Hirschkowitz (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. A tightly bound copy in pictorial covered boards. PON on pages edges in blue ink, and ffep adn front pastedown. Pages just startign to ellow at extremeties. Unmarked and clean text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 481pp.; HB blue w/white-blue photocovers; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; lt.sun on spine; PONft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. "Its pictures and words have thousands of stories to tell of how a ship is built and repaired, of life aboard ship, of a ship's complex structure and equipment, of the cargoes and peoples which ships carry. It is all here, a vivid and realistic story of the merchant ship." b/w photos.…

Tall 4to. xxv, [3], 481, [3] pp. Frontisp., 100s of photo & text illustrations, diagrams, tables. Illustrated cloth, w/ blue-tinted photos on covers, white lettering (some rubbing, edgewear, minor bumping to corners, slight fraying), still G copy First edition of this well-illustrated and informative reference on different types of merchant vessels, including descriptions of living and working aboard ship; types of merchant ships; ship structures; Handling and stowage of cargo; building and repairing the ships, and more.…