Search Results: Maritime and Naval from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1957). Softcover. Advance issue, in the form of unbound unstitched folded and gathered sheets. Collected into loose boards with dust jacket. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; 512 pp; "Here is the sea as only Freuchen can write about it . . . a wonderful book filled with story, lore and legend . . . with history and fact . . . with myths and strange tales . . . with magnificent illustrations" (rear jacket panel). ; Toning to outer page at each end (the back of what would become the fixed endpapers if bound), minor wear along edges, unmarked. Jacket is price clipped, rubbed and with closed tears, in clear protective cover. .

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. 0-8271-7115-3 . Eighty-five superb photographs from John Clayton's collection document the building several decades (1930s and 1940s) of wooden vessels in Mr. Story's family shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Brown cloth boards, white cloth spine lettered in red, orange endpapers, b&w photographs, pages are not numbered. Light brown illustrated dust jacket. ; Oblong, 8-3/4" x 8-1/4"; Slight cover soiling, internally fine. Jacket with slight edgewear, not price clipped ($12.50). .

New York: Lyons & Burford. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1992]. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 1-55821-166-7 . Red cloth boards, black cloth spine with white spine lettering, well-illust rated. Black and orange dust jacket with color photograph of canoe. This is a copy of the 1992 [per CiP data] Revised Edition [per jacket flap]; this despite the 1980 copyright and complete number line on the copyright page. This copy inscribed at Atkinson, Maine 1994 on the half title, For Sig with best wishes and signed by the author. ; 7-1/2" x 10-1/4"; xi, 256 pp; Signed by Author; Little wear to book. However the rear board is shorter than the front board and the black spine cloth is longer in front than in the rear. The binding remains tight and square, small spot to FFEP otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket with a few creases inside the flaps, little wear, not price clipped ($24.95), in clear protective cover. .

Providence, Rhode Island: The Steamship Historical Society of America. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, Introduction and tabular data on vessels. Protected by original publishers unprinted glassine dust jacket. ; Oblong, 11" x 8-1/2"; xii, 135 pp; A slight rippling to pages, otherwise fine, clean and unmarked within and without. Jacket has protected book but is now worn with creases, chips and closed tears. .

New York: Printed by C. J. O'Brien. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Article on sea shanties here Reprinted from Everybody's Magazine, 1915. Produced by his wife in an edition of 200 copies for Christmas, 1926: The printing of this book is dedicated to the happy memory of William Brown Meloney that those who were his friends may enjoy this further record of him and of his work, and that those who did not know him may be led to a better understanding of the sea of which he sang and served so well. Decorative brown paper boards, green cloth spine, green printed labels on front cover and spine, 6 full-page illustrations on plates. This an unnumbered copy. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; xv, 30 pp; Lightly worn along edges and at corners, wear to edges of spine label, prior owner Christmas 1927 gift inscription on FFEP, no tears or writing. .

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1917. Later Printing. Hardcover. Reprinted from the edition of 1867. Many charts, diagrams, tables, etc. including 17 fold-out plates. One of Weale's Scientific and Technical Series. Publishers mustard cloth boards, black lettering.; 5 x 7"; 310 pp; Some cover soiling and light shelfwear. A few notations, including name of prior owner, all in light pencil. .

New York: The Rudder Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. (1940). Tenth Edition. Softcover. Plans, including drawings, photographs and discussion for the construction of a Snipe class sailboat. L.O.A. 15'-6", Beam 5'-0" First publication was in the July, 1931 issue of The Rudder. Tan wraps, stapled.; 9" x 11-1/2"; 20 pp; Covers worn, pages lightly soiled and worn along edges, pages split at lower part of spine. One page with pencil annotations on a drawing suggests this copy was used to construct at least one boat. .

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Issued as University of California Publications in History Volume XXXVI. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Beige dust jacket lettered in black. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; iv, 235 pp; Very slight cover wear, solid hinges, pages clean and unmarked, prior owner bookplate inside front cover. Jacket lightly soiled, edgeworn with tiny losses and closed tears, front panel slightly misfolded, not price clipped ($3.75), in fresh mylar cover. .

New York - Toronto - London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. In this manual you will find sound engineering and design practices for the construction of fiberglass boats (jacket front flap). Gilt-stamped blue cloth, many illustrations. Blue illustrated dust jacket.with white lettering. ; 8-3/4" x 11-1/4"; Little wear to book, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges, in clear protective cover. .

New York: Chatham River Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-517-68131-5 . 16 pages of text, 8 color model sheets to cut out. Stiff card wraps, cover illustration of sinking ship.; 9" x 12-1/2"; Very slight edgewear else fine. .

San Francisco, California: Matson Navigation Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1975]. Softcover. Describes the U. S. Merchant Marine and company container and freight operations. Stiff green wraps, stapled, introduction by R. J Pferffer, President, photographs of Matson operations. Uncommon, not seen in the trade and held (per OCLC) only at the SF Maritime National Historical Park (8/20).; 8-1/2" x 11"; iv, 38 pp; Mild soiling to front cover, small stain to rear cover, interior clean and unmarked. .

San Francisco: Privately Printed for the Author by Schwabacher-Frey Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. About the development of steamships, nicely illustrated with full-page plates. Green full-leather binding gilt titling and decorations front and titling to spine, light green endpapers. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 138 pp; Spine and boards near spine are sunned and rubbed (worse rear than front), edges and corners lightly worn, internally fine. .

New York: The Rudder Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. Contents of six issues, without covers or advertising. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, well-illustrated. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 9" x 11-3/4"; 344 pp; Covers lightly rubbed, worn at corners, rear hinge partly cracked, discrete prior owner stamp inside front cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

Seattle, U.S.A.: Terminal Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers gray cloth lettered front cover and spine, index at front, unnumbered pages of advertising to front and rear, 3 photographs, many tables including fold-out chart, fold-out map at rear.; 5" x 7"; 336+ pp; Cloth lightly soiled, two small holes in cloth at spine, solid and square binding, one page has small closed tear at spine, a few pages with creased corners, clean and unmarked within. Fold-out chart is in VG condition; map has edge toning and one section with splitting at folds. .

Sacramento: California State Department of Education. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Eighth in the California series of courses dealing with various shipbuildin g trades. Green paper over thick boards with black lettering, red cloth spine, well-illustrated including three fold fold-outs at rear..; Ex-library with pocket and slip removed and with other usual library markings. Worn along edges, covers rubbed, endpapers have caused toning to adjacent leaves, pages generally clean and unmarked, first fold-out mis-folded.. .