook use-standards and is guaranteed for the life of the sheets. " A Horizon Caravel Book . Adventure. Bering, Nordenskiold, Amundsen, Peary, Byrt, The Nautilus, Wilkes, scott, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs & Hillary. Ex-lib. With moderate markings. No dW. VG -. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1164 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ANGIER, BRADFORD AND VENA ANGIER Wilderness Wife . Radnor PA Chilton Book C 1976. Hardcover. Stated First Editin . 177pp. 8p b/w photos. 8vo . HC. Green boards, bright gold lettering . ADVENTURE. HOW A WOODS-WISE COUPLE IN THE WILDERNESS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA GET THEIR FOOD FROM THE BOUNTY OF NATURE'S LARDER, STAY WARM AT 66 DEGREES BELOW ZERO, TRAVEL IN UNMAPPED FORESTS, AND FACE THE DANGERS OF WHITEWATER, GRIZZLIES, WOLVES, AND A CHARGING MOOSE. The special and lsating joy of being man and wife in an interdependence no city folk can know . Inner-side of DJ's spine is damp stained, top and bottom of DJ's spine are worn, full-length crease on DJ's front panel, o/w minor wear to clean DJ. Top and bottom of book's spine are a little worn, faint damp stain at top of spine and surrounding area on the covers, o/w minor wear to sound binding. Contents are clean and sound. Good + / Good - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8866 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	AMERICAN SAIL TRAINING ASSOCIATION Tall Ships Pacific the Official Souvenir Book and Program Newport RI: American Sail Training Assn, c. 1978. Large Paperback. Minor edge wear on clean and sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; Full-color photo illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Profusely illustrated with maps, reproduction s, silhouettes, photos, in color and b/w. Some advertisements. TRUE ADVENTURE. Articles: Captain Cook - A modest, methodical, remarkable man; Sail training and the tall ships races; The tall ships; Class B vessels and the sea experience; Handicapping tall ships and small ships; Tall ships Pacific maps and schedules; The heritiage of tall ships in the Pacific; Three centuries of sailing ships. ; 10-3/4 x 8-1/2"; 80 pages. VG- . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 18869 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	NO AUTHOR The School District Library, Boy's and Girl's Library. Xiv. Perils of the Sea; Being Authentic Narratives of Remarkable and Affecting Disasters Upon the Deep with Illustrations of the Power and Goodness of God in Wonderful Preservations. NY: J. & J. Harper, (c. 1833) 1839. Hardcover. Binding is in poor condition. Bottom inch of the spine is missing, three fore corners are worn through to the boards, all fore corners are bent inward, front hinge is shaken, book is cocked, and binding is heavily soiled. Front free endpaper and front flyleaf page have been torn out as has the back flyleaf. Dark stain on lower fore edge and front margins of first few pages, considerable foxing throughout text. Signatures are tight. No DJ. ; Mediium brown cloth, gold lettering reads SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARY NO. 21, PERILS OF THE SEA. Illustrated title page, frontispiece illustration. Alternate title: PERILS OF THE SEA, being Affecting Narrations of Shipwrecks, etc. TRUE ADVENTURE. "The following collection of remarkable disasters and preservations has been carefully compiled from authentic sources...In making the selection, attention has been paid to the combination of interest, with illustrations of piety and fortitude in suffering, and of the power and goodness of Providence in rescuing from destruction, when to all appearance there was no means or prospect of deliverance. " Contents: Narrative of the Loss of the Kent (with 14 appendixes) ; Narrative of the Shipwreck of the brig Empress; Loss of the Ship Lady Hobart; Ship Essex destroyed by a Whale; Shipwreck and death of five Wesleyan missionaries; Loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman; Perils of a Dutch crew wintering at Nova Zembla; Loss of the steam packet Rothsay Castle. ; 6-1/8" Tall; 205 pages. P . USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3310] Book number: 24766 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BAKER, CHRISTOPHER P. Mi Moto Fidel Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba Wash. DC: National Geographic Society, c. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0792279611. Tiny black dot on bottom edge, else binding and contents are almost as new. 3/4" tear in DJ's front panel's upper fore corner, otherwise very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. ; Red cloth spine, HARDCOVER, bright silver lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "Baker's 1000cc BMW Paris-Dakar was as much a state of mind as a form of transportation. Gaudy and gargantuan, the lipstick-red motorcycle attracted attention, sparked conversation, and made new friends for Baker throughout his freewheeling, 7, 000-mile peregrination of modern Cuba. After three months astride his powerful moto, Baker brings back a vivid report that is a savory and surprising blend of romantic adventues, keen observtion, and clear-eyed commentary. Introducing a remarkable cross section of Cubans from farmers and fishermen to cosmopolitan habaneros chafing under Castro's faltering rule, Baker captures the vivacious national spirit that has beguiled visitors for centuries. " ..8p color photos. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 304 pages. VG/G+ . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 27597 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BALANO, JAMES W. , EDITOR The Log of the Skipper's Wife Camden ME: Down East Books, c. 1979. Trade Paperback; Seventh Printing. ISBN: 089272062X. Binding and contents are almost like new. ; Photo illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. 10p b/w photos. TRUE ADVENTURE. 'Little did Dorothea Moulton know, when she agreed to chaperone her schoolteacher friend and her friend's husband-to-be on a sailing trip from Puerto Rico to Boston, that she would wind up as the 'skipper's wife' herself. She did, and for the next two decades Dorothea spent a large part of her married life aboard her husband's various ships, sialing around the world, visiting mysterious and glamorous ports, and raising a family. At times earthy, always interesting, this is Dorothea Multon Balano's eyewitness account of life aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers. ' Edited by her son. ; 9" Tall; 160 pages. NF . USD 11.25 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 7 \| JP¥ 993] Book number: 21442 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BARTLETT, DES AND JEN BARTLETT The Flight of the Snow Geese . NY Sten & Day First US Edition 1975. Hardcover. 