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A Teenager's Odyssey or Five Million and One. First Edition

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tribune Press, Sackville, N.B., 1993, ISBN:091948848X : 1993

Seller ID: 102527

ISBN-13: 9780919488489

MILTON, Graydon A. A Teenager's Odyssey or Five Million and One. Sackville, N.B. : "Printed in Canada by The Tribune Press,Ltd.", 1993. First Edition. Pp (4),[v]-vi,[1]-53,(3). With 17 b&w photos as well as other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), photo-illustrated pale blue cardcovers, with black lettering to spine. Graydon Alexander Milton (b. May 26, 1906, Boston, Mass. - d. February 5, 2002, Oakland, California) grew up on a farm near Dorchester, New Brunswick. This is a reprinting of a series of article which appeared in the Saint John Telegraph-Journal.“Graydon A. Mil...
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Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815-1915. First Edition

By: WILLIAMS, Mary Wilhelmine

Price: $45.00

Publisher: American Historical Association / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, Washington / London , 1916,

Seller ID: 24453

WILLIAMS, Mary Wilhelmine. Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815-1915. Washington : American Historical Association / London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916. First Edition. Pp 356 + colour map. 8vo, blue cloth. Chapters: 1. The British in Central America before 1815; 2. British Aggressions; American Interest Awakened, 1815-1850; 3. The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, April 19, 1850; 4. Attempts at Readjustment under the New Treaty, 1850-1852; 5. The Bay Islands Colony and the New Interpretation of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1852-1854; 6. American Defiance of British Claims, 1853-185...
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Around the World in Wanderer III. 1st UK no dj

By: HISCOCK, Eric C.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, London, 1957,

Seller ID: 92445

HISCOCK, Eric C. Around the World in Wanderer III. With 62 Photographs by the Author, 9 Charts and 3 Diagrams. London: Oxford University Press, (1956). First Printing. Pp 275. Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Toy 428. 18 chapters including: "Panama"; "Nukuhiva and Tahiti"; "Bora-Bora to Pago Pago"; "Fiji"; "New Zealand"; "The Tasman Sea and Sydney"; "Indian Ocean Islands". With index. Light wear to spine ends, inner hinges tender, nametag, else vg. Lacking dj. 16.00
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Artificial Waterways of the World. 2nd US no dj

By: HEPBURN, A. Barton

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Macmillan, 1914,

Seller ID: 29357

HEPBURN, A. Barton. Artificial Waterways of the World. N.Y.: Macmillan Co., (November) 1914. New Revised and Enlarged Edition. Pp 171 + frontis + 3 plates. 8vo, blue-grey cloth. Chapters : The World's Canals; The Canal System of New York (The Period of Inception - The Period of Development - 1867-1909 - The Competition against New York City - Barge Canal Improvements - Relation of Canals and Railways); The Panama Canal; Other Great American Canals; The Waterways Question and Conservation of Our Resources; Department of Internal Navigation. With appendix, bibliography and index. Vg. 50.00
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Asang : Adaptations to Culture Contact in a Miskito Community. First Edition in dustjacket

By: HELMS, Mary W

Price: $45.00

Publisher: University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1971, ISBN:0813002982

Seller ID: 102266

HELMS, Mary W. Asang : Adaptations to Culture Contact in a Miskito Community. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1971. First Edition. Pp (4),v-viii,1-268,(4). Illustrated. Map. Index. 8vo, black lettering to spine. "Stretching some 1,000 miles from Guatemala to Panama, Central America encompasses diverse topopograpnies and supports a wide variety of cultures. However, few extensive studies exist which treat the numerous indigenous peoplesof the area. In Asang: Adaptations to Culture Contact in a Miskito Communi ty, Dr. Mary W. Helms describes and interprets the cultural pattern of ...
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Auk : A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology Vol. XLI No. 2 April, 1924

By: Nuttall Ornithological Club)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: American Ornothologists' Union, 1924,

Seller ID: 47217

The Nutall Ornithological Club). The Auk : A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology Vol. XLI No. 2, April 1924. Lancaster, PA: The American Ornothologists' Union, April, 1924. Pp. 213-388, (xi)-li, Plates XII-XX. 8vo, tan ill. card covers. Partially unopened. A continuation of the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Includes: Francis H. Herrick's "Nests and Nesting Habits of the American Eagle"; Olaus J. Murie's "Nesting Records of the Wandering Tattler and Surf-Bird in Alaska"; Charles W. Townsend's " A Visit to Tom Lincoln's House with some Audobonia"; Aretas A. Sa...
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Behold the West Indies. in dj.

