Search Results: Titles starting with S from Michael Carroll Dooling

Carrollton Press, 2014. First Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 193 pp., 50 illustrations (many in color or sepia). In 1854, a young man named Aaron H. Wood from Swansea, Massachusetts left the comfort of his family and farm and embarked on a lifetime journey. With William R. Gardner as master of the new clipper ship Monarch of the Sea, Aaron's maiden voyage brought him to the Black Sea at the height of the Crimean War. In his handwritten journal Aaron described life aboard ship, the Crimean battlefields, and a naval assault that used shell guns and iron-sided vessels for the first time. Over the next thirty years, Aaron sailed from one port to the next, eventually becoming master of his own sailing ships. As the ship's captain, he was accompanied by his wife Isabel and they raised their family at sea. Their son Oscar sailed around Cape Horn fourteen times by the time he was eight years old. Isabel's letters describe in great detail what it was like living for months… Read More

Chicago: Van-American Press, 1912. First Edition . Tan Cloth/Pictorial Label. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 98 pp., 22 sepia-tone illustrations, moderate edge wear and soiling. Front end page has gift inscription in ink - " A Valentine to Elizabeth from her Papa Feb. 14, 1913.

Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1923. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume IX, Number 1 of this important publication. Bound in stiff printed wraps, b&w illustrations, 16 pp., minor soiling. Contains architectural information relating to New York City, Bronx, Flushing. Elmhurst.

Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1969. First Edition . Beige Cloth/Green Boards. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Number 808 from an edition limited to 1500 copies, INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author to Walt Thomas on front end page. ALSO inserted is a postcard with Dana Lamb's address in Ipswich Mass. printed at the top and postmarked 1981 - with a holograph note signed Dana to Paul Fitzgerald of The Angler's Club of New York. ALSO inserted is an old facsimile from the Hotel & Motel Belle Plage / Matane on the Sea / Matane, Quebec confirming his plans; Dana wrote a note to "Walt" at the bottom and signed it "Dana." ALSO inserted is a two-page typed letter to Walt Thomas of The Angler's Club of New York (dated October 9, 1962 and on the letterhead of Ingalls & Snyder - Members of the New York Stock Exchange) summarizing his fishing experiences in Canada - St. John River, New Brunswick; Restigouche - Flatlands; Matane, Madelaine; Cap Chat; Matapedia; Miramichi; and Maine Rivers. The letter… Read More

Boston: Murphy & McCarthy, 1878. Fourth American Edition . Decorated Brown Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rear hinge broken, frontispiece and end page loose, shelfworn, b&w illustrations.