Taking One's Own Ship Around the World. A Journal Descriptive of Scenes and Incidents, together with Observations from the Log Book. Recorded on the Voyage Around the World October 25, 1928 to May 16, 1929 of the Yacht Ara

New York: Privately Printed, 1929. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 hand-numbered copies bound in buckram, from a total edition of 500. Large quarto (34cm); brown cloth spine over tan buckram boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; later board slipcase; xxii,264pp; photographic text illus; sixteen tissue-guarded plates. A fine, fresh copy. The supplied slipcase is slightly edgeworn but still Very Good. From the library of noted zoologist James G Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.