Hardcover. Philadelphia, Wagenseller, 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages, frontispiece portrait of author, 2 page facsimile letter. Bound in green cloth covers with gilt ship on front, gilt lettering on spine: Mother Carey's Chickens.(?) Hinges tender but holding, internally very good, covers with light rubbing.
Hardcover. London, Stanford Maritime, 2nd, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black & white images throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped, with standard wear overall. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering. Cloth on spine frayed and partially detached. Edges are bumped and frayed. Library sticker on front endpaper. Spine starting to crack at front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed. Inside is clean with b&w portraits and maps throughout.
Hardcover. Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Minor dust jacket spine and corner edge wear and rubbing. Price clipped. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy with b&w illustrations and photographs.
Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books/Penguin, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt titles and decoration on spine and front cover board. Clean pages/edges. Binding tight. In great shape. "Lipton's great business success makes for a compelling story of innovation and achievement."
San Carlos, CA, Golden Gate Junior Book, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Attractive dust jacket with several closed tears.
Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some edgewear to dust jacket. Some minor staining to dust jacket spine. Some foxing to textblock edges. Otherwise a tight copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. Kancas City, MS, The Journal Post, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 79 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w Jo E. Thompson (J.E.T.). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Dust jacket shows heavy wear, rubbing and chipping with several chips missing from upper edge and a large piece missing from lower corner of front cover.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. Maroon covers with bright gilt lettering.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. Glazed cardboard covers. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages, color, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with black design and gilt lettering. Spine lettering faded. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MD, Tidewater Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Illustrated with text photographs and with captioned photograph plates. Royal 8vo. Dark blue cloth with heavy gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Minor wear and shipping to spine edges. Light wear on cover edges. Corners bumped. Very Good.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, b&w illustrations. Light blue covers, gilt titles to front and spine. Slight edgewear, rubbing to covers, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, else a nice, tight copy
Softcover. Connecticut, Scrimshaw in Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 pages. Orange covers, white titles and color illustrated plate to front, perfect binding, foreword by J. Revell Carr, numerous b&w photographic plates throughout, 4 full-page full-color plates. Mild rubbing to covers, left half of front cover discolored with age; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , De Vinne Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Light blue and white cover. Printed for the Naval History Society. Pages untrimmed. Worn slipcase. Clean condition inside and out. Number 582 of 650 copies. B&w illustrations with tissue guards by various artists. Includes one page insert addressed to members of the Naval History Society. With introduction stressing the importance of Naval campaigns in the American Revolution.
Hardcover. London, Blackie and Son Limited, reprint, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Fold-out map in rear. Previous owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Foxing to edges. Rubbing, wear, and soiling to cover.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. Blue cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, like new.Dobbs take a look at the age-old question, "How many fish are in the sea, and therefore over how many should be caught?"
Hardcover. Wellingborough, Patrick Stephens, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Translated by Charles Hodges, complete 6 volume set spanning from 1858 to 1986, all with pictorial dust jackets and copious photographs throughout. Minor edge wear and fade to dust jackets, otherwise, all very clean and bright.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 431 pages. B&w illustration throughout. Decorative stain to top edge. Chipping to price-clipped dust jacket; One inch chunk missing from front top edge of dust jacket. Pages clean and tight.
Softcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title page. Light wear to edges of illustrated wraps. Faint foxing to top & small spot of soiling to right edge. Else clean with black & white illustrations.
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