Sailing Trawlers: The Story of Deep-Sea Fishing with Long Line and Trawl by Edgar J. March - 1953

Good++, Good++ David & Charles 3rd printing, 1981 4TO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Boards tanned at edges, rear board lightly creased. Fore edge soil. Text pages are clean. Illustrated dust jacket sh ows light soil and tanning, light edge wear. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

David & Charles, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper, except some fading to spine. No additions.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Cloth. Near Very Good/Fair. Fascinating History of the Fleets of Trawlers which worked out of Hull, Grimsby, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Barking, Ramsgate, Brixham & Plymouth. Their Seamanship, Life aboard & Working Methods. Also much detail on the Boats; their Hull Construction, Sailmaking and Rigs Described & Illustrated with a Wealth of Plans (Including a section of Fold-Out Plans). Also the author's complete sets of Drawings of every detail of the big Lowestoft Smack "Master Hand" form an invaluable resource for Model-Makers. Very well Illustrated with 181 B&W Photographs, some taken a century ago. Light Blue cloth cover with Large Gilt Title to spine. 384 Pages,10" Tall. Slight edge wear. No inscriptions except old penciled price on endpaper. Jacket has a piece torn from top corner and 3 small closed edge tears (see photo). Weighs 1.6 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like any more pictures,… Read More

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1978 Hardcover book , New impression, 384 pages with dustjacket.The Story of Deep-Sea fishing with longline and Trawl. The standard work on the subject for many years ( first published in 1953) packed with illustrations plans and photographs. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions. Pictures available

London: Percival Marshall and Company Limited, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". Edgar J. March. The first edition of this history of trawling and fishing with sketches by the author and photographs. First edition of Sailing Trawlers by Edgar J. March in the original publisher's cloth binding. This interesting book discusses the history of trawling including the gear and technology development and the disasters of war. Illustrated with fifty sketches by the author, eighteen plans including four folding plans and monochrome photographs throughout the text. Collated, complete. No dust wrapper present. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. There is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good

Percival Marshall and Company, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. In blue cloth with light soiling and couple corners lightly bumped. Pencil underlining in text to about sixty pages..

London: Percival Marshall and Company Limited, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 8". Edgar J. March. A fascinating examination into deep-sea fishing and trawling, illustrated with sketches by the author. This work looks closely at the history of trawling, the gear, trawling stations across Britain and disasters during peacetime and war.Written by Edgar J. March.Illustrated with fifty sketches by the author and photographs throughout the text, as well as eighteen plans, including four folding. Collated, complete.With the cover and fly leaves of the original dust wrapper pasted to the rear endpaper and pastedown. From the library of Leonard Harrison Matthews, a British zoologist known for his work on marine mammals. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a prolific author.An excellent first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just the lightest general wear. Dust wrapper has been pasted to the rear endpaper and… Read More

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. Reprint. hardcover. very good/good. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, some folding. 384pp. Short thick 4to, green boards (lightly bumped and faded), worn d.w. Newton Abbot UK: David & Charles, (1970). A new impression. Ex-library copy with stamps on endpapers and page edges, otherwise clean. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Percival Marshall, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in.

David & Charles, 1981-06. Hardcover. Good.