Taikoo Dockyard (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Circa 1954. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Folio, pp 174. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards over grey cloth spine, gilt lettering to upper board and spine. A company history of John Swire & Sons' leading dockyard and ship repairing operations. The first dock and slipway was built in 1900 the near the company s Taikoo Sugar Refinery on the north shore of Hong Kong island. The book is liberally illustrated throughout with images of ships, dockyards and workshops. In Near Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Laid in is a photocopy extract, an article titled "Taikoo Dockyard, Hong Kong" by Albert Griffin, extracted from the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineering, Vol 183, January 1911.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Technical Advertising Service, printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, c. 1954.] Blue and grey cloth board stamped in gold, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Book in fine condition internally but front board has slight bumping to lower corners and slight discoloration to lower section.