Hurst Alex a Introduction (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is the second in a series of independent books. A history of merchant sailing ships with 526 black and white photographs accompanied with full and descriptive text. Contains all the great working sailing ships. Profusely illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth, Gilt Title & Decoration, Pictorial Endpapers, Xxii + 473 Pages, Plus Plates. Signed Dedication From Alex Hurst Otherwise An Unmarked Book, Dustjacket Is Price Clipped Otherwise All Unmarked. Not Ex Library. A Heavy Book, Overseas Shipping Will Exceed The Abebooks Default Rate - Please Email The Bookseller For An Overseas Shipping Quote. Signed by One Author.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With 473pp, well illustrated , mint condition with mint dust wrapper . VOLUME 2 ONLY .HARD COVER,GOOD O JACKET, NO MARKINGS, EXCELLENT CONDITION, SPLENDID VALUE . Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches, 25 x 19 Cms. Hard Cover.

25x19cm. First edition. "525 photographic illustrations of many of the world's vanished sailing craft, both great and small, accompanied by comment and description by experienced ship-masters and other experts." ppXXI(1)473(1) with index; pictorial endpapers. Hardback / hard cover: blue cloth, backstrip title and front cover silhouette in gilt. Edges of text-block lightly toned, top edge also streakily but only sparsely foxed. Contents fine. VERY GOOD+ copy in reasonably GOOD unclipped dust jacket a little toned at backstrip- and rear panels, chipped with loss at head of backstrip panel (though title unaffected), a little nicked, chipped & rubbed along upper & lower edges of front panel, and nicked at outer corner tips of both front and rear panels. (Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback; very good in chipped, marked and scuffed dustjacket.; 525 photographic illustrations of many of the world's vanished sailing craft, both great and small, accompanied by comment and descriptions by experienced ship-masters and other experts. +xxipp.; 473 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 525 photographic illustrations of many of the world's vanished sailing craft, both great and small. With expert commentaries. Clean, tight and sound copy in an unclipped wrapper.Very presentable. Xxi + 473 pages, index. From the maritime library of the late Dr John Coates, former Chief Naval Architect at the Ministry of Defence and world authority on wooden ship construction - particularly the Greek trireme. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Maritime; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0022797. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus. First Edition. VG+/VG+. First edition in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY ALEX A HURST, without dedication or inscription on verso of front endpaper. Profusely illustrated with more than 500 photographs. A well-researched and authoritative history of sailing ships. With Index. Minor lean to spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED BY ALEX A HURST. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. MAY INCUR ADDITIONAL COST. Signed by Alex A Hurst.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original fine navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine, gilt vignette to the upper panel, photographic end papers. Quarto 10'' x 8'' 473 pages. ISBN 0903662076. 525 archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Small tear to the top of the inside front paste down. Near Fine condition book, in near Fine condition dust wrapper with small crease line of the paper to the spine tip, not price clipped, the new price in 1981 being £17.00. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).…