$35.00
Mitchell and Sawyer, two of the country’s foremost shipping historians.
In stock
The story of the Union-Castle service to South Africa and of the ships employed
Drawings by Nigel V. Robinson
Terence Dalton Limited
First Published 1984 ( This revised edition is 1987)
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover with dust jacket, ix + 214 pages including many black-and-white drawings and photographs;-laid in is a photocopied sailing schedule and fare list of both the Union and Castle Lines (originals would be c1900/1920);—book has hardly a trace of shelf and reading wear, lengthy personal (and relevant to book) notation on first blank page by the previous Portuguese-Canadian owner (a ship model maker and published ship historian, book acquired from his estate) signed and dated by him, personal address of author Sawyer written in pencil on the Contents page, otherwise in very clean and unmarked condition; unpriced DJ gently bumped at spine ends, but essentially as new. See also our listings for Marischal Murray’s very scarce Ships and South Africa : A Maritime Chronicle of the Cape with Particular Reference to Mail and Passenger Liners from the Early Days of Steam Down to the Present [with related ephemera], and for Robin Knox-Johnston’s The Cape of Good Hope: A Maritime History.
Now in a protective plastic cover to prevent further damage.
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Weight | 0.850 kg |
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