NEWBY, Eric

The Last Grain Race

London, The Folio Society, 2001 (first thus).

Octavo, xx, 241 pages plus endpaper maps and illustrations and numerous pages of plates from photographs.

Pictorial papered boards; foot of the spine slightly bumped; an excellent copy in the very good slipcase (with a small stain to one panel).

'Gustav Erikson of Mariehamn in the Baltic was the last man to own a great fleet of sailing-ships. By the late 1930s the grain trade with South Australia was the only one left in which ships like his could engage with any real hope of making a profit' (Introduction).

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