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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Updated and Expanded Edition. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped). The jacket has a tiny spot along its top-edge and three short scratches on the rear panel. NO chips. NO creases. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Previous owner's small name-stamp. Pages are crisp and clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing of the Updated and Expanded Edition. Oversize Hardcover. 10.5" wide by 13" tall. Illustrated with 247 drawings, diagrams, photographs, and 6 fold-out plans with meticulous details of the ship's design and building. Frontispiece drawing of Empress of Britain by Kenneth Shoesmith. This is No. 4 in the NYGS OCEAN LINERS OF THE PAST series. The book includes a facsimile reprint of the complete souvenir issue of The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine-Builder, published in 1931 on the occasion of the Empress of Britain's maiden voyage. Introduction and epilogue by Leslie Reade. This edition has a new introduction and is updated with the ship's later history describing events each year from 1931 until 1940 when she was sunk by two torpedoes from the German submarine, U32. The Empress of Britain was the largest Allied merchant vessel lost in the Second World War. Bound in the original yellow cloth, with a brown cloth spine stamped in shiny gold. Includes dust jacket. Updated and Expanded Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Shoesmith, Kenneth. (v), 144pp. Shoesmith, Kenneth (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Ocean Liners of the Past, No. 4 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder'. Mostly a facsimile reprint of a special Souvenir Number of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder, published in May 1931 & featuring the Empress of Britain, the fifth largest ship ever built in Britain. Numerous b&w photographs & illustrations throughout. With several foldout plates (247 illustrations & 6 folding plans). Several contributors. Introduction by Leslie Reade. The Shipbuilder edited by A.G. Hood. With vintage advertisements. Large format volume. A FINE hardcover volume, in a VERY GOOD dustjacket with mild marginal toning. A very nice clean tight solid copy. 144pp. Uncommon.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Ocean Liners of the Past, No. 5 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder'. From inner front flap of dustjacket: "Mostly a facsimile reprint of a special Souvenir Number of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder, published to commemorate the maiden voyage of the Normandie in June 1935 ". Numerous b&w photographs & illustrations throughout. With several foldout plates. Several contributors. Introduction by Leslie Reade. Foreword by M. William Bertrand. The Shipbuilder edited by A.G. Hood. With vintage advertisements. Large format volume. A FINE hardcover volume, in a NEAR FINE dustjacket. A very nice clean tight solid copy. Paginated within sections. Scarce volume.…

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large quarto. pp1-39, [2], 3 -112pp, pp39-62. June issue with Souvenir supplement centrally placed. Original two tone paper wraps bound-in. Illustrated throughout including colour plate with tissue guard and five fold-out plans, as called for. Advertisements front & rear. Book Condition: Near Fine. Bottle green cloth with gilt titles to upper board. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine tips. Ffep and pp 1-6 creased with surface soiling to edge of p 5; stain to margin only pp 86-7 of Souvenir otherwise contents clean and bright. No annotation or inscriptions. Produced to mark the launch of "the largest merchant vessel ever constructed in England" to that date. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 164 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 225 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.