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Russian Sea Power. 1st pr no dj.

By: FAIRHALL, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gambit, Boston, 1971, ISBN:0876450400:

Seller ID: 63083

FAIRHALL, David. Russian Sea Power : [An account of its present strength and strategy]. Boston: Gambit, (1971). First US Printing. Pp. 286 + 16 p. of plates. 8vo, maroon cloth spine with blue card covered boards, top edge dyed red. Anderson 386. An American examination of Soviet sea power during themiddle of the Cold War. Ex-library (inkstamps crossed over with black mark er), waterstaining to fore-edge and lower edge, else good tp very good. 15.00
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W.S. Kennaugh & Co.

By: FENTON, R.S. World Ship Society Monograph 01

Price: $24.00

Publisher: World Ship Society, Kendal, Cumbria, 1979, ISBN:0905617096:

Seller ID: 19425

FENTON, R.S. W.S. Kennaugh & Co. and the West Coast Shipping Co. Ltd. Kendal, Cumbria: 1979. Pp 24. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cardcovers. World Ship Society Monograph No.1. Vg. 24.00
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Our Navy's Long Submarine Arm

By: FISHER, Allan C., Jr., and David S. BOYER BOYER, David S. National Geographic, 102:5)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society, Washington, 1952,:

Seller ID: 62079

FISHER, Allan C., Jr., and David S. BOYER. "Our Navy's Long Submarine Arm" . An article in The National Geographic Magazine, volume 102, number 5, November 1952, pp. 613-636. Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 1952. Pp. 571-712. Illustrated. Double column. 8vo, printed yellow and whitewraps. Spine nicked, else vg. 12.00
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Come Wind or Weather. 1st UK in dj.

By: FRANCIS, Clare

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Pelham Books Ltd, London, 1978, ISBN:0720711045:

Seller ID: 67690

FRANCIS, Clare. Come Wind or Weather . L.: Pelham Books, Ltd., (1978). First UK Printing. Pp. 224, frontis. Illustrated. Large 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Toy 1503. The author's account of her entrance into the 1977 Whitbread Round the World boat race, on board her 65-foot yacht ADC Accutrac. Gift inscription, else vg in nicked dj. 20.00
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North With Franklin

By: FRANKLIN, John WILSON, John FITZJAMES, James)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000, ISBN:1550416308:

Seller ID: 46173

(FRANKLIN, John). WILSON, John. North With Franklin : The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames. (Markham, Ont.) : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, (2000). Pp 308. Illustrated. 8vo, ill card covers. "Meticulously researched, Wilson has, through necessity, created his own interpretation of the events that took place so long age...North With Franklin is both entertaining and thought-provoking for readers of historical fiction and/or Canadiana. Highly recommended." - Canadian Book Review Annual - back cover. Very good. 12.00
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Arctic Adventure. US no dj

By: FREUCHEN, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Halcyon House, 1938,:

Seller ID: 62042

FREUCHEN, Peter. Arctic Adventure : My Life in the Frozen North. Profusely Illustrated with Photographs and Maps. N.Y.: Halcyon House, (Fall 1938). Fifth Printing. Pp 467. 8vo, blue cloth. Arctic Bibliography 5271. Rubbed, rear hinge badly cracked, else vg. 20.00
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Ship Operation Automation. 2nd pr

By: FUJITA, Yuzuru, Kjell LIND, and Theodore J. WILLIAMS, (eds.) Computer Applications in Shipping and Shipbuilding 1)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: North-Holland Publishing Company / American Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1975, ISBN:0720428157:

Seller ID: 31893

FUJITA, Yuzuru, Kjell LIND, and Theodore J. WILLIAMS, (eds.). Ship Operation Automation. Proceedings of the IFAC / IFIP Symposium, Oslo, Norway, July 2-5, 1973. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company / N.Y.: American Elsevier, (1975). Second Printing. Pp 547. Double column. Illustrated. 4to, red cloth. Vol. 1 in the Computer Applications in Shipping and Shipbuilding series. Over 60 technical papers of which the following is a sampling: I.S.S.Mackay's "Ergonomic Bridge"; W. Hinsch's "One-Man Navigation for Seagoing Vessels"; G. Sitzia and G. Sartirana's "Computer-Based ...
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Down East Reader. in dj.

