The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Date published: 1953
Used-Very Good. VG hardback in good dust jacket. 1953 reprint with B&W illustrations and fold-out plans; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and blind-stamped title to front. Dust jacket not price-clipped; a little wear to edges and corners, especially top of spine; slightly discoloured. Light, scattered foxing to page edges. Internally, a few discolouration spots scattered throughout; final pages slightly creased at edges; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Date published: 1953
Used-Very Good. VG hardback in good dust jacket. 1953 reprint with B&W illustrations and fold-out plans; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine and blind-stamped title to front. Dust jacket not price-clipped; a little wear to edges and corners, especially top of spine; slightly discoloured. Light, scattered foxing to page edges. Internally, a few discolouration spots scattered throughout; final pages slightly creased at edges; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
The Down Easters ü American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 [Signed]
Lubbock, Basil
The Down Easters ü American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 [Signed]
Lubbock, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son, & Ferguson
Date published: 1929
Format: Hardcover
Book. Long Octavo, xvi, 285 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gilt lettering. Boards have shelf wear, rubbing, minor staining and denting, and small closed tears along the spine edge. Text block has frontispiece loose from binding, other pages are slightly shaken, and minor foxing. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1373062. Special Collections.
THE DOWN EASTERS, American Deepwater Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
THE DOWN EASTERS, American Deepwater Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Lubbock, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd.
Date published: 1929
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. xvi, 285 pages. 1929. Gold lettering on the spines. Gold lettering on the front cover. Minor wear to the edges and corners of the book. A very good copy of this volume, illustrated with 136 b/w photographs and 4 plans. Maps on the endpapers. The book is subtitled: 'American Deep-water Sailing Ships 1869-1929. This is a very heavy book and will require additional shipping charges - at cost.
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Basil Lubbock
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Basil Lubbock
Publisher: Charles E. Lauriat
Date published: 1929
Format: Hardcover
First edition stated. Large octavo in royal blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Reproduction antique map endpapers. xvi+ 285 pp. with index, extensive appendix register of American-built ships 1853-1902; , appendix listing of Searsport captains and names of their ships; appendix of "Young America" list of passages under American flag; register of foreign-built American ships; appendix "Paul Jones, an Early Down Easter". Produsely illustrated with full page photographic plates of persons, shipd, on board activities. A tight, bright copy, some marginal light foxing outer edge of some leaves. Handsome illustrated history of American square-rigged sailing ships--the "Down Easters"---that were used to sail around Cape Horn over the 60-year period 1869 to 1929. Among the areas covered are the San Francisco grain trade, "Bully Captains, Bucko Mates, and Cape Horn Shellbacks", Clippers in the Cape Horn Trade; individual chapters on Down Easters of the 1870s, 80s, 90s; and the last of the American square riggers.
THE DOWN EASTERS - American Deepwater Sailing Ships 1869-1929
LUBBOCK, Basil
THE DOWN EASTERS - American Deepwater Sailing Ships 1869-1929
LUBBOCK, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. .
Date published: 1953
Format: Hardcover
Reprint of the 1929 original. XVI, 288 PP, plus 84 pages with 118 bw illust. & 4 folded plans. Fp: Stowing topsails. FEP: Map of North America. REP: Type of rigging. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt title on spine. Covers have light wear around edges and a small 1cm tear at top of spine. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 18.8. The San Francisco grain trade, the clippers in the Cape Horn trade, down-easters in the 70's, 80's & 90's. The last of America's square-riggers.
The Down Easters ü American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 [Signed]
Lubbock, Basil
The Down Easters ü American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929 [Signed]
Lubbock, Basil
Publisher: Brown, Son, & Ferguson
Date published: 1929
Format: Hardcover
Book. Long Octavo, xvi, 285 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gilt lettering. Boards have shelf wear, rubbing, minor staining and denting, and small closed tears along the spine edge. Text block has frontispiece loose from binding, other pages are slightly shaken, and minor foxing. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1373062. Special Collections.
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Basil Lubbock
The Down Easters: American Deep-Water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
Basil Lubbock
Publisher: Charles E. Lauriat
Date published: 1929
Format: Hardcover
First edition stated. Large octavo in royal blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Reproduction antique map endpapers. xvi+ 285 pp. with index, extensive appendix register of American-built ships 1853-1902; , appendix listing of Searsport captains and names of their ships; appendix of "Young America" list of passages under American flag; register of foreign-built American ships; appendix "Paul Jones, an Early Down Easter". Produsely illustrated with full page photographic plates of persons, shipd, on board activities. A tight, bright copy, some marginal light foxing outer edge of some leaves. Handsome illustrated history of American square-rigged sailing ships--the "Down Easters"---that were used to sail around Cape Horn over the 60-year period 1869 to 1929. Among the areas covered are the San Francisco grain trade, "Bully Captains, Bucko Mates, and Cape Horn Shellbacks", Clippers in the Cape Horn Trade; individual chapters on Down Easters of the 1870s, 80s, 90s; and the last of the American square riggers.
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