B.I. Centenary 1856-1956: the Story of the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. by Blake, George - 1956

Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 272 pages. Blue dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Collins, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 272 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with very heavy tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Inscriptions on rear.

London: Collins, 1956 Near Fine, Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Cover shows minor signs of shelf wear, No surprises. Same day Shipping.

Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Poor. The jacket is torn and marked.Rubber stamps.Foxing.Well bound.Good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

UK: Collins. Good. Hardcover. 1956. 272 pages. with bookmark issued with this book .

St. James's Place, London: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1956. Book. Good. Hardcover. 272 pages, 8vo. Out of Print. Jacket unclipped. "The Story of the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd." Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. Includes author's notes, foreword, epilogue, appendix: B.I. Fleet, and index. Illustrated with b&w photographic prints, line drawings. Dark blue cloth boards with gold-embossed title along spine. Shelfwear to DJ: moderate scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears along edges, one 1/4-inch missing piece along top spine edge, large repaired tear staring at top of spine and running through front cover, heavy foxing to back cover. In mylar. Heavy foxing along page edges, first and last few page leafs. Tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Good condition. DJ in Fair condition..

Hardback. 1956. 272pp, 16 plates 1956. *The British Steam Navigation Co. VG in DW .

collins london 1956. first edition 272pp ills. VG (blue cloth,sl.stained,sl.stains to eps,edges sl.foxed,sl.cocked) in G+ d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.stained,spine sl.sunned,sl.bumps and chipping to extrems.w.some minor losses,internal tape repair to lge.closed tear on rear cover/spine)

London: Collins, 1956. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Plain paper dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a little loss to the head of the spine and the corners, now wrapped in a removable protective sleeve. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8½” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); 272pp; Index; Includes: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188129|| Condition:

London : Collins, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 272 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; British India Steam Navigation Company. British India Steam Navigation Company Limited. British India Steam Navigation Company Shipping. Steamboat lines Great Britain History. India. British India Steam Navigation Company. Shipping companies. Business. Colonial countries. Genre; Illustrated.