By: FULLER, Nathan C. (ed). RICH, Louise Dickinson (intro) INMAN, Pauline Winchester

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Lippincott, 1962,:

Seller ID: 62136

FULLER, Nathan C., editor. The Down East Reader. Selections from the Magazine of Maine. Introduction by Louise Dickinson Rich. Woodcuts by Pauline Winchester Inman. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1962). Pp 256. Illustrated with woodcuts to text. 8vo, blue cloth spine with blue cloth covered boards. "Sea captains, woodsmen, fishermen, artists, spinsters, summer people, school girls and small boys all play a part in this authentic and flavorful collection of pieces from Down East magazine [...]." -from the dust jacket. Contributing authors are: Flora C. Hodgdon, Thomas H. Eames; Willia...
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Cross-Channel. 1st UK in dj

By: GARRETT, Richard

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1972,:

Seller ID: 21841

GARRETT, Richard. Cross-Channel. L.: Hutchinson, (1972). Pp 228. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth. Contents : Quite Early; Catching the Post; A Head of Steam; The Unmerciful Sea; Gold Fever; Distress Signals; The Big Swim; Rails Beneath the Sea; The Aviators; Going to the War; Trails in the Sky; The Short Sea Route; First and Last Across; Present Tense. Vg in chipped dj. 27.50
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Ready...Set...Go! :. In dj

By: GRAHAM, Frank W. BUTT, John C., foreword MURPHY, John J., message from mayor

Price: $50.00

Publisher: 1988, ISBN:0920021549:

Seller ID: 4481

GRAHAM, Frank W. Ready...Set...Go! : A St.John's Sports Pictorial; Forewordby John C. Butt, message from Mayor John J. Murphy. St.John's : Creative P ublishers, 1988. Pp [i]-xii, 1-260. Illustrated. Double column. Oblong 8vo,blue cloth. For Graham (b.1906) see ENL II:677, DNLB p.131. Of nautical in terest: The St. John's Regatta, pp. 1-38. Also includes chapters on horse racing, curling, cricket, hockey, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, &c"Volunteer Sports Archivist for the Government of Newfoundland, Frank Grah am has carried out extensive research into the origin and growth of spo...
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Little Toot

By: GRAMATKY, Hardie Trumpet Club Special Edition)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Trumpet Club, New York, 1988, ISBN:0440842298:

Seller ID: 61947

GRAMATKY, Hardie. Little Toot : The Original Edition ; pictures and story by Hardie Gramatky. (NY: The Trumpet Club, 1988). Pp. [92]. Illustrated. Square 8vo, illustrated grey card covers with white spine. A Trumpet Club Special Edition. Faint creasing, else vg. 20.00
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To the River's End. in dj

By: GREEN, Lawrence G.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Howard B. Timmins, 1948,:

Seller ID: 26870

GREEN, Lawrence G. To the River's End. Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, (n.d.). ca. 1948. Pp 208. Illustrated. 8vo, green cloth. A narrative journey to the sea, down South Africa's Orange River from Union's End to the Atlantic. Focuses on the region's human and natural history. Gift inscription, else vg in chipped dj. 40.00
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Tavern of the Seas.

By: GREEN, Lawrence G. DORELLE.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Howard B. Timmins, 1953,:

Seller ID: 26868

GREEN, Lawrence G. Tavern of the Seas. Cape Town: Howard B. Timmins, (1953). Seventh impression. Pp 204. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth. An anecdotal history of Cape Town and environs, focusing particularly on the city's waterfront districts. Spine faded, else vg in slightly chipped dj. 45.00
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With the Green Jackets. pict. green cloth, gilt to spine and board.

By: GROVES, J. Percy MARSHMAN, Lieut.-Col.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Brentano's, 40,:

Seller ID: 62383

GROVES, J. Percy. With the Green Jackets or the Life and Adventures of a Rifleman. Illustrated by Lieut.-Col. Marshman. NY: Brentano's, [N. d.]. Pp 398, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrated patterned endpapers with [7] full pages of plates and numerous smaller drawings to text. 8vo,pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Saved from sure death during a ship wreck by a brave Midshipman, the orphaned boyLouis Trafford grows up to gain a commission in the Rifle Corps, the Green Jackets. With battles to be fought, political intrigue, an orphan who is n o...
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Sounding the Blood. ill. card covers.

