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By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, Lloyd's Register of Shipping:
Seller ID: 002746
Original black blindstamped cloth with bright gilt lettering cover and spine on boards, with bookmark. Weighs 4.25 Kg. or 9.5 lbs. Table giving equivalents of feet and inches in metres laid in. 1942 pp. plus several appendices of additional information. No marks or damage. Please inquire for shipping. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Dept. Of Fisheries And Oceans: 1990
Edition: First Edition 1990
Seller ID: 007067
Original green photo cover trade paperback. Large map inside cover. Bookstore stamp. One page underlined. No other writing or damage. 366pp. ISBN 0-660-13473-X View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Glasgow, Simpson-Lawrence, Limited: 1961
Seller ID: 009530
Grey cloth with blue backstrip on boards. Front hinge cracked and delicate, but holding. A wholesale catalog with no price iniformation. "Conditions of sale" given in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. All product descriptions in English only. Pure nostalgia for the yachting crowd. Book is clean except for previous owner's name in ink. 287 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, The Bank Line, Limited: 1956
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010462
Blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Reprinted from The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph. Young Andrew Weir of Kirkcaldy got his start in banking, but after a brief stint in a Glasgow shipowner's office he decided to start his own. 136 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Ministry of Defence: 1981
Edition: Superseding BR 67(2) Dated 1967
Seller ID: 011910
Blue cloth on boards. Intended for ratings seeking advancement and junior officers. Arranged in four parts: Ship Knowledge and Safety; Seamanship; Ship Organisation; and Shiphandling and Navigation. Stamp of Fleet School HFX. No writing or damage. Heavy book will need extra postage.746 PP. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, Ministry of Defence: 1983
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 011911
Blue cloth on boards. Superseding BR 67(3) dated 1964. Intended mainly for officers. Arranged in the same four parts as Vol. I and III. 534 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage. View more info
By: "Grandpa Ben"
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1882
Edition: A New Edition
Seller ID: 012085
Brown, gilded cloth on beveled boards. The author explains everything anyone needs to know about the rigging and operation of a steamship. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name. 382 pp. View more info
By: Allward, Maurice
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes And Noble Books: 1993
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011966
Grey paper boards backed in black cloth. Highlights the 40-year history of flying boats and seaplanes. Tells how refinements of the Supermarine line of flying boats led to the development of the famous Spitfire, famous for its work in WW II. 160 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Theo. Audel & Co.: 1950
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011986
A veritable bible of information dealing with every phase of steam power on the water. 1,258 pp. plus numerous informative ads. View more info
By: Anderson, Isabel
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005408
Original red cloth on boards. Laid in are two clippings, both obituaries for Larz Anderson, prominent businessman and husband of the author, who was herself a well-educated and prolific writer. Mrs. Anderson was a granddaughter of William Fletcher Weld, owner of the largest fleet of merchant ships in America following the Civil War. She married into the Perkins Family, also notable in the shipping business. A thoroughly absorbing family and business history by a trai... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Mystic, CT., Marine Historical Association: 1962
Seller ID: 010047
Light green softcover in very good condition. Political development. Industries and trade. Sea-borne economy. 88 pp. with Index. Minor staple holes in rear cover. View more info
By: Angel, Heather
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Treasure Press:
Seller ID: 001097
Original blue cloth on boards. DJ has only tiny tear top of spine, OW good. Many striking colour photos of animals which live in the ocean. 128 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, Limited: 1974
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008315
Original dark green cloth on boards. Gift note. The author is a marine historian with Canada's Ministry of Transport. Captain Alexander Allan had started the company in 1819, running small ships from Greenock to Quebec. His five sons helped to extend the business to Eastern Canada, the United States, and eventually, to the other side of the Atlantic. Price-clipped DJ chipped along head. 222 pp. View more info
By: Bain, J. Arthur
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd.:
Seller ID: 004408
Original grey hardcover on boards. Cover states The Evergreen Library, and lower spine states Simpkin in usual publisher's name spot. Front hinge lightly cracked, and first free endpaper missing. Over 50 illustrations highlight the adventures and explorations of Nansen, a brilliant inventor, explorer, and (eventually) Nobel recipient. This book is confined to events of 1880-1899. 449 pp. View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Hartford, CT, Columbian Book Company: 1874
Seller ID: 007947
Original full brown leather on stiff boards. Title page missing, and pp. 367-8 separated but present. Binding shaken, but holding. 800 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, Madison Press Books: 1997
Seller ID: 010046
Blue cloth on boards. This book is lightly wrinkled throughout. However, it is the only copy of Titanic literature I have seen which provides so much photographic detail, stem to stern. 240 pp. View more info
By: Barker, Captain Sir David Wilson
Price: $40.00
Publisher: London, Charles Griffin & Company, Ltd.: 1931
Edition: Second Edition, Revised, in Two Volumes
Seller ID: 008256
Original blue cloth on boards. Stamp of Naval Library Service, H.M.C.S. Captor II, Saint John, N.B. A gathering of important topics including: Waves, Towing, Salvage, Cargoes, Refrigeration. Seismic Seamanship, etc. Many foldout charts. 239 pp. with Index. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008251
Original black cloth on boards. No writing. Small bookseller's label. Small white cover spot appears to be residue of cloth adhesive tape. Normal hand soil. This book puts the reader into the picture as closely as possible, since the author was a survivor who wrote this account only a few weeks after the accident. The dead numbered 1503 - 815 passengers and 688 crew. The Carpathia rescued 705. "Such is the record of the Titanic, the largest ship the world had ... View more info
By: Bell, Douglas
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Nelson: 1943
Edition: First Published 1943
Seller ID: 000472
Original red cloth on boards. DJ taped at corners, and consequently torn top and bottom. The Trafalgar Library. Overall, a little grubby, P.O.N., and closed tear top of RFEP. Text sound and readable. 288 pp with index. View more info
By: Bird, Michael J.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Souvenir Press: 1962
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 012395
Green cloth on boards. No writing. DJ has edge and corner wear. A detailed account of the wreck of two ships in Halifax Harbour on December 6, 1917, resulting in the greatest man-made explosion before Hiroshima. 192 pp. View more info
