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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover at bottom right. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Jupiter, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 22 pages of text followed by 24 full color plates of great sailing ships. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Wear on bumped edges and spine. Foxing throughout, heavy in parts. Provincetown library sticker on front endpaper. Some b&w illustrations. An interesting biography.
Hardcover. Middleton, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1st US, 1975, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Black and white plates and sea charts. Covers 250 sea battles arranged in alphabetical order. Chronology. Previous owner's embossed stamp.
Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 145 pages. Co-authored by Michael Sanderson. Introduction by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie. Color and B/W reproductions of charts. Very clean. Dust jacket has some scuff marks.
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.
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.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 2nd, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Color illustrations. Foxing to edges. Light spotting on endpapers. Light wear to cover edges. Some chipping, spotting to price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt title on spine. No author or editor stated. These fictional stories have an air of authenticity and are of high quality. Amazingly, they are not credited. Title page states this is the 5th volume of "Putnam's Story Library". A frontispiece ad touts the others stating "The best stories of the best authors, now first collected." Clean, sound copy with some mild foxing.
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.
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.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white and color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and large piece missing from spine and back.
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.
Hardcover. Scotland, Argyll Publishing, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, with illustrations throughout. A new translation by Roland Wison. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Appleton Century Crofts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Illustrated, 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt. Map on end papers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
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