Hundred Year History Peninsular Oriental by Boyd Cable (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'A Hundred Year History of the P. & O. Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company' by Boyd Cable. Ivor Nicholson and Watson 1937 first edition. Slight shelf wear. VG. No dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Not price-clipped. No markings or inscriptions. Textblock toned, and dust jacket very toned. Corners and edges rubbed. Dust jacket rubbed and bumped at edges and corners and a few small tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. boards are rubbed, worn and knocked. book is heavily tanned and foxed. a few markings. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback Slightly marked blue cloth covers with softening at edges and corners. Minor damage at top of spine. Heavily worn, stained and tattered dustwrapper. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated with colured and B & W plates 289 pages Wt 0.95 kg Good (Poor).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj has creasing top of the spine and top back edge. Price oblong square cut out on front inside flap. Gift inscription on half title page to a retired worker and 9 signatures and names of their ships who are mostly engineers on the back of the half title page.

London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937. X,289 pp. Col.ills. Hardcover. Foxed. [159684].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers, white title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 289 printed pages of text with colour illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece and colour illustrated plates throughout. Ex library copy with card holder traces to the front paste down, label to the front free end paper and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:

1st ed., x + 289pp + colour and B & W plates. Foxing on page edges only otherwise fine in original blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 289p. Photos. Ship silhouettes. 13 Color plates of ships. Blue cloth. Crest on front. Spine slightly sunned. Near Fine Copy.

1st Ed. X, 289 PP with 10 pages of silhouette sketches, plus 18 plates on full page (12 colour, 6 b/w). Fp (in colour): Armorial Bearings of the P & O. Eps: Maps of P & O routes. Original cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. "Compliments" slip tipped in on preliminary page. Remnants of sellotape on top of half title page. Occasional foxing, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 19.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x,289 pp. 19 plts.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good With A Number Of Dark Marks Scattered Trhouth The Book , Blue Cloth Has Dark Discoloration On The Perimeters Pp 289 Index, Tissue Protected Frontis , Illustrations And Endpaper Maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. " The story of the development of the P & O Steam Navigation Company, from its inception, over one Hundred years ago , to the present days, is a tale of romantic adventure, stranger by far than any to be conjured up by the imaginative mind of man or woman. The blue boards are heavily stained and with wear and bumps to both front and back, the text block is tight with marks on the fore-edge and base, it is illustrated throughout, The panels of the dust jacket are grubby and there is wear to the edges and corners and creasing to the base of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. With nineteen fine colour plates including the armorial crest of the company, and nine pages of silhouettes of company vessels past and present. End paper maps.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gilt logo centre front and gilt sp.lettering. End=papers ill. with route map. col. f/piece of company coat of arms + x + 289, 18 further plates ex-pagination, 16 col. ills of ships and 2 portraits, pp.250-259 are silhouettesof 'past and Presnt P.& O. Vessels' (these small and arranged in rows & columns); as a bonus there is a slipped in col. P. & O. House Flag bookmark with red silk (?) string (which seems to imply it way acquired by a passenger on board) plus a rather tanned 1947 Sunday Times press cutting on 'Why liners are scarce' ill. with silhouettes showing pre and post war numbers available. Top edge blue tinted but this faint at sp. end. Unclipped jacket in protective sleeve seems faultless. A remarkably good copy. 19 cm x 24 cm.

Large 8vo, 289pp, col. & b/w plates. Good copy in worn d/j. Inscription to previous owner.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. An abundantly illustrated first edition copy of this comprehensive historical account of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original blue cloth binding. With maps to endpapers.Illustrated with a colourfed frontispiece, and 18 pates, some of which are coloured. Collated, complete.Written by Boyd Cable, this volume provides a comprehensive historical account of the history of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century.The P&O P&O began by operating mail, passenger and cargo services between the UK, Spain and Portugal, Egypt, India, Asia, and Australia. It went on to become a global transport and construction group operating across the world at sea and on land. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities. Mark to rear board. Light fading to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with spotting to fore edge. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. This book has a refurbished jacket, but is in very good condition. The boards are in excellent condition with bright gold letters and image. The spine is very good and the jacket is a replacement. A very good book in good condition. Size: 7" - 9.5" Tall.

Cloth with dust jacket. Condition: Good. First Edition. 289 pag - illustrated Size: 6G2.