The Mentor; The Story Of The American Navy; Department Of History
New York: The Mentor, 1917. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 12; Six large sepia plates; original printed paper wrappers;. A nicely illustrated encapsulated history of the American Navy. More
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Children Of Ol' Man River, The Life And Times of a Showboat Trouper
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1988. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; lxix, (i), 360, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait, and thirty-one additional illustrations including two maps; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. More
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. Riverside Press edition. Octavo (6" x 8.5"), royal blue cloth with pictorial paste-down illustration of the ship "Alert". 553, (i)pp. with index and appendices. llustrated by E. Boyd Smith with drawings in the text and 8 color plates, including the cover..... More
The Fringes Of The Fleet; A Companion Volume To "France At War"
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; (vi), 122; brown mottled paper covered boards, upper board with a large paste on label printed in black and decorated with a British Admiralty flag in black, red and blue, spine with paper label, black lettering; jacket..... More
On Seas Of Glory. Heroic Men, Great Ships, And Epic Battles Of The American Navy
New York: The Free Press, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 436, index; illustrated with black and white photographs, maps; blue cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. In "On Seas of Glory" the U.S. Navy meets a storyteller worthy of its..... More
Sailors Of Fortune
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1935. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 415; blue cloth, with a spine label lettered in black, color pictorial endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket;. The romance of ships and sailors in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean; A son of the commodore.--The armoire.--The roving..... More
The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto (6.25" x 9.75"), navy cloth and blue boards with pictorial paste-down lozenge with sailing ship. 400 (2)pp. with appendices, bibliography and index. Tipped-on color frontispiece plus 70 black and white plates, many of which are ship portraits..... More
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