Search Results: Ships & Boats from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Same date, title & copyright pgs. No additional printing noted.. Hard cover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate glue toning. Slight edge wear. Top and bottom spine ends slightly sun-faded. Fine text pages and maps. Pieces of jacket neatly taped inside book.. Raisz, Erwin (Maps by), and Greene, Bertram (Drawings by).. 1 First edition. 680 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Durable red buckram over boards. Front: gold and blue compass. Blue spine title box, gold titles. Blue top page block. Single-volume classic biography of the 15th century sailor-explorer long credited with discovering the New World of the North American Continent, landing in 1492. Author and Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison was also a sailor and, as part of his research, made a similar journey aboard facsimile ships, adding to the book's authenticity, the reader's sense of being there with Columbus.

Gumdale, Australia.: Bruce Roberts Boat Plans / New Era Press.. No date. Circa 1970s.. Trade paperback. Very good. Spine ends show wear, repaired w/ clear tape. Moderate cover soiling. Pages in fine condition.. 1 108 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Glossy photo and diagram illustrated paper covers in blue and grayscale. 8x12.25in. B&W photos and draftsman's diagrams throughout. RARE: Boat building, subtitled: "No expensive moulds required: Foam Sandwich-Balsa Core-Single Skin". These designs are named Roberts, Waverunner, Pacific Coast Fisherman, Norfolk, Henry Morgan (with name variations). Considerable text informs the reader: equipment, techniques, materials.

New York: Wilfred Funk Inc, 1957. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor edgewear. Sturdy volume.. 0 175 p. 26 cm. Grayscale historic art illustrations. DJ synopsis inside front cover, adhered. The story of America is in part the story of transportation systems and solutions. In the 16th century, Indians ferried explorer Hernando De Soto and his entourage across southern rivers. That was the beginning of recorded history about ferries. A fascinating history with numerous historic visual documents.

London.: Maggs Bros. / Courier Press., 1928. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor cover soiling. Light spine end wear. Interior clean. A few light pencil marks.. 1 208 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. B&W illustrated paper covers. Glued binding. Facsimiles. Photo plates. Frontispiece portrait: Adm. Lord Nelson. A few spot-color red pages. Catalogue continued title: "Naval Battles and the Science of Naval Warfare Shipbuilding and the Art of Navigation Pirates, Buccaneers, and Privateers Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea". List of "current catalogues" at back.

London.: Maggs Bros. / Courier Press., 1930. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor spine wear w/ readable titles. Light top outside corner page bending, not creasing. Clan text pages.. 1 156 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Gray paper covers illustrated w/ red cover titles, blue masted ship drawing. Glued binding. 7.25x9.75 in. B&W plates, facsimiles, maps, artwork, diagrams. Publication listings. Seagoing publications reference. Subtitles continued: "Naval Battles and the Science of Naval Warfare Shipbuilding and the Art of Navigation Pirates, Buccaneers, and Privateers, Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea". Numeration of listings continues from Part I, Catalogue No. 508. Publication dates begin 1481 A.D. (in Italian, Brasca narrative of voyage to Palestine) thru 1930 A.D. (re: 1690 C.R. Boxer edited "Freyre de Andrade" exploits).

Woodbury NY.: Barron's Educational Series., 1979. 1st English language edition. 1978 German edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Routine cover surface wear, rubbing. Overlapping, folded, horizontal jacket edges enhance durability.. Domizlaff, Svante (Photos by), and Mertes, Harald (Photos by).. 1 First edition. Blue cloth over boards. Silver titles. 307 p. 10.5x13.75in. Indexes. Maps. Color photos. Line art. Oversized text for easy reading. Audience: General/trade. This is a beautiful book, well-designed, with very good quality materials, with numerous contributing authors, including the photographers, and many who have been central to international races and other adventuring. Appendix: 'The Birth of a Yacht' by Roderick Stephens Jr; Glossary of Sailing Terms; Single-handed Sailors, A Chronology; The Races; The Authors.

Boston.: SAIL Books Inc. / W. W. Norton & Company, distributors., 1979. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Short light damp stain, lower jacket spine. Minor top page foxing.. Forget, Bob (End paper maps by). 1 Navy blue cloth over boards. Silver spine titles. End paper maps, Gray on white. Color photo sections. B&W diagrams. Charts. 267 p. Audience: General/trade. The Griffiths had been cruising for the prior 20 years; 3 circumnavigations and over 200K miles under sail. Aboard their ferrocement cutter Awahnee, they cruised the Bering Sea to the Indian Ocean and 45 countries in between. Their seamanship earned the Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America. At back: List of voyages. Index.

New York.: Sheridan House., 1950. Hard cover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Near fine book volume. Jacket front and end papers trimmed and tacked into book. Few light blemishes to book cover.. Fogarty, Thomas and Varian, George (Previously published drawings by); and Roesner, Charles (Drawings by).. 1 Navy blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles w/ 3-masted sailing ship. 384 p. 24 cm. Biography by Captain Slouch's son, as a supplement to his father's "Sailing Alone Around the World" in his sailing boat "Spray" published in 1900, New York. Slocum was the first man to sail alone around the world. A native of Brier Island, Nova Scotia, he and the fishermen there were also shipbuilders. That legacy served him well as he took to the seas.