189pp. 32p b/w photos. Tall 8vo . HC. White cloth spine, blue boards, gold lettering . ADVENTURE & NATURE STUDY. In early April the Bartletts set up their tent near Hudson Bay and settled in to watch the newly arrived Snow Geese assemble, net, and teach their young to fly. Then in August, when the geese headed south, they tracked them to every rest stop in a panel truck. At the last stop, after more than 2500 miles, they observed the final phase of the migratory cycle, till one day the geese start the long flight north to begin the cycle all over again. Their Emmy-winning film "The Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese, " was shown twice on national TV. Ex-lib w/normal markings. DJ, which is protected by clear plastic, is taped to the covers. DJ has minor wear and soil. Minor wear and soil on sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. Good + / VG - .. USD 5.99 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 529] Book number: 10396 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BEACH, CAPTAIN EDWARD L. Around the World Submerged, the Voyage of the Triton . NY Holt Rinehart Winston C 1962. Hardcover. Stated First edition . 296pp. 16p b/w photos. 8VO . Blue cloth, gold and white lettering . ADVENTURE. Nautical. U. S. Navy. Submarines. The story of the preparation for and the voyage of an underwater around the world cruise by a nuclear submarine. Ex-lib with less than normal markings (but call # in white on spine) . Spine is a little dulled, corners are all bent inward, o/w minor soil and wear to sound binding. Contents are clean and sound. No DJ. Good + .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8598 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BEEBE, WILLIAM Exploring with Beebe . NY G. P. Putnam's Sons 1932. Hardcover. First Edition . 208pp. Frontispiece photo plus 15 b/w photos in text. Approx. 8-3/4" Tall . HC. Blue cloth, gold lettering . ADVENTURE. Selections for younger readers from the writing of William Beee, Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society . Spine is both faded and darkened and is a little rubbed. Lettering is no longer bright but is mostly legible. Lettering on front cover is still bright. Moderate wear to top/bottom of spine and corners, o/w minor wear and soil on sound binding. There is some foxing on the photos' margins and the facing page's margins, o/w contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. Good .. USD 18.75 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 \| £UK 11.5 \| JP¥ 1655] Book number: 11268 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BENNETT, ARNODL From the Log of the Velsa . NY Century 1914. Hardcover. First Edition . 307pp. Color frontispiece. 49p b/w pictures by E. A. Rickards and drawings . Tall 8vo . HC. Full blue cloth, bright gold panel and multi-colored drawing on front cover, TEG. ADVENTURE. Holland, the Baltic, Copenhagen, French and Flemish coasts, East Anglian Estuaries in a single-masted yacht . All the gold from the title area of the spine is gone, leaving only a faint, embossed, trace of the lettering. Spine is rubbed. Top/bottom of spine, corners and bottom edge are moderately worn but blue coloring is strong and gold panel is still bright. Contents are clean and sound on nice, easy-on-the-eye cream paper. No DJ. Good - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 9140 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BOERI, DAVID People of the Ice Whale Eskimos, White Men, and the Whale NY: E. P. Dutton, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0525242066. Very minor edge wear on the clean, sound binding. Very minor top edge foxing. The top margins of the last few pages, at the spine, are damp wrinkled, else contents are clean & unworn. DJ is protected by clear plastic and is almost as new. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 285pp. Aqua boards, white cloth spine, bright gold lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "For three hunting seasons, David Boeri, a young writer living in Alaska, joined Eskimo whalers amid shifting ice floes to hunt for the great Arctic whale. Sympathetic to both Eskimos and environmentalists, he found himself caught in a bittrr controversy that seemed to pit the human rights of an endangered culture against the future of the world's most endangered whale...The book chronicles the author's attempt to understand an alien world across often tense cultural and racial barriers, a process that moves from enchantment and excitement to dissillusionment and finally to acceptance. " Glossary.. VG-/VG+ . USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 31438 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BREE, MARLIN In the Teeth of the Northeaster a Solo Voyage on Lake Superior St. Paul MN: Marlor Press, c. 1993. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0943400724. Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; Illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Selected bibliography. Index.8p b/w photos. Several maps in text. TRUE ADVENTURE. This evocative narrative is both an adventure - Bree encountered several fierce storms - and an anecdotal history of Lake Superior, one of the Five Great Lakes. Includes tidbits on Indians, voyageurs, miners, sea captains and colorful local inhabitants, as well as tales of wind, weather, icy water and shipwrecks. ; 9" Tall; 228 pages. VG . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 23105 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BRENT, PETER Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy NY: Saturday Review Press, c. 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 0871502587. Large, faint water stain on back cover, else minor wear and soil on the sound binding. 