Search Results: Nautical from Great Expectations Rare Books

London: George Routeledge and Sons, LTD,, 1904. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold with anchor motif on spine and gold capstan on lower front cover. 448pp. Illustrated with full page plates. Small, old booksellers label inside front cover. A clean, sound, tightly bound copy. Near fine.. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Bonanza Small quarto, blue cloth in dust-jacket. Illustrated with numerous drawings. No date, but pre 1970 as no isbn cose present. A very good+ clean copy with no name, no book-plate, etc., in about very good dust-jacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good+/Near Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Brighton, Sussex: Teredo Books Ltd, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, large format quarto bound in green cloth, spine lettered in gold and large gold motif of sailing ship stamped on upper cover, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 260 pages. Illustrated with 236 pictures, fully half of which are in full color. First edition, first printing. A pictorial and biographical homage to the work of arguably the "greatest marine artist ever to work on the Western side of the Atlantic." No previous ownership marks. Slight bump to pages at lowe corner, else a clean, sound tight and unmarked copy. White pictorial dust-jacket is clean, with no tears or chips. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .

Herford: Verlag E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. German edition, text entirely in German. Large format hardcover, blue paper covered boards in white pictorial dust-jacket. 111 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. First edition, with no other printings listed. A history of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line's Australian and South Pacific routes, with much on the 19th and early twentieth centuries. As the title suggests, the author covers the transition from passenger liners to freight and container cargoes in the latter 20th century. No previous ownership marks. Top edge of bulked sheets shows foxing, else covers, interior and dust-jacket are clean and unmarked. Text in German. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket..

New York: The Rudder Publishing Co, Hardcover, blue cloth, no dust-jacket. 73pp., Illustrated with drawings. No date listed, presumed first edition, 1935. Spine cloth lightly sunned and mild foxing to endpapers, else a square, clean, unmarked copy. No previous ownership marks. Very good.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Londion: Seeley Service & Co. Ltd., 1966. Hardcover, large quarto [28x22cm] bound in dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gold, in original price-clipped dust-jacket. 539pp., 4 pages of ads at rear. Index. Illustrated with 175 photographs and 100 detailed plans. Distributed in the USA by United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, with their label on title page. First edition, no additional printings listed on copyright page. Dust-jacket protected by Brodart covers. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. A comprehensive record of British destroyers drawn by Admiralty permission from Official records and returns, ships' covers and building plans. Introduced by the Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket price clipped and showing moderate wear, especially at head ot spine, but complete with no tears or chips and now under acetate wraps. A very good+ copy in a near very good dust-jacket. A very large,… Read More

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Large, slim folio in original non price-clipped dust-jakcet. First edition. 144pp. Extensively illustrated with photographs, diagrams and three large fold out-plates. No previous ownership marks. A title in the series Ocean Liners of the Past Number 4 in the series of reprints from "The Shipbiulder & Marine Engine Builder". Incidental nick to cloth at bottm of front board and two small closed tears to bottom or rear dust-jacket panel tape repaired on verso. Bold pictorial dust-jacket shows mild age toning, else clean and intact. A very good copy in a near very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/Near Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House Inc., 1986. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 349 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Reprint of the 1974 edition. A biography of the life and achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with an account of some of the yachts he designed. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Collins, 1973. First edition thus, bound in blue padded leather. A gift copy commemorating the launching of the Thorn Lightings Clipper flourescent fitting range in July 1975, with their book plate. Illustrated in color and black and white. Very light wear and several small indentations to soft leather cover, else very good or better copy.. First Edition Thus. Near Very Good/No Jacket.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. Thick oblong quarto, black cloth in yellow pictorial dust-jacket. 1,035pp., plus 16 page addenda. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs. Fifth English language edition, prepared by A.D. Baker III. . A comprehensive reference source for extant fleet composition, vessels and technologies for 1984. Arranged in alphabetical order, major and minor navies are profiled, from Albania to Zanzibar. [For example, Bangladesh's fleet is comprised of several British built frigates, and various modern patrol craft supplied by China, Russia, Japan and Yugoslavia.] No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Minor spots from age on top edge of bulked sheets and no longer new, but a near fine copy nevertheless. Dust-jakcet bright and complete, with one minor closed tear tape repaired on verso. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. N.B. This is a very heavy book, extra postage charges will apply. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to… Read More

New York: Warner Books Inc, 1990. Large quarto hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Appendix, Index. With 400 illustrations, including then and now photographs, color paintings, full color maps, charts and diagrams, and two spectacular full-page foldouts showing the Bismarck in her glory and how she appears today. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. First edition. United States Naval Institute book-plate affixed to endpaper, with former owner's name inscribed. Else an as new copy in a fine dust-jacket. Near fine in fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1969. Hardcover, cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 145pp., Index. Illustrated. Stated first printing. A used book with light wear. One plate slightly damaged, fixed endpapers faded and discolored. A square, sound, internally clean copy. Good reading copy in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cliff Street Books / HarperCollins, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 311 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

Clinton Corners, NY: John De Graff, Inc., 1976. Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 331pp., Glossary and Terms, Index. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams. Second printing of the second edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound quarto sized book in a complete dust-jacket with no tears or chips. Very good+ in a very good dust-jacket.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1982. Hardcover, blue boards in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 233 pages. Index. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and fifty pencil sketches drawn by Frank Braynard. First edition. Signed presentation copy by Braynard on title-page, dated Jan. 1983. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

United Kingdom: Caxton Editions, 2001. Large quarto, pictorial laminated boards in matching pictorial dust-jacket. 192pp., Sources, Notes on Artists, Printmakers and their Techniques, Index. Profusely illustrated with nearlly 300 engravings of ships and nautical related images. Reprint edition, first printing thus, originally published in 1996 by Chatham Press. The first of five volumes covering the whole of the French Revolutionary , Napoleonic and 1812 Wars, based on contemporary images. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, oversize boo, additional postage will be required for Priority and International orders. Scans sent on request. . Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth boldly lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 223 pages. Index of Ships. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Brooks. Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs and drawings. First American edition, first edition in English published simultaneously with UK edition by Greenhill. An essential reference on this class of German warship. including details of their war record. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Dover Publications, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format trade paperback. 163 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 186 black and white vintage photographs. Original Dover publication, First edition. No previous ownership marks. No spine or cover creases. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. .

New York: Tudor Publishing Co, 1944. Hardcover, no dust-jacket. 491pp. Foreword by Admiral William V. Pratt. No previous ownership marks. Small pieces of dust-jacket adhered to upper rear board. Else a tight, square, tightly bound copy. Good.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth boldly lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 208 pages. Bibliography and Index of Ships. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Brooks. Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs and drawings. First American edition, first edition in English published simultaneously with UK edition by Greenhill. An essential reference on this class of German warship. including details of their war record. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .