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THE WANDERER of LIVERPOOL.

by MASEFIELD**, JOHN:

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VG+./Minus dw/dj.
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UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.Owner's handwritten ink name+date (1930) to front free endpaper. Publisher;s bright,crisp,clean,original,plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and publisher's colophon blind stamped to rear board,plain white endpapers without excessive offsetting nor and foxing/spotting; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front fore-edge corners minimally bumped and all four corners minimally rubbed too.Top edges slightly dust-soiled,aged and toned with some minimal but sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore-edges slightly brighter,cleaner and less aged/toned and aso less foxed/spotted; contents bright, tight and clean - majority of text body foxing free,though some prelims and the last few pages are affected with some minimal foxing.No dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2-119pp [paginated] includes prose + verse text,a mixture of contemporary b/w painting reproductions and b/w photographs,plus ships' owner's portrait photographic frntis,interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] foxed/spotted half-title,b/w portrait photographic frntis,title page,and fore-edges-foxed dedication page,and similar illus list/ table page.
A prose account of the shipping company,the ship's specifications,building,the launch and her nine voyages and also her last one,the book contains two tales in verse,some shorter poems of the sea and a 'Masque of Liverpool' in verse.
1930 was the year Masefield,replaced Robert Bridges as the Poet Laureate in 1930,having been chosen in preference to Rudyard Kipling,A.E Housman,Yeats,John Drinkwater,Walter de la Mare,and Henry Newbolt,six of his eminent contemporaries.John Masefield served as Britain's Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja941821
Title
THE WANDERER of LIVERPOOL.
Author
MASEFIELD**, JOHN:
Illustrator
illus with contemporary b/w photographs and b/w painting reproductions.
Book Condition
Used - VG+.
Jacket Condition
Minus dw/dj.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,slim,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,1930.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
q52.NAUTICAL.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.No ISBN.Liverpool_shipping company history_Mr W.H. Potter_Queen's Dock,Liverpool_Wayfarer_Seafarer.Rigged sailing ships_Liverpool_four-masted barques.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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About R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

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