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
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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 407 pages. Printed dust jacket. Black boards with paper label to spine. Dust jacket is a bit worn at edges with some very light chipping. Toned at spine with some smudging. Boards are dust soiled with heavier staining at spine..... 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
![Men Against the Rule: A Century of Progress in Yacht Design [Limited Edition]. Charles Lane Poor,...](/pictures/thumb/7630.jpg?v=1604001141)
New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First Edition, Limited to 950 copies of which this is no. 181. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards; [2],xiv,[2],157pp.; frontispiece, eleven leaves of photographic illus., additional illus. in text. Corners slightly bumped, general dust-soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. More
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1941 & 1943. First Editions. Octavo. 372 p. & 513 p. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped photographic dust jackets. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets show some light wear and rubbing with some very light chipping to spine ends and corners..... More
London: Seeley Service & Co., 1966. First Edition. Quarto. 539 pages + advertisements. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and plans, many foldout. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show some wear to edges and general smudging. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front..... More
San Francisco, CA: Big Fish Books, 1992. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Oblong octavo. 83 pages plus appendices. Illustrations printed in blue. Photographic dust jacket. Navy boards stamped in copper. Map endpapers. Light edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Top edge of board a bit sunned. Binding sound and pages..... 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
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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
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
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
![Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Liner [Signed]. John Maxtone-Graham](/pictures/thumb/7671.jpg?v=1604432047)
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007. First Edition. Signed by Maxtone-Graham facing title page with inscription, "Bons voyages. always!" Quarto. 259 pages. Photographs and illustrations througout including fold-out. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Light edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Boards show some minor scuffs..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Second Edition, with new title. Octavo. 282 pages. Frontis portraits of Steinbeck and Ricketts. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. Full title continues, "The narrative portion of the book, Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts..... 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