The Down Easters.
£25.00
Publisher
Brown, Son and Ferguson, Ltd., Nautical Publishers 52 to 58 Darnley Street.
Place
Glasgow
Date
1930
Synopsis
American deep-water sailing ships 1869-1929. with illustrations and plans. second edition.
Item Description
4to. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. xvi + 285 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, with blind stamped titles on front board and gilt on spine with gilt block. Minor wear to extremities and light spotting of fore edge; otherwise a very good clean copy. Signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated 78 black and white plates, including frontispiece, by 4 folding plans and by tables. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Well illustrated history of the US deep water square-rigged sailing clippers. Basil Lubbock (1876-1944) was a maritime author who had worked as a prospector in North America, served at sea in sailing ships and as an army officer in the South African War and on the Western Front. First edition published 1929.
[Stock No. 28062]
