[publisher: Pelican] Softcover ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
[LONDON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1962]

[publisher: Pelican] Softcover ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
[LONDON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1962]

[publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin] Softcover Paperback, 18cm x 11cm , 302pp. plus index, Good/NoWrapper. Owners inscriptions to rear blank page. Paperback is tanned and worn from handling, spine creased and chipped, some tiny holes to top edges of 6-8 middle pages, book clean otherwise. Softcover edition of Unwin's excellent account of a disastrous defeat of an English fleet at the hands of the Spanish in the Gulf of Mexico. Catalogue: History. Keywords: slave, Mexico, Drake, inquisition
[Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1962]
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ISBN10: 0049100270, ISBN13: 9780049100275, [publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd] Hardcover First Edition The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, slightly marked, small creases, chipped and edge worn. The spine is a little discolored. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GN. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
[Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa] [Publication Year: 1960]
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[publisher: London Readers Union 1961] Hardcover bookclub ed.(1960) pp319 bibliography index black cloth/silver VG+ An account of part of the career of the Elizabethan seafarer, with descriptions of West Africa and Mexico. Contains an account of an elephants seen in the Southern US area, pp306-7.
[Cumbria, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1961]

[publisher: Readers Union] Hardcover The hinges are in good condition. The page edges are clean. Photograph available on request.
[Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom]
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[publisher: Readers Union] Hardcover 1961. Readers Union. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG. Illustrated.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1961]

[publisher: Readers Union] Hardcover 1961. Readers Union. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG. Illustrated.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1961]

[publisher: Readers Union / Allen and Unwin, London] Hardcover First Edition 12mo. 319 pages, indexed. Hardcover in brown and white dust jacket. DJ has light toning, has been placed in mylar sleeve. Text is toned.
[Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1961]

[publisher: Reader's Union / Allen & Unwin, London] Hardcover 319 pp, index, illustrations, author bio glued to back endpaper, Reader's New letter loosely inserted, previous owner's name plates front endpaper. Boards have a slight spine slant, tape residue to spine. Leaves a little yellowed.
[Edmonton, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1961]
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[publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin] Softcover First Edition Good paperback copy; edges clipped and somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers dust-toned. Browning to the pages with light foxing to the prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 302 pages; 18 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Hawkins, John Sir. 1485-1603. Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603. Genre: History. 1 Kg.
[Galway, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1962]
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[publisher: Readers Union] Hardcover 1961. Readers Union. Hard Cover. Book- VG, silver gilt titles on spine, black boards. 7.5x5. 319pp. 7 b/w plates, 5 b/w illus and maps.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1961]

[publisher: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London] Hardcover First Edition ---------Red cloth covers, book is near 9" tall. 319 pages, with frontispiece and 11 other illustrations and maps.VERY GOOD CONDITION, with solid binding and inner hinges, clean text- - no dust jacket.
[Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1960]

Pelican 1962 Paperback Very good ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.

[publisher: New York: The Macmillan Company, [1960]] Hardcover Publisher's original red cloth with gilt spine lettering and dark red top stain, octavo, pp. 319. Black and white illustrations.
[Ellsworth, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1960]
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[publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin] Softcover Photograph available on request.
[Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom]
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[publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin] Softcover First Edition Good paperback copy; edges clipped and somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers dust-toned. Browning to the pages with light foxing to the prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 302 pages; 18 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Hawkins, John Sir. 1485-1603. Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603. Genre: History. 1 Kg.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1962]
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[publisher: George Allen & Unwin (1960), London] Hardcover First Edition Ex libris label, Bruce Godward. Previous owner's signature. Some foxing. Fading to dust-jacket spine. 15mm abrasion at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 319, [1] pages + frontispiece + 6 illustrations on 3 plates leaves. 3 full page maps and 3 illustrations within the paginated leaves. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. "Twenty years before Sir John Hawkins and his kinsman Drake harried the Great Armada to its doom, these two same English sea-captains ahd matched their guns against those of Spain in an obscure harour on the Gulf Coast of Mexico - San Juan de Ulua. It was a hard-fought, desperate battle, from which Hawkins and relatively few of his men escaped home. It was also a turning-point in the relationship between England and Spain. The fight at San Juan made the Great Armada inevitable, and taught the English navy how to overcome it. // The voyage that brought Hawkins' fleet to the Caribbean was a slaving and trading venture - the most ambitious he had ever untaken. To accomplish his object Hawkins sought out negroes in the creek villages of West Africa and sailed, in defiance of Spanish law, to sell them to the Spanish colonists of the islands and the main. Despite storm and mutiny, and the hazards of navigating uncharted seas, he almost succeded. Then destruction overwhelmed ...
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