224pp. Red cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine, top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, spine head sun-faded. Fore and bottom text block edges tanned and just starting to fox. Endpapers lightly tanned and foxed. Internally pages are lightly toned otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear, chipping to edges and a number of small closed tears and creases along top edge, not price clipped. Seventeen of the world's greatest adventures from ancient times to the present day.