Frigate Bird
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, endpaper maps, xii, 244 pp., frontispiece, eight double-sided plates. Moderate spotting and discolouration of the spine panel, tape marks on both endpapers, otherwise a good copy in dust-jacket (small loss on front panel top-edge). First edition.
An account of the author's crossing of the Pacific from Sydney, Australia, to Valparaiso, Chile, in the Frigate Bird II, a Catalina Flying Boat, in March 1951. Item #4065
Price (AUD): $300.00
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