THE CUTTY SARK; THE LAST OF THE FAMOUS TEA CLIPPERS; 2 VOLUMES IN 1 by Longridge, C. Nepean - 1979

Percival Marshall & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Few pages are loose. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned.

Edward W. Sweetman, 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Sweetman. Near Fine in a VG+ plain kraft paper DJ. 1959. reprint. hardcover. 12mo 208, 232pp . Facsimile of the 1933 original. .

Model and Allied Publications. 2nd. hardcover. Good. 9x5x1. Used - good - dust jacket shows moderate use wear, some creasing and wear at the edge - sound binding - no internal markings or names.

Model and Allied Publications, 1982. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good+. This is the Reprinted Edition Published in 1982 by Model and Allied Publications. Combined Volumes originally published in 1975. The condition of this Very Attractive Blue Textured hardcover is Near Fine+ with a Very Good+ jacket. It is in wonderful condition both inside and out. Very bright & very clean cover with very nice edges and spine ends. The pages are very tight, looks very lightly read. The pages are unmarked, no names. Very nice illustrations. The jacket with Pound Price is bright & clean with a little light shelf wear. Heavy Book! 232 pages. #22231-1123

Imprint unknown, 1975-10. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Edward W. Sweetman Co, 1959. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY, USA: Edward W. Sweetman Company, 1973. Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxix, 208pp w index + xi, 232pp w appendix and index. Two volumes in one w indexed illustrations including historical bw photographs and detail drawings. Five folded plates in pocket, collated to index. Top edge of textblock dyed dark brown. Light brown cloth w dark brown lettering and anchor motif on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Published originally in 1933 as two separate volumes. Volume I - An account of the ship itself, with plans and full instructions for building the hull, bulwarks, and deck fittings of a scale model. Volume II - describing the masts, spars, and rigging of a scale model, and including the builder's specifications for the construction of the original ship. The model of the Cutty Sark described in this book first went on exhibition in the Science Museum at South Kensington in October, 1933.

London: Percival Marshall & Co. Vol 2 only. (1930?) 3 fold-out diagrams in pocket and in FINE condition. Plate 2 to Volume Two + Plate 2 and Plate 3 to Volume One. Missing Plate 1 for Volume Two. 232 page plus ads. 83 illustrations throughout text. Appendix I - with oritinal specification for the building of the "Cutty Sark". Grey endpapers, with previous owner's name on ffep crossed out. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. VG+..

Watford, Herts, England: Model and Allied Publications, 1975. First Edition Thus 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxix, 208pp w index, [12pp] plates. xi, 232pp w appendices and index. Illustrated w scale drawings, detail figures and reproductions of historical bw photographs. Blue cloth w crisp gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing shallow wear to top front edge at corner. DJ preserved in archival cover. Octavo: 225 x 150mm. Originally published in two volumes by Percival Marshall Ltd, 1933, and first published in this combined edition 1975, this is the second printing, 1982, stated.