Hardcover. 1st, April 21, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 494 pages, photos and maps in b&w. Blue cloth with slight tear and fraying to lower edge of spine. Pictorial dust jacket shows light edgewear and rubbing. Faint foxing to top and bottom edges, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 284 pages. Underlining in blue ink on first page of chapter one. Front interior hinge tender. Dust jacket spine faded.
Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, First Edition, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of black & white illustrations & two maps in bw. Navy cloth boards with black printed titles to grey cloth spine. Crisp, unmarked dust jacket. Clean & unmarked copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out color chart of signal flags. Minor edgewear to paper covers otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jas. B. Smith, 1st thus, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages. Black & white illustrations. Marbled endpapers and edges. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Brown leather cover worn, with pieces of leather missing along front cover hinge and spine. Cover corners rubbed. Front cover hinge weak. Text clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. West Port, Greenwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with rubbing and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. 1st, May 23, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to jacket, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company , 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading/discoloration to spine and upper covers. Old library code painted to lower front cover corner. Inscription in pen on front end papers, "August 1951". Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.
Hardcover. Maryland, Naval institute Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, red cloth cover with a blue jacket with a B&W photo.Cover has some staining and the jacket is yellowed on the inside, foxing to the edges. Otherwise tight, crisp copy.
Hardcover. New York, W. W, Norton & Company, First US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. 16 pages of illustrations in bw & additional maps. Dust jacket with light marginal wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Rear hinge cracked and back cover is holding with binders twine. Spine cloth faded with fraying at top and bottom. Text and illustrations clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 8th, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 962 pages; enormous volume translated from the original French with extensive b&w photographs; binding nearly intact (some splitting of the bond leather near the bottom, some cuts and marring on the edges); title printed in gold. Dust jacket scratched lightly with tearing and tape repairing on the inside. Wear patterns typical for such a large volume. Otherwise, very clean copy.
Hardcover. Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 4th, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 519 pages, b&w pictures and charts throughout. Navy blue covers with gilt printing. Light foxing on top edge, else a tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. University, Ala., University Alabama Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to edges and spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. University, The University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Clean copy. Dust jacket price clipped with slight rubbing.
Hardcover. New York , Burt Franklin, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Red cloth cover with very little wear to edges and spine. Inside is clean and crisp.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, UNCP, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Dust jacket shows standard wear with light chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., United States Government / U.S. Department of Defense, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Approximately 500 pages. Hardcover. U.S. Department of the Navy Federal Specifications for Construction of Yards and Docks circa 1960. Covers: Concrete construction, Structural steelwork, Interior plumbing systems, Electric elevators, Thermal insulation for buildings, and more. Darkening to some pages. Moderate wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text.