1" x 5" piece cut from upper fore corner of ffep. The fore edges of a few pages have a very minor dent, else contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; Maroon boards, bright gold lettering. Photo endpapers. Frontispiece color portrait plus 12 pages of color illus (paintings, photos) . Scores of b/w illus (photos, maps, paintings, drawings) . Chronology. Select bibliography. Index. TRUE ADVENTURE. In this book the essentials of the Robert Falcon Scott story are vividly portrayed but the reader is reminded to keep in mind the differences of thought and community attitudes between the present generation and Scott's generation, those who lived immediately after the reign of Queen Victoria, when national pride, high standards of upright behaviour, and the application of community and personal discipline was expected. "Another aspect of the difference between the Scott period and present times lies in the materials and techniqus used in polar work. In the early years of the (20th) century we had little knowledge of Antarctic conditions and there were no proved techniques of successful travel...In the end it was the terrible physical demands of man-hauling which caused the loss of the Polar Party. The question is often asked whether Scott's last expedition would hafe achieved the fame it did, and stood so high in the nation's eyes, if they had survived. "; 7-1/8 x 10"; 223 pages. G . USD 15.75 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.5 \| JP¥ 1390] Book number: 25303 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BRIDWELL, RODGER Fidelio My Voyage to a Distant Shore NY: Truman Talley Books / E. P. Dutton, c. 1986. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0525243976. Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; White cloth spine, bright silver and red lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. This riveting, diary-like, nonstop narrative re-creates one of the great solo journeys of our time. Dangerous and congested sea lanes in the English Channel and storms and giant waves along the long coasts of France and Spain all threaten FIDELIO before Bridwell turns west off Africa and begins the longest leg - crossing the Atlantic. Freakish weather, strange sea creatures, a disabled freighter, reflections on other crossings - all combine with Bridwell's constant sence of Othereness, " of an unseen presence, somewhere on boad or nearby, helping him in moments of greatest peril. He set sail at fifty-five, in a 32-foot sailboat which he had built himself, to conquer the Atlantic, alone. ; 8-1/2" Tall; 227 pages. NF/VG . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 19910 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BROWER, KENNETH A Song for Satawal NY: Harper & Row, c. 1983. Hardcover; First Printing. Small (1/4") circular hole near top of DJ's spine, not affecting the lettering. 3/4" tear bottom edge of DJ's back panel, at the spine, top/bottom of DJ's spine are moderately worn, o/w minor wear and soil on DJ. Lightly rubbed spot on book's spine (under the hole in DJ's spine) slightly dulling the "A" of the title, o/w binding is clean, sound and unworn. Minor edge soil. Contents are clean and unmarked; Black cloth spine, bright silver lettering. ADVENTURE. Brower takes us into a cluster of tiny isalnds in the vast Pacific emptiness and, thus transported, into new modes of thinking and feeling. Our guides are three vibrant individuals leading purposeful, harmonious, twentieth-century lives In a place that is in essence outside time. All three share the same goal: to keep viable in today's world the virtues and values of the ancestral way of life. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 218 pages. VG-/G+ . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 14354 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F. , JR. Atlantic High Garden City Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. 4th prtg. 266pp. 16p color photos plus numerous B&W photos throughout text. Tall 8vo. Black cloth binding w/gold spine lettering. Picture endpapers. Adventure. A 30-day sail across the Atlantic: calms, s torms, melodrama & rumination. All pages have a slight forward curl at the top. DW is edge-worn. Good + / Good .. USD 8.25 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 728] Book number: 1181 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURGESS, ROBERT F. Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes NY: Dodd, Mead, c. 1988. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0396088481. Binding is almost as new. Twoundogged pages, else contents almost as new. 1" tear in top edge of DJ's back panel, DJ's top fore corners are moderately worn, else minor wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; Two-tone blue boards, bright gold lettering. 48-page b/w photo section. TRUE ADVENTURE. The riveting true life tales of six of the world's most famous and daring treasure hunters: Art McKee, Kip Wagner, Robert Marx, Burt Webber, Barry Clifford, and Melvin Fisher. Revelas the qualities the set these individuals apart from their competition. Why did they succeed when so many other failed? For the seasoned or aspiring underwater explorer or armchair treasure hunter, these stories make for fascinating reading. ; 9-1/2"Tall; 334 pages. VG/G . USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 18206 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURLAND, COTTIE A. The Travels of Marco Polo NY McGraw-Hill C 1970. Hardcover. 178pp. 32 color plates, 48 monochrome illustrations . 11-1/8" x 9-1/4" . Red cloth binding with gold spine lettering and gold design on front cover. Adventure. Some of the most interesting sections of Marco Polo's journals are included, others are summarized and the background of the period and most pertient history are presented, along with informatiion on Marco himself and the astounding success of his narrative. Photographer Werner Forman followd his routes and dramatically captured fascinating sights much as Marco must have seen them nearly 700 years ago. DW is a little edge-worn and its shiny surface material is starting to separate at the top of the spine. 1/4" roundish dent in the surface of the front cover (not on an edge) and there is a corresponding tear at that point in the DW. VG - /Good +. USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 927] Book number: 1182 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURNFORD, SHEILA One Woman's Arctic . Boston Atlantic Monthly C 1972. Hardcover. 234pp. Index. Map frontispiece . 