Annapolis: Naval Institute Press - Edita Lausanne, 1980. First Edition. Quarto; 261pp including appendices and index. Pictorial and photographic jacket. Terracotta cloth boards with gold stamping front panel and spine. Light foxing to endpapers and faint splotched foxing throughout textblock, above all to upper edge of pages. Both boards..... 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
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, [1986]. Fifth Edition. Octavo. 503 pages. 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."... More
Mead Schaeffer. Hardcover. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1926. Quarto; 301pp. 8 color plates including frontis, with color title, one map, and illustrated endpapers, all presernt. Rebacked with original cloth retained to boards and spine. Covers show a few scuffs and very light shelfwear, but are sturdy and solid..... 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
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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
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; xxxix + 130pp, including bibliographic note. Over 20 B&W photographs and other document reproductions. Photographic dust jacket. Blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Jacket shows one corner tear at lower right front, now closed within protective mylar. Binding and textblock nearly..... More
Spring Lake Heights: Ho-Ho-Kus Publishing Company, 1982. First Edition. Quarto; xviii + 576pp, including chronology, extensive bibliography, and index. Twenty-two photostatic illustrations reproducing portraits and maps. Blue, heavy-duty, coated buckram binding; gold spine lettering. Nearly as new; not marked or marred in any way. A reference volume bound..... More
Hamden: Archon Books, 1964. First Edition. Presentation letter signed by historian Henry M. Dater on United States Antarctic Project stationary paperclipped along with return address to front jacket flap. Letter has no salutation, but book bears the ownership inscription of Rear Adrmiral James R. Reedy, Commander of the U.S. Naval..... 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: Columbia University Press, 1939. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 503 pages. Navy boards with spine stamped in gilt. Worn and spine ends and corners, but binding and interior sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. More
Paris: Horizons de France; 1949. First Edition. Octavo; 174pp. B&W photographs, illustrations, and painting reproductions throughout. Original full-color French broché cover bound in as first page; original two-color broché spine bound in among end leaves. Privately rebound by previous owner with black leather spine, gold spine lettering, faux marbleized blue..... More
Hardcover. London: Collins, 1987. Reprinted edition (stated). Octavo, 445pp. Pictorial dust jacket has been price-clipped. Maroon cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket is bright and appears to have always been kept in a protective mylar cover, no tears or chips. Binding is sound and corners..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Likely later printing, with Putnam's imprint on title but Grosset & Dunlap's at tail of spine. Octavo. 319 pages. Publisher's blue and black cloth with skill and bones / rapier illustration to front and spine lettering in blue. Black..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977. First Edition. Quarto; 144pp, including bibliography and index. Photographic dust jacket. Tan boards with gilt spine lettering. Documentary B&W photographs throughout. Unclipped dust jacket with a hint of fading, showing very polite shelfwear; slight nudging to crown and foot of jacket spine. Boards show..... 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