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
The New-England Almanack, and Farmer's Friend, For The Year 1899
New London Ct. L. E. Daboll, (1898). First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; 98; illustrated ads and a long folding map of the Lighthouses on Long Island Sound; original printed self-wrappers;. Notable for the map, from Darrow & Comstock Ship Chandlers, a chart measuring 7.5” x 21”, showing the Light Stations..... 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
Memoirs on Steamboats of the United States of America
Mystic: Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto (7' x 10"), grey wraps. 90pp. with index. 10 plates comprised of 59 figures showing sections, engines etc. of specific ships. A little faded at the edges. 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 America's Cup Races
New York: Macmillan, 1930. New Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 356, (iii); illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-five black and white plates and numerous line drawings; blue cloth lettered in gilt with a paste-on illustration of the America's Cup on upper board in a pictorial dust jacket; scarce in dust..... More
Moxie: The American Challenge
London: The Bodley Head, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. (1982). Octavo, blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 245pp. Illustrated with photographs and charts in black and white. Illustrated endpapers. Very good in very good jacket. Foreword by H. G. "Blondie" Hasler. From the library of Maine sailboat designer Dick Newick, and..... More
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