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Tall 8vo. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 174 pp. + [2]. Illustrated throughout with etchings and photographs. Original cloth, gilt, in the very rare dust wrapper, which has a closed tear in the front panel and a piece missing from the head of the spine, not affecting the design. Rebacked, with scratching and wear on spine and boards Newspaper photograph pasted on front free endpaper. The rare, Deal-published account of the luggers and the men who sailed them in the period 1858 - 1909. A cornerstone in any Deal / Goodwin Sands collection. The best work on the subject with much firsthand detail and anecdotes, collected and recorded when the last of the nineteenth-century sailors were still alive. KENT DEAL KENT - EAST KENT MARITIME SHIPS 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY KENT. Seller Inventory # 19525
Title: THE LAST OF OUR LUGGERS AND THE MEN WHO ...
Publisher: T.F. Pain and Sons., Deal
Publication Date: 1929
Condition: Kent Bibliography