The Cruise of the "Nona"
Hilaire Belloc
Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1925
Anglais
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Belloc recounts a cruise from Holyhead to Wash along the English coastline adding "reflections and judgements on life and letters, men and manners" The book is dedicated to his seafaring companion, Philip Kershaw.
First edition bound in blue cloth with gilt titling.
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 347pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A very good copy, toned at the spine panel.
The author's celebrated account of his early 1920 sailing voyages around the coast of Britain
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Splendid Hilaire : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc
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PHOTO (not in book) : HILAIRE WHEN SAILING ON THE NONA (?) :
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