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Origins, Orient and Oriana
Charles F. Morris
1980
Teredo Books Ltd : Brighton
12" by 8"
xx, 491 pp.
SUMMARY
This first edition, first impression of an abundantly illustrated examination of the history and design faults of two important liners, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
First Edition,Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Near Fine
This book weighs 2 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The first edition, first impression of the work.
With almost two hundred photographs appearing as vignette illustrations in the text, including nine colour plates, in addition to more than twenty monochrome diagrams of ships.
This copy with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
The Orient Steam Navigation Company was a British shipping company with origins in the late eighteenth century. This is a detailed historical overview and design critique of two of the company's most important liners, the Orient (owned 1853-1925) and the Oriana (owned 1960-1966).
CONDITION
In the original publisher's full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very excellent with just fractional bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Wrapper is likewise excellent with just marginal edgewear. Internally, firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages. H. K. Lockyer (Booksellers) stamp to the bottom edge of the recto of the rear free endpaper.
Overall Condition: Near Fine Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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