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Letters from Sea, 1882-1901: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood


Albee, Parker Bishop

Hardcover. US, Tilbury House Pub; First Edition, 2000-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 464708


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters From the Asiatic Station 1881-1883


Bunts, Frank Emory

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Alexander T. Bunts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Limited first edition copy. Minor fading on blue cloth cover. Faded sticker mark on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852334


Price: $35.00 

 

Life of Nelson, The: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain


Mahan, A. T.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 2nd, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 764 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. B&w frontispiece and b&w illustrations with fold-out map. Gilt top edge. Wear, rubbing, and light soiling to cover. Front hinge cracked.

Record # 851944


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861 - 1889Bellico, Russell
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861 - 1889


Bellico, Russell

Softcover. Fleischmanns, NY, Purple Mountain Press Ltd, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover with minor edgewear. Blue-Green spine with blue lettering. Very clean, unmarked copy. Black white images throughout.

Record # 471006


Price: $31.00 

Life Saving Nantucket (SIGNED)Stackpole, Edouard A.
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Life Saving Nantucket (SIGNED)


Stackpole, Edouard A.

Hardcover. Nantucket, MA, Nantucket Lifesaving Museun, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some wear to edges and fading to spine and top of covers. Small dark blemish to back cover. Foxing on top and sides of text block. Tight copy otherwise, signed by author Edouard Stackpole on title page. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in upper edge of front end papers.

Record # 2230909


Price: $56.00 

List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships Stations and Miscellaneous Units 1801-1947 Bradley, Claudia and Michael Kurtz  others
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List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships Stations and Miscellaneous Units 1801-1947


Bradley, Claudia and Michael Kurtz others

Softcover. Washington DC, National Archives and Records Service, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 562 pages. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 411667


Price: $23.00 

 

Log of H. M. S. Mentor, 1780-1781


Servies, James A.

Hardcover. Pensacola, University Press of Florida, 1st, June 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455171


Price: $40.00 

 

Long Harpoon, The: A Collection of Whaling Anecdotes


Watson, Arthur C. , Illust. by: Arthur C. Watson

Hardcover. New Bedford MA, George H. Reynolds, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 165 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories about whaling. Illustrations by the author. Heavy edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild soiling to dust jacket as well. Minor edgewear to boards, slight bow to rear panel. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Price-clipped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951917


Price: $31.00 

 

Maine Coast Portraits - Volume One


Claes, Frank E. & Shirley M. Brown

Hardcover. Camden, ME, Camden Herald Pub. Co., 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY CLAES ON FRONT FLY LEAF. B&W landscape photos by Claes throughout. Some soil and shelf wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 304706


Price: $24.00 

 

Makers of Naval Tradition


Alden, Carroll Storrs

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co, reprint, 1942, 378 pages. B&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Light rubbing and edgewear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 852023


Price: $15.00 

 

Mariners of Brittany


Anson, Peter F., Illust. by: Peter F. Anson

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Minor spine and corner edge wear and fading. Illustrations by the author throughout. A very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852357


Price: $20.00 

 

Master Mariners


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Slight edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 853054


Price: $15.00 

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 Sailing Ship, The: A Photographic History


Greenhill, Basil and Ann Giffard

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1970, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages, color frontispiece of nineteenth century ship portrait by Eduard Adam of Havre, 127 b&w photographs, gilt lettered spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, light foxing evident to endpapers, mild wear to edges of dust jacket, light mildew to black cover.

Record # 803162


Price: $10.00 

Merchant Sailing Ships 1850-1875MacGregon, David R.
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Merchant Sailing Ships 1850-1875


MacGregon, David R.

Hardcover. London, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal wear on jacket and cover. Jacket has minor repairs with tape to edge. Clean and tight copy, illustrated throughout. Stamp from previous owner's library on end papers.

Record # 2230640


Price: $31.00 

 

Merchant Sailing Ships: Sovereignty of Sail, 1775-1815


MacGregor, David R.

Hardcover. London, Naval Institute Press, Reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some shelf wear to dust jacket covers. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471248


Price: $35.00 

 

Merchant U-Boat


Messimer, Dwight

Hardcover. New York , M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 233 pages. B/W photographs. Dust jacket scuffed, previous bookseller's stamp on title page.

Record # 802206


Price: $13.00 

 

Merrimac River Shipping: Paper Read Before the Historical Society of Old Newbury


Coffin, Edward M.

Softcover. Newburyport MA, The Historical Society of Old Newbury, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled brown paper wraps, 24 pages, b&w frontispiece. From a museum library with light stamping. Otherwise clean.

Record # 411953


Price: $14.00 

 

Midget Raiders, The: The Wartime Story of Human Torpedoes and Midget Submarines


Warren, C. E. T., James Benson

Hardcover. New York, William Sloane Associates, Publishers, 2nd printing, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edge wear, rubbing and clipped flaps. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852996


Price: $12.00 

 

Midshipman Paulding


Seawell, Molly Elliot

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages, with illustrations and decorated cover. Corner and spine edge wear, top corner clipped on front fly leaf, previous owner's signature on front preliminary page. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 853055


Price: $12.00 

Moonrakers, The: The Story of the Clipper Ship MenCarse, Robert
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Moonrakers, The: The Story of the Clipper Ship Men


Carse, Robert

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, b&w illustrations by Ray Houlihan. Dust jacket is bright with minor chipping.

Record # 411654


Price: $13.00 

 

Mr Peppys' Navy


Wilcox, L. A., Illust. by: L. A. Wilcox

Hardcover. London, G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 189 pages, with illustrations by the author throughout. Dust jacket edge wear, small chunk missing. Previous bookseller's price sticker on front flyleaf. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Protective clear dust jacket cover, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852537


Price: $20.00 

Mutiny on The Pedro Varela: The Adventures of a Twentieth Century WhalemanHammond, Walter
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Mutiny on The Pedro Varela: The Adventures of a Twentieth Century Whaleman


Hammond, Walter

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages, b&w illustrations. From a museum library with light stamping, small stickers on covers. Otherwise

Record # 411947


Price: $16.00