HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: Allen Lane.* Binding and cover condition: Blue Grey textured cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, top and bottom edges quite sunned. GD* Jacket condition: Poor dust wrapper. Colour photo illustrated showing the Normandie. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.95. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Complete but badly aged and torn. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight, with no reading wear or marks to text, very slight ageing to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 220 pp. text. xiv pp. sources, list of illustrations & acknowledgements, index & blank page at rear.* Description: ?The Liners? tells the story of the great and beautiful ships, built for speed and comfort, which regularly plied between Europe and America on the North Atlantic route. It is a story that runs from Brunel?s Great Eastern through to the QE2 and covers there planning, design, history and achievement together with some of the extraordinary people who regularly travelled on them.* A NEAR VERY GOOD copy of the 1st. thus with ageing reducing it to GD. Included there is a poor but complete dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4754
Title: The Liners: A History of the North Atlantic Crossing:
Author: Coleman, Terry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/GD/ACC
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.
Publisher: Allen lane.
Place of Publication: UK 234
Date Published: 1976-01-01

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