Nautical from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Hyperion, 1992. Hardcover. Paintings by Ken Marschall. Introduction by Robert D. Ballard. Wide 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 227pp. Extensive illustrations (most color; one large foldout). Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this hefty study of all things Titanic in the light of Ballard's discovery of the wreckage -- but this tight and… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright edition of this first thus, a highly-illustrated edition of Lord's 1955 account that sparked a renewed and ongoing interest (and a film version) of the famed disaster. This special copy… Read more about this item

Providence: Providence Public Library, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Teal green and tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Thar she blows!! Handsome, tight first edition of this killer reference work, alovely production printed by the venerable Stinehour Press of Lunenberg, Vermont. The exceptional whaling collection bequeathed to this library in 1956 informs this… Read more about this item

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 254pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with couple of archivally mended (on verso) edge tears. Tight and nice first edition of this chronicle of sailing adventures aboard the "Arthur Rogers... a husky 70 foot ketch with a… Read more about this item

London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 96pp. Numerous illustrations and plans. Fine/fine. Bright, tight first edition of this volume in the "Anatomy of the Ship" series, a thorough dissection of this massive warship that in a six-week period in May '44 sunk a half dozen Japanese submarines.… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward L. Beach. 8vo. Black/green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 260pp, (2pp). Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Just a book club edition, but quite tight and most handsome.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue/grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 362pp. Illustrations, maps. Near fine/fine. Superb, tight and bright second printing.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue/grey paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 462pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Just a book club edition of this biography of the world War Two naval admiral, but tight and bright.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 242pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. A wonderfully perfect, pristine first edition of this World War Two study.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 272pp. Near fine/fine. Admiral Chester Nimitz writes the forward to this memoir, first published 1964, about (to quote front jacket flap) "the heroism of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II by telling the story of the USS… Read more about this item

London: Arms and Armour, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Maps. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this fascinating compendium -- "not only... a detailed record of all the warships lost during the last war, but it is the first single-volume reference to offer such information as the cause and place of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Chilton Company, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 283pp. Fine/fine. Cryptic modern undated (1990s?) facsimile reprint of the noted 1959 study.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt/white pictorial front board stamping. xvii, 230pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous full-page illustrations, charts (some foldouts), line drawings, tables. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and rear inner hinge a tad delicate but archivally strengthened, thus tight; text block bright and tight and near fine. Handsome… Read more about this item

Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books Inc, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with black spine lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 253pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Quite tight and handsome later printing of this outstandingly-illustrated survey.

Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1968. Hardcover. 4to. Pale green cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 271pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn and rubbed, with large archivally and discreetly mended tear to rear panel. Attractive, super right first edition of this outstandingly illustrated study.

Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Glossy blue paper over boards with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, (ca. 200pp). Extensive illustrations (most color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Handsome later (11th) printing of this 2001 study, boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on half-title page: 1/29/0 / To _____ / With aloha &… Read more about this item

Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 2004. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this chronicle of the famed 1854 Mississippi steamboat expedition from Rock Island, Illinois, to St. Anthony Falls in the Minnesota Territory, a celebration of the first railroad line that reached Ol'… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965. Hardcover. Introduction by Herman Wouk. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth with blue lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 254pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with several archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. Handsome, tight first edition of this humorous WW2 novel about Boatswain's Mate First Class Fatso Gioninni aboard the… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale grey and blue paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 287pp. Fine/fine. Superb, bright and tight first U.S. edition of this English nautical fiction set in 1804 by this highly-regarded naval novelist.

Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1966. Hardcover. Thomas L. Wattles (technical editor). 4to. Grey cloth with silver and blue spine lettering. xviii, 581pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, map/pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Tight and attractive fourth printing of this in-depth study first published in 1953.