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Carmichael, CA: : By the author,, (1994). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a slim trade paperback original. An account of a trip aboard a Nauticat 33, renamed by its new owners "Tout Va Bien" (all goes well) from Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. Illustrated with photographs. 62 pp. Cover art… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1982.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which "brings to life scores of little-known but fascinating mariners, from the twelfth-century pirate princess Alvilda of Sweden to Lieutenant Junior Grade Beverly Kelly, first woman ever to command a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. . . Through their… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (light foxing to edges of textblock, price-clipped). First printing. A book written with practical information for sailors and descriptions of destinations from the Bahamas to the Chesapeake, the Baltic Sea to Dalmation coast for armchair travelers. Illustrated with maps. 280… Read more about this item

Winston-Salem:: John F. Blair, Publisher,, (1993). SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Later printing. A collection of stories about the well-known pirates of the Atlantic Coast during the 17th and 18th Centuries - in addition to Edward Teach (Blackbeard), this includes stories of Calico Jack RAckham, Anne Bonny, Edward Low, William Kidd, Rachel Law and others.… Read more about this item

North Quincy, MA:: The Christopher Publishing House,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (bookstore sticker mostly hidden by dj flap, some foxing to top edge of textblock). First printing. A humorous, somewhat fictitious account by this Maine author of life with a husband who "rode his hobbies hard" - in this… Read more about this item

New York:: Picador,, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry… Read more about this item

New York:: Frederick Fell,, (1966). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in light blue boards a near fine green dustjacket (price-clipped). First edition. A book which highlights Rieseberg's career in searching for sunken wrecks on the ocean floor. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 217 pp.

New York:: Macmillan,, 1930.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in very good minus dust jacket (tanning to the dj, large chip at top edge of front cover, other edgewear.). First US printing. The story of the ship which inspired one of Masefield's poems - from her building, her launching in 1891 and fifteen years on the… Read more about this item

New York:: Crown,, (2015). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) On May 1st, 1915 the Lusitania set sail on its final voyage, sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. In addition to the account of its sinking, this focuses on the politics of World War I,… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.:: U.S. Government Printing Office,, 1941.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in green cloth with gold lettering, a sturdy volume. . First edition. H.O. Publication no. 218. Reproduced by photo-lithographic process for emergency use from British Air Publication 1618. "RESTRICTED" is printed in bold letters on the cover and the title page. Laid… Read more about this item

New York:: William Sloane Associates,, 1959.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some toning to the pages and the dj). First US printing. The "hour-by-hour account of the bravery, bungling, helplessness and heroism of men trapped by the sea." On June 1, 1939, the Submarine Thetis sailed out of Liverpool Bay with… Read more about this item

Auburn, California:: By the author,, nd. (ca 1995). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. An account of the building of a 45 foot ferro-cement hulled yacht, and of the ten years which the authors spent living on board, traveling some 30,000 nautical miles along the coasts… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, 2003.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A thoroughly researched but deftly and entertainingly written account of one of the 'best known' mutinies in English sea-faring history. By using original documents - including the wills, letters and diaries of figures not obviously connected with the events -… Read more about this item

New York:: Picador,, (1997). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. 255 pp.

New York:: John Wiley & Sons, , (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before… Read more about this item

New York:: H. Z. Walck / David McKay,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (upper flap of dj clipped, but price still present, some edgewear to the dj, dot on bottom edge of textblock.). First printing. In addition to information on the origins of scrimshaw, this includes a brief history of whaling.… Read more about this item

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1998.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. The story of the enterprising women who sailed on oceangoing merchant ships throughout the nineteenth century - an interweaving of first person accounts from letters and journals with Druett's narrative of sea journeys. Illustrated with photographs and… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of short stories for young adults by this award-winning author. 184 pp.

Seattle:: Superior Publishing Company., (1960.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.. First printing. The stories of the ships - both sail and steam - that plied the lumber trade in and out of Pacific ports like Seattle, Tacoma, Eureka, San Francisco, and Hawaii, bringing the lumber needed to… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1989.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. . First printing. "In September 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheeler carrying 600 passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, foundered in a hurricane and sank 200 miles off the Carolina coast. Over 400 lives and 21 tons of California gold were… Read more about this item