STEAMBOAT TO THE SHORE: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY by Moss, George H - 1972

Ploughshare Pr, December 1972. Hardcover. USED Good/No Jacket.

Ploughshare Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Sea Bright, New Jersey: Ploughshare Pr. Inscribed Copy Signed by the Author. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1972.

Ploughshare Pr, 1972-12. Hardcover. Good.

Sea Bright, New Jersey: Ploughshare Press, 1972. Oblong. 11.75" wide by 8.75" tall. A beautiful copy. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (10.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. Protected by a removable clear plastic sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Limited to 750 copies. Illustrated with maps and 93 prints, paintings, old photographs, and facsimiles of memorabilia -- schedules, timetables, advertisements, etc. There are 9 full-color mounted plates (tipped-in by hand), and a foldout illustration of the flotilla present for the start of the 1893 America's Cup Race. This is a 147-year pictorial and documentary history of the steamboat service between New York and the New Jersey shore. Includes detailed checklists of about 200 local steamboats, with their names, where built, life of vessel, length/tonnage, principal port of… Read More

Ploughshare Press, 1972. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine. The Bicenetnnial Edition, limited to 750 copies only. Warmly inscribed and s igned by the author on the first interior blank. Oblong oversized hardcover in olive green cloth stamped in gilt. 102 pp. with bibliography. index. Eight tipped in color reproductions of 19th century vessels, vintage photographs, drawings and reproductions, and one tipped in folding plate. Fine in near fine color dust jacket, small nick bottom edge of the front panel. Lavishly illustrated look at the 19th century steamboat era on the Jersey Shore and rivers and bays in Monmouth County. Divided into three sections: the Bayshore area, Up River, and the Outside Run.

Ploughshare Press,. VG/VG. 1991. Hardcover. 0912396024 . SIGNED oblong hardback 3rd printing (limited to 1,000 copies) . Covers very clean, bright; pages tight, white, clean. Glossy, crisp DJ (no tears). A very attractive copy. ; .