Hardcover. 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 364 pages. Minor dust jacket rubbing and edge wear. Price clipped. A clean and tight copy with illustrations.
Hardcover. London, Peter Davies, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. B&w frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. Slight fading and wear to cover edges. Light edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Handwritten postcard by author also laid in.
Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 75 pages followed by 5 pages of ads, featuring writings by George Comtois, Harold D. Langley, Fred Hopkins, W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, Allan E. Smith. Vol. 2 - 155 pages followed by 6 pages of ads. Writers incllude Dwight R. Messimer, George E. Paulsen, John R. Richardson, Cooper Busch, Paolo E. Coletta. Vol. 3 - 236 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, William Joe Webb, Rober O. Tatge, James M. Merrill. Insect damage to front lower right corner wrap. Small soil spot top cover edge. Otherwise clean. Vol. 4 - 351 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by John W. Tyler, Keith A. Parker, James A. Bellarosa, Ralph W. Donnelly. Light tanning to spine & margin of wraps. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.
Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 76 pages followed by 4 pages of ads, features writing by James G. Neal, Merrill L. Bartlett, Charles Dana Gibson. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude Charles R. Fisher, William J. Hourihan, Thomas T. Spencer & William Appleman Williams. Some small spots & light tanning to wrap margin. Vol. 3 - 235 pages and 4 pages of ads and writers, Allan A. Arnold, William N. Still, Gary E. Wilson, WIlfried Schuhmacher. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 323 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by James F. Vivian, Jeffrey J. Safford & Rhys Richards. Two tiny spots soil to front wrap. Faint tone to edges. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.
Softcover. Salem, MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, First Thus, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 4 volume set. Light grey wraps with blue printed titles, light tone to edges. Vol. 1 - 71 pages followed by 9 pages of ads, features writing by Shomette, Hopkins, Alan G. Jamieson, Timothy P. Maga, Harvey Strum & Peter J. Guthorn. Half inch blemish to spine edge. Light soil line to rear wrap. Vol. 2 - 151 pages followed by 9 pages of ads. Writers incllude E. K. Haviland, Ralph W. Donnelly, Spencer C. Tucker. Vol. 3 - 231 pages and 9 pages of ads and writers, Francis X. Holbrook,, John Nikol, John Quentin Feller & E. K. Haviland. Clean, crisp edges. Vol. 4 - 324 pages and 6 pages of ads. Features writing by Frederick G. Leiner, William G. Wing & E. K. Haviland. Faint spots of soil to rear wrap. Otherwise clean, unmarked set.
Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover journals, 317 pages total, b&w illustrations. Clean set. Scholarly essays covering a wide spectrum of maritime history.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, INSCRIBED BY LAING on title-page. Dust jacket battered with 2" chunk gone from front bottom.
Hardcover. New York , American Heritage Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 533 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket worn, torn and slightly soiled. Book itself is very good.
Softcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, b&w illustrations. Essay reprinted from The American Neptune. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in brodart cover. Clean and tight copy, stamp from previous owner's library on end papers.
Hardcover. Erie, Pennsylvania, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, with preface and biographical sketch of the life of Oliver Hazard Perry by John Elmer Reed. Minor spine edge and cover corner wear. Gilt title on cover and spine. Very clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. New York, The MacMillan Co, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. B&w frontispiece with b&w illustrations. Color pictures pasted in by previous owner on front and rear flyleaf. Light soiling and spotting to edges. Wear and rubbing to cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Illustrated in black and white.
Hardcover. New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Previous owners inscription on front fly leaf. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Auburn, NY, John Beardsley, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 671 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes bound together. Cover boards bound in brown textured, embossed leather. Corners bumped. Gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Pages and edges have tanning from age. Covers have soil and age wear. Binding tight, spine straight. Gutters split in some places, but no pages missing or detached, and binding good. Beautiful old book full of fanciful, ageless tales of the sea.
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