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Adopted Son of Salem - Captain Dominick Lake Marsins 1827-1899


Buck, Polly Stone

New Hampshire, Noone House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations and photos. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 201217


Price: $20.00 

 

Adventures of John Wetherell, The


Forester (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, sepia illustrations by Wetherell. Clean tight copy.

Record # 403534


Price: $12.00 

 

Adventures of John Wetherell, The


Forester (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, sepia illustrations by Wetherell. Clean tight copy.

Record # 403535


Price: $12.00 

All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie JohnstonMiles, Kathryn

All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Johnston


Miles, Kathryn

hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469159


Price: $15.00 

 

Amazing Adventure: A Thrilling Naval Biography


Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Biography of Commander Godfrey Herbert of the Royal Navy, illustrated. Minor spine edge wear. Spotting on book edges and minor foxing on some pages. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852423


Price: $12.00 

 

Ancient Air, An - A Biography of John Stringfellow of Chard: the Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer


Penrose, Harald

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 56055


Price: $20.00 

 

Autobiography of George Dewey: Admiral of the Navy


Dewey, George

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 337 pages. Rebound in blue covers. Page 5-6 loose. Fading to covers.

Record # 503888


Price: $15.00 

 

Black Ship, The


Pope, Dudley

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fraying and small rips to dust jacket on top spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233358


Price: $19.00 

 

Blow the Man Down!: A Yankee Seaman's Adventures Under Sail


Williams, James H. and Warren Kuehl (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. In a crisp, bright dust jacket.

Record # 403532


Price: $15.00 

 

Blue Water Men - and Women


Humiston, Fred

Hardcover. Portland, Maine, Blue Water Books, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages, 16 plates of b&w illustrations, acetate protected dust jacket. Light foxing and wear to dust jacket, overall a neat, tight copy.

Record # 802258


Price: $19.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and minor fraying on spine edge. Dust jacket is faded and has small tears on edges. Inside is nice and clean. Written by a Professor of the United States Naval Academy. Diverse topics include poetry, pirates, plays and oceanography.

Record # 852487


Price: $40.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some wear to corners and edges. Residue from sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853017


Price: $35.00 

 

Captain James Cook


Villiers, Alan

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear and rubbing to edges of dust jacket with slight crease/tear to rear cover. Protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856021


Price: $15.00 

 

Captain's Best Mate, The : The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860


Lawrence, Mary Chipman.

Softcover. US, Brown University Press, rep, 1986-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462385


Price: $10.00 

 

Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul


McFee, William

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Page & Co., Reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED (twice) by Author. Inscribed on front endpaper. Personal letter tipped in as well. 481 pages. Minor spotting to covers. Fading to cover page. Overall very tight copy.

Record # 401892


Price: $35.00 

 

Comeback: My Race for the America's Cup


Conner, Dennis and Bruce Stannard

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE, 16 pages of color illustrations, diagrams of sailing ships on endpapers, color illustrated dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to dust jacket, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 220001


Price: $19.00 

 

Commodore John Rodgers: Captain, Commodore, and Senior Officer of the American Navy 1773-1838, A Biography


Paullin, Charles Oscar

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Minor cover corner and spine edge wear. Gilt top edge and titles on spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece portrait of Commodore Rodgers. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852538


Price: $40.00 

 

Dark Wind - A Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss


Chaplin, Gordon

Paperback. NY, Atlantic Monthly, ARC Wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Paperback. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 58568


Price: $12.00 

Education of an Engineer, TheSmith, Jr., Edward Wanton

Education of an Engineer, The


Smith, Jr., Edward Wanton

Softcover. Middletown RI, privately printed, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages, b&w illustrations. A self-published autobiographical account of his life, SIGNED NED SMITH on acknowledgements page. Clean, very good.

