Villiers, Alan

The Way of a Ship. Being some account of the ultimate development of the oceangoing square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of het handling, het voyage-making, het personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end

Villiers, Alan · 1954 · www.nautiek.nl

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

1954 London, hardcover, no dust jacket, 287 pages, with photos and illustrations.  Alan Villiers chronicles the history, technical aspects, and heroic era of ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessels, particularly those that were still in commercial use until the 1930s. The bo...

Vanished Fleets. Sea Stories from old van Diemen's Land

Villiers, Alan · 1974 · www.nautiek.nl

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Sea stories and Maritime history from Tasmania, 1974 reprint of 1931, bound with dustwrap 297 pages with photographs.

Kaap Hoorn. De volledige authentieke geschiedenis van de reizen van de enorme vierkantgetuigde schepen en hun verbitterde gevechten met Kaap Hoorn

Villiers, Alan, 1972 Baarn, hardcover 428 blz., met foto's en een index van schepen. Het boek ?Kaap Hoorn? van Alan Villiers beschrijft op documentaire en tegelijk verhalende wijze de tochten van grote vierkantgetuigde zeilschepen rond Kaap Hoorn in hun l · www.nautiek.nl

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Gevecht om Kaap Hoorn. Glorie en ondergang van het Kaap Hoorn schip

Villiers Alan · 1972 · www.nautiek.nl

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

1972 Bussum, 288 Blz., met foto's. Alan Villiers beschrijft de gevaarlijke en uitdagende zeilreizen rond Kaap Hoorn, het zuidelijkste punt van Zuid-Amerika. Het boek belicht de extreme weersomstandigheden, de moed van de zeelieden en de historische betekenis van deze route voo...

MEN, SHIPS, AND THE SEA

Villiers, Captain Alan · 1973 · Gibson

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

National Geographic Washington D. C. New edition Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ is missing piece at top edge ; B&W and color Illustrations; 496 pages

Men ships and the sea. New edition

VILLIERS, CAPT. ALAN and other adventurers on the sea · 1973 · Antiquariaat Parnassos

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

National Geographic Society 436 pp. Profusely illustrated with coloured and b/q illustrations. Ships, Boats and Sailing /scheepvaart New edition first printing No Jacket Washington Book good

Gevecht om Kaap Hoorn

VILLIERS, ALAN · 1972 · Antiquariaat Parnassos

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

De Boer Maritiem 286 pp. Z/w foto's. Ships, Boats and Sailing /scheepvaart Stofomslag Bussum Goed

Vanished Fleets

Villiers, Alan John · 1931 · Barter Books Ltd

£12.60 (€15.10 | $16.65 | ¥2,658)

G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex Boots Library. Cover rubbed with split to spine London Geoffrey Bles First Edition 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xi, 269pp. B/W illustrations.

Opgegeven als vermist : schepen waarover men nooit meer iets hoorde

Alan Villiers · 1958 · De Kantlijn

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

304 p. : ill. ; . ; gebonden - bound - hard cover - Amsterdam : C. De Boer Jr., 1958. - Zeer goed

Give Me a Ship to Sail

VILLIERS, Alan · 1958 · Cotswold Internet Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1958. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket First Edition. 1st edition, 1958; B&W illustrations. Page fore-edge lightly foxed; blue cloth a little faded on spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped but worn & chipped, with small stain on spine Photo...

Adventure: July 1938 ("the Dead Go Overside")

ADVENTURE (WILLIAM E. BARRETT; HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS; BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR; ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SMITH; GORDON MACCREAGH; ALAN VILLIERS; S. OMAR BARKER) · 1938 · Books from the crypt

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Popular Publications. 1938. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 99, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard V. L. Bloomfield. Viking cover art by W. F. Soare. Includes "International Incident" by William E. Barrett; "Outside the Law" by Henry Herbert Knibbs; "John the Finn, Mas...

By Way Of Cape Horn

Alan Villiers · 1953 · Book Haven

NZ$21.50 (€10.77 | $11.87 | £8.99 | ¥1,896)

Charles Scribner's Sons 1953 Hardback, 336pp. Alan Villiers sailed before the mast on the Grace Harwar, and in this book he describes the square-rigger's nightmare voyage from Australia to Queenstown. DJ; Owner's Name inside; Price clipped. DJ attached with adhesive film; spin...

DE LAATSTE WINDSCHEPEN

VILLIERS, ALAN · 2000 · Champ-Clark

€18.50 ($20.39 | £15.43 | ¥3,256)

De Alk En Heijnen Watersport. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 9789060131107) Gebonden Met Omslag. 224p. Als Nieuw.

The Wavertree; Being an Account of an Ocean Wanderer and Particularly of a Voyage Around the Horn in 1907 - 1908 from the Narrative of Captain George Spiers

SPIERS, GEORGE (WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN VILLIERS) · 1969 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, NY: South Street Seaport Museum, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping and rubbing. There is som...

Posted Missing the Story of Ships Lost without Trace in Recent Years.

ALAN VILLIERS · 1956 · Little Lane Books

A$24.00 (€14.75 | $16.26 | £12.31 | ¥2,597)

Hodder & Stoughton Limited London. 1956, 1st Edition. Hardcover , 21 Cm. Heavy Book Over 500gms, The author has included both large and small vessels which have been posted missing at Lloyd's in London or have otherwise become untraced vessels during recent years. There are ch...

Voyaging with the Wind: an introduction to sailing large square-rigged ships

Alan Villiers · 1975 · Book Haven

NZ$28.50 (€14.28 | $15.74 | £11.91 | ¥2,514)

National Maritime Museum 1975 Paperback, 61pp. Alan Villiers, a temporary RNVR commander in World War 2, holder of the D.S.C for gallantry during the normandy landings was born in Melbourne, Australia, where real sailing ships were in dock at the bottom of his street. Ships be...

Sailing All Seas in the Idle Hour

LONG, DWIGHT WITH PREFACE BY ALAN VILLIERS · 1957 · Global Village Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1957, 2nd Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 320pp, b&w plates, The Mariners Library, first pub in 1938. Crusing around the world 320 p. Very Good/Very Good.

The Making of a Sailor: The Photographic Story of Schoolships Under Sail

VILLIERS, Alan · 1938 · Cotswold Internet Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

George Routledge & Sons, 1938. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket First Edition. 1938 1st edition with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in cream cloth with blue lettering to front and spine; cover edges slightly darkened. Dust jacket not price-clipped and ...

The Navigators and the Merchant Navy

Alan Villiers · 1957 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1st Edition, Illustrated book about the Navigators & General Insurance Company, but rather more interesting than that sounds. Illustrated with photos and line drawings. Blue card covers, a little worn, with gold titling to front., C H Williams, ...

Trident Magazine. April 1949 Volume 11 No 120 Incorporating Blue Peter

Alan Villiers etc · 1949 · The Victoria Bookshop

£8.82 (€10.57 | $11.65 | ¥1,861)

London, Trident, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Napoleonic Ship Models etc Covers marked rusty staples Poor.