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Questions of the Day III: Our Merchant Marine, How it Rose, Increased, Became Great, Declined and Decayed with an Inquiry into the Conditions Essential to its Resuscitation and Future Prosperity.


Wells, David A.

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Brown cloth cover with smudges and fraying on edges and spine. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Spine separation starting at front endpaper. Inside pages are clean and bright.

Record # 852470


Price: $15.00 

 

Quiberon Bay


Marcus, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Barre, MA, Barre Publishing Co, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Light soiling, rubbing and edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851919


Price: $12.00 

 

Quinn at Trafalgar


Styles, Showell

Hardcover. New York , The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1st U.S., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 148 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, minor edgewear. Dust jacket is worn on edges, some small pieces missing. Inside is bright and clean, a nice copy.

Record # 853006


Price: $15.00 

 

Ramage's Prize


Pope, Dudley

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 852966


Price: $12.00 

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

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 

 

Real little seaport, A : The port of Aberdyfi and its people, 1565-1920


Lloyd, Lewis

Softcover. US, 1st, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 only. 280 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers with minor creasing to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465890


Price: $23.00 

 

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner Commander R. N. (1775-1814).


Hamilton, G.C.B. (ed.), Sir. R. Vesey, John Knox Laughton, M.A., D.Litt.,

Hardcover. London, Spottiswoode and Co., Ltd., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Tan and blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and emblem. Some wear on edges and spine. Faint smudges on cloth cover. Some foxing throughout. Pages and untrimmed and some unopened. Printed for the Navy Records Society. Bright and clean inside.

Record # 852452


Price: $35.00 

 

Retrospect and Prospect: Studies in International Relations Naval and Political


Mahan, A. T.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprint, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Minor cover rubbing and edge wear. Ex-library with normal stamping. Otherwise, clean and tight copy with one fold out map.

Record # 852327


Price: $18.00 

 

Revenge at Sea


Pitt, Barrie

Hardcover. New York , Stein and Day Publishers, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 180 pages, illustrations and maps in b&w. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear, chipping. Internally very good.

Record # 809839


Price: $15.00 

 

River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson (New York State Series)


Lourie, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor sun fading to dust jacket front and some foxing to textblock top edge. Otherwise very clean, unmarked, tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471153


Price: $15.00 

 

Rivers of Fortune: Where Maine Tides and Money Flowed


Caldwell, Bill

Hardcover. US, Gannett Books, 1st, 1983-12-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages. Light edgewear and some rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462868


Price: $10.00 

 

Romance of Navigation, The


Whall, W.B.

Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom Inc., 1st reissue, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages, hardcover. Originally printed in 1930. A history of exploration by sea, covering the past 450 years. Light foxing to top edge. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 951081


Price: $19.00 

 

Romance of the Rivers, The


Faris, John T.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w photographs of America's rivers. Red cloth with black decoration. Light edgewear.

Record # 402330


Price: $18.00 

 

Sailing-Ship - Six Thousand Years of History, The


Anderson, Romola/R.C. Anderson

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza, 2nd, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with sticker residue at top right corner of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608706


Price: $12.00 

 

Sailor Town Days


Smith, C. Fox, Illust. by: C. Fox Smith

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.

Record # 411653


Price: $25.00 

 

Sailor's Songbook, A


Carey, George G. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Amherst, University of Massachusetts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851886


Price: $15.00 

 

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 Devil of the Confederacy: The Story of the Florida and her Captain, John Newland Maffitt


Boykin, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w illustrations. Staining to edge papers. Rubbing and edgewear to cover and to dust jacket. Dust jacket in brodart.

Record # 852131


Price: $15.00 

 

Sea in Ships, The: The Story of a Sailing Ship's Voyage Round Cape Horn


Villiers, Alan J.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1932, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages of text, followed by 112 b&w photographs taken by the author, and a fold out diagram of the ship. Fading along spine and cover edges. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852505


Price: $30.00 

 

Sea Power: Captain Russell Grrenfell of the British Navy tells why England's fate depends on the control of the seas.


Grenfell, Captain Russell

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 244 pages, dust jacket. Chipping and wear to edges, corners, and spine of dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front endpaper and embossed stamp on title page. A tight copy of a fascinating book regarding WWII naval history.

