Search Results: Steamboats

Hudson River Day Line. Paperback. Very Good. 96 pp staple-bound booklet; guide to sightseeing cruises around Manhattan; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, circa mid 1950's (?), in photo wraps; has some scuffing to covers.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1973. Paperback. Very Good +. 68 pp; staple-bound booklet of fine history of the ships of the company; profusely illustrated with fine b & w photos; fleet lists, maps of routes, etc. This copy is form the Third Edition of work originally publilshed in 1962; in color illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers; has address stamp of former owner ron title page.

Self Published. Very Good+. 1951. Softcover. Illustrated. ; Small 8vo; 128 pages .

Upper Montclair, NJ: H. Kneeland Whiting, 1968. Paperback. Fine. Stanton, Samuel Ward. 48 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine collection of reproduction, pen and ink drawings of early steam vessels on Long Island sound and Narragansett Bay; each vessel listed has full-page drawing with brief underlying captions; this copy is from the 1968 Revised Edition of work originally published in 1962; in illustrated wraps; has name and address stamp of former owner on title page 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seattle: Alderbook Publishing Company, 1972. Paperback. Very Good +. 66 pp; fine historical overview of the steamboats of Elliot Bay (WA), profusely illustrated with b & w photos; has name of previous owner and date of 1982 written on front end papers; covers show some scuffing; in b & w photo wraps.

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 235 pp; superb collection of 100's of b & w photos depicting the steamboats that plied the Columbia River and other great waterways of the Pacific Northwest; along with extensive historical text; end paper maps; has name and address stamp of former owner on half-title page.

Upper Montclair, NJ: H. Kneeland Whiting, 1974. Paperback. Near Fine. Stanton, Samuel Ward. 40 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine collection of reproduction, pen and ink drawings of steamboats that plied the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers in the 1800's; each full-page drawing has a brief caption below it; in illustrated wraps; has name and address stamp of former owner on title page; some minor wear to fornt cover; rear cover has orignal price in ink on extreme upper left corner 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Upper Montclair, NJ: H. Kneeland Whiting, 1968. Paperback. Fine. Stanton, Samuel Ward. 48 pp; staple-bound boolklet; fine collection of reproduction pen and ink drawings covering vessels during the 1800's that plied New York Harbor, and the Hudson River; each full-page drawing has brief caption below it; in illustrated wraps; has name and address stamp of former owner on title page 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glasgow, Scotland: George Outram & Co., Ltd, 1967. Paperback. Very Good +. 56 pp; superb selection of 23 steamers of the Clyde covering a period of 80 years from the COLUMBIA of 1878 to the GLEN SANNOX of 1957; each has a full-page, full-color reproduction of well-known painting; opposite a full-page of text; with a list of vessels in service on the Clyde from 1900-1967; covers show some signs of wear and name of previous owner written on ffep; in full-color illustrated wraps.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1997. Paperback. Fine. 235 pp; superb collection of 100's of b & w photos depicting the steamboats that plied the Columbia River and other great waterways of the Pacific Northwest; along with extensive historical text; Reprint of work originally published in 1973; in b & w photo wraps.

New York: Viking Press, 1944. Hardcover. Ex-library, Good condition. 406p., illus.

Hulebaek, Denmark: Published by the author, c1965. Paperback. Very good condition in chipped & foxed paper wrappers. 139 p., illus.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., c1978. New edition . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 406p., illus.

Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. As New/very good +. 211 pp; fascinating overview of Chesapeake Bay as seen through the eyes of over fifty true experiences; profusley illustrated with superb b & w photos from the authors personal collection; dj has small closed tear of approximately 1/4" to top edge of front panel.

Cayuga Creek Historical Press, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. 138 pp; pictorial directory of where the remainiing steamboats of North America can be seen as of time of writing; with great photos and extrensive details of each, profusely illustrated with b & w photos; ful-color photos on inside covers, front and rear; in full-color photo wraps.

Portland, ME: The Bond wheelwright Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. 203 p; fine overview of steamboats and sailing ships that plied the coast of Maine; with 88 b & w photos and illustrations; along with highly infomative text; boards slightly faded on spine; lower corners slightly bumped; lacks dj.

Duxbury, MA: Seamaster Boats, Inc, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; story of the walking beam engines that powered the steamboats of America from the early nineteenth century to well into the twentieth; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings of the engines and the vessels they powered; in b & w photo wraps; has small, closed tear to top right corner of rear panel.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1557507392 . The Sultana was a severely overloaded Mississippi River steamboat seven miles north of Memphis in 1865 when its boilers exploded killing 1,700 of 2,100 recently released Union prisoners of war. Only rated to carry 376 passengers, this was the worst marine disaster in United States history. Contains an index, source notes, and a bibliography in the rear. Original black publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket has a crease to the top edge of the rear panel, else it is in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; B&W Photographs & drawings; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 346 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., c1981. 1st printing. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 194p., illus. The story of the New Orleans, first steamboat on the western rivers, maiden voyage in 1811 from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.

New York: Stephen Daye Press, c1956. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 224p., illus. A history of the steamboat & rail line from New York to Boston via the Long Island Sound, Newport and Fall River from 1847 to 1937.