New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo. 314 pp. Illustrations. Blue-gray cloth stamped in gilt with blue label to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show light rubbing to edges, spine and edges toned with some patchy discoloration. Binding is sound. Light..... 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
Harrisburg, PA: The National Historical Society / Historical Times Inc., 1987. Reprint. 27 octavo volumes including Series I, Vols. I-XXVII. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Photographic frontispiece and facsimiles of original title pages to each volume. Boards show just a touch of shelfwear at extremities with some mild..... More
![Item #7507 The Moonrakers: The Story of the Clipper Ship Men [Inscribed and Signed]. Robert...](/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
![Item #12713 Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Atoll [Signed and Inscribed]....](/pictures/thumb/12713.jpg?v=1647375607)
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2001. First Edition. Signed by Ballard "To the Wescotts" on full title. Quarto (12.25" x 9.5"); 255pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $45.00 price intact; book in blindstamped blue boards with bronze lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a faint scratch to back..... More
![Item #25525 The Tomahawk of the U.S.S. Pocahontas [Nine issues]. Shipboard Publication, Chaplain...](/pictures/thumb/25525.jpg?v=1675870180)
At Sea: U.S.S. Pocahontas, 1919. First Editions. Nine issues of the ship's paper for the World War I transport ship, published aboard. Octavo. 4pp. A broken run from Vol 1, No. 1 in March 1919 to Vol I, No. 11 August 1919. Includes Vol I, Nos 1 - 4 (No..... 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
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1865. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); contemporary bespoke half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; 335pp.; tables throughout. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at extremities, front free endpaper separated but present, rear free endpaper starting to separate, contemporary ownership..... More
Menasha, WI: The Collegiate Press / George Banta Publishing Company, 1921. "Published July, 1921" on full title. Quarto (10.75" x 8"); 84pp. Red buckram with gilt lettering. Ex- District of Columbia Public Library, with discard stamps to front and back endpapers, reference stamp with pencil numbering at top of dedication..... More
![Item #11126 The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise [Uncorrected Page Proof]....](/pictures/thumb/11126.jpg?v=1633030429)
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Uncorrected Page Proof. Octavo; publisher's pictorial dust jacket; xi,[3],250pp. Light shelf wear, wrappers slightly faded at extremities, else Very Good or better. History of the CSS Shenandoah, "The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe!" (rear wrapper). More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. First Edition with "Published June, 1919," and "F-T" code to copyright page. Octavo. 267 pp. Color frontispiece and 58 additional black and white photographs taken by the author. Blue boards stamped in gilt and mounted photo. Top edge gilt. Lacks dust jacket... More