Record # 603945


Price: $8.00 

 

Sea Warfare 1939-1945: A Short History


Creswell, John

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, with 14 battle maps, some fold-out. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 405463


Price: $19.00 

 

Sea Wings: The Romance of the Flying Boats


Jablonski, Edward

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, illustrated in b&w. Color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped with minor edgewear.

Record # 406654


Price: $19.00 

 

Seafarers, The (18 vols.)


Time-Life

New York, Time-Life, 1st, 1970s-l980s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 18 of the 22 volume set. (Missing: Northwest Passage, Great Liners, Ancient Mariners, Pirates). Color, B&W illustrations, approximately 170 pages per book. Excellent condition.

Record # 304785


Price: $188.00 

 

Seamen All


Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Minor cover edge wear. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852424


Price: $15.00 

 

Ship 16 - The Story of the Secret German Raider Atlantis


Mohr, Ulrich and A. V. Sellwood

NY, John Day Co. , 1st US, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, b&w photos. Small previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 501079


Price: $16.00 

 

Ship and Boat Models in Ancient Greece


Johnston, Paul Forsythe

Hardcover. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions. Previous owners embossed stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket spine sunfaded. Clean tight copy.

Record # 603880


Price: $16.00 

 

Ships of the German Fleets, 1848-1945, The


Hansen, Hans Jurgen

Hardcover. Arco, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light de-lamination to front cover of dust jacket . Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459906


Price: $19.00 

 

Ships That Have Made History


Robinson, Gregory

New York , Kennedy Brothers Inc., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, illustrated in color with drawings and paintings by the author. , dust jacket with edgewear, creases, otherwise very good.

Record # 175940


Price: $21.00 

Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras Grocott, Terence

Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras


Grocott, Terence

Hardcover. London, Jensen, Roy P Inc Remainders, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Includes glossary of terms. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469189


Price: $19.00 

Sloops of the Hudson River, The: A Historical and Design SurveyFontenoy, Paul E

Sloops of the Hudson River, The: A Historical and Design Survey


Fontenoy, Paul E

Softcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Softcover with slight wear to edges. White spine with black lettering. Black and white images throughout. Very clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 471013


Price: $25.00 

 

Smugglers, The: Pictaresque Chapters in the History of Contraband, Volumes I & II.


Teignmouth, Lord, Charles G. Harper,, Illust. by: Paul Hardy

Hardcover. London, Cecil Palmer, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I has 240 pages. Blue cloth cover, beveled edges, gilt lettering. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpaper. Pages untrimmed on fore edge and bottom edge. Inside is bright and clean with b&w illustrations throughout. Volume II has 239 pages. Blue cloth cover, beveled edges, gilt lettering. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpaper. Pages untrimmed on fore edge and bottom edge. Inside is bright and clean with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852818


Price: $50.00 

 

Spithead: An Informal History


Lewis, Michael

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. B&w photographs and illustrations. Light wear to cover edges. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Price sticker on front flyleaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851921


Price: $10.00 

 

Squadron in the Wilderness


Weiler, Ruth

Softcover. Erie, Pennsylvania, Ruth Weiler, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Small water stain on back cover. Illustrations throughout. Clean and tight copy. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 852403


Price: $40.00 

 

Square Rigged Sailing Ships


MacGregor, David R.

Hardcover. Watford, England, Argus Books, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853073


Price: $20.00 

 

St Lawrence River Pilot Including Saguenay, Richelieu and Ottawa Rivers.


N/A

Hardcover. Ottawa, Canadian Hydrographic Service, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Includes extensive tables of data. Extensive maps and related articles laid in. Previous owner's markings throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857511


Price: $31.00 

 

Star of India - The Log of an Iron Ship


MacMullen, Jerry

Hardcover. Berkeley, Howell-North, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Black & white photographs. Previous owners Illustration adhered to front endpaper and stamp on half-title page. Dust jacket worn with fading to spine. related articles laid-in.

