SOUTH AFRICAN MERCHANT SHIPS by B. D. Ingpen (An illustrated recent history)

Hardcover with dust jacket. Binding is tight. Published in 1979 by A. A. Balkema with 149 pages. The blue boards with gilt lettering is somewhat spoiled by celloptape markings, coming from the use of cellotape to patch a tear across the front flap of the d/j. D/j chaffed at spine ends and corners. This is an illustrated recent history of coasters, colliers, containerships, tugs and other vessels.  It is a history of South African merchant shipping with special reference to the period after 1910. The text is amplified by 108 photographs. No shipping overseas.