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Australia: Australasian Publishing Company. Fair. Hardcover. 1942. cloth on spine worn internally sound good working copy .

George G. Harrap & Co., 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Reprinted. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Stain to front board.

Australia: The Australasian Publishing Co.. Good. Hardcover. 1947. corner bruise a very slight cant .

Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1942. Super octavo, hardcover (scruffy reading copy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company, 1947 lacks front fep, binding a little shaky but overall good clean copy. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Australasian Pub., 1942. 2nd edition. Very Good. octavo. worn orig. cloth 271pp., frontis., b/w pls., Epic story of the salvage of the NiagaraÕs Bullion from deep seas off the NZ coast in 1940. Ownership inscription & a little loose o/w VG

Sydney: Australasian Publishing Co., 1942. 2nd edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth 271pp., frontis., b/w pls.,

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, 1942. Second Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good. J. M ("Beau") Leonard (Photographs). 271, [1] pages. Illustrated Endpapers. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Foreword by W. A. Mackay. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling. The R.M.S. Niagara struck a mine and sank off the coast of New Zealand in June 1940 with nearly eight tons of solid gold aboard. RMS Niagara was an ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed "the Titanic of the Pacific", but after the sinking of the real RMS Titanic this was dropped in favor of "Queen of the Pacific". She should not be confused with an earlier RMS Niagara, an ocean liner built in 1848 for the Cunard Line. At the start of World War II, RMS Niagara was operated by the Canadian-Australasian Line, maintaining a… Read More

Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 145mm x 220mm. Jacket has heavy general wear, tears and some losses. Foxing to edges of page-block. Some foxing to preliminaries and rear endpapers. Former owner's details dated 1942 to half-title-page. Otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 271pp.

Sydney: Australasian Publishing Co, 1942. Second Edition. Frontispiece and photographic illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, slightly worn, foxing from plates offset on title and text, otherwise fine. Second Edition. Frontispiece and photographic illustrations. 1 vols. 8vo.

Australia: Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1942. Clean green cloth on boards with red titles. Spine: thin light rubbing to head & foot. Edges: mild yellowing and foxings. Eps: Sketch of mooring plan by Chief Diver Johnstone; thin short ex-book cover residue to bottom edges; small old cellotape residue to refp. Clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG albeit feels just as touch loose. 271p Dj: mildly yellowed. Thin old taping to top and bottom edges. Light rubbings. Head of spine with short split and wear. . First Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by J.M. ("Beau") Leonard, Photographs By.