Record # 608658


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 

 

Storms


Fisher, John

Hardcover. Southampton, Adlard Coles Ltd., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852169


Price: $10.00 

 

Story of the "Nancy" and other Eighteen-Twelvers, The


Snider, C. H. J., Illust. by: Owen Staples

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, with illustrations by Owen Staples. Gilt title and frontispiece color plate. Faded spine and corner and edge wear. Slight yellowing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852972


Price: $20.00 

 

Story of the American Merchant Marine, The.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Company, 2nd, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Blue cloth cover, embossed design, wear to edges and corners. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 853022


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

Subchaser in the South Pacific: A Saga of the USS SC-761 During World War IIJr., J. Henry Doscher

Subchaser in the South Pacific: A Saga of the USS SC-761 During World War II


Jr., J. Henry Doscher

Hardcover. US, Eakin Press, 1st, 1994-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 461921


Price: $23.00 

 

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938


Scotti, R.A.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 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 # 471212


Price: $13.00 

 

Sultans of Aden


Waterfield, Gordon

Hardcover. London, William Clowes and Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. B&w illustration throughout. Decorative stain to top edge slightly faded. Small sticker on front endpaper. Minor wear to cover. Light wear to dust jacket edges. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851955


Price: $18.00 

 

Sumaraez Papers, The: Selections From the Baltic Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Sir James Sumarez 1808-1812


Ryan (Ed.), A. N.

Hardcover. London, Navy Records Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Minor corner and spine edge wear. Gilt decorated cover and title on spine. A very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852385


Price: $35.00 

 

Sumaraez Papers, The: Selections From the Baltic Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Sir James Sumarez 1808-1812


Ryan (Ed.), A. N.

Hardcover. London, Navy Records Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Minor edge wear. Gilt decorated cover and title on spine. A very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852384


Price: $35.00 

 

Tahiti: Voyage Through Paradise


Eggleston, George T.

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Red floral decorative boards and map end papers. Over 100 black and white captioned photographs chronicling the voyage round and about the Tahitian islands.

Record # 220784


Price: $11.00 

 

Tall Ships: The World of Sail Training


Drummond, Maldwin, Illust. by: Mike Willoughby

Hardcover. London, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Foreword by H. R. H the Duke of Edinburgh. Color illustrations by Mike Willoughby. B/W photographs. Dust jacket faded, edges worn.

Record # 219960


Price: $22.00 

 

The Conquest of the North Atlantic


Marcus, C. J.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages, historical accounts of early explorations of the North Atlantic. Dust jacket slightly worn, previous owner's embossed stamp on title page; overall book is in clean, tight condition.

Record # 603840


Price: $8.00 

The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200-1520Friel, Ian

The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200-1520


Friel, Ian

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, normal light wear on upper edge of jacket. Otherwise good and clean copy. Old price sticker on back of jacket.

Record # 2230641


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

The Search for the North West PassageSavours, Ann

The Search for the North West Passage


Savours, Ann

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles, color-illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean covers, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 451786


Price: $15.00 

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered ShipwrecksBathurst, Bella

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks


Bathurst, Bella

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450817


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Flags at the Straits: The Forts of Mackinac


Havighurst, Walter

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall , 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. B&w illustrations. Very light edgewear to cover. Some edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851916


Price: $12.00 

Three Men Of The BeagleMarks, Richard Lee

Three Men Of The Beagle


Marks, Richard Lee

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: $11.00 

 

Three Men of the Beagle


Marks, Richard Lee

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. maroon cover boards, gilt title on spine, design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise good. Decorated endpapers (maps). Cover board spine coming away from binding at flyleaf at top, but still connected. Both an engrossing Victorian morality tale and a superb rendering of a key period in the life of Charles Darwin.

Record # 31942


Price: $15.00 

 

Trade in the Eastern Seas 1793-1813


Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Minor scratches on cover. Minor foxing on book edges and front and back flyleaf and end paper. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852413


Price: $60.00 

 

Travelling by Sea in the Nineteenth Century: Interior Design in Victorian Passenger Ships


Greenhill, Basil, Ann Giffard

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Small bump in cloth of front cover. Minor scratches on back cover. Very minor edge wear. Many black and white pictures and illustrations throughout. A very nice and clean copy.

Record # 852238


Price: $15.00 

 

Trois Ages de la Marine a Voile


N/A

Hardcover. France, Association des Amis des Musees de la Marine, reprint, 1957?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages, French text with illustrations throughout by Philippe Ledoux. Minor edge wear and rub, otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 853040


Price: $50.00 

 

Tsushima


Novikoff-Priboy, A.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1936, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Fold out maps. Translated from Russian by Eden and Cedar Paul. Previous owner's signature and stamp on fly leaf. Soiled cover and edges. Tearing on inside binding at hinge.

Record # 512315


Price: $13.00 

 

Twilight of the Sailing Ships, The


Carse, Robert

Hardcover. New York , Grosset and Dunlap , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 206 pages. Color and B/W photographs. Dust jacket soiled and torn with price sticker on back cover. Pages clean. Includes ephemera from previous owner.

