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 about Sketch of the Life of Commodore Vanderbilt
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 about The Mentor; The Story Of The American Navy; Department Of History
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 about Children Of Ol' Man River, The Life And Times of a Showboat Trouper
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 about The New-England Almanack, and Farmer's Friend, For The Year 1899
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 about Some Stories of Old Ironsides
Mystic Ct: Marine Historical Assn. 1956. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 87; illustrated; original printed gray paper wrappers;. The account of a one of a kind clever mutiny that ended the voyage. More about Mutiny On The Pedro Varela, The Adventures of a Twentieth Century Whaleman
Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. (1975). Octavo, black cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 382pp. with index appendices and notes. Illustrated in black and white. More about Cunard and the North Atlantic, 1840-1973: A History of Shipping and Financial Management
Hanover & London: University Press Of New England, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 337, bibliography; photographs; blue cloth and cream paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Seven decades on the Connecticut Coast & Long Island Sound, making a living on the water. More about Working Thin Waters, Conversations With Captain Lawrence H. Mallory, Jr
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 about The Fringes Of The Fleet; A Companion Volume To "France At War"
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 about On Seas Of Glory. Heroic Men, Great Ships, And Epic Battles Of The American Navy
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Two Volumes, Complete; Octavo; pp. I; xxiii, (v), 454; II; xvi, (iv), 427, (ii), index, ad leaf; illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume, seventeen additional plates and twenty battle plans; blue cloth, gilt decorated and lettered, top edge gilt, blue... More about The Life Of Nelson, The Embodiment Of The Sea Power Of Great Britain
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 about Memoirs on Steamboats of the United States of America
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 about Sailors Of Fortune
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 about Black Mutiny, The Revolt On The Schooner Amistad; With Introductions By Derrick Bell and Michael...
New York: Minton, Balch and Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red buckram, gilt. 314pp. with index and bibliography. Illustrated, map endpapers. Very good. Eaton "was a United States Army officer and Consul to Tunis (1797-1803). He played important diplomatic and military roles in the war between The US and... More about General William Eaton: The Failure of an Idea
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 about The America's Cup Races
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 about Moxie: The American Challenge