By: OAKLEY, Amy Oakley, Thornton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Appleton-Century, New York, 1941,

Seller ID: 55708

OAKLEY, Amy. Behold the West Indies. Illustrated by Thornton Oakley. N.Y.: D. Appleton-Century, 1947. Pp. 540. Frontis., maps to endpapers, and numerous illustrations to text, some full page. 8vo, mustard cloth. Comitas, Caribbeana 1900-1965, 3.224. Amy and Thornton Oakley record their impressions of Nassau, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Guadalupe, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, the Dutch West Indies, Venezuela, Columbia, and Panama. Cocked, boards somewhat soiled, ow very good solid copy, in fair price...
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Birds of North and Middle America : Part VIII

By: RIDGWAY, Robert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: US GPO, Washington, 1919,

Seller ID: 70948

RIDGWAY, Robert. The Birds of North and Middle America : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher Gropus, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known to Occur in North America, from the Arctic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies, and Other Islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago : Part VIII . Family Jacanidae, Family Oedicnemidae, Family Haematopodidae, Family Arenariidae, Family Aphrizidae, Family Charadriidae, Family Scolopacidae, Family Phalaropodidae, Family Recurvirostridae, Family Rynchopidae, Family Sternidae, Family Laridae, Family Stercorariidae, and Fa...
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Boy's Own Annual. Volume 59. 1936-1937.

By: Boy's Own Annual. HARDING, Robert, ed. DUNBAR, George.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boy's Own Paper Office, London, 1937,

Seller ID: 114490

(Boy's Own Annual). The Boy's Own Annual. Volume 59. 1934-1935. Edited by Robert Harding. London : The Boy's Own Paper Office, n.d. [1937]. Pp. [i]-iv,1-576,+ frontispiece + 3 black-and-white aviation plates. Index. Large thick 8vo, illustrated green cloth with a cricket scene to the front board andthe spine, black and cream lettering to frnot board and spine. Of nautical interest: "True Pirate Tales: The Sack of Panama" (Geoffrey Rhodes, pp. 33 -34); "The 'Rogue' Run: A Story of a Temperamental Torpedo" ("Sea-Wrack", pp. 155-159, a short story); "Where Time Stands ...
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Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Archon Reprint in dustjacket

By: HARING, C.H

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. , 1966,

Seller ID: 34907

HARING, C.H. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Hamden,Conn.: Archon Books, 1966. Pp (4),v-viii,(2),1-298,(6), + folding map fron tispiece + 11 leaves of maps and plans. 8vo, gold cloth, black lettering tospine. Gosse, My Pirate Library, pp.41-42: "This most scholarly and intere sting work"; Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum, Vol 4. Piracy and Privaterring 243 : "An invaluable study". A reprint edition of a classic work first published by Methuen in 1910. Contents include: 1 . Introductory : The Spanish Colonial System - The Freebooter...
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Buccaneers of America : Comprising a pertinent and truthful description of the principal acts and inhuman cruelty committed by the English and French buccaneers against the Spaniards in America. Folio Society

By: ESQUEMELING, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Folio Society, London, 1972,

Seller ID: 95036

EXQUEMELIN, A.O. The Buccaneers of America : Comprising a pertinent and truthful description of the principal acts and inhuman cruelty committed by the English and French buccaneers against the Spaniards in America. Written by A.O. Exquemelin who himself, of necessity, was present at all these acts of plunder. Translated by Alexis Brown with an introduction by Jack Beeching. London : The Folio Society, MCMLXXII [1972]. Pp [1]-194,(2), frontis + 11 leaves plates. Endpaper Maps. 8vo, blue calf spine, decorated woodgrain-pattern paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, in a brown paper cove...
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Cableships and Submarine Cables. First American Edition in dustjacket

By: HAIGH, K. R. WILSHAW, Edward, Sir. (Foreword by)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: United States Underseas Cable, Washington, D.C., 1968, : 1968

Seller ID: 55033

HAIGH, K. R. Cableships and Submarine Cables. (Washington, D.C.) : United States Underseas Cable Corporation in association with Western Union International and Simplex Wire and Cable Company, (1968). First American Edition. "Printed in Great Britain". Pp (14),15-416,(2). With numerous b&w photos of cableships, other illustrations, one folding map and 2 pages of coloured house flags of twenty-eight of the cableship lines. Large 8vo (192 x 252 mm), grey cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Kenneth Richardson Haigh, C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., A.M.I.E.R.E. (1923 - 1977). The book c...
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Call the Middle Watch. in dj.