8vo . HC. Orange cloth, bright gold lettering , map endpapers . ADVENTURE. The record of two idyllic summers spent close to the North Pole in the Eskimo community of Pond Inlet. A knowing and sympathetic study of the Inuit (Eskimos) . Top edge of DJ's front panel, near fore edge is worn and torn as is the top of the DJ's spine, o/w minor DJ wear. Very minor soil on spine, o/w binding is bright, sound, with minor edge wear. Contents are clean and sound. VG - / G - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8327 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BYRD, RICHARD E. Alone NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Four tiny holes in the covering cloth - one at top of spine, two at bottom of spine, one at tip of front cover's upper fore corner. Otherwise very minor wear, minor soil, on the sound binding. Damp stains on front endpapers. The paper covering the front joint is cracked, but the hinge is sound.1/4" x 3" piece missng from bottom edge of ffep. Contents are lightly age-yellowed but clean, unworn. ; 8-1/4" Tall, 296pp. Navy-blue cloth, lighter blue lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf (not inscribed, just signed) . Chapter-head decorations by Richard E. Harrison. "This book is the story of an experience which was in considerable part subjective. I very nearly died before it was over. And, since my sufferings bulked so large in it and since a man's instinct is to keep such things to himself, I did not see how I could write about Advance Base and still escape making an unseemly show of my feelings...But my friends would not let me be...And finally some of my closest friends...p ersuaded me to write the book while the facts were vivid in my mind...As the writing progressed, my earlier misgivings were confirmed...Nevertheless , I finished what I started out to do, and this book represents the simple truth about myself and my affairs during that time. " Top edge tinted green.. G+ . USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 31499 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CANNING, JOHN, EDITOR Fifty True Mysteries of the Sea NY: Stein & Day, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0812827341. Minor edge wear , minor soil, on the sound binding. Heavy top edge, moderate fore edge foxing. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Black cloth spine, bright gold lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. Nine Disappearances (e. G. The Commander Crabb Affair) . Three Derelicts (e. G. The MARY CELESTE) . Nine Sunken and Buried Treasure (e. G. The EGYPT's Gold) . Four Monsters (e. G. Denizens of the Deep Lakes) . Seven Spectres of the Sea (e. G. Sea Phantoms) . Two Recovered from the Deep (e. G. The VASA Lives Again) . Two Lost Continents ( e. G. The Mystery of Mu and Lemuria) . Two Accident or Sabotage (e. G. Who Minded the MAINE? ) ? Three Deadly Effects (e. G. The Atlantic's Sinister Triangle) ? Eight Miscellany (e. G. The Great Bombay Explosion) . Index. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 478 pages. G+/G- . USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 28870 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CAREY, MARY A-Lass-Kan Adventure Talkeetna AK: Tex-Alaska Press, c. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor edge wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost as new. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Leather-textured navy-blue boards, bright gold lettering. Index. Full-page photos & drawings throughout text (91 illustrations in all, many of the photos taken by Mary Carey during her travels) . TRUE ADVENTURE. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffep: "7/5/92 To Eileen, Welcome, from the state where I taught in Indiana University to Alaska. Enjoy our great land. Happiness! Mary Carey. " Mary Carey takes you to many of the more remote areas of Alaska. She lives the stories she writes. Mer modes of transportation range from walking to helicopter and from dog sleds to "Cat Trains. " ; 8-3/4" Tall; 344 pages. VG-/P . USD 12.75 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1125] Book number: 22233 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CARLISLE, NORMAN & DAVID MICHELSOHN The Complete Guide to Treasure Hunting Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, c. 1973. Hardcover; First Printing. Ex-library with call label on DJ's spine. Library & discard stamp on ffep. 1" X 2-1/2" piece torn from bfep's top fore corner. Library stamp on cprt page. Small black spot & library stamp on top edge. Pocket on bfep. The DJ, which is protected by clear plastic, is/was taped to the covers. Other than tape marks, binding is clean and sound, with minor edge wear. Black dot on top edge has penetrated onto about 1/8" of the top margin of a few pages, else contents are clean and unmarked. Minor wear and soil on complete dust jacket. ; Orange boards, HARDCOVER> bright gold lettering. Index. 16p b/w photos. More than 100 maps. TRUE ADVENTURE. A compendium of treasure-findin g information. Gives simple descriptions of the basic techniques and equipment for successful treasure hunting. Describes the electronic devices - from metal detectors to electrostatic gold concentrators. In one comprehensive volume, this book covers the whole field of treasure hunting. Tells how to hunt for every kind of treasure. ; 9-1/8" Tall; 280 pages. G+/G+ . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 19364 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.

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	ALBANOV, VALERIAN In the Land of White Death an Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic NY: Modern Library, c. 2000. First English Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0679641009. Name embossed on half-title, else Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Gray cloth, bright gold lettering. Map endpapers. Index. 5p maps. 2p b/w photos. TRUE ADVENTURE. In 1912, Valerian Albanov set sail from Alexandrovsk (Murmansk) as second in command on the good ship SAINT ANNA, bound for Vladivostok, 7, 000 miles away, across treacherous Arctic waters. His ship was trapped in the frozen Kara Sea. Eighteen months later, with supplies running perilously low and his vessel more firmly locked in the ice than ever, Albanov abandoned ship and led thireen men southward in a desperate fight for survival. Albanov turned out to be both a gifted writer and an uncommonly honest diarist. He wrote a spare, astouding, utterly compelling book, here published in English for the first time. Preface by Jon Krakauer, Introduction by David Roberts. Translated by Alison Anderson. Additional material from William Barr's translation from the Russian. ; 7-3/4" Tall; 205 pages. VG/NF . