Hodder and Stoughton, 1950, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Poor, Seventh Impression, Illustrated By: Stead -- Cover Art
Red coloured boards with blind decoration and blind stamped publishes initials on the front panel with black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dust wrapper, by Stead, with yellow coloured background and blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. A novel about a Captains' first voyage to Australia as commander of a fast passenger liner. Book was first printed in 1938. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. There is fading to the extreme edges of the spine, commensurate with dust wrapper loss. Spine is cocked. A little rubbing and scuffing to the book panels and there is browning and foxing to the top paper edge and browning to the other paper edges. Offset tanning to the endpapers along with some browning. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. he dust wrapper is in pretty poor shape -- rubbing, fading and grubby marks abound and the corners have become chipped with some loss. The front fold over edge has a large percentage of its length split. There is a ragged hole to the middle of the spine and there is chipping and loss to both the top and bottom dust wrapper edges. Clipping of the dust wrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 224 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Stead -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Fiction -- Vintage; Maritime; Inventory No: 0103656.
Red coloured boards with blind decoration and blind stamped publishes initials on the front panel with black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dust wrapper, by Stead, with yellow coloured background and blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. A novel about a Captains' first voyage to Australia as commander of a fast passenger liner. Book was first printed in 1938. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. There is fading to the extreme edges of the spine, commensurate with dust wrapper loss. Spine is cocked. A little rubbing and scuffing to the book panels and there is browning and foxing to the top paper edge and browning to the other paper edges. Offset tanning to the endpapers along with some browning. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. he dust wrapper is in pretty poor shape -- rubbing, fading and grubby marks abound and the corners have become chipped with some loss. The front fold over edge has a large percentage of its length split. There is a ragged hole to the middle of the spine and there is chipping and loss to both the top and bottom dust wrapper edges. Clipping of the dust wrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 224 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Stead -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Fiction -- Vintage; Maritime; Inventory No: 0103656.