Search Results: Contraband Cargoes by Neville Williams

Longmans, 1959T. hardcover. Good. 1.1811 9.4488 6.6929.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1959. VG+/VG. First edition in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page without dedication or inscription. Illustrated. A well-researched and authoritative seven century history of smuggling. Chapters include; 'The Rise of the Smuggler, 1272-1558', 'Conspiracy to Defraud, 1558-1603', 'A Recognised Profession, 1603-1713', 'The Heyday of Illicit Trade, 1713-1775', 'The Net Widens, 1775-1846', 'Free Trade and the New Morality in Britain, 1846-1920', 'International Illicit Trade in the Nineteenth Century', 'Contraband in the Modern World, 1920-1958'. With Bibliography and Index. Neat non-authorial inscription on front endpaper; small sticker of previous owner on front paste-down; d/w has small losses to head and tail of spine and corners of the d/w; d/w edge chipped; d/w has short edge tear (18mm long) with associated creasing; else a very good plus copy, in a very good d/w, of a SCARCE… Read More

Longmans, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Longmans, 1959. First printing. Hard Cover. NEAR-FINE IN VERY GOOD+ DJ WITH ORIGINAL 25s PRICE AND LIGHT EDGEWEAR. A NICE COPY.

Longmans. Used - Very Good. 1959. First Edition Cloth, dj., 8vo, 301 pp., illus. Dj. edgeworn.. (Subject: England.)

London, New York & Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1959. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier tanning to the spine which has a little loss at the ends. Boards faded at the spine ends. Leans slightly. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned. . First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); (xiii) 301pp; Index; Signed by the author on the title page with a dedication to the first blank — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Contains: Black & white plates [10]; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts… Read More

New York: Shoe String Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Reprint. Hard Cover. Remainder stripe. Wide-ranging study of piracy in Britain. Also includes chapters on opium trade in China and U.S. Prohibition. era.; 8vo .

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1959. 301 pages. Ten b/w illustrations in text. Title page lightly foxed at spine. Page 189 has stamp at bottom, otherwise pages are clean. Foredges. lightly soiled. Endpapers worn at spine. Cover loose at front endpapers. Red cloth, gilt titile on spie. Light wear along edges. GOOD+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Longmans, Green & Company. Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ is rubbed at the corners, with some surface soiling/browning. What is interesting is a memo stapled to the endpaper: "April 10th, 1959. Inter-office. To Mr. Alfred hitchcock, from Kay Selby. Remarks: herewith copy of Contraband Cargoes, as requested by cable from Mr. Holman today." I can not prove this is THE Alfred Hitchcock, but it certaily seems possible, or even probable. His kind of book. No other marks in the book. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 301 pages .