The China Clippers

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, Nautical Publishers, 1973 Book. Illus. by Yerkes, Lane. Very Good. Hardcover. VG - would be NF, save that book has been bound upside down (i.e. covers are upside down, no doubt unnoticed due to dust jacket being correctly oriented) text is clean and tight, boards show light rubbing to corners/spine ends; DJ is rubbed… Read more about this item

Glasgow; James Brown & Son; 1914. . First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xv, 387, xxxiii; b/w frontispiece, 15 b/w plates, 1 colour plates, 6 plans, 3 folding plans, appendices, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in white on spine and front board, illustration laid down on front board, spine bumped, cloth worn, foxing to page edges, good… Read more about this item

Glasglow; Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical Publishers; (1946). . New Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 295; frontispiece; 15 full pages plates, 4 pages fold out plans, 3 single page plans, index, bound in original cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, bookplate of Raymond E Parkin on front endpaper, inscription on front endpaper, good copy.

Scotland.: Brown,Son and Ferguson Ltd, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The China Clippers is the history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades. Illustrations are given, and reproduced from paintings and lithographs collected by the author. The boards, binding and text block are all… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Seventh edition, 1929. Cloth hardcover with gilt titles in dust jacket, illustrated (including fold-outs), 388 + xxxvi pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket, light foxing or age-toning to the pages and page-edges, rubbing and light wear to the tips of the book's covers,… Read more about this item

Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. reprint. heavy, extra postage may be required outside South Africa. jacket is chipped and price clipped. binding may have been neatly repaired . internally clean and neat. good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Glasgow: Brown, Son, & Ferguson, 1950. Reprinted Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, 295 pages. In Good plus condition with Fair minus Dust Jacket. Spine is white with red lettering. Dust jacket has tape along the edges, on the covers, and the interior to hold the tears closed, creasing, shelf wear, is price clipped, and has a library identification sticker on… Read more about this item

Glasglow, Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical Publishers, (1946). . New Edition; 4to; pp. 295; frontispiece; 15 full pages plates, 4 pages fold out plans, 3 single page plans, index, original cloth cover, damaged dustjacket; a good copy.

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co, ND. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Many appendices, reproducing plans, passages, logs, etc. Illustrated throughout. A fold-out page at rear features the sail plan of The Cutty Sark. Frontispiece is an artist's depiction of The Taeping and The Ariel racing up Channel, Tea Race 1866. Index. Bound in light blue cloth… Read more about this item

Glasgow: James Brown & Son, 1914. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this illustrated historical work on shipping. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-one images across sixteen plates, and ten plans. Collated complete. A detailed historical commentary on shipping,… Read more about this item

James Brown & Son, 1914. Second edition. 387pp, plus 33pp appendices. Blue cloth covered boards with an inset photograph of a clipper to the front board. B + w illustrations of the ships and their captains, plans, and fold out plans, including the Cutty Sark. A few light spots of foxing to the foredge, a small newspaper cutting about the… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good/Price Clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Slight rubbing to corners of boards and head and tail of spine. Previous owners name and date affixed to ffep with sellotape. Rubbing to corners of D/J with small tears to head and tail of spine… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1929. Seventh edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 7th edition; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps, hinges and corners, small blemishes, toning, shelfwear; Text block has cracked front hinge, ink inscription on front flyleaf, light foxing to endpapers and title page, occasional foxing within, else… Read more about this item

Glasgow: James Brown & Son, 1922. VG. 1922 fifth edition. No d/w. Blue cloth lettered white on spine and front cover. Profusely illustrated with illustrations and plans, all present as called for. On the basis of log books and information supplied by sailors, owners, designers and ship builders, the author has written a history of the China Clipper ship and… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. White spots on blue cloth, top page fine edges foxed, else very good in a very good foxed dustwrapper.

Paperback. Acceptable.

xv, 388 xxxvi pp, appendix, First U.S. Edition. TEG

James Brown & Son, Glasgow,, 1916. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and folding plans, small neat inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, case a little loose (but binding entirely sound), an unusually bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of… Read more about this item

Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow,, 1929. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding plans, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of the leading historians of the age of sail.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1929. Undetermined. very good. 7th Edition. [xiii] 385 [xxxvi]pp. Quarto. Publisher's blue cloth; title and author in gilt to front. Spine title in same; minor rubbing to crown and foot. Some small scuffs to front, corners lightly rubbed. Illustrated frontis; 16 B/W plates, 10 plans(some folding). Textblock shows some light foxing, largely… Read more about this item