Author: WORDEN, WILLIAM L.
Title: Cargoes: Matson's First Century in the Pacific
Description: Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0824807081. A first edition of William L. Worden's description of the first 100 years of Matson Navigation Company, a cargo shipping concern based in Hawaii. Beginning with their wooden wind-powered ships in the 1880s, the company expanded into hotels and even aviation. With several sections of black & white photos displaying the company's history. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in grey jacket with images of older and newer Matson ships. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Unclipped, unpriced dust jacket with very light chafing to extremities, else lacking damages and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xi, 192, [2] pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0824807081 >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation