Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in dark blue. 230 pages, color frontis and 20 b&w drawings by Clifford Ashley. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, darkening to cover edges, otherwise clean, very good.
Softcover. Alexandria, Eyrie Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.
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.
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.
Hardcover. Erie PA, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering. Frontis. Illustrated w/ b/w photos. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A memoir of Commodore Perry's victory of the battle of Lake Erie against a British squadron, September 1813. Includes period correspondence and memoranda of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins. Second edition of this history first published in 1876. Standard account by this captain (1800-76) whose "father. was a pioneer in the construction of the squadron, and served actively upon the upper lakes during the war" -- which inspired and informed this chronicle of the pivotal War of 1812 battle off the coast of Ohio in which the American fleet gained control and turned the tides against the British.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam & Co, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in one. 267, 248, and 100 pages respectively. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy spotting to endpapers, title page, and spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front flyleaf, bookplate on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Markings on top edge. Damp stains, wear, rubbing, and soiling to cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a black cloth spine and a color illustration paste-down on front cover. K-E code on copyright page. 247 pages. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. Mild edgewear to covers, light water stain to rear board, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor spine edge wear. Gilt title on front cover and spine. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 3rd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and a foldout chart. 242 pages, no markings.
Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 5th Ed., 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, illustrated with b&w photographs and maps (some fold-out). Navy blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, gilt battleship on front covers, top edge gilt. Vol. 1 with frontispiece and title page loose (easily repairable), rear hinges cracked, Vol. 2 opened roughly at page 80-81, otherwise a clean, sharp set.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrilll, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with mild soil. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Gerald McCann. INSCRIBED BY CLAGETT on title page. Story of a boy who dreams of following in his father's footsteps & becoming an officer in the US Navy but when Jack's father is lost at sea Jack is forced into becoming an indentured servant.
Hardcover. Indianapolis IN, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Black & white illustrations by Gerald McCann. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, closed tear to front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages. With Illustrations by William Rainey, R. I. Minor spine edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Decorated front cover. Clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 139 pages. Gilt title on spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Usher & Strickland, 1st, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, embossed brown cloth covers, gilt on spine. An autobiographical narrative with temperance leanings. Much on nautical life from the seaman's perspective: whaling, slave trade and daily life aboard a ship. Three page preface signed L.C. Scarce. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise very good.
Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley, 1st , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Chipping to lettering on spine otherwise very good. Color frontis, b&w plates. Colorful map of West Indies on endpapers.
Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase, 248 pages. Many illustrations from manuscript charts and drawings by Ingraham, introduction by Mark D. Kaplanoff, one of 1950 copies. Binding is decorated gray paper over boards, with yellow cloth spine and pasted on label. A record of a voyage for the sea otter trade, with a route that took the ship to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, the Marquesas, and China as well as to the northwest coast of North America.
Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blind stamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering on spine. 479 pages with mild foxing to a few pages. Very good plus, no markings.