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TENTH SPECIAL REPORT from the ESTIMATES COMMITTEE. Session 1966-67. ASSISTANCE to the FISHING INDUSTRY (Departmental OBSERVATIONS on the SIXTH REPORT from the Estimates Coomittee).
London: HMSO, 1967. 8pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary paper. HC 547. A very clean copy. (Book ref. 148231)   £7.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books  

SIXTH REPORT from the ESTIMATES COMMITTEE Towther with Part of the MINUTES of EVIDENCE taken before the SUBCOMMITTEE .... ....in Session 1965-66, and APENDICES. Session 1966-67. ASSISTANCE to the FISHING INDUSTRY.
London: HMSO, 1966. xxxix + 306pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary paper. HC 274. A very clean copy. (Book ref. 148187)   £12.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books  

Robinson, Robb Trawling : The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery
GB: University of Exeter, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. nrFine. 0859896285 Virtually as new. (Book ref. kb817.103)   £9.95
Offered for sale by Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)  

Corin, John PROVIDENT and the story of the Brixham Smacks
Tops'l Books, Reading, 1980, 1st edn., paperback original, 64pp, half tone photo ills. and line drawings throughout, large format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), pictorial wrappers, an illustrated account of one of the last survivors of the fleet of brown-sailed ketches that once sailed from Brixham, lightly rubbed at tips, faint diag. crease upper wrapper, very good, (Book ref. 39439)   £8.00
Offered for sale by A Book for all Reasons  

Dyson, John Business in Great Waters. The Story of British Fishermen
London: Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1977. First Edition. Boards. Almost Fine/Very Good. Lge 8vo. 0207957061 Hardback, 160mm x 240mm tall (6.25" x 9.5" approx.). 336pp with copious illustrations and illustrated endpeprs. Almost fine, in the original dark-green rexine-covered boards/gilt spine title, and clipped dust-wrapper, (Book ref. 003206)   £28.00
Offered for sale by Christopher Baron  

William Mitford: LOVELY SHE GOES a story of arctic trawling
BCA London 1969 Vg/Vg (clean dj chipped and worn around edges, contents no significant fault) octavo 194pp. Brutally true account of twenty men and one ship against the northern seas. written by a trawlerman. A tribute to the men of Grimsby. (Book ref. 7169)   £7.00
Offered for sale by Lobstabooks  

Nowell, R & Mills, J: THE SKIPPER - A FISHERMAN'S TALe
(BBC 1993) 8vo 208pp. bw & col photos. TV spin-off F/F (Book ref. 2929)   £7.50
Offered for sale by Forest Books (Uppingham)  

Holland-Martin, Admiral Sir Deric, (Chairman) TRAWLER SAFETY. Interim REPORT of the COMMITTEE of INQUIRY into TRAWLER SAFETY.
London: HMSO, 1968. 10-137730-4 11pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary Paper. Cmnd.3773. Neat library mark. A very clean copy. (Book ref. 147101)   £7.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books  

Industrial Courts Act, 1919. REPORT of a COURT of INQUIRY into a the CIRCUMSTANCES and CAUSES of the STOPPAGE of WORK in the TRAWLER FISHING INDUSTRY.
London: HMSO, 1946. 15pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Rebound in card covers. British Parliamentary paper. Cmnd.6882. Neat library/date mark. A clean copy. (Book ref. 147072)   £8.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books  

Mitchell, Austin; Tate, Anne Fishermen : the Rise and Fall of Deep Water Trawling
Beverley: Hutton Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Square 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall 187216787x Date etc written inside front cover, clean otherwise (Book ref. 15261)   £12.00
Offered for sale by Idle Booksellers  

Aflalo, F.G.: THE SEA-FISHING INDUSTRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, a popular account of the sea fisheries and ports of those countries
LONDON Edward Stanford, 1904. First Edition An interesting copy in publishers decorated cloth from the library of Robert Martin Harring with his label and various relevant tipped in additions including an original F.M.Sutcliffe photograph (Click on illustration) 8vo.xx.386pps.folding frontispiece map showing the ports and their railway connections, plus seventy seven photographs of vessels, ports, etc. A comprehensive study of the industry at the beginning of the century. The book is not so much concerned with the practical side of catching fish, but forms a detailed analysis of the state of the industry and the mechanics of its operation. Over a third of the book is devoted to a regional study of the fishing ports. (Book ref. 2456)   £30.00
Offered for sale by John L Capes  

HAMILTON JENKIN, A.K. CORNISH SEAFARERS The Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall.
London: J. M. Dent & Son Ltd, 1932.. Hardback, green cloth, embossed decoration on front cover, gilt decoration and titles on spine. Intro by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and eight pp illustrations. Index, 219pp. First Edition. (Book ref. 416)   £14.00
Offered for sale by Mrs. P. M. Gorringe  

Morse RECENT INNOVATIONS IN CULTIVATION OF PACIFIC MOLLUSCS....DEVELOPMENT IN AQUA CULTURE AND FISHERIES SCIENCE...VOLUME 14
California 1982. Small quarto. Fine. (Book ref. 13896)   £40.00
Offered for sale by Best Buy Books  

Connell ADVANCES IN FISH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY...JUBILEE CONFERENCE OF THE TORRY RESEARCH STATION ABERDEEN
1979. Folio. Fine. (Book ref. 13730)   £40.00
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HUTSON HARRY C GRIMSBY'S FIGHTING FLEET
HULL: HUTTON PRESS, 1990. 1st. Card. VG. 8vo Account of the battles between Grimsby Trawlers and German U-boats during WW2. 108pp. VG copy in card cover. (Book ref. 005361)   £10.00
Offered for sale by Martin Bott (Bookdealers) Ltd  

Coombe (D): The Bawleymen. Fishermen and Dredgermen of the River Medway. With Chapters by Leslie H. Hill and Leonard J Wadhams
Pennant Books, Rainham, [1979] 8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 32 and 2 full-page maps in the text; original pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Scarce. (Book ref. 14178)   £48.00
Offered for sale by Island Books  

March, Edgar J Sailing Trawlers: The Story of Deep-sea Fishing with Long Line and Trawl (A New Impression)
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Nr VG. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 071534711X 3rd impression. xvi + 384pp, index, 181 plates, 18 scale plans, 50 sketches in text. Pale blue boards, light external wear, neat repaired edge tear to 1 page, occasional corner creasing, minor edge marks, overall a VG clean tight copy in (some edge rubbing/creasing, slightest loss to 1 corner, now protected) dustwrapper. Contents cover:- I Historical; II Barking, Grimsby and Shetland Cod Smacks; III History of Trawling; IV Trawling Grounds and Yields; V Smack Design, Building and Handling; VI Trawling Gear; VII Life on Board; VIII Disasters in War and Peace; IX East Coast Trawling Stations - Barking, Yarmouth and Lowestoft; X East Coast Fishing Stations - Scarborough, Hull and Grimsby; XI Devonshire Trawling Stations - Brixham and Plymouth; XII Other Trawling Stations - Ramsgate, Dover, Rye, Fleetwood and Isle of Man; XIII Master Hand, L.T.1203. Scarce. (Book ref. 014257)   £120.00
Offered for sale by Sedgeberrow Books  

Ommanney, F.D: A DRAUGHT OF FISHES
(Longman 1965 1st edn) 8vo 254pp bw & col photos and ills. VG/G (Book ref. 1715)   £12.50
Offered for sale by Forest Books (Uppingham)  

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE SEA FISHERIES OF SUTHERLAND & CAITHNESS
London: Houses of Parliament, 1905. Vol I. REPORT. 16pp Folio. Rebound in card covers. . British Parliamentary Paper Cd 2557. . bound with Vol II. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE & APPENDICES. Cd 2608. 112pp. Large folding map. The committee inqired into the causes of the decrease in prosperity of the sea fisheries in the counties of Sutherland & Caithness. Catches had declined significantly & fishermen & those connected with the industry had been reduced to extreme poverty. Reports on Lobster fishing & fishcuring. Very clean copies. (Book ref. 142658)   £50.00
Offered for sale by Empire Books  

Mitford William: Lovely She Goes. A Story of Arctic Trawling
Book Club Associates London 1969 With dustwrapper. Very good/very good (Book ref. 581)   £8.00
Offered for sale by Park Gallery & Bookshop