Merchant Sail

Fairburn Marine, 1945. hardcover. Like New/Good. 0x0x0. 1945-1955 Fairburn Marine (Center Lovell, Maine), six 8 x 11 inches tall x 2 inches thick embossed blue cloth hardcover volumes in publisher's original plain brown paper dust jackets with spine cutouts, index, xix, 4179 pp. The original Fairburn issue, not one of the facsimile reprint editions. A near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked - in rubbed and edgeworn original brown paper dust jackets, with Japanese tissue repairs to dust jacket spine tears on Volumes 1 and 3. Uncommon in such fine condition, especially with original jackets. Note that this is a very heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for all orders, at our exact postage cost. ~RCL~ [26.0P] The classic history of ship-building and merchant marine activities in the United States, tracing activities from the time of the American colonies forward, written by American writer, naval architect, marine engineer, industrial executive and chemist William Armstrong Fairburn (1876-1947), who, as a naval architect, constructed from his own designs the two largest cargo-carrying steamships ever built, which were thirty years ahead of their time.