Author: VILLIERS Alan
Title: The Western Ocean. The Story of the North Atlantic. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SON
Description: Museum Press,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates and maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly sunned dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS SON KIT, WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. SIGNED 'DAD', THE INSCRIPTION EXPLAINS THAT 'SEAMEN USED TO CALL THE N. ATLANTIC THE WESTERN OCEAN'. ALMOST CERTAINLY A UNIQUE COPY IN NEAR FINE STATE.

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, alan villiers, atlantic, western ocean, signed


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