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Hard Way Around, The: The Passages of Joshua Slocum


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471087


Price: $13.00 

 

Hero of Erie, The: Oliver Hazard Perry


Barnes, James

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Gilt decorated cover and title on spine. Spine cracked at page 88 but pages intact.

Record # 852549


Price: $25.00 

 

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. I of V.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852814


Price: $18.00 

 

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. II of V.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852815


Price: $18.00 

 

Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England


Russell, W. Clark

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Minor spine and cover edge wear and rubbing. Very minor spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Tissue guard on frontispiece, b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852366


Price: $25.00 

Idylls of the SeaBullen, Frank T.
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Idylls of the Sea


Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st US, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, yellow and black, 266 pages, Spine slant, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean copy. Memoir of sea-going days.

Record # 412345


Price: $19.00 

 

John Paul Jones: Man of Action


Russell, Phillips

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Edgewear to cover; Spine faded. Else a clean copy.

Record # 852134


Price: $8.00 

 

Knight of the Sword: The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith


Liverpool, Lord Russel of

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. B&w frontispiece. Minor wear to cover edges. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851961


Price: $15.00 

 

Last Viceroy


Murphy , Ray

Hardcover. London, Jarrolds Publishers , reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear and foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857377


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters Home From Sea: The Life and Letters of Solon J. Hanson Down East Sailor (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Webster, L.J., M.A. Noah

Softcover. Brookline, NH, Hobblebush, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In great. condition. The life of a fisherman in the 1850's is revealed through his letters home and diary entries. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 32030


Price: $19.00 

 

Life of Admiral Mahan, The.


Taylor, Charles Carlisle

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Small sticker, and residue from larger sticker, on spine. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852683


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)


MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell

Hardcover. Boston, Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1st, 1841, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, brown cloth binding worn, front covers detached, cloth covering on spines mostly gone. Interiors are good plus with bindings still solid. Makes a great set if rebound. Mackenzie was a officer in the US Navy and infamous for the execution of three sailors convicted of mutiny on board the USS Somers in 1842. He was also an author and historian publishing a number of books on naval war heroes.

Record # 412442


Price: $63.00 

 

Magellan - And the First Circumnavigation of the World


Cameron, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white, color. 224 pages

Record # 58221


Price: $18.00 

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. FullerBusch, Briton Cooper (ed.)
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Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller


Busch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. American Maritime Library; Vol. 9. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230918


Price: $19.00 

 

Merchant prince of Boston, Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854


Seaburg, Carl & Stanley Patterson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. illustrated with a few plates in b&w. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606348


Price: $90.00 

My Road Leads Me Seawards (signed)Badham, Michael
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My Road Leads Me Seawards (signed)


Badham, Michael

softcover. London, New Millennium, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 534 pages. Soft cover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND INSCRIBED "WITH ALL GOOD WISHES" Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470237


Price: $13.00 

 

Nelson: The Man - A Portrait Study


Corbett-Smith, A.

Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages, b&w frontispiece. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Bound from the English sheets. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 402534


Price: $40.00 

 

Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy: A History, Volumes I & II.


Buell, Augustus C.

Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852813


Price: $15.00 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Centennial Commission, State of New York.


Emerson (ed), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.

Record # 852680


Price: $28.00 

 

Queen Mary, The


Potter, Neil and Jack Frost

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The biography of a beloved ship, the most famous ocean liner of modern times. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild age toning to exterior text block edges. Minor fading and age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450040


Price: $13.00 

Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, GcbPerrett, Bryan
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Real Hornblower, The: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Alexander Gordon, Gcb


Perrett, Bryan

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471755


Price: $15.00 

 

Rodney


Spinney, David

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 484 pages, with illustrations and decorative blue stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear, price clipped. "SEA" written on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852780


Price: $20.00 

 

Samuel Kelly: An Eighteenth Century Seaman.


Garstin (ed), Crosbie

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.

Record # 852377


Price: $25.00 

 

Sea and the Sailor, The: Notes on France and Italy, and Other Literary Remains of Rev. Walter Colton. With a Memoir by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.


Cheever, Rev. Henry T.

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Wear on bumped edges and spine. Foxing throughout, heavy in parts. Provincetown library sticker on front endpaper. Some b&w illustrations. An interesting biography.

Record # 852467


Price: $20.00 


  
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