The Shipbuilders of Essex: A Chronicle of Yankee Endeavor by Story, Dana Adam - 1997-06-01

Mystic Seaport Museum Inc, 1997-06-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover-Signed by the Author and with related ephemera, Stated First Edition 1995 Ten Pound Island Book Company Gloucester,MA 369 pages..Fine in a Near Fine DJ..blue cloth boards with gilt titles-corners sharp..just a hint of shelf/edge wear to DJ-now in mylar..no notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp, illustrated endpapers--Boldly signed by the Author Dana Story on the title page- included are two Essex Historical Society Newsletters (11 pages each) from the Fall and Winter of 2000..The shipbuilders of Essex, Massachusetts, have a 300-year history, from the rise of the trade in 1634 to its glory days in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and its decline in the first four decades of this century. detailed appendix lists vessels, with specifications, built in Essex, 1860-1980; and another appendix lists vessels in order by builder. A complete chronicle of shipbuilding and the shipbuilders of Essex..Illustrated with black and white photographs, plates, maps..ISBN-0873496175. LOC SSM-7