Buy this book on-line CAPTAIN E.G.DIGGLE, R.D., R.N.R : The Romance of the Modern Liner. With a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe of Scapa. (SIGNED)Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London [no date - 1930?], 1930
First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated June 1930. 242pp. Blue cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. With a colour frontispiece, two colour plates and eighty-one half-tone plates. Cloth quite chafed, soiled, rubbed and discoloured, and tender at upper gutter. Fox spotted throughout. A former owner name inked to the front pastedown. A dusty and quite handled copy of the history of the RMS Aquitania, written and signed by the ship's Captain, Ernest Diggle. The Aquitania, the third in Cunard Line's 'grand trio' of express liners, was designed by Leonard Peskett and launched in April 1913. She was widely regarded at the most attractive ship of her time, earning the nickname 'Ship Beautiful', and, bar the QE2, holds the record for the longest service career of any twentieth century express liner, serving in and surviving both World Wars.. Book. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CAPTAIN E.G.DIGGLE, R.D., R.N.R : The Romance of the Modern Liner. With a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe of Scapa. (SIGNED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, incunabula, rare books, libri rari and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |