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
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
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
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
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015. First Edition. Quarto; 212 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket shows light shelfwear and one tiny closed tear along top front edge. Blue boards are stamped in silver at spine. Lightly worn at spine ends and cracked at gutter of title page..... 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