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Salem: The Essex Institute. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1924-1930. Blue paper covered boards with pictorial labels of a different ship on each volume, over dark blue cloth spine, with title gilt. 1924-1930. Each volume with numerous plates and index. A clean and bright set; all volumes Very Good to Fine. Series I… Read more

Brooklin, Maine: WoodenBoat Publications, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 281 pp. Inscribed by one of the authors, Ruth Hill, to a boat builder who taught at Wooden Boat School. Includes black and white photos, diagrams and step by step instructions of his building process. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. xiv, 312 pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards, yellow cloth spine stamped in black. Introduction by Captain David W. Bone. Account of an Australian journalist's trip aboard the four-masted bark Archibald Russell from Melbourne to Queenstown, Ireland via Cape Horn where he was nearly washed overboard. … Read more

NY: Stokes, 1893. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. x,152 pp. Decorative gray cloth, with image of a sailing canoe stamped in black on front board, title in gilt and black. With numerous text illustrations, b&w photos and diagrams. With index. This edition is scarce.… Read more

New York: E P Dutton and Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. vi, 347 pp. Red cloth stamped in black and white on spine with lighthouse, and on front panel: a dramatic scene of men in a small boat. With frontispiece and 7 plates. Includes a seven page appendix of extracts from official lighthouse reports. Light/moderate wear to… Read more

Orleans, Massachusetts: Lower Cape Publishing Co., 1983. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 182 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author. With numerous historical photographs of shipwrecks. Photos of ships before and after becoming shipwrecked. Sticker with yachting flag on ffep, else Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.… Read more

2009. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 189 pp. + 15 pp. of local ads. Quarto. Weaving the Fabric of Life in Jonesboro: Verified Facts, Legends, Tall Tales and Outright Lies. With numerous photographs, and with map. Chapters include: Early History of Jonesboro, Early Shipbuilding, with list of ships built from 1816-1887, Jonesboro Quarries, Lumbering,… Read more

St. John's, NF: Breakwater Books Ltd, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. vii, 184 pp. Oblong. The history of Atlantic Canadian marine services that have linked the island provinces with the mainland. Nearly 300 illustrations including 8 color plates. Includes two "Ellsworth American" newspaper articles inserted by the previous owner telling of the last voyage… Read more

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981. First American Edition . Maroon Cloth. Fine/VG+. 168 pp. Portrays the career of each of the 14 opulent four-funnel passenger liners during the Golden Age of ocean travel beginning in 1897 (including the Titanic). Many black and white photographs of these ocean liners including 4 full pages of… Read more

Brewer, Maine: Leland Overlock, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Blue buckram, spine title gilt xiii, 306 pp. Quarto. Chapters include histories of Warren built vessels, with some entries in great detail, Warren shipbuilders, owners and their vessels, captains and their vesels and excerpts from logs, diaries and letters. With facsimiles… Read more

Brewer, Maine: Leland Overlock, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Blue buckram, spine title gilt. xiii, 306 pp. Quarto. Chapters include histories of Warren built vessels, with some entries in great detail, Warren shipbuilders, owners and their vessels, captains and their vessels and excerpts from logs, diaries and letters. With facsimiles… Read more

Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good-. xii, 372 pp. Gray-blue cloth, spine title gilt, with original dust jacket. A manual for working divers and trainees. Includes numerous black and white photos, illustrations, and tables. GVG, a tight, solid copy. In a Fair to Good dust jacket.… Read more

Salem, Mass: Peabody Museum, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/FN/VG. xvii, 530 pp. + colophon. Blue cloth. No. 15 of 750 numbered copies. Type design & composition by Anthoensen Press. With over 1500 illustrations, sixty in full color. Most major marine artists are included and nearly every type of sailing craft and steamship. … Read more

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Hardcover. Very Good. A collection of seven reports to the House of Representatives relating to the construction, maintenance, expenditure, location and other matters relating to lighthouses from March 19, 1842 to Jan 19, 1844. Bound in maroon pigskin, spine title gilt. 124, 111, 9, 25, 33, 67, 131 pp. … Read more

Rockland, Maine: Island Institute, 1984. First Edition . Paper Wraps. GVG. 64 pp. First issue of the annual journal of the Island Institute. Front cover foxed along borders, with previous owner's name and small closed tear at top.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 282pp. Mottled blue paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine with gilt title. Bottom corners very slightly bumped.

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 216 pp. including miscellaneous notes and references. Green cloth, title gilt. With 3 maps, one folding; 15 b&w plates; 1 illustration. Spine slant and cupped front board with just a touch of wear at spine edges; still a clean, tight copy.

Concord, Massachussets: Charles S. Morgan, 1968. Second Edition . Paper Wrappers. Very Good+. 45 pp. Illustrated in black and white with a painting of the Sarah C. Ropes by the author, sketches by Allen Beechel and Andrew J. Nesdall, plus photographs. Account of Laurence's trip from Newport News to Portland, Maine on the four master Sarah… Read more

Taunton, Massachusetts: William S. Sullwold Publishing, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xii, 84 pp. Brown cloth, titles gilt. B&w photos, errata slip laid in, plus 4 sheets from the Descendents of Whaling Masters laid in.

Hengelo, Holland, n. d.: Uitgave: N.V. Uitgeversmij. Hardcover. GVG. 192 pp. Text is in Dutch. Illustrated with 492 black & white figures of ships, hardware and plans. Includes bibliography . Plans A-B, on a large folding sheet; and C-E , on a single sheet are laid in. Also laid in, a… Read more