By: CORSON, P.F.R

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1997, ISBN:1858214661

Seller ID: 38537

CORSON, P.F.R. Call the Middle Watch : An Account of Life at Sea in the Royal Navy 1905-1963. Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, (1997). Pp 329. 8vo, bluecloth. "From the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War to the building of th e Panama Canal, from experiences in the Persian Gulf to the momentous Battle of Jutland- a son traces his father's varied RN experiences. ...From war service in HMS Valiant, a battleship who broke her back when a floating deck collapsed, to attempts 14 years later to prevent Chinese guerillas landing along the Malayan coast, from the 'Cod War' off Iceland to clashes wi...
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Canada and the United Nations. A Tribute to the United Nations by Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited

By: Allied Countries - WW2).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited, 1943,

Seller ID: 80276

(Allied Countries - WW2). Canada and the United Nations. A Tribute to the United Nations by Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited. N.pl.: (Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited , 1943). Pp 1-20. Illustrated. 8vo, blue stapled card covers. “Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited, an all-Canadian Company, is happy to pres ent this booklet to our customers and friends as a tribute to the United Nations.” - from page one. This booklet has information on the allied countries participating in World War Two, including a brief summary of each country along with a picture of its flag and leader(s). The countries covered ar...
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Canoe : A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic. Cdn in dj

By: ROBERTS, Kenneth G. and Philip SHACKLETON

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1983, ISBN:0771595824

Seller ID: 87636

ROBERTS, Kenneth G. and Philip SHACKLETON. The Canoe : A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, (1983). First Edition. Pp. (6),vii-viii,1-279,(1). Map endpapers. Illustrated. Triple column. Large oblong 8vo, brown leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Cassell 1662, Toy 4691, Morris & Howland p.115. "The canoe has a firm place in the mythology of our continent. Its history stretches back into the unrecorded past, its construction has conferred status on the builder and has fascinated the bystander for centuries, its forms are m...
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Canoe, The. Cdn in dj

By: ROBERTS, Kenneth G. and Philip SHACKLETON SHACKLETON, Philip

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Macmillan, 1983,

Seller ID: 22838

ROBERTS, Kenneth G. and Philip SHACKLETON. The Canoe : A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic. Tor.: Macmillan of Canada, (1983). Pp 279. Illustrated. Lg oblong 8vo, brown leather. Vg in dj. 65.00
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Carnival. First Edition

By: EVERSON, R.G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oberon Press, 1978 : 1978

Seller ID: 100836

ISBN: :0887502733

EVERSON, R.G. Carnival. [Ottawa] : (Oberon Press, 1978). First Printing. "Printed in Canada". Pp (8),7-58,(4). 8vo (126 x 203 mm), black and navy card covers, with gilt lettering to covers & spine. Ronald Gilmour Everson (b. November 18, 1903, Oshawa, Ontario – d. February 16, 1992, Burlington, Vermont). "Somebody once said -- it was Quarry magazine -- that to read Everson you really need an old briar pipe and a rocking-chair. Everson doesn't laugh; he chuckles. He doesn't sing; he talks. Kindly and generous though he is, he's not too old to have tow firsts and to use them when he has ...
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Catalogue of World Ferry, Ship, and Canal Transportation Tokens and Passes. First Edition

By: SMITH, Kenneth E SMITH, Kirk S., comp. & ed.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: 1981, : 1981

Seller ID: 33941

SMITH, Kenneth E. and Kirk S. SMITH, (comps. & eds.). Catalogue of World Ferry, Ship, and Canal Transportation Tokens and Passes. Compiled and Edited by Kenneth E. Smith and Kirk S. Smith. Redondo Beach, California, United States of America : "Distributed through Kenneth E. Smith", 1981. First Edition. Pp (2),3-202,(6). Illustrated throughout with b&w photos. 8vo (155 x 234 mm), black cloth, with gilt lettering to front & spine. Surely a landmark in the field of nautical numismatics: an exhaustive, detailed, descriptive account of the world's ferry and canal tokens. Included among the exoti...
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Christopher Unborn. First Edition in dustjacket

By: FUENTES, Carlos MacADAM, Alfred (co-translator)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1989, ISBN:0374123349

Seller ID: 6955

FUENTES, Carlos. Christopher Unborn. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam and the Author. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1989). First Edition. Pp. 531. 8vo, blue paper covered boards, navy cloth spine, silver titles to spine. This was the the tenth novel by Carlos Fuentes Macías (b. November 11, 1928, Panama City - d. May 15, 2012, Mexico City) Mexican novelist. A novel of social satire with references to Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth century novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy". Very good in dustjacket (sticker ghost to rear panel). 20.00
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Cloud of Islands : By Sail to the South Seas.

By: CREALOCK, W.I.B.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc., New York, 1978, ISBN:067950950x

Seller ID: 80889

CREALOCK, W.I.B. Cloud of Islands : By Sail to the South Seas. New York : David McKay Company, Inc., (1978). First Paperback Edition. Pp [i]-xiv,(2),1-254,(2),+ 16 pp plates. Maps. 8vo, illustrated card covers. Sea Book series, no. 6. Toy 708. “Bill Crealock, the author of Vagabonding Under Sail, Sea-Book 5, has a keen eye for the oddities and humor of the native scene, and a talent for describing the thrill of adventuring in a small boat in distant seas. In Cloud of Islands, Mr. Crealock and a mixed crew of young men and women island hop from Panama to Tahiti in a husky ketch, the 70-foot Art...
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