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
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1930. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 428 pp. Color frontis with tissue guard and black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Color endpapers. Purple topstain. Dust jacket worn along edges with slight and shallow chipping. General..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1943. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); xi,[1],158pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears never approaching text, corners slightly bumped, contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else..... More
[Hamden]: Archon Books, 1968. Reprint of the 1933 Harvard University Press edition. Octavo; x, [xi-xvi], 398pp. Illustrations throughout. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a few shallow tears along top back and some fading and toning along spine. Boards are square with some nudging to spine ends. Binding is sound..... 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
Middletown, CT: Mystic Seaport, Inc., by Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 356 pp. Printed dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in black. Light rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards with a bump towards bottom edges of both. Jacket price-clipped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Lyon: Chez J.F. Rolland, Libraire. 24mo (5.25" x 3.5"); ii, 220pp. Illustrated frontis. Contemporary leather with red title card to spine and gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Concave warp to boards, with rubbing along edges and corners. Bottom inch of spine backing separated but present..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Later Printing. 16mo (6.25" x 4"); 278pp. Engraved frontis. Lavender cloth-covered boards with "Carter's Fireside Library" blindstamped to front and back panels and gilt lettering to spine. Boards heavily rubbed along edges and corners, with fading along edges, scuffing and some exposure along..... More
![Item #25407 Lives of the Admirals, and other eminent British seamen [Vols. I and II only]. John...](/pictures/thumb/25407.jpg?v=1675436603)
London: Printed by John Applebee, For J. and H. Pemberton...and T. Waller, 1742. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (20.5cm.); full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments; [16],496,[28]; [8],480,[26]pp. (collated complete); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Light occasional foxing to textblock, final two blank leaves of Vol. I neatly..... More
London: Published for the Author, and Sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1823. Third Edition. Octavo. 284 pp. 20 hand-colored plates including frontispiece, complete. Bound in 20th-century quarter calf over marbled boards; raised banks decorated in gilt and blind with black leather title label. Marbled endpaper; top edge gilt... More
![Item #11972 Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy [Signed]. John Niven](/pictures/thumb/11972.jpg?v=1641429497)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Niven on front free endpaper with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 676 pp. Photographic dust jacket; beige boards stamped in black and red. Blue endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket worn along edges with some moderate general rubbing and..... More
Charleston, SC: History Press, 2012. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 591pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. A hint of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
New York: U.S. Marine Corps Publicity Bureau, 1919. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's black gilt-embossed cloth; 310,[10](ads)pp.; illus. throughout, including color frontispiece and photographs. Corners and spine ends slightly scuffed, spine a bit faded and gilt dulled, textblock rather foxed and shaken in binding, else a Very Good example. 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
New York: 1834-5. Sixty-nine manuscript receipts issued by local businesses to the owners of the coppered packet ship "Splendid" while docked in New York City from November, 1834, to June, 1835. Each leaf folded approximately 21x4cm. and bundled into two ribbon-tied packets marked in manuscript "6th vo[yag]e Splendid to Liverpool"..... More
![Item #8834 A Taste of the Antarctic [Signed]. Michael Richey](/pictures/thumb/8834.jpg?v=1614719519)
[N.p.]: Privately Printed for Nicholas Sheetz at the Martin Art Yonno Press, 1997. Limited Edition of 80 copies, this being #24. Signed on limitation page by Rickey. Additional ownership inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Wood engraving by the author. Marbled boards with white ribbon..... More
Savannah, GA: Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, 2001. First Edition. Large, slim square quarto; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [90]pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2010. First Edition. Octavo. 280 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly edgeworn. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. 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
Claremont, Ontario: W.H. Bundy, 1895. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 4.75"); 126pp. Illustrations, tables, and adverts throughout. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and engine illustration to front. Boards a bit edgeworn with some scuffs, smudges, and a few light runs to cloth. Gilt is clear and bright. Endpapers toned..... More
N.p.: s.i., ca. 2004? Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 79pp.; color photographs throughout. A hint of wear from handling, else Fine. Sticker cancel to p. 1: "Collection to be sold June 2014, Cowan's Auction." Self-published catalog of the Civil War Navy Collection of Paul and Pat DeHaan..... More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto. 256 pp. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed along edges. Boards show light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. 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: 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