Search Results: Maritime from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 1992 1st ed. thus. paperback. 273pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. The old sailor's memoir of life not on the high seas.

London: Fontana, 1985 reprint. 221pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] A book of sea stories to celebrate the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s 160th birthday & to mark the dedicated service of Britain & Ireland’s lifeboatmen. Many contributors, including Roald Dahl, Chris Bonington, Alex Guinness, James Herriot, Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Lulu, former P. M. James Callaghan, et al.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 1st ed. thus. 355pp. illus. paperback: near Fine [some spine creases; else a nice crisp copy] An exciting history of the Napoleonic Wars during the the age of sail.

New York: North Point Press, 1997 1st ed. 268pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj. A middle-aged veteran journalist’s entertaining account of a stint aboard a Russian icebreaker.Jacket praise from Roy Blount, Jr.: "There should be two copies in every home. One to read, and one to repay the author for how much more fun the book is than the trip must have been. Genes is a jaynius."

New York: Putnam's, 1970 1st ed. 191pp. illus. navy cloth 4to: Good in a tattered dj now stabilized in a Brodart poly cover [some foxing; top corners are bumped; slight mustiness of slick paper; else a complete & tight copy] An oversized volume illustrated with some 136 yacht photographs. Contributors include Ronald Faux, John Liley, Christopher Penfold & Douglas Phillips-Birt. Lord Feversham (1945-2009) had been a correspondent for Motor Boat & Yachting Monthly.

privately issued, 2013 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 244pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine [person to whom book is inscribed has blacked out that name; all that remains is "Best wishes, Heather Morgan."]

Seattle/Winslow: Queen City Yacht Club, 1996. 110pp. illus. paperback ring-bound 8vo: Fine [slight mustiness; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 316pp. illus. blue cloth sm 4to: Very Good in a generally Good but edge-worn dj in a poly cover. A history of an American steamship service in African trade. Albion (1896-1983) was Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2007 advance uncorrected proof. 296pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Rutland, VT/Tokyo: Tuttle, 1973 1st ed. thus. 304pp. illus. paperback: Very Good.

Mineola, NY: Dover, 1998 reissue. 126pp. illus. paperback 4to: Fine. A crisp Dover facsimile reissue of the 1819 second edition of English East Indian Company man Darcy Lever's (ca. 1759-1839) magnum opus, written during the heyday of the Napoleonic Era Age of Sail.