Record # 802174


Price: $8.00 

 

Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy


Mahan, A. T.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. B&w frontispiece with b&w illustrations. Gilt top edge. Gilt cover decoration. Ex-lib copy with associated markings. Light rubbing to cover; top and bottom of spine slightly worn. Binding cracked at title page. Else a clean copy.

Record # 851890


Price: $30.00 

 

United States Coast Pilot - Alaska Part l - Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay


N/A

Washingdon, DC, GPO, 9th ed., 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 466 pages. 4-page supplement (1944) tipped into front. Fold-out map in nice contition. Shelf worn.

Record # 68365


Price: $15.00 

 

Victory of Seapower, The: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814


Woodman, Richard

Hardcover. London, Chatham Publishing, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Upper front corner creased, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852959


Price: $25.00 

Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came FromDavenport-Hines, Richard

Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From


Davenport-Hines, Richard

Hardcover. US, William Morrow, 1st, 2012-03-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461427


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

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


Hill, Ralph Nading

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

Record # 808020


Price: $20.00 

 

Voyaging in Strange Seas - The Great Revolution in Science


Knight, David

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, First Edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 329 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, solid purple cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, sharp corners, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750930


Price: $19.00 

 

Wager Mutiny, The


Pack, S. W. C.

Hardcover. London, Alvin Redman, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. B&w illustrations. Some wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851922


Price: $12.00 

 

Wanderer of Liverpool, The


Masefield, John

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Color frontispiece illustration of the ship, 38 b/w illustrations (plates), plans of the ship. Four sets of plans bound in (3 of them are large and fold-out style: mid-ship section, main deck plan, sail plan). Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to covers, especially to spine (see image). History of the ship, long poem by Masefield who was poet laureate.

Record # 32244


Price: $25.00 

Warships - Sea Power Since the IroncladWillmott, H.P.

Warships - Sea Power Since the Ironclad


Willmott, H.P.

Hardcover. London, Octopus Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pags. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with closed tear, light edgewear. A pictorial history of warfare at sea.

Record # 2230529


Price: $25.00 

Whaling and Old Salem: A Chronicle of the SeaRobotti, Frances Diane

Whaling and Old Salem: A Chronicle of the Sea


Robotti, Frances Diane

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Newcomb & Gauss, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor wear to spine. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in upper corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230912


Price: $23.00 

 

Whaling Boy


Freuchen, Peter

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher.

Record # 407822


Price: $13.00 

 

Whaling North and South


Morley, F.V. and J.S. Hodgson

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, b&w photographs by the authors. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light spotting to page edges.

Record # 402362


Price: $25.00 

 

What Happened on the Bounty


Danielsson, Bengt

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st english, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Decorated endpapers. Light foxing to edges. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851897


Price: $12.00 

 

Wilhelmsen Fleet, The: for Speed and Service- 1861-1961


Bland, A.L. and Michael Crowdy

Softcover. Kendal, England, World Ship Society, 1st, 1961, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Black and white photographs along with ships' histories.

Record # 512337


Price: $8.00 

WOODEN SHIP :  The Art, History and Revival of Wooden BoatbuildingLarkin, David & Peter H. Spectre

WOODEN SHIP : The Art, History and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding


Larkin, David & Peter H. Spectre

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight creasing to lower front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459901


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Story of the Square-Rigged Merchant Marine of British North America, the Ships, Their Builders and Owners, and the Men Who Sailed Them.


Wallace, Frederick William

Hardcover. New York , George Sully & Company, 1st U.S., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages. Blue cloth cover, edges and spine with some wear and tearing. Pages untrimmed only on bottom edge. Light foxing on fore edge and inside pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations throughout. Circa 1920, but precise date unknown. Previous owner's inscription dated 1924.

Record # 852449


Price: $30.00 

 

Wooden Walls in Action


Bowen, Frank C.

Hardcover. London, Halton & Co, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket in brodart; Chipping along bottom edge. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851941


Price: $15.00 

 

Yankee Mining Squadron Or Laying The North Sea Mine Barrage, The


Belknap, U.S.N., Captain Reginald R.

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD., United States Naval Institute, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 110 pages. Blue cover with gilt lettering to spine and cover. B&w photographs and drawings throughout, including one on frontispiece. Very light soiling to covers. Previous owner's signature in rear endpapers.

Record # 511387


Price: $26.00 


  

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