Author: DAVISON, ANN
Title: Last Voyage
Description: London, United Kingdom, Peter Davies. 1951, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Written by the first woman to single handledly sail the Atlantic Ocean. Describes her life in the early 1930s as an aviator and her marriage to Frank Davison, another aviator, with whom she bought and ran a small commercial airfield. Mostly it is about their ill-fated purchase of "Reliance". With refurbishment debts a writ of repossession about to be nailed to the mast, Ann and Frank hurriedly set sail for the West Indies, with the boat unfinished, and into the teeth of a gale. CONDITION 248 pages with half tone photo plates, tidy name to first free end page, lightly foxed mainly at ends and edges, Brown cloth faded to edges corresponding to loss at spine ends of DJ which is a bit tatty. Good/Good.
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Title: Last Voyage
Description: London, United Kingdom, Peter Davies. 1951, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Written by the first woman to single handledly sail the Atlantic Ocean. Describes her life in the early 1930s as an aviator and her marriage to Frank Davison, another aviator, with whom she bought and ran a small commercial airfield. Mostly it is about their ill-fated purchase of "Reliance". With refurbishment debts a writ of repossession about to be nailed to the mast, Ann and Frank hurriedly set sail for the West Indies, with the boat unfinished, and into the teeth of a gale. CONDITION 248 pages with half tone photo plates, tidy name to first free end page, lightly foxed mainly at ends and edges, Brown cloth faded to edges corresponding to loss at spine ends of DJ which is a bit tatty. Good/Good.
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Price: US$ 12.00 Seller: Ariel Books
- Book number: 14339
- Book number: 14339
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