New York.: The Macmillan Company., 1921. 'Set up and printed. Published October, 1921', copyright page.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Page blocks are foxed, several front leaves as well. Most of book clean. Binding tight.. 1 First edition. 191 p. Blue cloth over boards, mustard-color titles. 5x7.75in. RARE: Adventure tale, a father and son are in a cargo schooner, the hold hot and glowing with a clow-burning fire, and they are racing against time and destruction heading for an island in the South Seas. The crew has abandoned ship in the small boats (caution: discriminatory and stereotypical language in use). The boy wants the pearls sold on land, steamer passage to 'Frisco procured, and then train tickets home to Gloucester, Massachusetts. Time runs out so they throw the hatch door overboard as a raft. The island they find holds new adventures.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. 4th printing, 4th edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket: lower outside corner, front, missing; chips along edges. Minor spine sun-fade to DJ.. deFontaine, Dorothy (endpaper maps by).. 0 478 p. 25 cm. B&W overhead photos; charts. Black cloth covered boards, gold spine titles. While updated editions will provide boaters with greater accuracy, these photos and descriptions provide an historic picture of the coastal regions some 50 years ago, in 1959, which are now considerably built-out.

New York.: The Ronald Press., 1921. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Interior clean, nice. Binding sturdy. Cover has minor soiling, discoloration. Light bumps to extremities.. 1 Dark blue cloth over boards. 291 p., [6] folded leaves of plates: ill., maps, charts; 22 cm. Following the "river and harbor act" approved in 1919, this investigation was overseen by the International Joint Commission created via a 1909 treaty between the United States an Great Britain relating to boundary waters between the U.S. and Canada. The Commission and its engineers sought to bring ocean-going vessels into the Great Lakes for enhanced trade and its transportation. This volume is stamped in small gold letters on the front cover, "M.A. Michaelson". Fold out maps, charts are inside.

Seattle WA.: System Three Resins., 1992. Trade paperback. Very good.. Magerl, Caroline (Cartoon art by).. 1 Stapled binding. White card stock covers, blue title box, pen&ink cartoon-style artwork. 28cm. Company publication: "Many of the ideas in this book were developed by us. A lot were contributed by our customers. Some we stole. We dedicate this book to all those who helped put it together, willingly or not". 19 sections plus 8 appendices.

Doubleday., 1970. Children's Choice Book Club Edition, Macmillan.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name markered out. Light edge wear. Slight top end spine wobble. Clean inside pages. Sticker residue over preprinted bookplate space.. 1 Book Club Edition. Illustarted paper over boards. Horizontal format: 9x7in. Audience: Children/juvenile. Winner of the Christopher Award, this work by master historic panoramic illustrator Peter Spier brings to life the folksong that begins, "I've got a mule and her name is Sal...Fifteen years on the Erie Canal". New York's water transportation route began construction in 1817 in Rome, NY, a swampy and forested wilderness. In 1825, with continuing construction east and west across upstate New York, its route was completed "from Albany to Buffalo", without the aid of "professional" engineers. Canal boats were pulled by attached rope from shoreline parallel roads by draft… Read More

New York.: Winchester Press., 1973. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket near fine w/ front cover vertical surface cut.. Stecker, Leon C. (Line art illustrations by).. 1 Turquoise cloth over boards. Silver spine titles. B&W line art w/ gray fill shading. 182 p. Index. Ships & Boats / Boatbuilders. Co-author Gougeon Meade of Bay City MI, was a designer and builder of boats, at the time of this publication, and especially of experimental high-speed vessels.

Bay City MI.: Gougeon Brothers, Inc., 1987. Trade paperback. Very good. Back cover short staining.. 1 62 p. Stapled binding. 27cm. B&W illustrations. Chart. Brown ink chapter titles, cover art. Company booklet: Includes Gelcoat Blister Repair; Structural reinforcement; Deck and Hull Repair; more. Step-by-step examples.

Clinton Corners NY.: John De Graff, Inc., 1977. [2d ed.]. U.S.A. earlier edition 1973.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light jacket scuffing.. 1 Red cloth over boards. 331 p. 26 cm. Pen&Ink diagrams. B&W photos. Index. Introductions to both first and second editions. 24 chapters, plus 7 appendices including Glossary of Terms. Numerous descriptive and procedural illustrations.

Brooklin ME: WoodenBoat Publications, 1990. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 8x11in.. 0 Prefaced by Understanding a Boat Plan and finishing with a Glossary of Boat Terms and Guidance on the Selection of Timbers and Construction Materials, this volume offers a range of sizes and types of boats for woodworkers of different skill levels. A Suggested Reading list rounds out the info.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971. First edition. 1st American edition.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Tight. Clean inside. Moderate edge soiling. Bottom edge stamped, "Property of U.S. Navy". Remainder mark across bottom.. 1 238 p. 22 cm. Green cloth covered boards. Illustrated DJ (ships in periscope sight). Military fiction: Men trapped in a submarine. A surveillance mission is aborted, exploding into an international incident.

Madison NJ.: Golden Hind Press., 1953. In red on title page, woodcut art, GHP logo. Unknown print run.. Wraps. Very good. Some pages have pulled way from binding.. De Pol, John (Wood Engravings by).. 1 First edition. Card stock green covers overlapping pages. Gray front titles. Three stitched binding points, threads along spine. 36 p. plus FEPs; 16x24 cm. Untrimmed page edges Rare in this edition. Classic tale of seaport storm, set in Fairfield, a little village near the Portsmouth Road, halfway between London and the sea during a great storm of '97. At book's end in blue ink, "This edition of 'The Ghost Ship' is hand set in Cloister Old Style type and printed on a hand press upon dampened Archer paper at the Golden Hind Press, Madison, N.J. Finished in November, 1953". The story had earlier been with other short stories.

New York.: A Golden Handbook / Golden Press., 1961. First edition. 24342.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light cover sun-fade. Back cover angled crease w/ 1-inch tear, repaired w/ clear tape. Interior pages clean. Tight. Spine tilt.. 1 Short mass-market PB, handy size for easy reference. Color photo illustrated cover. 159 p. 15 cm. Color Illustrations. Vintage how-to reference (1961) with relevance to power boats and equipment of that era, and to common sense boat management and use today.