Hardcover. New York , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges and corners and worn and bumped, faint smudges on cloth. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 162 pages, several b&w plates, green boards with a white cloth spine, black spine label with gilt and red design. Reprint of book first published in 1890. His first book describing his adventures at sea, Voyage of the Liberdade follows the early adventures on the high seas of American sailor JOSHUA SLOCUM (1844-1909), who would later become the first man to sail alone around the world. First aboard the Aquidneck and then later the Liberdade and journeying from New York to Uruguay to Rio, Slocum and his crew battle harsh weather, sickness, and murder as they ply their trade. This is a real-life adventure written by one of America's premier seamen will enthrall anyone interested in history, adventure, and sailing. Abercrombie & Fitch Library Edition, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Yellow cloth back & white cloth boards with arrangement of shells on front cover. 161 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Double-page map of voyages, portrait of La Perouise, 13 illustrations (many double-page). This translation includes a supplement of notes from the ship surgeon's journal regarding natives of Easter Island and Maui, and an appendix describing to efforts made to solve the mysterious disappearance of the expedition.
Hardcover. London, J. Hatchard, 2nd Ed., 1805, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages with appendix added in this December printing. (The first edition consisted of 215 pages and was issued in October.) Half black leather binding and marbled boards. Both covers detached, the front missing. The interior and binding are in very nice condition, clean.
Hardcover. Sussex UK, Wargames Research Group, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages, b&w illustrations. This book, written in 1973, is for readers interested in the naval history of the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. The period covered starts with Greek and Phoenician vessels of 800-700 BC and includes ships up to 800 AD. The aim of the book is to fill a gap by concentrating on the practical aspects of naval warfare in antiquity, and the battles selected for description are intended to show the development of tactics and strategy, rather than illustrate the general history of the period. It includes descriptions of the ships, crews, tactics and campaigns of Greek, Persian, Carthaginian, Hellenic, Roman, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and Byzantine fleets. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial color paste-done on front cover. 416 pages, 9 color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Discoloration to rear board, small gouge to bottom corner of pages 140-159, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Time-Life Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 51 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Color illustrations by Phelan. Corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, tears, rubbing.
Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 446 pages, illustrated with black and white frontispiece, photographs in the text. Illustrated endpapers. Begins with 40 pages of text, consisting of an introduction by Frank Wood and a substantial essay by George Francis Dow. This is followed by 207 BW plate pages of illustrations, along with an index. A book all about whales, whaling, whalers, Jonah and the Whale, etc. A visual feast of whaling ships. Light fading to spine, Clean copy.
New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 241 pages. Young adult adventure about the days of sail and a young girl's determination to find her parents, lost on a trip around the horn on the bark 'Pandora.' Set in a small town on the Maine coast, where the coming of the trading schooners was a celebrated event. Illustrated by Joshua Tolford with sepia toned illustrations. Light fade to spine, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Metro Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The late nineteenth century brought a transportation explosion in North America and Europe, much of it produced by the steam engine, which by that time had become strong and versatile enough to power ocean-crossing vessels and large freight trains. Where Rails Meet the Sea tells the exciting story of how the transportation industry was revolutionized by steam power and how the industry in turn changed the face of the world. Written by an expert in the history of ships and trains and heavily illustrated throughout in color and b&w.
Hardcover. NY, GP Putnam And Sons, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. his counting book has so much going for it that the inexplicable and jarring turn it takes at number seven is disappointing. Its most outstanding feature is Laroche's artwork-a mixture of drawing, painting, and paper-cutting on a variety of surfaces-that offers exquisite detail, from white-capped waves to feathery moth antennae to architectural features on the carefully rendered buildings. And there are more delights to this book: an afterword on the history of lighthouses; a key to the 11 found in the book; and handsome endpapers that list American lighthouses in continuous rows, state by state.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. The story of the 60 foot sloop "Elizabeth", the first 'single-sticker' ever to sail from New York to Canton, told through the eyes of two young boys hired on as cabin boys just before she sailed. The book recounts a real historical event and uses all the characters' real names. Five colored two page illustrations, including the title page, and black and white chapter headings by Elizabeth Black Carmer. Spine cloth faded.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages plus 32 page catalog of additional titles. Hardcover. Features 12 black & white illustrations by W. H. Margetson. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page. Green cloth covers with titles and decoration on front cover and spine. Covers show standard wear. Binding somewhat loose. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. London, Halton & Co, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket in brodart; Chipping along bottom edge. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, Reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages. Gilt decorated front cover. Pencil marking on page 195. Minor soiling and edge wear on cover and spine. Minor spotting on front and rear end papers. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.
New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. Illustrated with halftone drawings by Carse. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.