Australian Steamships Past and Present
by Gregory, Dickson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: The Richards Press Limited. 1928. Small Quarto Size. Overall Very Good condition. Spine and upper edge very slightly sunned, with gilt to face and spine. Gilt top edge. Page edges and preliminary pages lightly foxed and some scattered foxing to interior - although plates are clean. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with six full-page colour plates (all present) and 276 black & white illustrations. Overall a very nice copy of this hard to find title. Foreword by Brig. Gen. Sir Granville Ryrie. 260 pages.. Short life-history of almost every vessel that had been engaged in the Australian S.S. service.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB309027
- Title
- Australian Steamships Past and Present
- Author
- Gregory, Dickson
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Richards Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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Adelaide Booksellers
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About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....