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Blue Water: A Guide to Self-Reliant Sailboat Cruising
by Griffith, Bob, and Griffith Nancy (Assisted by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Short light damp stain, lower jacket spine. Minor top page foxing.
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780914814191
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$65.00
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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.… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
Spring Tides
by Morison, Samuel Eliot (Text including Preface by)
- Condition
- Used - Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard: Lincoln Park Public Library.
- Edition
- 4th printing. "R". Author copyright.
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$8.00
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Boston.: Houghton Mifflin., 1965. 4th printing. "R". Author copyright.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Discard: Lincoln Park Public Library.. Baker, Edward F (Jacket B&W back cover photo of author and spouse by), and Bryant, Samuel Hanks (Drawings by).. 1 Royal blue cloth over boards; green titles w/ sailboat graphic, white, w/ green current. ix,… Read more about this item Item Price
$8.00
Yacht Designing and Planning for Yachtsmen, Students and Amateurs (Revised & Enlarged Edition)
by Chapelle, Howard I
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Surface wear to cover. Top spine end minor damage to jacket. Top p
- Edition
- 9th printing.
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780393031690
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$18.00
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New York / London.: W. W. Norton & Company., 1971. 9th printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Surface wear to cover. Top spine end minor damage to jacket. Top page block dusting.. Simon, Chris (Cover design by).. 1 Navy blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 373 p. B&W line… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Wind-Vane Self-Steering; How to plan and make your own.
by Belcher, Bill, and Hasler, H.G. (Foreword by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Interior fine, clean. Book volume, clean, near fine.
- Edition
- First edition. Presumed first. No print line.
- Published
- 1982
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780877421580
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$248.00
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Camden ME.: International Marine Publishing., 1982. First edition. Presumed first. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Interior fine, clean. Book volume, clean, near fine.. 1 Dark blue cloth over boards. 128 p. 25 cm. Diagrams. Audience: General/trade. Self-steering gear provides assistance to one who sails single-handed or short-handed. Trained… Read more about this item Item Price
$248.00
Sole Survivor
by McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Minor cover wear.
- Edition
- "A Dolphin Book Club Alternative".
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780932538628
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$7.00
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Design Enterprises of San Francisco., 1985. "A Dolphin Book Club Alternative".. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor cover wear.. 1 Trade paperback. Blue glossy covers w/ B&W photo, man on raft; white titles. 235 p. B&W photos, map. Audience: General/trade. Within 2 minutes of being torpedoed on November 23, 1942, the Benlomond sank in the Atlantic. The sole survivor… Read more about this item Item Price
$7.00
The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail
by Petrie, Donald A
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Remainder mark, top page block.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st Berkley printing.
- Published
- 2001
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780425178294
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$9.00
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New York.: Berkley Publishing Group., 2001. First edition. 1st Berkley printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Remainder mark, top page block.. 1 Paperback w/ decorated covers: map, ships, portrait. 4.5x8 in. Glued binding. 217 p. B&W art, facsimiles. Audience: General/trade. Broadsides, blockades, mutiny, piracy. In the Middle Ages, battles were on land, with no organized naval support, so mercenaries… Read more about this item Item Price
$9.00
Capt. Joshua Slocum; The Life and Voyages of America's Best Known Sailor
by Slocum, Victor
- Condition
- Used - Very good in poor dust jacket. Near fine book volume. Jacket front and end papers trimmed and tacked into book. Few light blemis
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$17.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$17.00
The Ghost Ship
by Middleton, Richard Barham
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Some pages have pulled way from binding.
- Edition
- In red on title page, woodcut art, GHP logo. Unknown print run.
- Published
- 1953
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$19.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$19.00
Shoreline and Sextant: Practical Coastline Navigation
by Budlong, John P.
- Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780442211424
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$24.00
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Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc., U.S., 1977. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 1 Turquoise cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 214 p. Audience: Professional and scholarly. Proven, practical techniques of piloting, navigating for sailors while within sight of land. Item Price
$24.00
The Great Buccaneer; Being the Life, Death, and Extraordinary Adventures of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
by Lindsay, Philip
- Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. Jacket has short edge tears, wear; jacket spine sun-fade. Light book cover surface aging, deterioratio
- Edition
- Author copyright. Label pasted over 1950 copyright text.
- Published
- 1951
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$11.00
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New York.: Wilfred Funk Inc., 1951. Author copyright. Label pasted over 1950 copyright text.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Jacket has short edge tears, wear; jacket spine sun-fade. Light book cover surface aging, deterioration. Top page block foxing.. 1 Light blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 305 p. 21 cm. For mature readers: Biography of… Read more about this item Item Price
$11.00
A Master of Craft
by Jacobs, W.W.
