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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 

 

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.
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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
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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 

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

A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors by: Jackson, Joe
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A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors by: Jackson, Joe

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452944
Price: $12.00 

 

America's Lighthouses - Their Illustrated History Since 1716 by: Holland, Jr., Francis Ross

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white illust. 226 pages + index. Dust jacket torn, chipped, worn. Record # 62052
Price: $12.00 

 

Atlas of Maritime History by: Lloyd, Christopher

New York, Arco Publishing Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, color maps, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801298
Price: $12.00 

 

Ben Line - Fleet List and Short History by: Somner, Graeme

Softcover. Edinburgh, Scotland, W. M Thomas Company, 1st, 1967, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. From shipbrokers to sailing vessels, powered vessels and vessels managed by the British Government. Black and white map of Scotland. Record # 512336
Price: $12.00 

Black Ship, The : The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and Its Lost Treasure by: Clifford, Barry
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Black Ship, The : The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and Its Lost Treasure by: Clifford, Barry

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. US, Headline Book Publishing, 1st, 1999-09-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464202
Price: $12.00 

 

Caribbean as Columbus Saw It, The by: Elliot, Samuel and Mauricio and Obregon

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Color map end papers. Profusely illustrated throughout text. Nice copy. Record # 219963
Price: $12.00 

 

Discovery of the Bismarck by: Ballard, Robert, Illust. by: Ken Marschall

Hardcover. New York, Warner/Madison Press Book, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Co-written with Rick Archbald. Color Illustrations by Ken Marschall. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. Dust jacket scuffed. Record # 802186
Price: $12.00 

Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster by: Biel, Steven
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Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster by: Biel, Steven

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Some wrinkling and water damage to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467488 Record # 467488
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Fearnley & Eger: 1869-1969 by: Agutter, Rodney

Softcover. England, World Ship Society, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, informative pamphlet on the history of the Fearnley & Eger shipping firm. Full page frontispiece of ship, b&w photographs throughout, color illustration on cover. Record # 603954
Price: $12.00 

Guarding New Jersey's Shore: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations  by: Veasey, David
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Guarding New Jersey's Shore: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations by: Veasey, David

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 468103
Price: $12.00