New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. Later Printing. Signed by the author without inscription and dated Feb 20, 1945 on front free endpaper. 12mo (7.25" x 4.75"); x, 181pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with black lettering. Jacket chipped along edges and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 328 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Forest green boards stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. One in a series of books featuring the Royal Navy Officer Richard Bolitho beginning around the time of the American Revolution and continuing through the Napoleonic..... More
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's limp tan cloth stamped in blue, red, and gilt, all edges stained red, decorative endpapers; 69pp.; pictorial title page, one map in text, text printed within red rule throughout. Some wear and toning to cloth extremities..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. First Edition. Quarto. 350 pages.49 full-color plates and three fold-out maps tucked in rear pocket. Black cloth boards, recased with new endpapers. Gently worn at edges, tight in binding, and pages clean and unmarked. Light foxing in spots. Some light chipping and..... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. New and Revised Edition. Two octavo volumes. 264 p.; 259 p. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photographic blue and red dust jackets. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets are creased and rubbed along edges, more heavily at spine ends. Staining..... More
![International Law for Seagoing Officers - Fifth Edition [Signed]. Burdick H. Brittin](/pictures/thumb/6546.jpeg?v=1595445066)
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Fifth Edition. Signed by Brittin on title page with inscription, "For Stella Matalas - whose skill in making me be accurate in the interview will long be remembered with pleasure! Cheers, Burdick Brittin, Sept 1986." Octavo. 503 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over green..... More
![Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Christopher Buckley](/pictures/thumb/8351.jpg?v=1609955713)
New York: Congdon & Lattes Inc., 1982. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Buckley loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 222 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. White and navy boards stamped in blue. Price-clipped dust jacket is worn with light chipping and toning to edges. Boards a bit toned and worn..... More
![The Cruise of the Vanadis [Signed by Lesage]. Edith Wharton, Claudine Lesage, ed](/pictures/thumb/8624.jpg?v=1612213539)
Amiens, FR: Sterne, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 142 pages. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Claudine Lesage on title page and dated Juillet 1995 in Hyers-les-Palmiers, the French town where Lesage identified the Wharton manuscript diary of her 1888 Mediterranean cruise. Covers gently worn at corners and curl..... More
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to..... More
Annapolis, MD: The United States Naval Institute, 1906. Second Edition - Revised. Octavo. 372 pages. Black and white illustrations; 18 plates at rear, some folded. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards are worn at extremities with brief exposure. Water damage with discoloration to corners. General..... More
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1960. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 430 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red. Map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with some general toning and rubbing. Boards lightly worn at edges, but binding sound and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Black and white photographs.Photographic dust jacket. Navy boards stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. Navy topstain. Light chipping and toning to edges of dust jacket. Edges of boards are worn with some staining. Binding is sound. Light foxing to preliminaries and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850. First Edition, First Printing with all points present except for terminal 6pp publisher's advertisements removed by contemporary binder [BAL 13662]. Octavo; [ix] + 465pp. Half leather with raised spine bands; gilt stamping on spine. Marbled boards (small-combed, marine colors) match the..... More
Raymond Bishop. First Thus. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., 1933. First Thus. Octavo. 507 pages. No dust jacket. Raymond Bishop woodcuts throughout. Slight fraying at upper and lower spine edges. Hinges and joints solid. Back cover upper edge dented with quarter-inch crack, nearly closed--echoed on final..... More
![Lower Mississippi [The Rivers of America Series]. Hodding Carter](/pictures/thumb/4965.jpg?v=1561482648)
John McCrady. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright page. Signed by author on half title with a charming inscription: "To the sweetest person I know - Devotedly, Hodding. (P.S. - It's you, Louise.)" Black and white illustrations throughout by John..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960. Third Printing. Signed by the author on half title and dated 30 April 1963 with inscription "For Bob Curry -- with great admiration for his honesty and integrity. Jim Calvert." Possible book club edition, with 09650 stamped in gilt on bottom back cover and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [2],188pp.; illus., blue pictorial endpapers. General light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel and spine cloth faded, old tape to both jacket flaps and pastedowns (tape yellowed and perished), else Very Good and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo; xvii + 124pp. Navy blue boards with gold lettering on spine and title reversed out against framed gold ground on front panel, including small nautical device, which is repeated on half-title page. Missing dust jacket. Spine nudged..... More
New York: Horizon House Publishers, 1936. First Edition. Signed by Fasano on front free endpaper with inscription, "Presented to Naval Radio Key West with compliments. Lawrence Fasano." Octavo. 226 pages + appendix. Illustrations. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.00" price present. Navy boards stamped in gilt... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 377 pages. Blue cloth with paper label to spine. Unclipped printed dust jacket. Volume One only of three volume series. Unclipped dust jacket shows a four inch closed tear running along rear joint from top edge. Light creasing and chipping..... More
Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1920. First Edition. Quarto. 140 pages plus 84 pages advertisements. Illustrated tied dark blue wraps with yapp edges. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Sections include descriptions of the Navy Yard football team going undefeated -- though the previous season had many..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Free Press, 2007. First edition with complete numberline. Signed by author on full title with inscription: "To Larry & Lyla, All Best, Peter Heller." Octavo, 288pp. Pictorial dust jacket has been price-clipped. Pale blue paper over boards with gray paper over spine. Lettering stamped in..... More
New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1945. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper without dedication but with inscription "Sincerely, December '45. Richard A. Shafter." Octavo; x, 246pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with a small..... More
![The Moonrakers: The Story of the Clipper Ship Men [Inscribed and Signed]. Robert Carse, Ray Houlihan](/pictures/thumb/7507.jpeg?v=1603916046)
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,[2],176pp.; illus. throughout text, many full-paged. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with a few short closed tears and subsequent creasing, light foxing to flap folds, spine very slightly cocked, Very Good or..... More
London: T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1808. First Edition. Large quarto (35x29cm); viii + 102pp. Of 15 original full-page or two-page copper engravings, seven are lacking (including the portrait frontispiece and the facsimile letter), eight remain. Lowndes I, 449. Sea-green leather boards with gilt and black stamped borders, frames and..... More