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light cover wear. Age-toning.
- Edition
- "Special Limited Edition".
- Published
- 1900
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$19.00
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Nw York.: B.W. Dodge., 1900. "Special Limited Edition".. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light cover wear. Age-toning.. 1 339 p. Royal blue cloth over boards. B&W oval cover inset: B&W photo small sailing ship. Red titles. 20 cm. Author William Wymark Jacobs, b.1885-d.1943, was known for his humorous short stories and novels.… Read more about this item Item Price
$19.00
The Impossible Voyage.
by Blyth, Chay, and Anderson, J.R.L. (Prologue by)
- Condition
- Used - Good.
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780345033826
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$5.00
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New York.: Ballantine Books by arr. w/ G. P Putnam's Sons., 1973. Mass-market paperback. Good.. Foss, Chris (Cover art by).. 1 Mass-market paperback. 219 p. Color photo section. Autobiographical: One lone man makes a sea passage in a small yacht. He became the first to sail non-stop around the world, "uphill against the winds and current". Prologue: "The… Read more about this item Item Price
$5.00
Sam Noble, Able Seaman 'Tween Decks in the 'Seventies; An Autobiography
by Noble, Sam, and Davidson, A.F., Rear-Admiral, R.N., D.S.O. (Foreword by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good in poor dust jacket. Light spine end and corner wear. Rear board inside shows light damp stain. Jacket has considerabl
- Edition
- No print line, "First Published" in the U.S.A., 1926.
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$12.00
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New York.: Frederick A. Stokes Company., 1926. No print line, "First Published" in the U.S.A., 1926.. Hard cover. Very good in poor dust jacket. Light spine end and corner wear. Rear board inside shows light damp stain. Jacket has considerable soiling, edge tears, repaired w/ clear tape inside. Light interior foxing before frontispiece.. 1 First edition. 305 p.… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Economic Aspects of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Ship Channel
by MacElwee, Roy S., and Ritter, Alfred H.
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Interior clean, nice. Binding sturdy. Cover has minor soiling, discoloration. Light bumps to extremities.
- Published
- 1921
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$15.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Kinder, Gary
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine, unmarked. Top page block lightly soiled.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1998
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780871134646
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$6.00
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New York.: Atlantic Monthly Press., 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine, unmarked. Top page block lightly soiled.. 1 Glued binding. Cloth and paper over boards. 507 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Disaster at sea: Side-wheel steamer in 1857, the S.S. Central America, carrying nearly 600 passengers from the… Read more about this item Item Price
$6.00
Warships (Knowledge through Color No. 29)
by Simmons, Jacques
- Condition
- Used - Very goodSingle spine crease. Light surface wear. Tight.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st Bantam.
- Published
- 1972
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780448008677
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$6.00
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New York.: A bantam Boolk by arr. w/ Grosset & Dunlap., 1972. First edition. 1st Bantam.. Mass-market paperback. Very goodSingle spine crease. Light surface wear. Tight.. Warner, David A (Illustrated by), and Hearn, Nigel W (Illustrated by).. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 159 p. Glossary. Index. Audience: General/trade. Chapters: Capital Ships; Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers; Cruisers; Torpedo Boats and… Read more about this item Item Price
$6.00
Fibreglass Boats; Fitting Out, Maintenance, and Repair; Revised
by Du Plessis, Hugo
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Light jacket scuffing.
- Edition
- [2d ed.]. U.S.A. earlier edition 1973.
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780828600644
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$6.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$6.00
Bibliotheca Nautica Part II; Catalogue No. 534; Books, Prints and manuscripts relating to Naval Battles, etc.
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Minor spine wear w/ readable titles. Light top outside corner page bending, not creasing. Clan text pages.
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$48.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$48.00
The Outer Coast: An odyssey of the explorers, adventurers, and scoundrels who confronted the Pacific wilderness when it was the edge of the world
by Batman, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued.
- Edition
- First Harvest / HBJ edition; 1st printing.
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780156706001
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$6.50
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A Harvest Hill Book / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich., 1986. First Harvest / HBJ edition; 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. B&W sections, archival photos, portraits. Maps. This history of seafarers and explorers of North America's western coast begins, May 14, 1769, 15 miles south of… Read more about this item Item Price
$6.50
Admiral of the Ocean Sea; A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Condition
- Used - Very good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate glue toning. Slight edge wear. Top and bottom spine ends slig
- Edition
- Same date, title & copyright pgs. No additional printing not
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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$14.00
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
$14.00
