nautical

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Boston Public Library, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with original dust jacket, both in near fine condition. 123 pages., 6 color and 50 b.w. illustrations. Four page museum catalogue laid in. Previous owners signature on front fly leaf (in pencil).

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w illustrations, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 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. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press/Adirondack Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lighty worn and chipped dust jacket with a sticker on the spine. 203 pages, tan cloth, illustrated. The canoes of Canton's J. Henry Rushton carried sportsmen through the Adirondacks and elsewhere, and this fine volume, prepared with the assistance of Paul F. Jamieson, tells the story of the man, his times, and his boats.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth, 389 pages. A collection of essays about maritime life. "Shakings are odds and ends of rope and canvas,accumulated during a voyage. They were formerly the perquisites of the Chief Mate". Spine decoration faded, front end papers foxed, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Burt Franklin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Engravings and illustrations throughout, some in color. Minor cover and corner edge wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Minor stain on bottom corner from page 305 to rear endpaper. Otherwise, all pages clean and binding tight.

New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Light soiling to front end paper otherwise very good. Dust jacket with chipping, small piece missing from front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout. A history of the final decades of American square-rigged sail. First-hand accounts of voyages made by three well-born young men from Massachusetts; two were sons of whaling families and a third sailed the Pacific. Original brown cloth publisher's covers with silver spine lettering. Published in conjunction with Martha's Vineyard Historical Society and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 276 pages. light fraying to cloth at top of spine. Dust jacket worn, with chipping and chunks missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd., reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 270 pages. Minor spine, edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt top edge. Clean and tight copy. The Seaman's Vade-Mecum was an 18th century English naval textbook. First printed in 1744; a revision of R. Park's Defensive War by Sea. Containing the Proportions of Rigging, Masts and Yards, Weight of Anchors, Sizes and Weights of Cables and Cordage, List of the Navy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Adventure on the High Seas in Which Stuart Ormsby is Shanghaied Aboard the Tramp Steamer 'Nanking' Bound for Ports on the China Coast.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mils shelf wear. A wordless work of nautical imagination, with charming illustrations in blue by award-winning artist Peter Sis. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning artist Peter Sis's entrancing, joyful, and detailed illustrations mix technical prowess with a love for the medium.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-Mccann, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, silver gilt title on spine, 256 pages B&w photos. endpaper map. Inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David Mckay, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in b&w by author. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Depicts early sailing vessels such as Egyptian reed boats, Viking longships, Chinese junks, and American frigates.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Victoria Chess. Illustrated library cloth binding. Clean and tight. The author has taken a favorite biblical legend and fashioned it into a dramatic story-poem. Chess's vigorous, exciting illustrations chart the hero's unusual journey.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white decoration and color label on front, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations with fold-out diagrams in back of book. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related bulletin from the California Historical Quarterly laid-in. Front endpaper and top edge stamped by 'American Seamen's Friend Society'.

Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press , 1st, 1974, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages. Covers the research in the US Navy between the War of 1812 and the start of the Civil War. The book covers many of the exploring expeditions and the importance of the Navy to early biological and scientific advancement in conjunction with the Smithsonian. Light marking to 10 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Very minor edge wear. Very minor spots on fore edge. Protective clear dust jacket cover. A very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with light blue and gilt stamping. 281 pages, 8 b&w plates. From a private library, bookplate, light marking.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design and lettering. Illustrated with four 2-color plates and endpapers art by Richard Rogers. SIGNED BY STACKPOLE on title page. Light pencil marking to pages throughout otherwise a nice, tight copy. Uncommon title of an adventure set on Nantucket Island.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 99 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Full color and black & white illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Cloth covers rubbed along spine edges and corners. Pages clean and unmarked.