Allan a Kirk (35 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET; SILVER SPINE & COVER TITLES ON BLACK CLOTH HARD COVERS. DUST JACKET Cover shows PAPER CLIPED NOTE WITH TITLE ETC. ALL ON BLACK DJ. . ; 303pg pages; How, who, when & where of article writing from the research, outline, construction to market & sale. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear, tears and fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 196pp with b/w photos - blue cloth - preliminary pages and edges of text block slightly foxed - dustwrapper is slightly rubbed and soiled/foxed - slight wear and chipping to edges - spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some minor marks to the cover. No jacket. A very good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tiny hint of foxing and a pen name. The jacket is in a protective sleeve. A maritime history of the fast passenger and mail steamers that operated across Cook Strait, linking Wellington with the South Island. The book likely covers shipping companies, individual vessels, timetables, ports, crews and the changing role of Cook Strait services before modern ferry operations. It would appeal to collectors of New Zealand maritime history, inter-island transport, coastal shipping and Wellington/Nelson/Picton history.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book has small amounts of fading to the board edges and is very clean and bright internally. The jacket has some dulling down, short closed tears and shallow chipping. Primarily about the people and sailors that traveled between Australia and New Zealand, the book also includes some history of the more popular ships as well.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy with some minor edge wear to the jacket.

first edition 207pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (pale blue cloth,v.sl.soiled,dealer's stamp to front pastedown,content edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.).

LACKS FEP, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); 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.…

LACKS D/W, octavo softcover (VG-); 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.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. some wear and fading to covers and cover edges, minimal library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Condition: Fair. Original cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Part dust jacket top spine missing; dust jacket partly repaired; corners cloth bumped; light foxing on endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is edgeworn and marked.Internally clean.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illstd with b&w photos. Moderate library markings, light wear. Dust jacket is intact, library sticker on spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.…

ctavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps with AH Reed motif in white, 186pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (some soiling to rear, rubbing to flap folds, light creasing to upper edges & to spine extrems).

octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, 186pp, illus, VG in VG- d/w (tears to extremities).

1st Ed. XII, 196 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 49 photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips and small piece missing at top near spine. An otherwise near fine copy. 22 x 14.5. A collection of pen portraits of 21 ship masters and 4 others whose lives have been dedicated to the sea and sailing Australasian waters.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xii 196p D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine With illustrations, a collection of short biographies of Australasian shipmasters and other ranks, including engineer and purser.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Very Good. The picture on our listing is a photograph of the actual book NOT a stock image. [Loc. C9-6].

1st Ed. 186 PP plus 16 pages with 56 b/w photos of ships & personnel. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is taped down on endpapers, otherewise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.1 x 14.7. New Zealand's oldest shipping company which commenced business in the 1860's.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. G h/c, no DJ, slight bumps to cover, spine faded, inked name FFEP with clipped corner, sticker over other name inside front cover, slight foxing RFEP. Internally VG. 196 pages, 49 b/w photos, 2 maps. A collection of 26 seafaring chapters, mainly involving masters of ships sailing in NZ waters or trans-Tasman, in little coasters and colliers to crack liners. A well illustrated account of memorable ships and men. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 207p Inscribed by the author, the full story of the Wellington-South Island passenger steamer services from 1873 to the roll-on roll-off of the 1960s, including the Wahine sinking, with historical and contemporary photographs. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22.5cm. VG h/c in plastic protected pictorial DJ taped to pastedowns. Ex-library, but only two stamps on FFEP. Creases to lower corner FFEP. Sub-title page removed. 207 pages, 36 b/w photos, one plan A popular history of passengers services connecting NZ's North and South Island via Cook Strait from 1875 to the 1960s, with a postcript regarding the 1968 Wahine wreck which occurred after the manuscript was in the printer's hands.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 178 pages. clean tidy copy.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo xii + 196p., b/w pls., indexes, A Collection of Pen Portraits of some Australasian shipmasters & others whose lives have been dedicated to the sea. Cloth faded. Very Good reading copy.

1st Ed. 207 PP with 1 sketch, plus 16 pages with 36 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. 22.3 x 14.2. The full story of the passenger steamer services between Wellington and the South Island.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 207 pages. Dj taped and worn.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. For more than 100 years the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company provided cargo and passenger services to the Nelson provincial area. Its ships,sailed mainly in Cook Strait, providing regular links with Wellington on the opposite side of the Strait, The Anchor company was formed in 1862 around two earlier Nelson shipping enterprises and the "Foundry" name was added to the Anchor title in 1901 when that business was acquired. In his introduction the author records that the company had owned only 37 vessels with, in the 1900s, its fleet exceeding five ships for the first time, reaching its highest number of 16 ships in the 1930s. In his introduction the author wrote: "The Anchor Company started as a coastal shipping company and has remained so to the present time." At that point the fleet consisted "six fine motor vessels." Small shipping companies in NZ always faced stiff competition and Achor was no excaption. However, the company was fortuante that its early years coincided with the Otago and West Coast gold rushes; the outcome recorded in an early chapter "More Gold, More Ships." Kirk needs no introduction as a nautical historian, but in this company history much of its commentary was based oi the research and extensive typescripts of a former Anchor Chairman of Directors, Sydney Cannington, who was with the company for 53 years, joining in 1911 as office boy. He intended to write a company history but died in 1964 and in 1965 Allan Kirk was asked by the company to complete the work. A very fine shipping company record emerged from this joint authorship. Allan Kirk was at all times objective in presenting the compay's story from evey possible aspect. Unfortunatlely, the march of maritime technology put paid to traditional coastal ship trading not many year after the book's publication. First edition of 1967, 186 pages including three appendices (one the fleet list) and index, illustrated with more that 50 b/w photos, many of ships and including numerous portraits of company personalities, seagoing and shore staff. Blue hard covers with gilt spine titles are VG+, former owner label top edge front pastedown, small/unobtrusive dealer stamp lower centre title page, text block otherwise excellent, Colour pictorial DJ is VG with W W Stewart painting of the ship Titoki on front parel, small crease across lower front corner. Photos (illustrator).…