Original green cloth. Pictorial DJ has impressions on back caused by someone using the book as a writing surface. Clever use of EPs by copies of ship's articles and Captain Kenney's deposition. A 13-year-old Oregon Boy Scout wonders how a ship built in Saint John came to be wrecked at the site of what is now Camp Meriwether. After a life of research and travel, he tells the story. View More...
Original brown cloth with paper spine label on boards. Previous owner's neat ink notes throughout. Front cover shows signs of having been under heavy weight, which has torn lowest three inches of front hinge, not affecting text. Corners and edges worn, but holding together and fully readable. 340 pp. plus lengthy catalogue. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. Introduction by the Prince of Wales. Foreword by Joseph Conrad. Published in the 100th year of the Royal National Life-boat Institution as a report to the public of their development and accomplishments. Light scattered foxing. Foldout map p. 257 has 6-inch tear. 279 pp. View More...
Original yellow cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Translated from the French by Viola G. Garvin. By all appearances, a real sailor's book. He, a friend, and the friend's father build a two-masted schooner ! 198 pp. View More...
Original red and white illustrated softcover. Small stained areas at top and bottom corners of cover at spine edge. Some corner wear to pages. An informative look at an essential part of local history that is not well-known as well as a portrayal of the continuing importance of the pilot's role in modern shipping. As ships and ports get bigger, the pilot's job increases in complexity. View More...
Red paper boards backed in navy cloth with white lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket features painted portrait of the subject as well as a photo of a ship. Remnants of price tag on back. No writing. From involuntary service in the British Navy to the crowning around-the-world cruise of the USS Constitution, Percival was a seagoing Paul Bunyan and a superb naval officer. View More...
Original dark blue cloth lettered and stamped in gold on boards. This book originated with the publication of several articles in Rudder Magazine on building model yachts, augmented by an article on sailing them. Several plans for models ranging from 40 to 60 inches in length round out this unique book. One leaf re-inserted. Unpaginated. Approx. 40 pp. No writing or other damage. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. No information found on the author, but it is known he co-authored a book with Alan Franklin on the ship, Prince of Wales, and in 1920 issued Another Naval Digression, apparently similar to this one. "Impressions of life in a battle cruiser during the opening months of the War." Lighthearted historical fiction. General wear, tanning. 247 pp. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing and no damage. Mesh Size, Net Making Machines, Loom Planning, Shaping Netting, Hanging Netting, Seine Net Patterns, Trawls, Pound Nets, Surround Nets, Appendix, Dictionary of Fishing Gear and Terminology, and Commercial Announcements. 40 diagrams plus Appendix and Charts. 95 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original grey cloth with green lettering and portrait on boards. Unclipped DJ worn all round, with some taped repairs inside. Signed by previous owner and by author on recto of First Free Endpaper. Facs. signature of author under front. photo. A believe-it-or-not autobiographical account of a 14-year-old's first voyage in a tramp steamer of the British Merchant Marine. Great inspiration for your teenaged couch potato! Will he believe it ? 316 pp. View More...
Dark blue cloth lettered in yellow. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a sub ! DJ flap glued to first free endpaper. Evidence of library card removal and #1206 in ink. 286 pp. View More...
Sketches made at sea aboard The Star of Alaska, 64 of them. Foreword by C. Fox Smith. DJ has been taped inside and has damage to the head of the spine. 127 pp. View More...
Black cloth on boards. Page after page of wooden boats in various shapes and sizes. Reminds me of my visits to the antique wooden boat show in Clayton, New York. 127 pp. View More...
Pictorial card covers with painting of sailing ship on cover. A history of the town's first 100 years, of which information is hard to come by. Scarce. 162 pp. View More...
Original colour photo trade paperback. Author is a photojournalist in outdoor sports. One chapter is devoted to each of the four Atlantic Provinces, with a fifth on Trip Planning and Cooking. No writing or damage. 141 pp. with index. View More...