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 26163 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ALINE, COUNTESS OF ROMANONES The Spy Went Dancing . NY G. P. Putnam's Sons C 1990. Hardcover. 278pp. 8p B&W photos. 8vo . Blue boards w/bright gold spine lettering. Adventure. Real life spy story. Recruited by the OSS and trained as a spy. Moving from the drawing rooms of the ultrachic to harrowing encounters in dark, dangerous alleys, this is irrestible, real-life intrigue . Moderage dW edge wear. VG + / G + .. USD 6.75 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 596] Book number: 2813 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ANDRIST, RALPH K. Heroes of Polar Exploration . NY American Heritage Publishing Co. Stated First Edition 1962. Hardcover. 155pp. Index. Two double-page maps of the routes of exploration, one at beginning of book, one at end of book. Hundreds of illustrations (photos, paintings) , many in color. 10-1/4" X 7" . Illustrated cloth with black spine lettering, white front cover lettering, full color picture on front cover. "The cover is of impregnated 56-square cloth over hard=rolled binders board. It is washable, damp-proof, and soil resistant. It meets textbook use-standards and is guaranteed for the life of the sheets. " A Horizon Caravel Book . Adventure. Bering, Nordenskiold, Amundsen, Peary, Byrt, The Nautilus, Wilkes, scott, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs & Hillary. Ex-lib. With moderate markings. No dW. VG -. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 1164 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	ANGIER, BRADFORD AND VENA ANGIER Wilderness Wife . Radnor PA Chilton Book C 1976. Hardcover. Stated First Editin . 177pp. 8p b/w photos. 8vo . HC. Green boards, bright gold lettering . ADVENTURE. HOW A WOODS-WISE COUPLE IN THE WILDERNESS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA GET THEIR FOOD FROM THE BOUNTY OF NATURE'S LARDER, STAY WARM AT 66 DEGREES BELOW ZERO, TRAVEL IN UNMAPPED FORESTS, AND FACE THE DANGERS OF WHITEWATER, GRIZZLIES, WOLVES, AND A CHARGING MOOSE. The special and lsating joy of being man and wife in an interdependence no city folk can know . Inner-side of DJ's spine is damp stained, top and bottom of DJ's spine are worn, full-length crease on DJ's front panel, o/w minor wear to clean DJ. Top and bottom of book's spine are a little worn, faint damp stain at top of spine and surrounding area on the covers, o/w minor wear to sound binding. Contents are clean and sound. Good + / Good - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8866 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	AMERICAN SAIL TRAINING ASSOCIATION Tall Ships Pacific the Official Souvenir Book and Program Newport RI: American Sail Training Assn, c. 1978. Large Paperback. Minor edge wear on clean and sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; Full-color photo illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Profusely illustrated with maps, reproduction s, silhouettes, photos, in color and b/w. Some advertisements. TRUE ADVENTURE. Articles: Captain Cook - A modest, methodical, remarkable man; Sail training and the tall ships races; The tall ships; Class B vessels and the sea experience; Handicapping tall ships and small ships; Tall ships Pacific maps and schedules; The heritiage of tall ships in the Pacific; Three centuries of sailing ships. ; 10-3/4 x 8-1/2"; 80 pages. VG- . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 18869 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	NO AUTHOR The School District Library, Boy's and Girl's Library. Xiv. Perils of the Sea; Being Authentic Narratives of Remarkable and Affecting Disasters Upon the Deep with Illustrations of the Power and Goodness of God in Wonderful Preservations. NY: J. & J. Harper, (c. 1833) 1839. Hardcover. Binding is in poor condition. Bottom inch of the spine is missing, three fore corners are worn through to the boards, all fore corners are bent inward, front hinge is shaken, book is cocked, and binding is heavily soiled. Front free endpaper and front flyleaf page have been torn out as has the back flyleaf. Dark stain on lower fore edge and front margins of first few pages, considerable foxing throughout text. Signatures are tight. No DJ. ; Mediium brown cloth, gold lettering reads SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARY NO. 21, PERILS OF THE SEA. Illustrated title page, frontispiece illustration. Alternate title: PERILS OF THE SEA, being Affecting Narrations of Shipwrecks, etc. TRUE ADVENTURE. "The following collection of remarkable disasters and preservations has been carefully compiled from authentic sources...In making the selection, attention has been paid to the combination of interest, with illustrations of piety and fortitude in suffering, and of the power and goodness of Providence in rescuing from destruction, when to all appearance there was no means or prospect of deliverance. " Contents: Narrative of the Loss of the Kent (with 14 appendixes) ; Narrative of the Shipwreck of the brig Empress; Loss of the Ship Lady Hobart; Ship Essex destroyed by a Whale; Shipwreck and death of five Wesleyan missionaries; Loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman; Perils of a Dutch crew wintering at Nova Zembla; Loss of the steam packet Rothsay Castle. ; 6-1/8" Tall; 205 pages. P . USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.75 \| JP¥ 3310] Book number: 24766 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BAKER, CHRISTOPHER P. Mi Moto Fidel Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba Wash. DC: National Geographic Society, c. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0792279611. Tiny black dot on bottom edge, else binding and contents are almost as new. 3/4" tear in DJ's front panel's upper fore corner, otherwise very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. ; Red cloth spine, HARDCOVER, bright silver lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "Baker's 1000cc BMW Paris-Dakar was as much a state of mind as a form of transportation. Gaudy and gargantuan, the lipstick-red motorcycle attracted attention, sparked conversation, and made new friends for Baker throughout his freewheeling, 7, 000-mile peregrination of modern Cuba. After three months astride his powerful moto, Baker brings back a vivid report that is a savory and surprising blend of romantic adventues, keen observtion, and clear-eyed commentary. Introducing a remarkable cross section of Cubans from farmers and fishermen to cosmopolitan habaneros chafing under Castro's faltering rule, Baker captures the vivacious national spirit that has beguiled visitors for centuries. " ..8p color photos. