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Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships. [Facsimile reissue]. Pictured by J. Spurling. Storied by Basil Lubbock. Edited by F.A. Hook. With an Introduction by Alan Villiers. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S ILLUSTRATED SLIP-CASE
by LUBBOCK Basil
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About This Item
Madison Square Press, New York NY,, [1972]. 3 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with frontispieces, numerous splendid coloured plates, five full-page plans of rigging and a large folding map, and pictorial endpapers; original blue cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in publisher's pictorial board slip-case. With the armorial bookplate of Julius Arthur Sheffield Neave on front free endpapers. A splendid facsimile reissue of the greatest work on clipper ships, originally published between 1927 and 1936 and dedicated to the Company of Master Mariners. The first two volumes were edited by Hook; the third by Alexander Campbell following Hook's death. The artist Jack Spurling died in May 1936 aged 62; the painting of the Selkirkshire, left unfinished, was completed by Montagu Dawson as an act of friendship.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37073
- Title
- Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships. [Facsimile reissue]. Pictured by J. Spurling. Storied by Basil Lubbock. Edited by F.A. Hook. With an Introduction by Alan Villiers. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S ILLUSTRATED SLIP-CASE
- Author
- LUBBOCK Basil
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Madison Square Press, New York NY,
- Date Published
- [1972]
- Keywords
- naval, maritime, sail, lubbock, basil lubbock, spurling, jack spurling, villiers, alan villiers, clippers, clipper ships, cutty sark, taiping
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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