New York: Paragon House, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket lightly soiled, sticker ghost on rear jacket panel. Boards soiled.
xix, 250 pp. Examines the exploits of the explorer Frederick A. Cook and offers new evidence supporting his claim to discovery of the North Pole
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New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom edge lightly bumped.
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.....
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Corners pushed, jacket corners lightly rubbed.
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.....
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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New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Jacket corners lightly rubbed. Ink gift note on FFE, some pages creased.
158 pp. "Following the time-honored tradition of sea stories, this account of a tense three-day struggle to save a ship (S.S. Kariba) is told in vigorous.....
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label and light spots to boards, foxed throughout, Oxford bookstore bookplate on front endpaper.
xi, 493 pp. 8vo. 24-page publisher catalog bound in following text. Originally published in two volumes in.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
xv, 423 pp. "He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did.....
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
208 pp. "The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle", is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The.....
Paris: Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1802. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed throughout.
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New York: The Century Co., 1898. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Mull exposed at front hinge, top corner of front free endpaper chipped, ink name on second blank.
xiv, 247 pp. Gilt image of a lion on spine and front board. Historical account of Marco Polo, who traveled in the 13th.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Yohn, F.C.; Catlin, George; Frost, A.B.; St Memin; Seton-Thompson, Ernest. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Includes folding map following text. Faint stain to top marginal corner of some pages, front free endpaper removed, some tiny white spotting on rear board (paint spatter?).
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New York: Vanguard Press, 1974. Hard Cover.
Jacket spine faded, jacket clipped, front jacket flap creased. Ink price on front free endpaper.
252 pp. "Not being a Spanish explorer by birth or profession, he [Matthew J. Bruccoli] read what he could of Cortes in Mexico and, shod in a pair.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Spine base lightly pushed.
xvi, 422 pp. In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation.....
London: The Boy's Own Paper Office. Carreras, Thomas. Hard Cover.
No publisher date. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few very minor chips, front jacket flap clipped with price intact.
148 pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates by Thomas Carreras. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), British author and novelist.....
. Jim Cain, 2020. Trade Paperback.
A fine copy.
507 pp. A novel based on the lyrics of Canadian Folk Legend Stan Rogers epic song, the Mary Ellen Carter. Set in Atlantic Canada and filled with hardship, friendship, tragedy, triumph, music, love, and most of all ...hope! Author Jim Cain.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. Callahan, Steven. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Edge wear, ink mark on rear page.
A NEW YORK TIMES besteller, this true story tells the riveting, first-hand account of the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea,fighting.....
. 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.....
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Tear along bottom edge of jacket previously mended with tape, jacket spine head rubbed.
xiv, 194 pp. "Both a journey in the footsteps of others and an account of the author's own experiences with the spectacular wildlife: from.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. De Freitas, Lima. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #890 of 1500 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Signed by illustrator and hand-numbered on limitation page. Slipcase a bit rubbed.
xvi, 417 pp. Translated and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Maps on endpapers, reproductions of.....
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: Pocket Books, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog.....
Orlando, Florida: Harvest / Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xxi, 296 pp. For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account.....
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: Citadel Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket reverse lightly foxed, remainder mark on page base.
xv, [5], 538 pp. "In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal.....
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Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1977. Keller, Ronald. Full-Leather.
xv, 554, [1] pp. 8vo. Printed on laid paper. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Ronald Keller. "Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the.....