A Handy Book for Shipowners and Masters by Holman, H - 1964

M. R. Holman, 1964. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:

The Commercial Printing & Stationery Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fifteenth Edition. 546 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Noticeable thumb marking and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Prominent tape stains to pastedowns and free endpapers also. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Maisey, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. 11th Edition. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout and to hinges, with exposed netting. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.

London: William H. Maisey. Twelfth Edition. Edge-rubbed blue cloth boards with wear to spine. Endpapers stamped with M.S. Scottish Maiden and Tankers Limited. Some foxing to first and last pages. . Good. Hardcover. 1929.

London, William H. Maisey eleventh edition - h/c WITHOUT d.j. From the Preface: 'In Invermore a master leaves two essential words out of a bill of lading and a loss of 13,000 pounds results; in the 'Winkfield' a rivet an eight of an inch long gives out at a critical moment and damage to the extent of 18,000 pounds has to be paid for'. 250 x 163mm., 12, 434, orig. blue cloth covered boards stained and marked in various areas, contents v.g. - binding very sound. VG.

London: G. Wilder & Son, 1891. [4], 155pp, [1]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in black. A trifle rubbed, some water-damage, ink-spotting and marking to boards, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp, The second edition of this manual providing instruction on the proper procedures and regulatory requirements connected to ship ownership; from the correct methods for storing cargo, to the primary causes of collisions and casualties. Issued by the managers of the Shipowner's Protection Association Limited, the work proved enduringly popular, running up to a sixteenth edition in 1964. . Second edition. 8vo.