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 304 pages. VG/G+ . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 27597 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BALANO, JAMES W. , EDITOR The Log of the Skipper's Wife Camden ME: Down East Books, c. 1979. Trade Paperback; Seventh Printing. ISBN: 089272062X. Binding and contents are almost like new. ; Photo illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. 10p b/w photos. TRUE ADVENTURE. 'Little did Dorothea Moulton know, when she agreed to chaperone her schoolteacher friend and her friend's husband-to-be on a sailing trip from Puerto Rico to Boston, that she would wind up as the 'skipper's wife' herself. She did, and for the next two decades Dorothea spent a large part of her married life aboard her husband's various ships, sialing around the world, visiting mysterious and glamorous ports, and raising a family. At times earthy, always interesting, this is Dorothea Multon Balano's eyewitness account of life aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers. ' Edited by her son. ; 9" Tall; 160 pages. NF . USD 11.25 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 \| £UK 7 \| JP¥ 993] Book number: 21442 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BARTLETT, DES AND JEN BARTLETT The Flight of the Snow Geese . NY Sten & Day First US Edition 1975. Hardcover. 189pp. 32p b/w photos. Tall 8vo . HC. White cloth spine, blue boards, gold lettering . ADVENTURE & NATURE STUDY. In early April the Bartletts set up their tent near Hudson Bay and settled in to watch the newly arrived Snow Geese assemble, net, and teach their young to fly. Then in August, when the geese headed south, they tracked them to every rest stop in a panel truck. At the last stop, after more than 2500 miles, they observed the final phase of the migratory cycle, till one day the geese start the long flight north to begin the cycle all over again. Their Emmy-winning film "The Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese, " was shown twice on national TV. Ex-lib w/normal markings. DJ, which is protected by clear plastic, is taped to the covers. DJ has minor wear and soil. Minor wear and soil on sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. Good + / VG - .. USD 5.99 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 529] Book number: 10396 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BEACH, CAPTAIN EDWARD L. Around the World Submerged, the Voyage of the Triton . NY Holt Rinehart Winston C 1962. Hardcover. Stated First edition . 296pp. 16p b/w photos. 8VO . Blue cloth, gold and white lettering . ADVENTURE. Nautical. U. S. Navy. Submarines. The story of the preparation for and the voyage of an underwater around the world cruise by a nuclear submarine. Ex-lib with less than normal markings (but call # in white on spine) . Spine is a little dulled, corners are all bent inward, o/w minor soil and wear to sound binding. Contents are clean and sound. No DJ. Good + .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8598 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BEEBE, WILLIAM Exploring with Beebe . NY G. P. Putnam's Sons 1932. Hardcover. First Edition . 208pp. Frontispiece photo plus 15 b/w photos in text. Approx. 8-3/4" Tall . HC. Blue cloth, gold lettering . ADVENTURE. Selections for younger readers from the writing of William Beee, Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society . Spine is both faded and darkened and is a little rubbed. Lettering is no longer bright but is mostly legible. Lettering on front cover is still bright. Moderate wear to top/bottom of spine and corners, o/w minor wear and soil on sound binding. There is some foxing on the photos' margins and the facing page's margins, o/w contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. Good .. USD 18.75 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 \| £UK 11.5 \| JP¥ 1655] Book number: 11268 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BENNETT, ARNODL From the Log of the Velsa . NY Century 1914. Hardcover. First Edition . 307pp. Color frontispiece. 49p b/w pictures by E. A. Rickards and drawings . Tall 8vo . HC. Full blue cloth, bright gold panel and multi-colored drawing on front cover, TEG. ADVENTURE. Holland, the Baltic, Copenhagen, French and Flemish coasts, East Anglian Estuaries in a single-masted yacht . All the gold from the title area of the spine is gone, leaving only a faint, embossed, trace of the lettering. Spine is rubbed. Top/bottom of spine, corners and bottom edge are moderately worn but blue coloring is strong and gold panel is still bright. Contents are clean and sound on nice, easy-on-the-eye cream paper. No DJ. Good - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 9140 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BOERI, DAVID People of the Ice Whale Eskimos, White Men, and the Whale NY: E. P. Dutton, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0525242066. Very minor edge wear on the clean, sound binding. Very minor top edge foxing. The top margins of the last few pages, at the spine, are damp wrinkled, else contents are clean & unworn. DJ is protected by clear plastic and is almost as new. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 285pp. Aqua boards, white cloth spine, bright gold lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "For three hunting seasons, David Boeri, a young writer living in Alaska, joined Eskimo whalers amid shifting ice floes to hunt for the great Arctic whale. Sympathetic to both Eskimos and environmentalists, he found himself caught in a bittrr controversy that seemed to pit the human rights of an endangered culture against the future of the world's most endangered whale...The book chronicles the author's attempt to understand an alien world across often tense cultural and racial barriers, a process that moves from enchantment and excitement to dissillusionment and finally to acceptance. " Glossary.. VG-/VG+ . USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 31438 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BREE, MARLIN In the Teeth of the Northeaster a Solo Voyage on Lake Superior St. Paul MN: Marlor Press, c. 1993. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0943400724. Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; Illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Selected bibliography. Index.8p b/w photos. Several maps in text. TRUE ADVENTURE. This evocative narrative is both an adventure - Bree encountered several fierce storms - and an anecdotal history of Lake Superior, one of the Five Great Lakes. Includes tidbits on Indians, voyageurs, miners, sea captains and colorful local inhabitants, as well as tales of wind, weather, icy water and shipwrecks. ; 9" Tall; 228 pages. VG . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 23105 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BRENT, PETER Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy NY: Saturday Review Press, c. 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 0871502587. Large, faint water stain on back cover, else minor wear and soil on the sound binding. 1" x 5" piece cut from upper fore corner of ffep. The fore edges of a few pages have a very minor dent, else contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; Maroon boards, bright gold lettering. Photo endpapers. Frontispiece color portrait plus 12 pages of color illus (paintings, photos) . Scores of b/w illus (photos, maps, paintings, drawings) . Chronology. Select bibliography. Index. TRUE ADVENTURE. In this book the essentials of the Robert Falcon Scott story are vividly portrayed but the reader is reminded to keep in mind the differences of thought and community attitudes between the present generation and Scott's generation, those who lived immediately after the reign of Queen Victoria, when national pride, high standards of upright behaviour, and the application of community and personal discipline was expected. "Another aspect of the difference between the Scott period and present times lies in the materials and techniqus used in polar work. In the early years of the (20th) century we had little knowledge of Antarctic conditions and there were no proved techniques of successful travel...In the end it was the terrible physical demands of man-hauling which caused the loss of the Polar Party. The question is often asked whether Scott's last expedition would hafe achieved the fame it did, and stood so high in the nation's eyes, if they had survived. "; 7-1/8 x 10"; 223 pages. G . USD 15.75 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.5 \| JP¥ 1390] Book number: 25303 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BRIDWELL, RODGER Fidelio My Voyage to a Distant Shore NY: Truman Talley Books / E. P. Dutton, c. 1986. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0525243976. Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; White cloth spine, bright silver and red lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. This riveting, diary-like, nonstop narrative re-creates one of the great solo journeys of our time. Dangerous and congested sea lanes in the English Channel and storms and giant waves along the long coasts of France and Spain all threaten FIDELIO before Bridwell turns west off Africa and begins the longest leg - crossing the Atlantic. Freakish weather, strange sea creatures, a disabled freighter, reflections on other crossings - all combine with Bridwell's constant sence of Othereness, " of an unseen presence, somewhere on boad or nearby, helping him in moments of greatest peril. He set sail at fifty-five, in a 32-foot sailboat which he had built himself, to conquer the Atlantic, alone. ; 8-1/2" Tall; 227 pages. NF/VG . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 19910 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BROWER, KENNETH A Song for Satawal NY: Harper & Row, c. 1983. Hardcover; First Printing. Small (1/4") circular hole near top of DJ's spine, not affecting the lettering. 3/4" tear bottom edge of DJ's back panel, at the spine, top/bottom of DJ's spine are moderately worn, o/w minor wear and soil on DJ. Lightly rubbed spot on book's spine (under the hole in DJ's spine) slightly dulling the "A" of the title, o/w binding is clean, sound and unworn. Minor edge soil. Contents are clean and unmarked; Black cloth spine, bright silver lettering. ADVENTURE. Brower takes us into a cluster of tiny isalnds in the vast Pacific emptiness and, thus transported, into new modes of thinking and feeling. Our guides are three vibrant individuals leading purposeful, harmonious, twentieth-century lives In a place that is in essence outside time. All three share the same goal: to keep viable in today's world the virtues and values of the ancestral way of life. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 218 pages. VG-/G+ . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 14354 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F. , JR. Atlantic High Garden City Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. 4th prtg. 266pp. 16p color photos plus numerous B&W photos throughout text. Tall 8vo. Black cloth binding w/gold spine lettering. Picture endpapers. Adventure. A 30-day sail across the Atlantic: calms, s torms, melodrama & rumination. All pages have a slight forward curl at the top. DW is edge-worn. Good + / Good .. USD 8.25 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 728] Book number: 1181 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURGESS, ROBERT F. Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes NY: Dodd, Mead, c. 1988. Hardcover; First Printing. ISBN: 0396088481. Binding is almost as new. Twoundogged pages, else contents almost as new. 1" tear in top edge of DJ's back panel, DJ's top fore corners are moderately worn, else minor wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; Two-tone blue boards, bright gold lettering. 48-page b/w photo section. TRUE ADVENTURE. The riveting true life tales of six of the world's most famous and daring treasure hunters: Art McKee, Kip Wagner, Robert Marx, Burt Webber, Barry Clifford, and Melvin Fisher. Revelas the qualities the set these individuals apart from their competition. Why did they succeed when so many other failed? For the seasoned or aspiring underwater explorer or armchair treasure hunter, these stories make for fascinating reading. ; 9-1/2"Tall; 334 pages. VG/G . USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 18206 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURLAND, COTTIE A. The Travels of Marco Polo NY McGraw-Hill C 1970. Hardcover. 178pp. 32 color plates, 48 monochrome illustrations . 