Lincoln, ON: W.F. Frannie, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. White soft cover lettered in blue, 132pp, illustrated, , previous owners name plate bottom front cover, light staining on covers, a small tear on fore-edge. A Very Good Copy. More
Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full navy cloth. 288 pp. Numerous photographs in text, many in full colour. Sunned panel to front cover of dust jacket, else fine. Pride of the Inland Seas is far more than the story of the building of docks..... More
London: T. Werner Laurie. Hardcover. 16mo. [n.d., ca. 1927]. Third impression. Orig. green publisher's cloth. 256 pp. Spine sunned, spine ends bumped, Foxing to edges of text block and interior. Library bookplate of The David Tarbet Library, Newington & St. Leonard's Parish Church. More
Anapolis, MD: The United States Navy Institute, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). Grey cloth lettered in gilt, 110pp. Frontispiece, with in-text b/w photographs and illustrations. Light foxing, boards a bit scuffed, small circular droplets at lower front board. Captain Belknap of the US Navy commanded the first offensive mining..... More
Peterborough: Rebel Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo [imperial]. Original pictorial jacket of the author on his skipper, and black cloth. 98 p,p., [4]. Illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on title-page. Wear to jacket corners, spine, and outer-edges. Boards clean. Spine tilted. Light bruising to corners. Interior clean, bright..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED first edition. Bound in genuine leather. Full burgundy morocco with gilt tooling on boards and spine. A.E.G. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. xxi, 296 pp. [20] pp. colour photos, B&w photos in text. Two page colour frontis. spread has some..... More
Glasgow: Brown, Son, & Ferguson, 1961. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettered spine, vii, 221pp. Illustrated. Bookplate and rubber stamp on ff/ endpaper, light fading on cloth, near fine in near fine, unclipped d/w, small tear at lower rear cover and spine head. A practical guide to radar..... More
Canada: Canadian National (West - Indies) Steamships. Soft cover. 7.5" x 5.25" N.d., [ca. 1950s?]. Oblong. Orig. illustrated wraps, staple bound. Unpaginated, [14 pp.]. Illustrated with colour and gold and silver inks. Covers are creased to extremities, else fine. 0. More
Montreal: The CSL Group Inc, 1995. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Orig. blue cloth, 96pp. Illustrated. About fine in d/w. An illustrated history of Canada's Steamship Lines, its beginnings and trade on the Great Lakes, The St. Lawrence Seaway and its builders, and other stories. More
France: Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 1935. No Binding. 8" x 10.75" Two bi-fold dinner menus from the French Line, SS Ile-de-France, September 14 and 18 1935, with colour illustrations by Georges Plasse to front and Compagnie Générale Transatlantique devices to rear. Age toned, some light foxing, very good overall. More
Port Credit, ON: Naef Publishing Ltd, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Red softcover, 95pp. Inscribed on front endpaper by author. Fading to covers, otherwise near fine. Stories and reflections from a life at sea. More
Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Co., 1960. Hardcover. 18mo. xiv, 254 p.p. Cloth. 25 maps and illustrations throughout book. Endpapers designed with maps. Small tears to corners and spine ends of dust-jacket. Foxing throughout dust-jacket. Rubbing to dust-jacket extremities. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Browning to pages. Inscription to front..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. xii, 338 pp. [20] pp. of B&W photos. Very slight discolouration to joints in a few places, else fine overall. More
New York: The Rudder Publishing Co., 1929. Hardcover. Full navy cloth. 238 pp. [8] plates, most double-sided. Colour frontis. from an original painting by Warren Sheppard. Presentation slip reading "Compliments of William E. Scripps" tipped in to ffep. Scripps was the publisher of The Detroit News as well as a...... More
North Vancouver: Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 9.5" Full grey paper boards. 186 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Some light spotting to boards. Dust jacket is sunned. More
Government Printing Office, 1942. 1st Edition. No Binding. 6.5" x 10" First Edition, COMPLETE. Orange canvas box with two small holes for fabric ties, 302 pp [unpaginated] with three hole-punches, tied into box with shoe-string, profusely illustrated with Destroyers, Nip Notes, Battleships, and Cruisers; to which are added two, unbound..... More
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1980. Soft cover. 8vo. Later printing. Black softcover, 349pp.Illustrated. Name on front free endpaper, otherwise fine.Dow investigates the voyages of 17th and 18th century slave ships, their captains and voyages their traders, and early mutinies. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine over white boards, gray lettered spine, 304pp, illustrated in-text, light bruising on spine ends. Fine in a Fine, unclipped d/w. More
New York: Fleming H. Revell COmpany, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. orange stamped publisher's cloth with mast vignette to front board. 155 pp., ads. [15] B&W plates., incl. B&W frontis. w/ tissue guard. Rubbing to extremities, spine slightly tilted. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Some pages unopened at rear..... More
Huntington, NY: Robert E. Kreiger, 1973. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Revised Edition. Red cloth, xiii, [5], 210pp, illustrated with in-text B&W photographs, faint sunning to text-block, endpapers. Near Fine in Near Fine, sunned and scuffed d/w. More
Halifax, N.S. Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1986. Hardcover. 10.75" x 8.5" 156 pp. Illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing to jacket. Light marking to spine head, otherwise boards clean, In fine condition. More
Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. Pictorial soft cover, 400pp, illustrated throughout in full color action photos and Diagrams. A Fine Copy. More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789. Hardcover. 4to. A New Edition, Corrected. Illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping, in different situations; together with separate views of their masts, sails, yards, and rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases, collected from the works..... More
New York: Random House, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 24 pp. Sunning to top and tail edges of boards, light bruising to tail edge. Acid migration to endpapers. Front hinge started. Darkening to gutter at title page. Dust jacket is price..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green-tan cloth, 197pp. Faded boards but o/w fine in a fine, unclipped d/w with some fading to wrappers. Reminiscences of Captain Elisha Hathaway's exploits as a ship master, chronicled by his great grandson, author Ralph Frye. More