Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships (3 Vol Set)
Author:
LUBBOCK, BASIL (Storied by) & SPURLING, J (Pictured by) & HOOK, F A (Ed) & CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (Ed) & SMITH, C FOX (Intro)
Title:
Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships (3 Vol Set)
Publisher:
The Blue Peter Publishing Company 1927-36
Description:
3 VOLUMES, ALL FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSIONS (1927, 1929 & 1936), ALL LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, lg quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & ship illus to spines & front boards, gilt maritime illus to rear boards, top page edges stained blue, deckled page edges, illus eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, moderate insect damage to front eps of vol 1, moderate foxing throughout)
Keywords:
maritime nautical clippers clipper ships history first editions