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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. Third edition published in 1928 [the book was originally published in 1924]. With black and white illustrations throughout, including a frontispiece showing "Cutty Sark in Sydney Harbour awaiting the wool clip', and nine (two folding) plans, all present as called for. ***Very good in dark blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Bottom corners bumped. Foxing to prelims, end pages and fore-edge of text-block. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. **216mm x 148mm. xii prelim-pages plus 422 pages including appendix and index to rear. ***'The Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship, built on the River Clyde in Glasgow in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line. She was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938, where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship, and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display, where she remains to this day.' [Wiki]. ***An early edition, published in 1928, with all nine (two folding) plans as called for. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.