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Four Captains. in dj.

By: CLARK, George JARVIS. J.C.B. THOMSON, David WRIGHT, William

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1975, ISBN:0851742475:

Seller ID: 44253

CLARK, George. Four Captains. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1975). Pp (4),v-xi,(1),1-260, [19] leaves plates. Large 8vo, blue cloth. A British merchant captain recounts "really good yarns of sea life in the 60s and 70s" recounted to him by J.C.B. Jarvis, David Thomson, William Wright, and James Simpson. "[When] I was a young man, there were many thousands of seamen in their sixties and seventies, who had gone to sea in the heyday of Sail, who would have been only too glad to give anyone the story of their sea careers- for I think most of us like to yarn about our lives. The trouble was, th ...
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Entrepreneurs : The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850

By: FOWLER, William M., Jr. VIENS, Katheryn P., ed. WRIGHT, Conrad Edick, ed. LABAREE, Benajmin W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1997, ISBN:0934909717:

Seller ID: 99078

FOWLER, William M., Jr. Entrepreneurs : The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850. Edited by Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens. (Boston): published by the Massachusetts Historical Society, distributed by Northeastern University Press, 1997. Pp. (3),iv-xiv,(2),1-450,(6). 8vo, illustrated grey card covers. Of nautical interest: William M. Fowler, Jr.'s "Marine Insurance in Boston: The Early Years of the Boston Marine Insurance Company, 1799-1807" (pp. 151-180) and Benjamin W. Labaree's "The Making of an Empire: Boston and Essex County, 1790-1850" (pp. 343-364). Also: Marga...
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Concise Dictionary of the Bible; comprising its Antiques, Biography, Geography, and Natural History, condensed from the Larger Work.

By: SMITH, William (ed.). WRIGHT, William Aldis, condensed).

Price: $125.00

Publisher: John Murray, London, 1875,:

Seller ID: 104147

SMITH, William (ed.). A Concise Dictionary of the Bible; comprising its Antiques, Biography, Geography, and Natural History, condensed from the LargerWork. Edited by William Smith. London: John Murray, 1875. Fourth Edition, with maps and 300 illustrations. Pp. (8),[1]-1039,(3), frontispiece, + 30 leaves of black and white plates. With some illustrations to text. Double column. 8vo, rebound in contemporary full brown calf, gilt tooled borders to boards, elaborate gilt decoration, five gilt tooled raised bands, and gilt lettered red leather title block to spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers...
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United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 105, No. 11/921, November 1979

By: United States Naval Institute WRIGHT, William E. MELSHEN, Paul HEATON, Joel B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD , 1979,:

Seller ID: 90176

(United States Naval Institute). United States Naval Institute Proceedings.Vol. 105, No. 11/921, November 1979. Annapolis, MD : U.S. Naval Institute, 1979. Pp [1]-127,(1). Illustrated. Double Column. 4to, illustrated wrapper s. Contents : Lt. Cdr. William E. Wright's “Charged Particle Beam Weapons: Should We? Could We?”; Capt. Robert F. Delaney and Maj. Patrick Townsend's “Defense of the Depths”; Capt. Paul Melshen's “He Served on Samar”; Larry C. Manning and Louis R. Granger's “Pictorial – The Navy's Civilian Ships”; Lt. Michael R. Adams's “The Coast Guard's Retention Prob...
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Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic

By: WRIGHT, G. Frederick and William UPHAM UPHAM, Warren

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Appleton, 1896,:

Seller ID: 6149

WRIGHT, G. Frederick, D.D., LL.D., F.G.S.A., and Warren UPHAM, A.M., F.G.S.A. Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic with a New Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Pp (8), v-xv, (1), 1-407, (1), (6,ads), (2), + 5 maps (1 fldg). Frontispiece and text illustrations. 8vo, green cloth, silver lettering and ice field illustration to fr. bd. O'Dea 1165. Not in Tanner though 3 other Wright works and 1 other Upham are. With a detailed index. Chapter 2. The Coast of Labrador, (pp.23-52). With 5 photos including ...
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Highland Rambles: A Poem

By: WRIGHT, William R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Adams & Company, 1868,:

Seller ID: 44304

WRIGHT, William R. Highland Rambles: A Poem . Boston: Adams & Company, 1868. Pp. 183, [5]. Small 8vo, pressed green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to front and spine. Some very light wear to spine ends, front board slightly spattered, else vg. 50.00
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Decline of the Left

By: WRIGHT-MILLS, C. WILLIAMS, William Carlos (advisory editor) WEST, Nathaniel) Contact, 3)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Angel Island Publications, Inc., Sausalito, CA, 1959,:

Seller ID: 62507

WRIGHT-MILLS, C. "Decline of the Left" . An article in Contact: The San Francisco Collection of New Writing, Art and Ideas, no. 3, pp. 5-18 (edited byWilliam Carlos Williams). (Sausalito, CA: Angel Island Publishing, Inc., 1 959). Pp. 158. 8vo, illustrated cream card covers. Also includes works by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, James F. Light (on Nathaniel West), Tom McAfee, Cesare Pavese, James Trammell Cox, Mary Lee Settle, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Bill Casey, Richard G. Stern, Mildred Tolbert, Beth Van Hoesen, Maxine W. Kumin, Kenneth O. Hansen, Christopher Cain, Sam Bradley, Denise Leverto...
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