Wooden Fishing Boats. A Documented and Pictorial History of the Wooden Fishing Vessels that have fished the Waters off Kangaroo Island by [Wooden Boats]. CHAPMAN, Gifford - 1998

Kingscote: The Author, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Kingscote, The Author, October 1998. Quarto, [vii] (first blank), v, 772 (last four blank) pages with a double-page map and many hundreds of illustrations (from photographs). Original gilt-pictorial full calf; a fine copy. An extraordinary work, long out of print, and rarely seen on the open market these days. This is number 157 of 250 copies of the leather-bound limited edition signed by the author (on stiff card tipped in on the title page, as issued). The trade edition is in gilt-decorated blue cloth; we have seen this deluxe edition only once before.