Canadian Pacific Quadruple-Screw Liner Empress of Tapa dura - 1972

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd, 1972 Facsimile Edition. Quarter tan cloth spine with beige cloth cover - bright gilt titles.145pp. B/w illustrations and fold out diagrams.
Series: Ocean Liners of the Past - No. 4 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine-Builder'.
Price clipped Jacket has edge wear and a 4 x 1" piece missing from the back. Book and Text are VG+Please feel free to inquire for item specifics or additional photos. Books will only be carefully packaged in cardboard boxes only. Combined shipping can apply for multiple purchases – please check out our other listings. International shipping costs will be assessed on a case by case basis.*There will be an additional charge for shipping beyond the posted value due to the size and/or weight of this item.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society [0-8212-0478-5] [1972]. (Folio) Very good in very good dust jacket. 144pp. Illustrations (5 folding), photographs. The top edge at the spine has been damp with concurrent wrinkling to the top inside corners of the pages. (Transportation, Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines, Empress of Britain--Ocean Liner, Ocean Liners--Canada).

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Hardbound. VG (DJ is slightly aged, inside and out; otherwise quite nice.). Yellow cloth boards with brown cloth spine, white & illus. dust jacket,144 pp. followed by a final folding plate, profusely illustrated in bw with several other folding plates. "No 4 in a series of reprints from 'The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder'," first published in 1931 on the occasion of the ship's maiden voyage. A beautiful ship she was, and all you might want to know about her is likely in this book, from her conception to her untimely demise at the hands of a German submarine.

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped). The jacket has a tiny spot along its top-edge and three short scratches on the rear panel. NO chips. NO creases. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Previous owner's small name-stamp. Pages are crisp and clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing of the Updated and Expanded Edition. Oversize Hardcover. 10.5" wide by 13" tall. Illustrated with 247 drawings, diagrams, photographs, and 6 fold-out plans with meticulous details of the ship's design and building. Frontispiece drawing of Empress of Britain by Kenneth Shoesmith. This is No. 4 in the NYGS OCEAN LINERS OF THE PAST series. The book includes a facsimile reprint of the complete souvenir issue of The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine-Builder, published in 1931 on the occasion of the Empress of Britain's maiden voyage. Introduction and epilogue by Leslie Reade.… Leer más