Maritime And Naval from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

New York: The Rudder Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. (1940). Tenth Edition. Softcover. Plans, including drawings, photographs and discussion for the construction of a Snipe class sailboat. L.O.A. 15'-6", Beam 5'-0" First publication was in the July, 1931 issue of The Rudder. Tan wraps, stapled.; 9" x 11-1/2"; 20 pp; Covers worn, pages lightly soiled… Read more about this item

New York - Toronto - London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. In this manual you will find sound engineering and design practices for the construction of fiberglass boats (jacket front flap). Gilt-stamped blue cloth, many illustrations. Blue illustrated dust jacket.with white lettering. ; 8-3/4" x 11-1/4"; Little wear… Read more about this item

San Francisco, California: Matson Navigation Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1975]. Softcover. Describes the U. S. Merchant Marine and company container and freight operations. Stiff green wraps, stapled, introduction by R. J Pferffer, President, photographs of Matson operations. Uncommon, not seen in the trade and held (per OCLC) only at the SF Maritime National Historical… Read more about this item

New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1957). Softcover. Advance issue, in the form of unbound unstitched folded and gathered sheets. Collected into loose boards with dust jacket. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; 512 pp; "Here is the sea as only Freuchen can write about it . . . a wonderful book filled with… Read more about this item

New York: Lyons & Burford. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1992]. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 1-55821-166-7 . Red cloth boards, black cloth spine with white spine lettering, well-illust rated. Black and orange dust jacket with color photograph of canoe. This is a copy of the 1992 [per CiP data] Revised Edition [per jacket flap]; this despite the… Read more about this item

Providence, Rhode Island: The Steamship Historical Society of America. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, Introduction and tabular data on vessels. Protected by original publishers unprinted glassine dust jacket. ; Oblong, 11" x 8-1/2"; xii, 135 pp; A slight rippling… Read more about this item

Sacramento: California State Department of Education. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Eighth in the California series of courses dealing with various shipbuildin g trades. Green paper over thick boards with black lettering, red cloth spine, well-illustrated including three fold fold-outs at rear..; Ex-library with pocket and slip removed and with other usual library markings. Worn… Read more about this item

Seattle, U.S.A.: Terminal Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers gray cloth lettered front cover and spine, index at front, unnumbered pages of advertising to front and rear, 3 photographs, many tables including fold-out chart, fold-out map at rear.; 5" x 7"; 336+ pp; Cloth lightly soiled, two small holes in… Read more about this item

New York: The Rudder Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. Contents of six issues, without covers or advertising. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, well-illustrated. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 9" x 11-3/4"; 344 pp; Covers lightly rubbed, worn at corners, rear hinge partly cracked, discrete prior owner stamp inside front … Read more about this item

New York: Printed by C. J. O'Brien. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Article on sea shanties here Reprinted from Everybody's Magazine, 1915. Produced by his wife in an edition of 200 copies for Christmas, 1926: The printing of this book is dedicated to the happy memory of William Brown Meloney that those who were… Read more about this item

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. 0-8271-7115-3 . Eighty-five superb photographs from John Clayton's collection document the building several decades (1930s and 1940s) of wooden vessels in Mr. Story's family shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Brown cloth boards, white cloth spine lettered in red, orange endpapers, b&w photographs, pages are… Read more about this item

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Issued as University of California Publications in History Volume XXXVI. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Beige dust jacket lettered in black. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; iv, 235 pp; Very slight cover wear, solid hinges, pages clean and unmarked, prior owner… Read more about this item

New York: Chatham River Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-517-68131-5 . 16 pages of text, 8 color model sheets to cut out. Stiff card wraps, cover illustration of sinking ship.; 9" x 12-1/2"; Very slight edgewear else fine. .

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1917. Later Printing. Hardcover. Reprinted from the edition of 1867. Many charts, diagrams, tables, etc. including 17 fold-out plates. One of Weale's Scientific and Technical Series. Publishers mustard cloth boards, black lettering.; 5 x 7"; 310 pp; Some cover soiling and light shelfwear. A few notations,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Privately Printed for the Author by Schwabacher-Frey Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. About the development of steamships, nicely illustrated with full-page plates. Green full-leather binding gilt titling and decorations front and titling to spine, light green endpapers. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 138 pp; Spine and boards near spine are… Read more about this item