Eaddy P A (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,which is only very lightly rubbed to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Price clipped and this copy has no previous inscriptions present.Firm binding with no leaning or rolling to spine.A fascinating work on sea lore and sea legends and the days of the famous sailing ships.Well illustrated with some 24 b&w plates,8vo 212pp Compass Library Edition of 1955.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. Edited/Revised Edition. 212 pages. Cream coloured dustjacket faded/stained to top front higne, top of spine and rear. Light wear only. Clean black hardback binding, light blanching to top of spine and tops of hinge areas, light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. A hint of foxing to page-edges o/w pages clean and sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Rev. ed in Compass Library. 212pp. Illus. Signature of previous owner on ffep. VG/rubbed & chipped, sl torn dw with small loss mainly to tail of spine. An account of a voyage on the barquantine "St.Elmo".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hard back, no dust jacket. Some marks to cover but no wear and tear. Some yellowing of pages and some foxing to edges, but good reading copy and black and white plates. Overall fair condition. 212 pages.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 196 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Flat signed by the author to front free endpaper. Black and white illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Gift inscription and bookplate.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Tight and clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Plain paper dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with tears to the joins at the spine ends. Leans slightly. Previous owners' name and date to the first blank. Pages very gently age-tanned; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8½" x 5½" (0.8 kg); pp 212; In the Compass Library series; Includes: Black & white photographs; Glossary; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191264 ||.…

1955 edited and revised edition, part of The Compass Library series with B&W illustrations; cover corners lightly bumped with faint faint discolouration to bottom edge. Dust jacket price-clipped with discolouration and wear and tear to edges and corners. Page fore-edges faintly discoloured; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket. …

Octavo stiff card boards (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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good clean copy with only tiny amounts of foxing and a little wear to the board edges. • Origins and Design: Eaddy explains how scows were adapted from North American designs to suit New Zealand's rugged coastal conditions. • Trading Routes and Cargo: The book details the types of goods carried—timber, coal, produce—and the ports they served, from Auckland to remote settlements. • Life Aboard: Through anecdotes and crew stories, readers gain insight into the daily challenges of sailing and maintaining these vessels. • Notable Scows and Voyages: Profiles of famous scows like the Echo, Rawhiti, and Kohi highlight their contributions and adventures. • Decline and Legacy: Eaddy reflects on the fading era of sail and the rise of motorized shipping, preserving the memory of a bygone maritime tradition. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and drawings, the book is both a technical study and a tribute. A valued resource for maritime historians, collectors, and anyone fascinated by New Zealand's nautical heritage.…

223 pages. a few photos. very good condition hardback in the original pictorial boards. [please see our storefront page for shipping information].

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 196p D-J (chips, small piece missing fore-corner, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP With illustrations, the inter-colonial sailing ships which were engaged in the timber trade between NZ and Australia.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. G h/c, no DJ, slight damage to spine top and rubbing near base. Small inked note inside cover. Minor foxing front and back. Internally VG. 196 pages, 21 b/w photos. The seafaring author tells of his sailing ship experiences in the early 1900s on coastal, trans-Tasman, South Pacific and deep water voyages. A NZ sailing ship classic. B/w photos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c, no DJ. Slight foxing to page edges.Name stamp on FFEP, dealer lable on front pastedown. 196 pages, 21 b/w photos. Some of the last sailing vessels trading under the NZ flag are subject of this evocative book by an author who served on some of them. Ships covered were mainly engaged trans-Tasman or in the South Pacific. B/w photos (illustrator).…

1st edition. 196 pages. illustrated. good condition hardback. owner's book-plate to inside front cover, and name to front free end-paper. [please see our storefront page for shipping information] Eaddy's third book on the old sailing ships of New Zealand, this one mainly dealing with the timber trade between Australia and New Zealand.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (8p) 193p D-J (slight chips, browning spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine With illustrations, the 2nd, expanded edition of the story of the trading scows of New Zealand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Hardback. No Jacket. First Published. 196 pages The text deals with the old inter-colonial sailing ships in the timber trade between NZ and Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Reading Hardback. First Published. 196 pages - with photo plates.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. None. 2nd. VG/None. 2nd. 19cm By 13.5cm. Flat bottom, shallow draft, sailing scows were vital to NZ's transport system from the latter 1800s to well into the 1900s. Eaddy, who sailed in many of these craft made a fine contribution to NZ maritime history when his book was first published in 1939, when many scows were still in service, now mostly with motors also. He tells the tale of these ships well, having been there, done that. 193 pages, 18 b/w photos. Light blue hard covers lightly grubby with few marks, bumps to spine extremities, corners. Text block excellent, former owners stamp top title page and top forward page. Photos (illustrator).…

Hard Covers. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 2nd. VG+/VG. 2nd. 19cm By 13.5cm. This account of NZ's sail trading scows was first published in 1939. Author sailed in a number of these small traders, evolved to suite NZ coastal conditions, although some ventured further. A fine contribution to NZ nautical literature. 193 pages, 18 b/w photos. Green tinted pictorial DJ few small chips. corner wear, one tape repair, small tear back top. Blue hard covers, black spine titles excellent, ditto text block. B/w Photos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dj. very faint foxing title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Previous owner's inscription dated 1944 on front endpaper. Foxing to top page edges. A 35mm chip at head of dust-jacket spine. 30mm tears at corners of dust-jacket. Foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1943 second edition of a title first published in 1943. [14], 193, [1 (blank)] pages. Frontispiece. 15 in-text black-and-white photographic illustrations. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 127mm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First Edition. 196 pages, several small tears to D/J.

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. On title page signed and inscribed by author to Fred & Lyle, Sir & Lady Doidge; Lady Doidge name on fep. B/ illustrated cover with soft rubbing and light dusting of soiling. Spine: surface vertical creasings. Edges: faint foxing and light soiling. Small booksellers stamp to fep foot. B/w illustrations. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 223p. By Author & Inscribed.…

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Edition. Signed with personal inscription to Lady Doidge 1955 on ffep. Clean green cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: foxing. Few only pages with small patches of foxing, albeit mostly to the margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 196p Dj: Spine: split in half at the spines front edge, with horizaontal splits and small splits and chips. Light dusting of just a little foxing and faint old smudges. Top and bottom edges with a few tiny splits and chips. By Author & Inscribed. …

Condition: Good. Undated but Foreword dated 1939. Plastic film over cover with marks/scratches & sticker on base of spine (may be ex-library). Foxing to textblock edges. Tanning to pages. Some small marks to pages & creases to edges. Text very good.

1955 Andrew Melrose London, hardcover 212 pages, with photo's. book of sailing ships which takes the reader from Loading Timber on the New Zealand coast to Sydney, Valpariso cape Horn and back to England. In good condition.