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Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Light edge wear. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice illustrated dust jacket shows minor wear and has been placed in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Gloucester, Mass.: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1995. First Edition. First printing Fine in blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10" by 9" with a prior owner's name and date on the title page. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 369 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of earlier works of art, black and white photographs and line drawings. The history of 300 years of ship building in Essex, Massachusetts.

Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Co., 1995.. 368 pp. b/w plates. Dana Story brings his lifetime of knowledge and acclaimed narrative style to the remarkable saga of Essex shipbuilding through three centuries. An oversize publication at 9x10 inches, with computer enhanced photos to bring out details. Very good condition in dustjacket.

Ten Pound Island Book Company,. 1995. Hardcover. 1st ed. Minor cover corner bumps; pgs tight, clean, unmarked. DJ worn (no tears) . ; .

Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island, 1995. 369pp/maps. Signed by author on title page. The shipbuilders of Essex, Massachusetts, have a 300-year history, from the rise of the trade in 1634 to its glory days in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and its decline in the first four decades of this century. detailed appendix lists vessels, with specifications, built in Essex, 1860-1980; and another appendix lists vessels in order by builder. A complete chronicle of shipbuilding and the shipbuilders of Essex. Light rubbing to dj. Clean no marks.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.