Spritsail Barges of Thames and Medway by Edgar J. March - 1948

Hardback. Very Good.

David & Charles, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1970. New Edition. 234 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and plates. Clean pages, plates and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Price sticker to flap. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Percival Marshall & Co. Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. No edition remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Wood patterned tape over spine. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned with heavy foxing. Moderate cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Notable scuffing to edges. Book has forward lean.

International Marine Pub. Co, 1970. Hardcover. Good.

Percival Marshall, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 304 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to gutters, no damage to end papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1981. Small Quarto Size [approx 19x25cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 234 pages. The history of river, coasting, stumpie, mulie and ketch barges - with details of their construction. . New Edition. Hardback.

London: Percival Marshall, 1948. Cloth. Good/fair. 4to, pp. [8], 304. Blue cloth-covered boards with some bumping; some fading along edges and spine. Firm binding; no loose pages. Tanned edges and pages. Some foxing and a few marks on edges, plus a little foxing inside covers and on a few pages. Dust jacket with sunning, rubbing, chips and tears, plus small section missing at top spine and larger section missing at back bottom. Dust jacket with some small stains; now encased in a clear, protective cover. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States.

Camden: International Marine Publishing, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 234 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Previous owners stamp on title page. Spine of dust jacket sunfaded. Clean, tight copy. Record # 603884

Newton Abbot, London: David & Charles, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xiv, 234 p. 26 cm. Many ship diagrams and b&w photographs. Blue hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Owner's label on half title. Includes a chapter on making miniature models.

Newton Abbot, Devon, England: David & Charles, 1970. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 234pp. 32 plates. Light brown cloth w bright gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing sunning to spine and top edges, and previous owner has neatly trimmed top and bottom edges w masking tape (3/8") to guard against edgewear and reinforced backside of the spine and fore edges the same (not visible). DJ now preserved in mylar cover. Octavo: 255 x 198mm. Originally published in 1948 by Percival Marshall & Company, this new edition was published in 1970 by David & Charles.