SAIL J. Spurling / Basil Lubbock, Volume 1 (1927 Hardcover) Clipper Ships

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SAIL J. Spurling / Basil Lubbock, Volume 1 (1927 Hardcover) Clipper Ships:
$80.00

VOLUME ONEPictured by J. Spurling
Storied by Basil Lubbock
Edited by F.A. Hook
With an Introduction by C. Fox Smith

1927, First Edition – Second Impression (1,000 copies), The Blue Peter Publishing Co., London, 153 pages. Large size: 10-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches.

From the Introduction, “The ships which Mr. Lubbock and Mr. Spurling – both alike combining a real feeling for their theme with the knowledge and experience of the practical seaman – have here described and painted, are representative examples of four outstanding types of the aristocracy of sail:
- the Blackwallers, who maintained right to the end the traditions of discipline, seamanship and a sort of solid British reliability in every respect…
- the great American and Canadian built clippers, with their bucko officers and hard-case crews, bug powerful ships built above all for strength and speed…
- the fairy-like China clippers with their yacht-like handiness, and lastly
- the vessels engaged in the Australian wool trade…perhaps the sternest school of all both for ship and man.”

Appended are a subject index, an index of the names of ships which occur in the text, and a skeleton chart of the routes chiefly followed by the clippers in pursuit of the various trades.

30 full-page color paintings of the ships under sail which are described in the text plus a frontispiece of the ships Argonaut and S.S. Mooltan in tints, plus a large fold-out map of The Principal Trade Routes of the Clipper Ships.

Hardcover book pre owned used good condition,writing inside(see photo)Pages are clean and white. Green covers with gilt titles and decorations on the spine

No dust jacket as issued.

153 pages with the Principal Trade Routes of the clipper ships map in back

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