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The Cape Run: The Story of the Union-Castle Service to South Africa and of the Ships Employed
by Mitchell, W. H.; Sawyer, L.A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0861380304
- ISBN 13
- 9780861380305
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Lavenham, UK: Terence Dalton, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, ix + 214 pages including many black-and-white drawings and photographs;-laid in is a photocopied sailing schedule and fare list of both the Union and Castle Lines (originals would be c1900/1920);---book has hardly a trace of shelf and reading wear, lengthy personal (and relevant to book) notation on first blank page by the previous Portuguese-Canadian owner (a ship model maker and published ship historian, book acquired from his estate) signed and dated by him, personal address of author Sawyer written in pencil on the Contents page, otherwise in very clean and unmarked condition; unpriced DJ gently bumped at spine ends, but essentially as new. See also our listings for Marischal Murray's very scarce Ships and South Africa : A Maritime Chronicle of the Cape with Particular Reference to Mail and Passenger Liners from the Early Days of Steam Down to the Present [with related ephemera], and for Robin Knox-Johnston's The Cape of Good Hope: A Maritime History . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037752
- Title
- The Cape Run: The Story of the Union-Castle Service to South Africa and of the Ships Employed
- Author
- Mitchell, W. H.; Sawyer, L.A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0861380304
- ISBN 13
- 9780861380305
- Publisher
- Terence Dalton
- Place of Publication
- Lavenham, UK
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Ship OCEAN DESIGN CONSTRUCTION SHIPS TRANSPORTATION SHIPPING ATLANTIC MARINE CRUISE LINE EXPRESS LINERS ENGLISH BRITISH AFRICAN SOUTH AFRICA Shipping Company, full fleet Lists TRAVEL SHIPS CIVIL MARINE SHIPPING MARITIME NAVAL HISTORY SEA OCEAN
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