Sailing Trawlers: The Story of Deep Sea Fishing with Long Line and Trawl (Signed)

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Percival Marshall and Company Limited, London.

BINDING
Mid blue cloth boards with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Some general shelf wear to boards, foxing to page edges. Printed pages and illustrations largely clear and unmarked. 

DUST JACKET
Poor, with large pieces missing, tearing and creasing. We have preserved it in removable book wrap.

EDITION
First edition 1953.

DESCRIPTION
Signed by the author on flyleaf, dated 1962. Illustrated throughout with 180 black and white photographic plates and 18 scale plans of vessels described.. 384 pp, Quarto.

SYNOPSIS
An illustrated history of the vast fleets of sailing trawlers that once fished the North Sea and English Channel, and the men who worked on them.