From Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 25 February 2002
About this Item
Blue cloth with gilt fr. & sp. lettering, virtually pristine. f/piece + 180, 55 ills on 38 plates ex-pagination; tanning patches verso half-title, and lightly to edges of first few leaves, tanning spots to text-block edges, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. The first chapter is devoted to the slave trade from Elizabethan times to mid-19th century and very informative. But for the tanning would have rated this Fine. A little bonus is a slipped in publishers bookmark (' Nautical Publishers since 1860') with selected list of books on sail and verso headed 'Abstract Log', 'Log Your Notes on thiis Bookmark' plus small ill. of 3 mast sailing ship. 19 cm x 25 cm. Seller Inventory # 013655
Bibliographic Details
Title: COOLIE SHIPS AND OIL SAILERS
Publisher: Brown, Son and Ferguson, Glasgow
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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