Record # 412458


Price: $63.00 

 

Elizabethan Sea Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions


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: $8.00 

 

Empire of Ice, An: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science


Larson, Edward J.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, First Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Navy boards with silver titles to spine. 16 pages of photographs in black & white & addiitonal bw illustrations throughout. Crisp, clean dust jacket. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages, a very nice copy.

Record # 751448


Price: $13.00 

Famine Ships, The: The Irish Exodus to AmericaLaxton, Edward

Famine Ships, The: The Irish Exodus to America


Laxton, Edward

hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st us, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Silver gilt on spine, covers very good.

Record # 469154


Price: $23.00 

 

Fatal River, The: The Life and Death of La Salle


Gaither, Frances

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Blue cloth with solver titles and decor, no dust jacket. Slight wear to covers and some fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856320


Price: $23.00 

Fisher's Face; or,: Getting to Know the AdmiralMorris, Jan

Fisher's Face; or,: Getting to Know the Admiral


Morris, Jan

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Top front inside of dust jacket shows ink transfer from water droplet. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470111


Price: $13.00 

 

Former Naval Person: Churchill and the Wars at Sea


Hough, Richard

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. B&W photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 454867


Price: $10.00 

 

From Howard to Nelson: Twelve Sailors.


Laughton, M. A. (ed.), John Knox

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.

Record # 852488


Price: $20.00 

 

Full Cup, A: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup


D'Antonio, Michael

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."

Record # 31560


Price: $19.00 

 

Growing Up in a Shipyard: Reminiscences of a Shipbuilding Life in Essex, Massachusetts (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Story, Dana A.

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.

Record # 751473


Price: $25.00 

 

Hard Way Around, The: The Passages of Joshua Slocum


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 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 # 471087


Price: $13.00 

 

Hero of Erie, The: Oliver Hazard Perry


Barnes, James

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Gilt decorated cover and title on spine. Spine cracked at page 88 but pages intact.

Record # 852549


Price: $25.00 

 

Himself and I


Leitch, Mary Sinton

Hardcover. New York, Fine Editions Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Very good dust jacket has some water spotting to front.

Record # 804128


Price: $8.00 

 

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. I of V.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852814


Price: $18.00 

 

History of Our Navy, The: From its Origin to the End of the War with Spain, 1775-1898, Vol. II of V.


Spears, John R.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.

Record # 852815


Price: $18.00 

 

Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England


Russell, W. Clark

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Minor spine and cover edge wear and rubbing. Very minor spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Tissue guard on frontispiece, b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852366


Price: $25.00 

Idylls of the SeaBullen, Frank T.

Idylls of the Sea


Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st US, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, yellow and black, 266 pages, Spine slant, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean copy. Memoir of sea-going days.

Record # 412345


Price: $19.00 

 

John Paul Jones: Man of Action


Russell, Phillips

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Edgewear to cover; Spine faded. Else a clean copy.

Record # 852134


Price: $8.00 

 

Knight of the Sword: The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith


Liverpool, Lord Russel of

Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. B&w frontispiece. Minor wear to cover edges. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851961


Price: $15.00 

 

Last Viceroy


Murphy , Ray

Hardcover. London, Jarrolds Publishers , reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Edge wear and foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857377


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters Home From Sea: The Life and Letters of Solon J. Hanson Down East Sailor (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Webster, L.J., M.A. Noah

Softcover. Brookline, NH, Hobblebush, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In great. condition. The life of a fisherman in the 1850's is revealed through his letters home and diary entries. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 32030


Price: $19.00 

Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, The Parkinson, C. Northcote

Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, The


Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hardcover. Sutton Publishing+ltd, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&W illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 454864


Price: $8.00 

 

Life of Admiral Mahan, The.


Taylor, Charles Carlisle

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Small sticker, and residue from larger sticker, on spine. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Some foxing on beginning pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852683


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Paul Jones, The (2 Vols.)


MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell

Hardcover. Boston, Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1st, 1841, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 260 and 308 pages, brown cloth binding worn, front covers detached, cloth covering on spines mostly gone. Interiors are good plus with bindings still solid. Makes a great set if rebound. Mackenzie was a officer in the US Navy and infamous for the execution of three sailors convicted of mutiny on board the USS Somers in 1842. He was also an author and historian publishing a number of books on naval war heroes.

Record # 412442


Price: $63.00 

 

Magellan - And the First Circumnavigation of the World


Cameron, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in black & white, color. 224 pages

Record # 58221


Price: $18.00 

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. FullerBusch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller


Busch, Briton Cooper (ed.)

Hardcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 349 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. American Maritime Library; Vol. 9. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230918


Price: $19.00 

 

Merchant prince of Boston, Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854


Seaburg, Carl & Stanley Patterson

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. illustrated with a few plates in b&w. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Light overall wear and rubbing, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606348


Price: $90.00 

My Road Leads Me Seawards (signed)Badham, Michael

My Road Leads Me Seawards (signed)


Badham, Michael

softcover. London, New Millennium, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 534 pages. Soft cover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND INSCRIBED "WITH ALL GOOD WISHES" Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470237


Price: $13.00 

 

Nelson: The Man - A Portrait Study


Corbett-Smith, A.

Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages, b&w frontispiece. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Bound from the English sheets. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 402534


Price: $40.00 

 

Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy: A History, Volumes I & II.


Buell, Augustus C.

Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852813


Price: $15.00 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Centennial Commission, State of New York.


Emerson (ed), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.

Record # 852680


Price: $28.00 

 

Queen Mary, The


Potter, Neil and Jack Frost

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The biography of a beloved ship, the most famous ocean liner of modern times. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild age toning to exterior text block edges. Minor fading and age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450040


Price: $13.00 

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 

 

Rodney


Spinney, David

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 484 pages, with illustrations and decorative blue stain on top edge. Minor dust jacket edge wear, price clipped. "SEA" written on book edges. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852780


Price: $20.00 

 

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 and the Sailor, The: Notes on France and Italy, and Other Literary Remains of Rev. Walter Colton. With a Memoir by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.


Cheever, Rev. Henry T.

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.

Record # 852467


Price: $20.00 

 

Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, The


Allen, Jerry

Hardcover. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edgewear and price clipped. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852998


Price: $12.00 

 

Seaman Garnera: Voyages, Aventures et Combats


Garneray, Louis

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.

Record # 852989


Price: $12.00 

Sherman Hoyt's MemoirsHoyt, Sherman

Sherman Hoyt's Memoirs


Hoyt, Sherman

Hardcover. New York , D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, chunk gone from rear panel, light soil. Clean internally.

Record # 411670


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 

 

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 

 

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 

Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her StoryRiley, Dawn

Taking the Helm: One of America's Top Sailors Tells Her Story


Riley, Dawn

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co (T), 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470229


Price: $10.00 

 

Tall Voyagers, The


Rankin, Claire

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1965, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages.Real stories told by real sailors. Good tight copy.

Record # 512299


Price: $10.00 

 

That Great Lucifer - A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh


Irwin, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 320 pages.

Record # 59329


Price: $18.00 

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, MarinerNicol, John

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner


Nicol, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st US edition, October 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Edited and with introduction by Tim Flannery. Blue covers, illustrated dust jacket. Very slight wear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451781


Price: $20.00 

 

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 

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 

 

Through Mighty Seas or The Romance of a Little Wind-Jammer


Hughes, Lt. Colonel Henry

Hardcover. London, John Gifford Limited, unk., nd, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter cracks in front, few spots internally and rear. Moderate soil to cloth covers. Foxing. Previous owner's small sticker on front end paper. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233435


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Voyaging: Fifty Years on the Seven Seas in Sail


Holmes, James William

Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Illustrated with 20 full-color paintings by the author. Dust jacket lightly soiled.

Record # 802209


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

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