Chippendale Captain (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Fine/Very Good+. A beautiful copy in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean turquoise cloth boards with black lettering and small whale design on both cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean map-decorated endpapers; very small previous owner name and date on front free endpaper. NIce frontispiece photo portrait of Captain Harry Allen Chippendale. With an introduction by Henry Beetle Hough. 231 pages with glossary of nautical terms. Clean bright dust jacket designed by Samuel Bryant is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), unchipped, with two short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. PErsonal story of one of the most romantic of man's exploits, told with all the salt on the decks and the wind whistling through the lines. The biography of a man of vigor and courage who survived to serve on the seas with daring and distinction in three wars, and has retained the flavor of his varied and dangerous life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. 192pp - green cloth - binding lightly soiled - preliminary pages and edges of text block slightly foxed - slight lean to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1951, first edition. Illustrated with b&w photograph frontispiece and b&w drawings. 5.75" x 8.5". Green cloth, map endpapers. 232 pp. A whaling adventure tale. Very good in a very good but chipped wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Good in an about good dust jacket. Dustwrapper is taped up from the inside, has a lot of chipping, and tears, shelf-rubbing, pages are a little frayed.

blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2ş (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.

Abridged edition. 8vo. [192pp.] B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations, e.p. maps. F.e.ps. slightly browned. Original green cloth with silver lettering to spine. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley. US$7.

Abridged edition of the 1951 US original. 192 PP with 13 line drawings by author. Fp: Picture of Capt. Harry Allen Chippendale. Eps: Tracks of some of the voyages of Captain H.A. Chippendale. Cloth cover, title on sunned spine. A very good clean copy. 21.8 x 14. Short glossary of whaling and nautical terms. Sailing and whaling in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Antarctic.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has a small nick to top of spine and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages. A straight personal story of hunting whales.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Abridged edition; 192pp, monochrome frontispiece and small line illustrations, map eps. Green cloth covers with silver titling to spine, no dustjacket. Born at sea in 1879 & reared in St. Helena, then to sea whale hunting in a series of American sailing whalers, out of New Bedford & Boston. Personal story of Hunting Great Whales in Southern Oceans. Shelfware, contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2005.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tears to margins of dust-jacket. Some white paper reinforcement on reverse side of dust-jacket at corners and ends of spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; UK edition. Abridged edition of a title originally published in the USA in 1951. 192 pages + portrait frontispiece. Maps on endpapers. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 132mm. With an Introduction by Henry Beetle Hough. Dust-jacket art shows whaling scene.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original bottle green cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine, end paper maps. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains [vi] 192 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece and small drawings throughout. Without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with shallow rubs to the spine ends and corners, spine colours not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WHALING & WHALES.