Triumph : The Ship That Hit the Lighthouse
by Johnson, David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0908564589
- ISBN 13
- 9780908564583
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
€23.41€16.39
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About This Item
New Zealand: Dunmore Press, 1981. The steamer Triumph, built for McIntyre & Co, was leased to Shaw Savill and the NZ Shipping Company after a few years service, fitted out with refrigeration equipment for the meat trade and came to NZ carrying migrants arriving in Auckland in September 1883. It ran aground on Tiritiri Matangi island below the lighthouse leading to Auckland Harbour, and was against all odds refloated. CONDITION Blue bds (clean, top front cnr slightly crushed o/w unworn) 142 pages with b/w photo plates and other reproduced reproduced newspaper advertising with extensive appendices. DJ has lightly faded spine and one short tear at spine head. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14481
- Title
- Triumph : The Ship That Hit the Lighthouse
- Author
- Johnson, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0908564589
- ISBN 13
- 9780908564583
- Publisher
- Dunmore Press
- Place of Publication
- New Zealand
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & the Sea;
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
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Auckland
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