The Cruise of the Amaryllis [Mariners Library #10]

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Dust-jacket has strips of adhesive tape on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket now protected in archival cover.; "Mariners Library" reprint edition. 1951 reprint of a title first published in 1924, and first published in the Mariners Library in 1950. 317, [3 (blank)] pages + 5 illustrations on 2 plates leaves. 6 maps (1 double page, 5 full page). Oatmeal cloth boards with dark blue lettering on spine and dark blue compass directions illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. "Apart from a very readable account of the voyage itself and description of the countries visited, the reader is very conscious the whole time of what a fine seaman Muhlhauser must have been. During much of the voyage he was short-handed with indifferent crews whose inexperience gave him very little peace of mind. 'Amaryllis' was an old yawl, built in 1882, of 36 tons T.M. and although she proved herself a magnificent sea-boat her yawl rig proved unsuitable for ocean work. Nevertheless she got her owner there and back again." - from dust-jacket blurb. With advertisments for The Mariners Library Numbers 1 to 14 on reverse side of dust-jacket. Series: The Mariners Library, #10. .