11-1/8" x 9-1/4" . Red cloth binding with gold spine lettering and gold design on front cover. Adventure. Some of the most interesting sections of Marco Polo's journals are included, others are summarized and the background of the period and most pertient history are presented, along with informatiion on Marco himself and the astounding success of his narrative. Photographer Werner Forman followd his routes and dramatically captured fascinating sights much as Marco must have seen them nearly 700 years ago. DW is a little edge-worn and its shiny surface material is starting to separate at the top of the spine. 1/4" roundish dent in the surface of the front cover (not on an edge) and there is a corresponding tear at that point in the DW. VG - /Good +. USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 927] Book number: 1182 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BURNFORD, SHEILA One Woman's Arctic . Boston Atlantic Monthly C 1972. Hardcover. 234pp. Index. Map frontispiece . 8vo . HC. Orange cloth, bright gold lettering , map endpapers . ADVENTURE. The record of two idyllic summers spent close to the North Pole in the Eskimo community of Pond Inlet. A knowing and sympathetic study of the Inuit (Eskimos) . Top edge of DJ's front panel, near fore edge is worn and torn as is the top of the DJ's spine, o/w minor DJ wear. Very minor soil on spine, o/w binding is bright, sound, with minor edge wear. Contents are clean and sound. VG - / G - .. USD 5.97 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 527] Book number: 8327 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	BYRD, RICHARD E. Alone NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Four tiny holes in the covering cloth - one at top of spine, two at bottom of spine, one at tip of front cover's upper fore corner. Otherwise very minor wear, minor soil, on the sound binding. Damp stains on front endpapers. The paper covering the front joint is cracked, but the hinge is sound.1/4" x 3" piece missng from bottom edge of ffep. Contents are lightly age-yellowed but clean, unworn. ; 8-1/4" Tall, 296pp. Navy-blue cloth, lighter blue lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf (not inscribed, just signed) . Chapter-head decorations by Richard E. Harrison. "This book is the story of an experience which was in considerable part subjective. I very nearly died before it was over. And, since my sufferings bulked so large in it and since a man's instinct is to keep such things to himself, I did not see how I could write about Advance Base and still escape making an unseemly show of my feelings...But my friends would not let me be...And finally some of my closest friends...p ersuaded me to write the book while the facts were vivid in my mind...As the writing progressed, my earlier misgivings were confirmed...Nevertheless , I finished what I started out to do, and this book represents the simple truth about myself and my affairs during that time. " Top edge tinted green.. G+ . USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 31499 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CANNING, JOHN, EDITOR Fifty True Mysteries of the Sea NY: Stein & Day, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0812827341. Minor edge wear , minor soil, on the sound binding. Heavy top edge, moderate fore edge foxing. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Black cloth spine, bright gold lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. Nine Disappearances (e. G. The Commander Crabb Affair) . Three Derelicts (e. G. The MARY CELESTE) . Nine Sunken and Buried Treasure (e. G. The EGYPT's Gold) . Four Monsters (e. G. Denizens of the Deep Lakes) . Seven Spectres of the Sea (e. G. Sea Phantoms) . Two Recovered from the Deep (e. G. The VASA Lives Again) . Two Lost Continents ( e. G. The Mystery of Mu and Lemuria) . Two Accident or Sabotage (e. G. Who Minded the MAINE? ) ? Three Deadly Effects (e. G. The Atlantic's Sinister Triangle) ? Eight Miscellany (e. G. The Great Bombay Explosion) . Index. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 478 pages. G+/G- . USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 28870 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CAREY, MARY A-Lass-Kan Adventure Talkeetna AK: Tex-Alaska Press, c. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor edge wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost as new. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Leather-textured navy-blue boards, bright gold lettering. Index. Full-page photos & drawings throughout text (91 illustrations in all, many of the photos taken by Mary Carey during her travels) . TRUE ADVENTURE. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffep: "7/5/92 To Eileen, Welcome, from the state where I taught in Indiana University to Alaska. Enjoy our great land. Happiness! Mary Carey. " Mary Carey takes you to many of the more remote areas of Alaska. She lives the stories she writes. Mer modes of transportation range from walking to helicopter and from dog sleds to "Cat Trains. " ; 8-3/4" Tall; 344 pages. VG-/P . USD 12.75 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1125] Book number: 22233 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.
	CARLISLE, NORMAN & DAVID MICHELSOHN The Complete Guide to Treasure Hunting Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, c. 1973. Hardcover; First Printing. Ex-library with call label on DJ's spine. Library & discard stamp on ffep. 1" X 2-1/2" piece torn from bfep's top fore corner. Library stamp on cprt page. Small black spot & library stamp on top edge. Pocket on bfep. The DJ, which is protected by clear plastic, is/was taped to the covers. Other than tape marks, binding is clean and sound, with minor edge wear. Black dot on top edge has penetrated onto about 1/8" of the top margin of a few pages, else contents are clean and unmarked. Minor wear and soil on complete dust jacket. ; Orange boards, HARDCOVER> bright gold lettering. Index. 16p b/w photos. More than 100 maps. TRUE ADVENTURE. A compendium of treasure-findin g information. Gives simple descriptions of the basic techniques and equipment for successful treasure hunting. Describes the electronic devices - from metal detectors to electrostatic gold concentrators. In one comprehensive volume, this book covers the whole field of treasure hunting. Tells how to hunt for every kind of treasure. ; 9-1/8" Tall; 280 pages. G+/G+ . USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 19364 Click here to order or inquire at Velma Clinton Books.