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Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Muller Limited: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012470
Red paper boards. DJ has three small edge tears. Three men in a boat were all that were left after they ate the cabin boy. Two tins of turnips were long gone. It happened in 1884. 158 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., National Harbours Board: 1982
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010351
Original blue card covers. A hefty and well-documented volume of the port's history. 333 pp. View more info
By: McIlwain, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Andover, Hampshire, Jarrold Publishing: 2005
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 011880
Softcover booklet of 32 pp. Many colour photos. Launched 29 December, 1860. Ended active service 31 May, 1883. Restored and returned to Portsmouth 16 June, 1987. View more info
By: McLaughlin, Daniel Carlton
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Grand Manan Island, N.B., Grand Manan Museum: 1994
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 011084
White softcover showing sailing ship. The author's account of his first, and his father's 42nd, trip around Cape Horn. 47 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1972
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 005945
Original dark blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ has one short top edge tear (repaired). No writing. Large format, heavy book will need extra postage. An international survey of Skimmer technology for military and civil application. Yes, you can buy your Exocet all-weather, anti-ship missiles here ! How about "A Magic Carpet for Modern Persia; For Strike and Off-shore Interception with Surface-to-surface Weapon Systems" ? My first exposure to blatant advertis... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc,: 1976
Edition: First American Edition Stated
Seller ID: 011121
Blue cloth on boards. DJ nearly complete, but badly torn and heavily taped. Letter to John Earle, of Chelsea, VT., from Richard C. Newick (1926-2013), a builder of multihull boats, compares the VALS and NATIVE designs (laid in). Newick reports he has just started sketching a 40-42 foot boat of the NATIVE design for an Italian client, with an extra 4 feet added just abaft the main cabin. Newick is referred to twice in Acknowledgements and 3 times in the Index. This book ... View more info
By: McNair, Sir William Lennox/ Mocatta, Alan A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Sweet & Maxwell, Limited: 1955
Edition: Sixteenth Edition
Seller ID: 009560
Black cloth on boards. Green spine label. Bill of sale and three flyers laid in. Previous owner's name. Contracts, Bills of Lading, Liability, Voyage, Unloading, Demurrage, Freight, Lien, Damages, Jurisdiction, and Appendices. Heavy book will need extra postage. 658 pp. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: N.Y., Random House: 1953
Seller ID: 000254
Original grey-green cloth with white lettering and black cover design, no DJ. Hinges stiff from gluing, but seem secure. One signature misaligned originally, but not serious. Colourful pictorial EPs. 99 pp. with index. View more info
By: Mowat, Farley
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Ltd.: 1973
Edition: First Edition. (No Additional Printings)
Seller ID: 011825
Grey cloth on boards. DJ has a few very small edge nicks. By the time you've read to Page 8, you'll vow with Aunt Gerti Hann, "...I was barn in Swains Tickle, and that's the place they'll lay me down." 157 pp. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead, and Company: 1940
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 009032
Original dark blue cloth on boards. In two books: In a Wooden Battleship, and Whaling. Book is sound and clean. DJ has served well, but shows overall wear. Edited by the author's grandson from three books into this one. Over 220 pp. on Whaling. 401 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: Norie, J. W.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, Ltd.: 1954
Edition: New Revised Edition
Seller ID: 002738
Original black cloth on boards. Chart of English Channel laid in. Tables, tables, and more tables. 522 pp. plus Longitude and Latitude Section (101 pp.). Minor edge foxing. Previous owner's name blacked out. Please inquire for postage. View more info
By: Norie, J. W.
Price: $120.00
Publisher: London, Charles Wilson: 1872
Edition: Twentieth (Stereotype) Edition
Seller ID: 011537
Tan calf on sturdy boards. Previous owner's name. Exceptionally good condition overall, with only one issue worthy of negative comment - the front joint shows a hairline crack in the leather. Internally, pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. Binding is sound. 344 pp. plus 44 pp. Instructions on Use of Tables, plus 359 pp. of Tables. Large, heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1994
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008026
Original illustrated gold cloth on boards. No writing or damage. William Dampier, born in 1651 in Somerset, was an all-round sailor, privateer, and researcher. He was the first Englishman to map parts of Australia and New Zealand, and to sail around the world three times. His descriptions of flora and fauna are colourful and numerous. Reading this book could be compared to an extended cruise of several continents. 268 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C., Harbour Publishing: 2003
Edition: `
Seller ID: 007630
Original blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. A look back to the good old days of salmon fishing in British Columbia. ISBN 1-55017-289-1. 232 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Co.: 2013
Edition: First American Edition Stated
Seller ID: 011884
Blue paper boards backed in blue cloth. No writing or damage. An intriguing organization to this book highlights Pleasant Travels by Land, Unpleasant Voyages, Oriental Splendour, and Inefficient Pirates as headings of its parts, while among these are found General Hints to Strangers Who Travel Through France, Voyage to Greenland, A Journey Thro' Part of the Low Countries, and Voyage to Virginia. 310 pp. View more info
By: Parker, John P.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.: 1980
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 007111
Original illustrated cover trade paperback. ISBN 0-07-077872-8. I found the drawings which show the steps in building a ship especially interesting. One of the classics of Maritime history. 199 pp. View more info
By: Parker, John P.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Toronto, ON, George J. McLeod, Ltd.(Distributor): 1967
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011711
Blue cloth on boards. Designed, printed, and bound in England by Hazell Watson and Viney Limited, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Previous owner's name and gift note. DJ corners taped inside. This book appears to me to be of high quality of design and execution, a permanent record of the wooden ships of Cape Breton in the 19th Century. 197 pp. with index. View more info
By: Peake, James
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, John Weale: 1849
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002369
Original green blindstamped cloth on flexible card. Part I only. Binding of foldout plates at rear is loosening, and Plate C of the original six is missing. In 21 parts on 132 pp. plus plates. Recto and verso covers are identical except for pastedown title plate, and wraparound spine belies the theory that this particular volume was ever bound with others. Intact except for Plate C, with only previous owner's name and light corner tip wear as faults. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Camden, ME, International Marine Publishing Company: 1973
Edition: Second Edition, Fourth Impression
Seller ID: 006752
Original bright orange cloth on boards. DJ very good and matching in color. Revised with added material. Speed and resistance, Midships, Hull form, Keel, Stability, Balance, Rating, Rigging, Sail and power, Calculations, Design, Appendices.103 diagrams. 348 pp. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Methuen and Co. Ltd.: 1956
Edition: First Published in 1956
Seller ID: 002371
Original blue cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ. Previous owner's name, and initials on foot. Tiny chip missing from DJ (See PHOTO). A first-person fictional account by a man who sailed with Nelson. 204 pp. View more info
