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Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, The


Allen, Jerry

Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edgewear and price clipped. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852998


Price: $12.00 

 

Seaman Garnera: Voyages, Aventures et Combats


Garneray, Louis

Hardcover. Scotland, Argyll Publishing, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, with illustrations throughout. A new translation by Roland Wison. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852989


Price: $12.00 

Sherman Hoyt's MemoirsHoyt, Sherman
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Sherman Hoyt's Memoirs


Hoyt, Sherman

Hardcover. New York , D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, chunk gone from rear panel, light soil. Clean internally.

Record # 411670


Price: $15.00 

 

Stickluft (Black Damp)


Dornik, Franc

Hardcover. New York, Vantage Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 272 pages. Some sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Chipping and tears on dust jacket covers. Dust jacket protected with clear, plastic cover. Front flyleaf clipped. Minor spotting on fore and bottom edges. Underlining in pen on about five pages. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856284


Price: $25.00 

 

Studies in Naval History: Biographies


Laughton, John Knox

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 469 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, tear and fade. Price clipped. Decorative red stained edges. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852557


Price: $18.00 

 

Studies in Naval History: Biographies


Laughton, M.A., John Knox

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 469 pages. Blue cloth cover with frayed edges, spine, and bumped corners. Spine cocked. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Small tear in both half title page and title page. Pages untrimmed on fore edge. Some foxing on rear endpaper. Otherwise, inside is clean and crisp. A nice copy.

Record # 852494


Price: $25.00 

Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her StoryRiley, Dawn
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Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her Story


Riley, Dawn

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co (T), 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470229


Price: $10.00 

 

That Great Lucifer - A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh


Irwin, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 320 pages.

Record # 59329


Price: $18.00 

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, MarinerNicol, John
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The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner


Nicol, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st US edition, October 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Edited and with introduction by Tim Flannery. Blue covers, illustrated dust jacket. Very slight wear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451781


Price: $20.00 

 

The Proudest Day: Macdonough on Lake Champlain


Muller, Charles G.

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages. B&w frontispiece. Foxing to edges. Spotting and light edgewear to cover. Light chipping, wear, rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. Else a tight copy.

Record # 852127


Price: $12.00 

 

Through Mighty Seas or The Romance of a Little Wind-Jammer


Hughes, Lt. Colonel Henry

Hardcover. London, John Gifford Limited, unk., nd, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter cracks in front, few spots internally and rear. Moderate soil to cloth covers. Foxing. Previous owner's small sticker on front end paper. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233435


Price: $15.00 

 

Voyages of Brian Seaworthy, The: An Historical Adventure on Lake Champlain


Hill, Ralph Nading , Illust. by: Robert A. Boyajian

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Life Magazine / Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Blue cloth covers, pale blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, illustrated by Robert A. Boyajian. Slight rubbing to covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 208043


Price: $20.00 

 

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Being a True Tale of That Doughty Warrior of the Spanish Main, Mariner, and Gentleman, Admiral John Benbow, R.N.


Benbow, Edgar

Hardcover. New York, Greenwich Book Publishers, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 31 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped. Minor spotting on front and back flyleaf. Otherwise, a good, clean copy.

Record # 852341


Price: $15.00 

Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860 by: Lawrence, Mary Chipman.
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Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860 by: Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. US, Brown University Press, rep, 1986-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 462385
Price: $12.00 

Elizabethan Sea Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by: Wood, William
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Elizabethan Sea Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by: Wood, William

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages, b&w plates, fold-out map. Top edge gilt. Light edgewear, small tear to boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight. Record # 852116
Price: $12.00 

Himself and I by: Leitch, Mary Sinton
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Himself and I by: Leitch, Mary Sinton

Hardcover. New York, Fine Editions Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Very good dust jacket has some water spotting to front. Record # 804128
Price: $12.00 

Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, The  by: Parkinson, C. Northcote
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Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, The by: Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hardcover. Sutton Publishing Ltd, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&W illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A fictional biography chronicling the rise of Horatio Hornblower from a midshipman in 1794 to a revered admiral of the fleet in 1847. Record # 454864
Price: $12.00 

Tall Voyagers, The by: Rankin, Claire
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Tall Voyagers, The by: Rankin, Claire

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1965, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages.Real stories told by real sailors. Good tight copy. Record # 512299
Price: $12.00 

Three Men Of The Beagle by: Marks, Richard Lee
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Three Men Of The Beagle by: Marks, Richard Lee

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Small stain to front flyleaf, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468167
Price: $12.00 

Voyaging: Fifty Years on the Seven Seas in Sail by: Holmes, James William
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Voyaging: Fifty Years on the Seven Seas in Sail by: Holmes, James William

Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Illustrated with 20 full-color paintings by the author. Dust jacket lightly soiled. Record # 802209
Price: $12.00 


  
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