London: Rupert Hart-Davis, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early Patrick O'Brian nautical tale, a saga of survival featuring towo young men aboard an ill fated ship - 'The Wager' - which was parted from its squadron in storms off Cape Horn. One of the two historical novels O'Brian wrote for juveniles, preceding the Jack Aubrey series for which he is best known. 256 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (ca 1950, c 1926.) dj. Hardcover - Originally subtitled "A tale of strange adventures befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby" upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa via the Panama Canal. Illustrated with black and white drawings and with great dust jacket art by Lawrence Beall Smith. Uncommon vintage juvenile adventure story by this popular California writer, who was born in Stockton (just down the road from us) and lived an adventurous life himself. 332 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of a secret voyage along the coast of South America in 1858. "From the beginning there were complications . . a story of the sea that touches on one of the most bizarre mutinies in maritime history and gives an authentic account of the nightmare horrors of a Cape Horn passage. Some of the most dramatic moments of the novel, including the descent of a plague of locusts, are drawn from Alun Richard's vast knowledge of sea records of the past." 221 pp. ISBN: 0-312067070.