Travel, Exploration, Discovery & Voyages from NEXUS BOOKS

Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2014. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. A Fine, new condition copy, in a Fine flawless dustjacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the first blank page: "To ______, In the spirit of the North, Save the Wild! Fred." Scarce signed.. New.

Chicage: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Reprint. Softcover. In Very Good+ condition: clean, bright, and unmarked, with no creasing of the spine; a nice copy. A fascinating journey by a professor of classics and Latin..

Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, 1998. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. A Fine copy in new condition, in new condition jacket (front flap price-clipped).. As New.

London, United Kingdom: Healthy Body Publishing, 2010. First and only edition. Softcover, 488 pages. A VG+ copy: no previous ownership markings, no textual markings. The spine is square and uncreased. Small amount of wear at corner tips; three pages at the very front have small matching corner chips missing. A nice clean, bright copy of… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2013. First edition thus. Small hardcover, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. A Fine copy in new condition.. New.

Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. First edition; hardcover in dustjacket. A Fine copy in brand new condition, in a similar jacket.. New.

London: Staples Press Limited, 1954. First English language edition. Translated from the Norwegian by M.A. Michael. With twenty-one photographic illustrations. A VG+ copy in original gilt-lettered green boards. In a Very Good dustjacket which has light general edgewear including several small chips (jacket is now protected in a clear mylar cover)..

Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1975. First edition, hardcover, 307 pages. A VG+ copy in original burgundy boards, bottom two corner tips bumped, otherwise a nice bright, clean, firmy-bound copy. In a VG+ dustjacket which is slightly faded along the spine. Overall, an excellent copy..

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1975. First edition. Large hardcover, 498 pages. A standard work on the subject, covers every aspect of Pacific sailing through the centuries. A VG+ copy: clean, sound, tight and unworn, with no internal markings. In a VG+ unchipped dustjacket with the usual partial fading along the spine (endemic to this… Read more about this item

Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press, 1989. First edition. 318 pages. A history of Western exploration and involvement in the Queen Charlotte Islands. With illustrations, a chronology, bibliography and index. A Fine "as new" hardcover in a Fine flawless dustjacket..

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933. First edition. With nineteen b.& w. plates by R. Walker and a Preface by the Rt. Rev. W.S. Swayne, Bishop of Lincoln 1920-1932. A history and guide to the famous cathedral city in England. Edges mildly age-browned, else a Near Fine copy in original navy blue cloth with gilt-lettering on spine and a… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Pierway Inc. / Vancouver Maritime Museum, 2000. First edition thus. A hardcover facsimile edition of the 1945 Royal Canadian Mounted Police reports written by the St. Roch's captain, H.A. Larsen. The St. Roch sailed from Vancouver, B.C. to Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1940-42, and from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, B.C., 1944. It was the first vessel… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton, 1951. First edition. With engravings by the author. The author's travels in Ireland. A Near Fine hardcover copy in a VG- dustwrapper which has a small skinned sliver to edge of front panel, and very small chips missing at head and heel of spine.. Illus. by Robert Gibbings.

London, Penns in the Rocks Press/William Collins, 1941. First edition. With twelve colour plates and twenty-six b.& w. illustrations. A volume in the 'British Commonwealth in Pictures' series. An unrubbed, tight, bright, Fine hardcover copy. In a price-clipped VG+ dustwrapper which has a couple of tiny edge tears and slight chipping at head of spine..

Sidney, Gray's Publishing, 1971 First edition. A Fine hardcover copy in a Near Fine dustwrapper..

Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1992. First edition. With b.& w. illustrations. Based on the journals and reminiscences of five of the ship's officers and men. A Fine hardcover copy in a Fine dustwrapper..

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1922. Second edition, revised (first was 1906). With thirty-two colour plates by Fred Whitehead. A Very Good or better copy in original blue cloth, top edge blue, gilt lettered on spine, blind lettered and decorated on front board, lacking dustwrapper. Bottom quarter of back board has some old moisture staining but… Read more about this item

London, Methuen, 1935. First edition. With 240 b.& w. photographs and an endpaper map. In original blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Front board has a couple of tiny, faint stains at bottom edge and spine is very slightly faded. Overall, a solid VG+ copy, clean and tight..

Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1972 First edition thus. A Near Fine copy in dark blue cloth without dustwrapper, as issued..

Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1914. Second printing, one year after the first. With 18 plates by George Belcher, most in colour. Spine is mildly sunned and front board has two small faint, innocuous stains (hardly noticeable) at bottom, else a very clean, tight and bright copy, close to Near Fine.. Illus. by George Belcher.