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By: Norie, J. W.
Price: $120.00 USD
Publisher: London, Charles Wilson: 1872
Edition: Twentieth (Stereotype) Edition
Seller ID: 011537
Condition: Very Good
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 USD
Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1994
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008026
Condition: Near Fine
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 USD
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C., Harbour Publishing: 2003
Edition: `
Seller ID: 007630
Condition: Near Fine
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 USD
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Co.: 2013
Edition: First American Edition Stated
Seller ID: 011884
ISBN: 978-0-393-08958
Condition: Near Fine
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 USD
Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Ltd.: 1980
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 007111
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
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 USD
Publisher: Toronto, ON, George J. McLeod, Ltd.(Distributor): 1967
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011711
Condition: Very Good
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: Parker, John P.(Master Mariner)
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Aylesbury and Slough, Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd.: 1961
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 013232
Condition: Very Good
Original grey cloth with blue ship and lettering on boards. The story of the three-and four-masted cargo schooners of Atlantic Canada, 1859-1929. 226 pp. View more info
By: Peake, James
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: London, John Weale: 1849
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 002369
Condition: Good
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 USD
Publisher: Camden, ME, International Marine Publishing Company: 1973
Edition: Second Edition, Fourth Impression
Seller ID: 006752
ISBN: 0877420173
Condition: Very Good
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 USD
Publisher: London, Methuen and Co. Ltd.: 1956
Edition: First Published in 1956
Seller ID: 002371
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Quick, Stanley L. With Reid, Chipp
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press: 2015
Edition: First Printing Stated
Seller ID: 011894
ISBN: 978-1-61251-236
Condition: Near Fine
Blue paper boards. No writing or damage. War of 1812. 266 pp. with index. View more info
By: Reksten, Terry
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Orca Book Publishers: 1992
Seller ID: 006944
ISBN: 092050180X
Condition: Very Good
Original photo cover trade paperback. Congratulatory letters bound in from Prince Andrew and Lieut.-Gov. Lam preface this celebration of a century of sailing. Many photos as well as explanatory text make this a useful historical reference for Victoria and the area. No writing and no damage. 242 pp. View more info
By: Roberts, Dr. Harry D. With Nowlan, Michael O.
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Brunswick Press: 1982
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011095
ISBN: 0-88790-113-1
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth on boards. Wonderful colour drawings add interest to the descriptive text to tell the story of this long-past industry of the Maritimes. Official numbers, measurements, and weights are shown in addition to details of construction and last voyages. 110 pp. View more info
By: Rodger, N.A.M.
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: London, Collins: 1987
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011993
ISBN: 0-00-216548-1
Condition: Very Good
A hefty and impressive account of the early Navy. DJ price-clipped. Heavy book will need extra postage. 445 pp. with index. View more info
By: Ross, David
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Amber Books, Ltd.: 2013
Seller ID: 010082
ISBN: 978-1-78274-069
Condition: Near Fine
White paper on boards. Unclipped DJ. An illustrated guide to great sailing ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 224 pp. with index and bibliography. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Hounslow, England, Macgregor Publiations, Limited: 1983
Edition: First English Edition (Revised)
Seller ID: 009925
ISBN: 0-906536-01-4
Condition: Very Good
Blue cloth lettered in silver on boards. Unclipped DJ. No writing or damage. A superbly-produced publication by a German team, scientists in the Faculty of Maritime Transport Economics at Wilhelm- Pieck University , Rostock, Germany, about 1975. After three more German editions, this Englsh one appeared in 1983. As a casual observer of shipping facilities at nearby Port of Saint John, I hope that this book will help to bring about safer, quieter, and more efficient sea transport. 240 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co.: 1954
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012296
Condition: Good Plus
Beige cloth on boards. No writing. DJ chipped all around and torn along fold. "This is the story, mostly in pictures, of a voyage round Cape Horn in a mighty nitrates barque, a famous four-master, from Hamburg out to Chile and back again." - DJ flap. Six pages of text by Joseph Conrad, titled 'Consecration'. 239 pp. View more info
By: Slade, W.J.
Price: $35.00 USD
Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press: 1972
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 005925
ISBN: 0-85177-026-6
Condition: Very Good
Original brown trade paperback. Revised edition. Edited and with a preface by Basil Greenhill. How it all began, I become Master, First World War, Coming of the motors, Depression and an interlude in sail again, Second World War and the end of it all, List of the vessels owned by the Slade Family of Appledore, Notes on the racing of schooners and ketches, Note by Captain J. Whitefield. 124 pp. No writing and only mild surface wear to this book. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead & Company: 1956
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 004954
Condition: Very Good
Original light blue cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has minimal wrinkling at head of spine. A far-ranging coverage of shipwrecks around the world. 307 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co.: 1965
Edition: First Edition (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 011815
Condition: Very Good Minus
Red cloth on boards. DJ missing thumb-size chip at bottom. Previous owner's name. Twenty stories of tragedy at sea, some resulting in heroic rescue while others ended in cruel death. 268 pp. View more info