VERRILL,A[lpheus] HYATT:: SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING

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VERRILL,A[lpheus] HYATT: : SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING

LONDON.GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN,1924.

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UK,ex-lib 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.[Simultaneous issue as US 1st edn by Dunfield & Co,N.Y, 1924. US 1st edn particularly expensive with dw/dj present.] (Though an ex-public library book,in publisher's original decorated cloth bds and with all it's usual public library alpha-numerical notations,it's overall appearance both externally and internally,is of a solid,sound, clean example.) An assumed owner name to ffe,and a neat,clean,dark blue Anchor motif'fed 'Plymouth Public Libraries - MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY' bookplate pasted to a clean,plain white front pastedown. An obliquely placed faded,red ink 'Withdrawn From Plymouth Library Services' rectangular stamp to ffe. Usual library alpha-numerical library notations/markings/stamp to recto of title-page's lower part. Recto of rear free endpaper's bottom edge has a taped library barcode,and finally another slim rectangular, faded,black ink 'Plymouth Public Libraries' stamp to book's bottom edges.White tippexed 6-figure numerical library notation to foot of slightly darkened spine/ backstrip.No other ex-library notation apart from those already described.Top edges darkened/aged and slightly dust-soiled,fore-edges similarly aged/tanned,but to a much lesser degree and therefore brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight, clean and virtually pristine,no foxing/spotting,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Publisher's original,blue cloth bds with black ink stamped square, pictorial vignette and black lettering to upper bd,black lettering to spine/backstrip.Bds slightly grubbed and some marking. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners;head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with some reciprocal creasing and some minimal splits+fraying to head of same.UK, ex-lib 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn, ix-xvpp+1-327pp [paginated] includes author intro,12 chapters,mixture of 16 contemporary b/w illus+ photographs - all called for and present.Plus [unpaginated]; half-title,b/w illus frntis,title-page, separate contents+illus lists/ tables. The ethics,the principles,the reasons for smuggling are much the same the world over and,taken by and large,smugglers are much akin wherever we find them.It is with such matters that this book deals. It is written with the purpose of describing smugglers and smuggling as a whole,and to describe the most interesting and picturesque smugglers,as well as the basest and most despicable,as they really are and were,to picture their lives, adventures,dangers and methods,and to show how they are circumvented by the law.

UK,ex-lib 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.

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