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Hardcover. Zustand: VG / VG -. Hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket.

Zustand: Good. 1965. First Edition. 254 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographs. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Zustand: Good. 1965. First Edition Thus. 255 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1963). First Edition. 8vo. 320pp, Index. 27 illustrations mostly photographs. Blue cloth, fine condition; dj good (price clipped, short tear, edges slightly frayed, discoloration). Exhaustive work by mariner serving aboard merchant ships for nearly half a century. ; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. The cover has light wear with dinged corners and shelf wear at top and bottom of spine. The dust jacket has small rips and tears, as well as some creases. In mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. drawings by Commander C.H. Williams (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Landscape size, 5.6 inches long. Navy blue cloth boards. Inner hinge split at the title page. Small pen marks on some pages. The remains of a jacket in very poor condition with scuffing creases and tears with substantial paper loss.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 215 pages. The author says the pirates and privateers who operated in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and New England seas, were the most cruel and uncouth of all sea marauders.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Edward Richardson "Mountain Hiker" / Philip Briggs "North with the Pintail" / A V Hearn "Explorations in Micro-Land" / Peter Hincks "'Never Again'" / Mechanical And Constructional Features Of Modern German U-Boat / J Stirling "Engines Of Peace" / Gunby Hadath "The Fifth Hubbard" / Captain Course "Record Passage" (SL#106).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Commander C H Williams (illustrator). 1st Edition. H/B 80 pages, condition is very good.

Barre, MA: Barre Publishing, 1963. Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards w/ d/j. Very good condition. History of the tramp steamer. 22.5 cm. ix, 230 pp Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards w/ d/j. Very good condition. History of the tramp steamer.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. The book is in good condition but does have some age spots. The dust jacket is discoloured with plastic outer cover peeling.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, some light foxing / discolouration to a few pages, mainly first and last few but also a few pages in between, previous owners book plaque on front past down and inscription on front end paper.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 160 pages. Illustrated. Chesapeake Odyssey: An 18- foot Sailboat Follows the Course of Captain John Smith around This Spacious Bay of History, Commerce, Sea Food, and Nautical Lore Nicknamed the bathtub because of its small size, an 18- foot sailboat explores the many inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. Rio Panorama: Breath- taking Is This Fantastic City amid Peaks, Palms, and Sea, and in Carnival Time It Moves to the Rhythm of Music Against a backdrop of rocky peaks and dense jungle, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's capital, is a city of lively cafes, colorful carnivals, pulsing music, and popular beaches. Old and New in Persia: In This Ancient Land Now Called Iran a Modern Sugar Factory Rears Its Head Near the Palace of Darius the Great Tiled mosques rise from the desert of Iran. Though the country is speckled with new roads and factories, Iran still protects its ancient Persian treasures. Life's Flavor on a Swedish Farm: From the Rocky Hills of Smaland Thousands of Sturdy Citizens Have Emigrated to the United States A third of all Swedish emigrants to the United States once lived on the highland plateau of Smaland, where residents spin wool, cut hay, plant rye, and spend countless hours hauling rocks from their farms.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some minor edgewear and a sunned spine and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 263 pages. This covers all of the famour and infamous names - including Kidd, Avery, Eli Bloggs, Mrs Ching and Rajah James Brooke.

1st Ed. (8), 263 PP with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. Light foxing mostly on page edges and top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. Piracy from the Gulf of Aden to Japan including the more infamous names of Kidd, Avery, Eli Bloggs, the formidable Mrs. Ching, etc. The efforts of those who strove to combat them.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. The jacket is rubbed, worn, torn and chipped. The boards are lightly edge worn. Internally there are inscriptions from a previous owner on the front end page, there are minor marks. The remaining pages are neat. Well bound. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. xv,176pp. Illus. Story of the ships of Sir William Garthwaite's Marine Navigation Company. Ex lib. copy with the dw laminated to the boards giving the appearance of a dustwrapped copy. Label on the front paste & the remains of one on the ffep. Withdrawn stamp on the ffep & the title page o/w a clean copy. 229 98578 5.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Green boards, Very Good in a foxed but whole dust jacket.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copyright is 1923. 266 pages. Covers show a few small spots of discoloration on spine. Otherwise a tight and very clean copy.

Hardcover in dust jacket. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Some shelfwear to dustjacket. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dustjacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A VERY UNCOMMON AUTHOR SIGNED FIRST EDITION- VERY GOOD IN A LIKE COMPLETE DUST JACKET : 280 p. : illus. Includes index. A neat, clean and square copy, some foxing to the outer edges of the text block, not affecting the facing pages, which are bright and clear; in a bright dust jacket, with a tiny degree of chipping to the bottom spine edge. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Very Good. Life Histories of the great and graceful square rigged vessels, including "Rodney" which raced the Cutty Sark. Illustrated with B&W photos. 230 pages, 450g, 9" Tall. Previous owner's bookplate on endpaper and pencild date on ffep. No other inscriptions. Some edge wear to jacket. Unclipped, price 30s.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In excellent condition - no marks or inscriptions. DJ protected by mylar jacket.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners of the binding. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 254; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white plates; Appendices (2); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203580 ||.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Corner unclipped, wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges and corners creased and worn, some small rips and nicks, shiny surface delaminating on edges, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, previous owners name on front end paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine in Good Plus DJ. Not Stated. 8vo, Burgandy boards with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent tight copy. DJ shows extensive shelfwear with tears. There is tape on the inside of the DJ at the spine, front and rear folds, and the lower right corner of the front panel. 264 pages.

Octavo. Boards. Tape stain from publisher on title-page and verso. Very good in very good, price-clipped d.j. First edition.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oxford University Press. 1956. First Edition. Book Condition: Almost Very Good. Former Library book with usual stamps and markings. The last days of the old days as seen by a square rig man. 197pp. 47 illus., 23 black and white photographic plates. Covers a little grubby, text well-read but clean, sound binding, free from annotations or marking. Reading copy. .

8vo.pp.xiv + 866. Illustrated. Very good hardcover in slightly rubbed and dust stained dust jacket , now protected. This book puts on record the last phase of a glorious era in the British Merchant navy before the steamships finally won the battle for trade.