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Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 283 pages, 5 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Avison. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Funk and Wagnalls , 1st, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Hardcover. Features 4 color plates and 3 black & white maps. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Front interior hinge paper has cracked - hinge cloth still firm. Foxing primarily to preliminary pages, and edges. Blue cloth decorated covers show light wear. Interior clean, tight.

Softcover. Plattsburgh, NY/ Elizabethtown, NY, Clinton County Historical Association/ Essex County Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Blue cwrappers with some faint smudges, small sticker on back, but otherwise very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charles Black, Reprint with corrections, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy.

Softcover. CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 60 pages illustrated in color. Scuba diving is fast becoming a sport for the elite, and hookah diving is not far behind. This book will show you how you can beat the high prices. The goal of this manual is to help the reader: 1. Avoid spending thousands in scuba diving equipment 2. Avoid the high costs of tank refills 3. Avoid the yearly tank inspection fees 4. Avoid expensive hydro testing 5. Extend bottom time 6. Lessen the size and weight of your diving gear 7. And save hundreds of Dollars by building your own hookah rig 8. Explore other means of diving using surface supplied air 9. Eliminate un-needed or redundant components 10. Build you own gear.

Hardcover. Camden ME, International Marine Publishing, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with residue from label on spine. Clemens Kuhlig is a craftsman whose skills are reminiscent of an age long past: his meticulous construction of the sailing skiff Cabin Boy offers ample proof. Here in more than 200 photographs and drawings, is the story of how he built the Cabin Boy. Throughout the book, Kuhlig expresses his philosophy of boatbuilding, stressing the aesthetics of wooden boat building. The book includes chapters on boatbuilding materials, tools, plans, actual construction, completing the interior, finishing the exterior as well as final touches. Bookplate on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 320 pages with chronology, notes & index, B&W photographic & other illustrations. "The mutiny that involved 25 officers and men led by the Bounty's handsome, privileged and gifted second in command, Fletcher Christian". Endpapers chart of the track of His Majesty's Armoured Ship Bounty in the South Seas 1788 to 1790. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Editions Gallimard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. First French Edition. 14.25" x 10.5". French language throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh. Presented by Christian Fevrier. A collection of superb photographs from the archives of the well known photographers Beken of Clowes covering the hundred years from 1880 to 1980. All related to sailing, yachting, boats and printed in sepia duo-tone process with some as fold out spreads. Photographic index and captioned section at rear. Full bound maroon cloth with gold blocking to spine. Unclipped dust wrapper.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white decorations by Antony Maitland. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with tear, library label on spine.

Softcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 195 pages. detailed plans of 16 designs selected by the author which include all the information the "independent" boat builder needs for laying out and building each of these; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings; b & w photos and tables. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Light fade to spine. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 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.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 192 pages, b&w white illustrations. The history of a small volcanic island, 24 miles in circumference, that was settled by an English soldier and his family in 1816. And what happened in 1961 when it's descendants, cut off from civilization for 150 years, were rescued after a volcanic eruption into the modern world.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated with 2 portrait plates and a diagram. Gilt ruled brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Edited by Atkinson. Bright, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.

Softcover. Victoria BC, Horsdal & Schubart, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers stamped in black, 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with red, black and white decoration. Humerous verse illustrated with 2-color cartoons by Henry Mayer.

Hardcover. Freeport ME, Bond Wheelwright Co. , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 204 pages, b&w illustrations. The author, great grandson of Captain Barry, contextualizes the captain's correspondence and journals with information about transportation, economic conditions and the ice trade of the 19th century. Documents vessels commanded by Capt. Barry, including the James Perkins, Oakland, Madagascar, Delhi and William Lord. Glossary of sea terms; bibliography. Name stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Revell, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in white and black, 229 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates. Frontis photo portrait of Grenfell on his ship with tissue guard. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 -1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. Owner's name and date on front fly leaf, mild soil to cover.

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 117 photographs are grouped by chapter, depicting T Wharf and its successor the South Boston Fish Pier; schooner construction at Essex, Massachusetts; outfitting for voyages; departures and arrivals; discharging dish; the passing of the fishing schooner; the emerging steam trawler fleet; and the Italian boat fishermen. Published here for the first times, these photographs are now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.