By: HALE, Amanda.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Raincoast,, 2001, ISBN:1551924846:

Seller ID: 60352

HALE, Amanda. Sounding the Blood. [A Novel by Amanda Hale]. Vancouver: Raincoast, (2001). Pp 325. 8vo, illustrated card covers. "[...] set in a 1915 whaling station on the southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands, invokes the spirits of five dreamers held hostage to time, place and memory." -fromthe cover. Vg. 15.00
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Adrift in the Ice-Fields. pictorial green cloth.

By: HALL, Charles W., Captain.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Lee and Shepard, 1877,:

Seller ID: 62368

HALL, Charles W., Captain. Adrift in the Ice-Fields. Illustrated. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. Pp 326, including frontis. + [7] pp of plates. Illustrated with numerous drawings to text. 8vo, green cloth with silver decorative scenes to spine and boards. This is a novel written for a younger audience about four hunters who are caught on an ice flow and are carried into the vast ice-packs that fill the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. "Their perils, theshifts to which they are driven to procure shelter, food, fire, medicine, and other necessaries, together with their devious drift and final rescu...
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My Life in Shipping 1881-1938. signed.

By: HARLEY, Percy Harley and Co. Ltd.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1938,:

Seller ID: 44906

HARLEY, Percy. My Life in Shipping 1881-1938 : An Impression of Some of theMatters and Men I Have Met In It. (L: The Author, 1938). Pp 232, port. fro ntis., [2] leaves plates. 8vo, leather spine with blue boards, t.e.g. Detailed reflections on British merchant shipping in its greatest age from the Founder and Chairman of Harley and Co. Ltd., Shipbrokers, of London. Rubbed and soiled, slight wear to spine ends and front corners, edges and eps specked, a few spots of foxing internally, else vg. Signed with an inscription by Harley. Uncommon. 150.00
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Kon-Tiki Man. in dj.

By: HEYERDAHL, Thor) RALLING, Christopher (with)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: BBC Books, 1990, ISBN:0563209208:

Seller ID: 62162

HEYERDAHL,Thor). Christopher RALLING. Kon-Tiki Man : Thor Heyerdahl. (L.): BBC Books, (1990). Pp 335. Illustrated with numerous colour photos to text,many full page. Large 8vo, blue cloth. "Here for the first time is the ful l story of the life of this extraordinary explorer, scientist and anthropologist, the man whose name will always be linked with Kon-Tiki, Ra and Easter Island. For two years, during the preparation of the major TV series which this book accompanies, Christopher Ralling traveled with Thor Heyerdahl as he retraced his most famous voyages. [...] As Thor Heyerdahl celebrat...
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History of American Shipping: Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect

By: HILL, Chas. S

Price: $150.00

Publisher: American News Company, 1883,:

Seller ID: 30604

HILL, Chas. S. History of American Shipping: Its Prestige, Decline, and Prospect. NY: American News Company, 1883. Pp 194. 8vo, ill. wraps. Prepared in response to the perceived inadequacies of representations made to an 1882Congressional Joint Select Committee on American Shipping, this volume pre sents a comprehensive history of American maritime activity, intertwined with a plea for the strengthening of the indigenous merchant marine. The textincludes numerous contemporary political cartoons, and cuts of American cr aft ranging from a birch bark canoe to the Mayflower to the Robert E. Lee. ...
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Dale of the Mounted Sub Hunt. no dj

By: HOLLIDAY, Joe

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Thomas Allen, 1958,:

Seller ID: 20731

HOLLIDAY, Joe. Dale of the Mounted Sub Hunt. Cover art by Bob Turnbull. Tor.: Thomas Allen, Limited, (1958). Pp 160. 8vo, red cloth. Watters p.312, Rhodenizer p.425. Number 6 in this juvenile adventure series. "In an entirelynew sphere, that of the great Atlantic and Pacific fisheries, Dale Thompso n, youthful RCMP Constable, plunges into mystery-laden atmosphere to uncover the machinations of lurking submarines which appear off Canada's coasts. here is exciting, tingling adventure at sea with fisheries scientists off Nova Scotian waters." - from the dj. Vg. 15.00
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Category: 60