The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harrours, Capes, Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America: Describing the Soundings. Winds, Setting of the Currents, . Principal Harbours and Capes; Ect. .Twelfth Edition by Blunt, Edmond M - 1833

Solid binding, clean interiors free of any markings. Light shelwear to bottom corner. tiny crease on the edge of page 115. Includes a CD rom of photos. 169 pages. Nonfiction. Sailing. Mountaineering. 0.25" X 7" X 10" 0.7cm X 18cm X 25.5cm Author describes three different adventures he went on: trekking in Nepal on a path along Annapurna in 1981, sailing a small catamaran along the New England Coast in 1983, and as crew on a replicate of James Cook's square rigged sailing ship Endeavor from Bermuda to the West Indies in 1998. There are black and white photos illustrating the text and a CD containing additional bonus photos of the voyages.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Lighthouse Publications, 2002. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new- gift quality! 24 pages of factual information on Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane, Mary Read ann Anne Bonny illustrated with fine art and photos of artifacts on high quality, glossy paper. 0.9

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

NY: French Line, 1949. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 20pp; illustrated throughout from photographs and full-color watercolor drawings by Richard Lindner. The text sets the scene as the Ship leaves New York harbor: "You are aboard the Ile de France--a completely rebuilt Ile de France." Described are: the Versailles Suite, the Chantilly Suite, the Cafe de Paris; First Class and Cabin Class dining and smoking rooms; theatre; reading room; gymnasium; tourist class salon, smoking room and bar. A 24-inch centerspread from a Lindner painting shows the Ile de France in full color. 12" x 8.25" Originally launched in 1927, the S.S. Ile de France was converted to a troopship in 1941. In 1947, the ship was returned to France, rebuilt, and launched on her second maiden voyage in 1949. This brochure celebrates the post-war, transatlantic Ile de France.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.

Interesting vintage nautical map of the Pacific Ocean, from Fiji Island in the east to Samoan Island in the west. The map also shows Tonga and a few other islands in the South Pacific.Printed in London by Admiralty and under the supervision of the British Royal Navy. Size: 104 x 71 cmCondition: Lines of folding, some wrinkles, in very good condition overall.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."