Mclauchlan Gordon Ed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Scores on dust jacket. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and creased. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Foxing on page block. Sticker on front pastedown. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM. Used.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. 4th edition, 2nd printing. 352p. A softcover book in fine condition. A travel guide illustrated with lots of color photographs and maps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn - Age Spots. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - Some Wear. First Edition. An anthology of New Zealand humorous writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - Sl Wear. First Edition. An anthology of New Zealand humorous writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Worn. Second Edition. A heavy book; extra postage may apply.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - sl Wear. First. Quite heavy - extra postage may apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Third Edition. Copies: 2.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean tidy copy in a very good jacket.

super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

hardcover quarto octavo (VG+), d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine 205pp illus VG+ ( rubbing to top left corner of inner pastedown) in VG+ d/w (v sl wear to extremities).

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st. This history of the Union Steam Ship Company (USSCo) was published to record the centennial of the line, which was founded in 1875. The Union Company, as it was popularly known, grew to be a major shipping enterprise, with is ships trading mainly on the NZ and Australian coasts, trans-Tasman, with trans-Pacific liner services, trading to Asian and Indian ports, establishing a NZ internal airline just prior to WWI and known as Union Airways. The company operated ferry services between the North and South Islands and its house flag was well known in the islands of the South Pacific. The USSCo was the largest shipping company in the southern hemisphere and by the time of its centennial had owned and operated more that 300 ships. It served the Allied cause well through both World Wars, losing ships in both. At the time of its centennial the company was beginning to expereince the effects of the technological revolution in the shipping industry, with many of its post-WWII replacement ships becoming out-dated, there were major changes in ownership and trading pattens and gradually fleet numbers declined until by late in the century the great days of the USSCo were already past and by the Milllenium the fleet list which had totalled about 350 ships was closed. The Union Company which had been so vital the NZ economy, been the largest private employer and whose ships often bacame houshold names went the way of so many famous and long-lived shipping lines. Editor Gordon McLauchlan, was assisted by other maritime writers in compiling this exceptional centennial history of the Line that Dared. First edition of 1987 from Four Star Books, 205 pages including index, illustrated throughout with b/w photos, with an eight page colour section displaying art and photographs, document reproductions on end-papers, double page photo spread for title page. Green hard covers with gilt spine titles are VG+, former owner ink name top edge half-title, text block otherwise excellent. Wrap round colour art/pictorial dust jacket also VG+. Photos (illustrator).…