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ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. [Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. [Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: -] Hardcover Poor Jack: The 4000-year History of the Merchant Seaman This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: - -] Hardcover This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. [Reading, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: -] Hardcover Poor Jack: The 4000-year History of the Merchant Seaman This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, UK] Hardcover First Edition 376pp; illustrated. Name in biro on flyleaf. [Doncaster, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Greenhill Books] Hardcover First Edition Some light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, some light wear to covers and spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear [Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]
London: Chatham Publishing, Date: 2001 The history of merchant seaman from the earliest times. "Poor Jack has now passed away - flown, no doubt, to that garden of delights which he knew as Fiddler's Green, whose location is given as 'seven miles to loo'ard of hell'. There the drinks and smokes are logged or tallied but the bill need never be paid." 376pp with black and white plates. 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [GB]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London] Hardcover First Edition The history of merchant seaman from the earliest times. "Poor Jack has now passed away - flown, no doubt, to that garden of delights which he knew as Fiddler's Green, whose location is given as 'seven miles to loo'ard of hell'. There the drinks and smokes are logged or tallied but the bill need never be paid." 376pp with black and white plates. [Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are generally in very good order. No particular bumping or wear to corners or board edges. Spine is intact and bright. Textblock is tight, bright and clean. 376 pp. Pictorial paper dust jacket with yellow lettering to front. Dj has a little mild creasing to the edges but is otherwise intact. Not priceclipped. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 731g. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 024542:1-O2) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall 731 G [Bristol, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, London] Hardcover First Edition First edition, first impression. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£19.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 376pp, illustrated. 'Nasty, brutish and short'. Hobbes might well have been describing the existence of the professional seaman for most of history. The earliest recorded sailor's yarn, dating from about 2000 BC, is a story of shipwreck, and seamen were always nearer to oblivion than most. At times landsmen have been tempted to sentimentalise the way of the sea, Dibden the eighteenth century ballad monger wrote: 'There is a sweet cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack' but seamen knew the cherub was never over diligent. Whether described as shipman, mariner, sailor, seaman, poor Jack or jolly Jack (jolly whenever opportunity offered, poor on all but paydays), the merchant seaman was substantially the same for most of the 2000 years of the Christian era and indeed for the 2000 years before that. Cut off from land and normal society, the seaman's world was distinct and the seaman himself distinctive. In the western world the deep sea sailor has now all but disappeared, so it is possible to look dispassionately at what the seafaring life meant f ...
Chatham Publishing, Date: 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy, No additions. Dustwrapper a bit faded at spine. 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [GB]
London: Chatham Publishing, Date: 2001. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 6 x 9 in. Blue paper boards. Condition is NER FINE ; like new on all points but edges a bit bumped. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped, very clean. Naut. Stax. 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [US]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London] Hardcover First Edition 6 x 9 in. Blue paper boards. Condition is NER FINE ; like new on all points but edges a bit bumped. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped, very clean. Naut. Stax. [Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing] Hardcover First Edition Fine copy, No additions. Dustwrapper a bit faded at spine. [Aberystwyth, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
London: Chatham Publishing, Date: 2001. 376pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or blue boards in jacket. Near new. The history of the merchant seaman drawing on contemporary material spanning four millenia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [AU]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London] Hardcover First Edition 376pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or blue boards in jacket. Near new. The history of the merchant seaman drawing on contemporary material spanning four millenia. Size: 8vo [Ashmore, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 2001]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London 2001] Hardcover 22.0 x 13.5cms, 374pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Hope uses the sailors' stories and antecdotes to document 4000 years of their social and professional worlds. [Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 2001]
London, UK: Chatham Publishing, Date: 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NF/NF, used but looks like new, hc, lite blue cloth binding with gilt text on spine, pale blue end papers, 376 pages. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. Slightest of shelf rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, dj is not price clipped.. 2001. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [US]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, London, UK] Hardcover First Edition NF/NF, used but looks like new, hc, lite blue cloth binding with gilt text on spine, pale blue end papers, 376 pages. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. Slightest of shelf rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, dj is not price clipped. [Torrington, WY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
UK: Chatham Publishing, Date: 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Poor Jack skilfully draws a picture of a social and professional world that is entertaining as it is informative. By turns horrifying, amusing and thought - provoking, the book follows Poor jack ashore and afloat through the typical vicissitudes of his exotic but uncertain life. There is a slight spine lean. and the top front corner shows ware to it.. 2000. Chatham Publishing ISBN 1861761619 9781861761613 [GB]
ISBN10: 1861761619, ISBN13: 9781861761613, [publisher: Chatham Publishing, UK] Hardcover First Edition Poor Jack skilfully draws a picture of a social and professional world that is entertaining as it is informative. By turns horrifying, amusing and thought - provoking, the book follows Poor jack ashore and afloat through the typical vicissitudes of his exotic but uncertain life. There is a slight spine lean. and the top front corner shows ware to it. [Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]
London Chatham Publishing 2001 First Edition Hard Cover Fine in Fine jacket 8vo. 376pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or blue boards in jacket. Near new. The history of the merchant seaman drawing on contemporary material spanning four millenia.
London Chatham Publishing 2001 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket 1861761619. Index. Weight 700 grams; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 376 pages.
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