New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Edge wear.
491 pp. "An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents."
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Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984. Limited Edition. Large Softcover.
Limited edition, one of 1500 copies. Spine toned.
88 pp. A collection of art focusing on the Erie Canal, more specifically on the Rochester area.
Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984. Large Softcover.
Covers lightly toned.
88 pp. A collection of art focusing on the Erie Canal, more specifically on the Rochester area.
Southampton, Ontario: 1994. Stapled Binding.
A fine copy.
20 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and ads. The evolution of the Huron boat style.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front corner damaged.
448 pp. 8vo. "The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.....
Adelaide: The Limited Editions Club / The Griffin Press, 1975. Ingleton, Geoffrey C.; Dunstan, Douglas A. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #1182 of 2000 copies, signed by illustrator and designer and hand-numbered on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase and onion skin jacket. Jacket spine absent, wear and several small.....
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
127 pp. Includes 10 color plates, 33 figures, and 18 ship model photographs, several unnumbered 'draughts,' and facsimiles of documents. Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy.....
Cleveland, Ohio: Freshwater Press, 1971. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fifth printing. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket reverse lightly foxed. Front board and page ridges lightly foxed.
xv, 368 pp. 8vo. '... true tales of dozens of thrilling Great Lakes shipwrecks... Heroic rescues from Duluth to the St. Lawrence... covering a period.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears, jacket flap clipped with price intact.
xxvi, 415, xiv pp. Black-and-white fold-out map follows text. The Portuguese pioneered the maritime expansion of Europe which, above all else, marks.....
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. jacket flap price-clipped.
xxii, 599 pp. A 150-year social history of the North Atlantic, from the 1818 voyage of a packet ship to Liverpool to the voyages of the Queen Elizabeth and Queen.....
Boston: Marie A. Brown, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Gallup, Wayne. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, in Gibraltar library binding. No jacket.
146 pp. Story of a coral diver in search of a legendary coral bank.
New York: L. Nichols & Co. for Evert Dyuckinck, Bookseller, 1801. Third Edition. Full-Leather.
Third American edition. Bottom third of last text page and first three leaves of appendix torn out, boards rubbed with some loss from corners, joints weak, top half of front free endpaper removed.
359 pp. 12mo.....
. Five Stones Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback.
148 pp. You are going to thoroughly enjoy this story of Fairhaven, a sturdy little ship making his way across the Sea of Life. He's pursued by enemies, tossed about by severe storms, and intrigued by unusual creatures who become his staunch friends.....
Basin Harbor, Vermont / Saratoga, New York / Albany, New York: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum / Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor / New York State Canal Corporation, 2007. First Edition. Stapled Binding.
First edition. A fine copy.
33 pp. The 88 foot canal schooner Lois McClure, will embark on an.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Sheets, Millard. Hard Cover.
Lacks Sandglass insert. Includes a near fine slipcase. Cloth edge faintly foxed.
xviii, 161 pp. Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. Illustrated by Millard Sheets. The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1897. The work was based.....
New York: The Heritage Press. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. Large Hardcover.
No publisher date. Includes slipcase and Sandglass insert number XI:22. Slipcase edges rubbed.
xvii, 292 pp. Edited by A. Grenfell Price. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. James Cook, (born October 27, 1728, Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England—died February 14, 1779, Kealakekua Bay.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
xvii, 333 pp. In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1947. Mueller, Hans Alexander. Hard Cover.
Includes Sandglass insert Number IV:31. A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase.
xx, [2], 346 pp. Two-tone illustrations by Hans Alexander Mueller, introduction by William McFee. Dana's account of a two-year sea voyage, adapted to film in.....
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Inc., 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Glue on page ridges, small surface tear on blurb page which does not obscure text.
xiv, 706 pp. "Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after.....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink underlining and marginalia in first 50 pages of text, rear jacket panel creased, jacket spine head bumped.
xii, 445 pp. ""Captain Bligh" is a cliche of our times for the extravagant and violent misuse of power. In.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2013. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Remainder mark, edge wear.
xviii, 394 pp. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that.....
. Melvine Jay Douyette, 2011. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Near fine.
79 pp. 8" x 10". Authors owns a company called Cold War Submarines that builds 1/192 scale replicas. The book describes the evolution of US submarines after WWII from the start of the Cold War through today. The book.....
London: Jarrolds, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket chipped, a couple spots to first few pages.
200 pp. Contains nineteen tales of adventures, battles, and dangerous sea voyages from the ancient world to the present day.
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Top corner lightly creased.
xiii, 445 pp. The Seven Years’ War was the world’s first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. This book is the fullest account ever written of.....