SAILING-SHIP MODELS by Nance, R. Morton, - 1949

Halton & Company Limited, 1949. revised. Hardcover. Good++/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Nice blue cloth boards with title and ship illustration on front cover in gold. Gold is a bit rubbed. Light board soil. Faded and sun darkened spine. Light foxing to endpapers and foredges. Text/illustration pages are clean.

Halton and Truscott Smith,, 1924T. hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Blue cloth cover with gilt shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Halton and Truscott Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. Limited Edition. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with lettering. This edition limited to 1750 copies, this being number 1069. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning and marking to pastedowns and endpapers with plate to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean, with tanning overall.

Halton and Truscott Smith , 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. beautiful folio book gold sail ship on front 49/1750 wonderful plates throughout some with tissue guard

London, New York: Halton & Company, 1949. Revised Edition. vi, 81p., plus 120 b/w plates, colored front. with the tissue-guard, b/w text illus., original blue cloth, quarto format.

Halton & Co. London/New York 1949 2nd edition.. No inscriptions. insect damage to surface of spine and worn to head thereof. eps tanned, tissue guard to frontis shows loss, else contents very clean, overall G+ condition.. Gilt dec blue cloth boards. 81pp + 120 plates 4to. Includes list of museums in Europe & America containing ship models.

Halton, Truscott Smith, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited copy 1139/1750. Beautiful plates and fold-outs. Very good, clean, tight condition with mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924. Limited. Half-Leather. Very Good. Hardcover, no jacket. Very Good for age. Some wear to edges and corners; some rubbing/wear to panels; scratch to spine panel; some rubbing to gilt; pages browned. Indications that book was professionally re-spined, original spine laid down, new endpapers. Handsome book, decorative ruled beveled boards, teg. Tissue guarded plates.

London: Halton & Company Limited, 1924. Revised Second Edition of 1949. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine and on the front board with a hint of rubbing at the head of the spine. A 4to measuring 11 1/2" tall by 8 7/8" deep. Without a dust jacket. "A selection from European and American collections...." 81 pages consisting text, drawings and extensive black and white photographs and a list of "Principal Museums and Other Institutions in Europe and America containing ship models." With a color photograph frontispiece of a Flemish Carack, circa 1450.

London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924. "The best and most scholarly of the development-of-ships-through-models books. Somewhat rare." McDonald 492. First edition, #1368 in a limited edition of 1750 copies. Light wear to outer front hinge. Text and plates clean and fresh.. Color frontis. b/w ills., plates, gravures. 4to. 80 pp. plus 124 plates.