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DISASTER AT SEA.
by Marriott, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1856483487
- ISBN 13
- 9781856483483
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "REVISED REPRINT," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1996.* Pub: The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured glossy laminated illustrated boards showing a reconstruction of the sinking of the Titanic. White titles to spine strip and face. No bumps or rubs, minimal edge wear. VG++* Jacket condition: Matching sepia-tone photo-illustrated jacket with blue frame and white titles. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £14.95. Minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges, corners and to tail of spine. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. A few small marks to rear end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight spotting to top edge. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and diagrams throughout.* Pages: 176 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: Articles on Lloyds of London, The British Search and Rescue organisation, Collisions in peacetime and The Fastnet Race, flesh out the various maritime losses covered by this volume. The Titanic is obviously covered as are The Torrey Canyon, The Amoco Cadiz, USS Memphis, The Vanguard and Camperdown among numerous others. The text not only looks at the lead up to the disaster, the rescues and the after effects of calamity but also compares the different ocurrences.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st thus with minimal faults in a VG++ dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9585
- Title
- DISASTER AT SEA.
- Author
- Marriott, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1856483487
- ISBN 13
- 9781856483483
- Publisher
- Promotional Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 176
- Date Published
- 1996-01-01
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