Putnam, CT: Patriot Press. Paperback. circa 1890. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. (35)pp, including plates. Tipped-on frontispiece and 11 black and white plates. Light soil. This is a curious offprint, the piece originally appeared in Leslie's Monthly Magaxzine in 1872. There are no locations for this format. More
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
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
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
Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, (1931). First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 32; illustrated with eight full page blue toned plates; original printed blue paper wrappers lettered in gilt with a tipped on color illustration at center, paperback;. Inserted is a card stating all profits from this publication will go to the..... More
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
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
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
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
Baltimore: Black Classic Press, (1997). First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xx), vii-xiv, 3-322, index; black and white plates; green cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. A fascinating account of an extraordinary event; a slave revolt at sea. More
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
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