EMPIRE SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II

AUTHORS - W.H. Mitchell and L.A. Sawyer

PUBLICATION - Sea Breezes, Liverpool UK, 1965.

CONDITION - Hardback first edition. The book has some rubbing and bumping on the top and bottom edges and corners, including the cellophane outer layer of the glossy printed boards is showing the familiar bubbling down the spinal valley on both front and back. The top 1cm of the spine has been repaired, but still in one piece and well attached. Inside the endpapers and adjacent 3-5 pages show medium foxing and the front endpaper has one previous owners small (1cm by 3cm) ink stamp and brown tape stains to the outer corners, but the rest of the pages are clean and bright for their age, and the binding is very good. This is a good copy of an originally cheaply bound publication. Published without dustwrapper.

PRICE - $42

DESCRIPTION - Vessels built in British yards, purchased, requisitioned, captured and confiscated from the enemy and controlled by the Ministry of Shipping which renamed them using the `Empire' prefix. Included cargoes, tankers, colliers, tugs etc.

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