A Cross in the Topsail : An Account of the Shipping Interests of R. & W. Paul Ltd., Ipswich
Rare and modern books
Finch, Roger
The Boydell Press,
1979
A Cross in the Topsail : An Account of the Shipping Interests of R. & W. Paul Ltd., Ipswich
Rare and modern books
Finch, Roger
The Boydell Press,
1979
32.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1979
- ISBN
- 0851151132
- Author
- Finch, Roger
- Publishers
- The Boydell Press
- Size
- 10 x 7.75 inches
- Cover description
- Near Fine
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright brick cloth boards with no bumping to corners. A very tight clean copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or creased with fading to spine and margin of front cover. 122pp. The story of Pauls and Whites shipping company from their inception in the 1840s to the sale of the last of their barges in the 1970s. Their barges all carried a white cross on the topsail to identify them as they made their way between the low banks of the East Coast rivers.
