Search Results: the old fall river line by mcadam roger williams

Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Daye Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Owner's name and the year written on the front free endpaper. .

New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1955. Dust jacket with chips and tears at spine ends.. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Original Cloth. Fine/Fair.

Stephen Daye Press, 1955. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Stephen Daye Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Revised Edition. Hardcover. B&W Photographs, Figures and Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; [SIGNED] 1955 Stephen Daye Press. HC/DJ Revised and enlarged from the original 1937 edition. Lengthy authorial inscription penned to the half-title page and signed by the author with the date 1959. Soundly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed with a few shallow nicks and short closed tears at edges. Superficial toning to whites of jacket and to pictorial map endpages. Illustrated with b&w photos, reproductions and maps. VG/VG; Signed by Author .

New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1955. A clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is unusually bright and shiny, having been long-protected by a removable Brodart plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped (5.00). No tears. No creases. No remainder marks. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with over 50 photographs, old prints and advertisements, tickets, passes, menus, etc. Endpaper maps. Revised and updated text, with 19 additional illustrations and an index, also entirely new. Subtitle: "Being a Chronicle of the World-Renowned Steamship Line with Tales of Romantic Events and Personages during Its Ninety Years of Daily Service and Accounts of the Last Voyages by the Famous Sound Steamers." Index. Bound in the original light blue cloth, lettered in dark blue on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "The Fall River Line, which for ninety years offered daily service between New York and Boston, was truly an American institution, known… Read More

New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1955. 1955 revised edition, originally published 1937. Illustrated in black and white. Blue cloth, map endpapers, illustrated dustjacket. Very good with good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [5.00] and is also very good with modest shelf rubbing, scratch to front panel, no chips.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mowbray Company, 1976. hard cover. Very Good/Good. Providence: Mowbray Company. [1976]. Second Printing. ix+207pp. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Hardcover with jacket.  Very Good condition in Good price-clipped jacket. Jacket worn, especially at edges, with several small tears; note that publisher cut of jacket trimmed the top edge of the title (see photo). Boards are clean with bright silver titling and decoration, slightly splayed. Small inked note and light foxing to half title. Thereafter clean, unmarked and unfoxed. Securely bound. "Steamboat lovers will be grateful to the Mowbray Company for publishing this new, enlarged edition of Roger Williams McAdam's THE OLD FALL RIVER LINE, the first two editions of which are out of print and becoming collectors items."  (cfm)

Providence, RI: Mowbray Publishing Company, 1976. Book. Fine. Cloth. Later Printing. Second Printing. Oblong quarto, (11" x 9"), dark blue cloth covered boards. Decorative endpapers. 205 pp. including photo and autobiographical note on author, index and appendix with technical details and descrriptions of all of the Fall River vessels. Very generously illustrated throughout with colorr and black and white vintage photographs, drawings and paintings. This history details every aspect of the luxury travel for which the Fall River Line was famous, including music, menus, interior decorration, officers uniforms, and other trademarked ships items as well as promotional articles and posters. Exhaustive and definitive. This volume is very tight, squrare and lean with very fresh cloth and an interior that is unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread, in a very tight matte, unclipped dust jacket, which (unusual for matte jackets) shows not the slightest trace of dust, soil, stain etc. Sliight… Read More

New York: Stephen Daye Press. 1955. Revised and Englarged. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. .