Hardcover. London, Jupiter, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 22 pages of text followed by 24 full color plates of great sailing ships. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, six b&w illustrations by the author. Essays on the sailor's love of ports - mostly in England. Filled with interesting historical anecdotes. NOTE: there is also underlining and notations in the margins by the previous owner, folklorist Horace Beck. Volume has light shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine faded. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering. Minor wear on edges of spine. Pages untrimmed. Nice, clean inside with many b&w illustrations.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, William B. Eerdmans , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Authentic summary of the main areas of religious thinking of famed New England Puritan preacher. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Faint age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Prion / Multimedia Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and fading to dust jacket and lightly bumped board corners.
Hardcover. London UK, Simpkin Marshall Ltd, 7th, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 illustrations in black & white. 552 pages. Hardcover in very good condition. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light fraying to crown & heel of spine. Deckled edge. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, tight binding, toning throughout, small spots of soiling to a few pages, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1st, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Corner and spine edge wear. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf . Very minor spotting throughout. Raised band leather spine. Faded marbled edges.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st (USA), 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 572 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In good shape. From the back cover: "The first biography to take equal measure of all parts of its subject's life... Renders Scott's ultimate, legendary fate yet more heartbreakingly tragic."
Hardcover. England, Penguin Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages of text, plus 192 of b&w plates. Red cloth covers with small gilt emblem embossed to front cover, gilt titles to spine, black dust jacket and slip case with similar color illustration, color frontispiece, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Light rubbing to slip case, mild wear to dust jacket edges, small 1" to 2" squares from dust jacket of same book published by Yale University press pasted to both the front inside flap of dust jacket and the copyright page. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , The Seabury Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Prequel to The Fire-Brother. 47 pages, illustrated in B&W and color by Joanna Troughton. New-looking copy, except for very small stains on the back of dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Black & white illustrations. Missing approximately 1/2" and less across top of spine with some fraying at bottom of spine. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to endpapers and some pages. Cover corners rubbed and bumped.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, yellow title on spine. Personal memories of Naval Intelligence. The worst kept secret of the War: The Dardanelles. Jutland 1916, Women spies, Allenby in Palestine, Zeebrugge Raid, etc. Light shelf wear, clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Edited, and introduction by Noel Annan. Includes Series Editor's Preface by John Ciive. Internally clean copy. Normal wear to dust jacket. Overall tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, top edge gilt , Gilt dec. olive cloth.INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on front fly leaf and dated. Meserole dedicates book to his brother Alfred Vanderbilt Meserole who assisted him.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st U.S., 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with minor bumps on edges and spine, very little fraying. Gilt lettering on spine. Pages untrimmed. Printed on hand-made paper, number 714 out of 750 in a limited edition for America. Frontispiece with other b&w illustrations throughout. Inside is bright and clean, some pages unopened. Volume 20 in The Novels of Captain Marryat.
Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white images throughout. Tight copy.