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Blue Star Line 1939-1945: A Record Of Service (original edition)
by Taffrail (Captian Taprell Dorling)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1948
- Binding
- Leather_bound
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$60.00
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Blue Star Line`, 1948. First edition. Leather_bound. Fine. Hardcover in navy blue leather lettered and stamped in gilt and red, over navy cloth spine lettered in gilt. Dedication page, double frontis photographic portraits of Lord Williasm and Sir Edmund Vestey, founders of the line. 159 pp. +xiii (appendices of seafaring personnel lost at sea through enemy action… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
Anecdotes of Shipwreck (with) Anecdotes of Travelling (The Percy Anecdotes Vol XV)
by Sholto and Reuben Perry
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1823
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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London: T. Boys, 1823. Hardcover. Fine. 32mo. E Two vols. in one. Engraved title page and frontis engraved portrait of Sir Murray Maxwell, R.N. in the shipwrecks volume and of Dr. Clarke in the travelling volume. Both parts are 178 pp. plus 2 page index. modern rebind in tan and pale maroon paper covered boars with paper spine… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
A Youthful Man-O'-Warsman
by Edgar Stanton Maclay
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1910
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$17.50
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Greenlawn, NY: Navy Blue Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in white cloth lettered in blue. Title page printed in red and black. 201 pp. plus 12 page illustrated publisher's list of other books by Maclay. Illustrated with full page plates. Very good, some light soiling to the white cloth. Historical-basedlfiction work based on… Read more about this item Item Price
$17.50
Photographs and Newpaper Clippings to Accompany Brochure of Tour Of Inspection of the Saint Lawrence River Seaway and Power Project by the United States House of Representatives Public Works Committee, September, 1947
by (War Department Corps of Engineers)
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1947
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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Washington DC: War Department, 1947. Softcover. Very Good. Printed stiff wrappers with cloth spine. Very good or somewhat better. 39 pp. Consists of reproductions of photographs and newspaper articles relating to the St. Lawrence Seaway project. A joint venture of the UnitedStates and Canada, it was a major canal and navigable channels project of 15 locks running between… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Lost At Sea
by Carney, Bob
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 2004
- Binding
- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780965105309
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$10.00
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Parsippany, NJ: ABC Publishing, 2004. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. 304 pp. Illustrated with small drawings. Memoirs of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and service by a 1957 graduate. Small ownership signature and date top edeg of first page. Very good or somewhat better.
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$10.00
Legend of Chris-Craft (1/100 deluxe copies signed by the author and photographer)
by Jeffrey L. Rodengen
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780945903024
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$110.00
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Write Stuff Syndicate, 1988. Limited ed. Hardcover. As New. AS NEW IN SLIPCASE. Oversized hardcover in navy blue leather stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. ONE OF 100 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES ONLY (this being No. 24) INSCRIBED (But NOT personalized) on the half-title page "To another Chris-Craft Owner/ Very Best Wishes/ Jeffery L. Rodengen/ Karina K.… Read more about this item Item Price
$110.00
Wood and Glory Muskoka's Classic Launches
by William M. Gray; Timothy C. Du Vernet
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2004
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781550461770
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$60.00
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Boston Mills Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. (No expedited shipping from Amazon, , or B&N) First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. 157 pages.
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$60.00
Lighthouses of New York Greater New York Harbor, Hudson River and Long Island
by Jimmy Crowley
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 2000
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780910746328
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$15.00
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Hope Farm Press, 2000. Paperback. Fine. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. 126 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Fine.
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$15.00
Centerville Shipmasters and Seafaring Days
by Florence Winship Ungerman
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780884920205
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$25.00
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Taunton, MA: William S. Sullwold Pub, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. hardcover in blue and white cloth lettered and decorated in blue and white. 86 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Map of Centerville and Cape Cod on endpapers. An account listing and picturing the homes and ships of the shipmasters of Centerville. Fine showing… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
A Rainbow of Time and of Space: Orphans of the Titanic
by Sidney F Tyler
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1981
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780894040627
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$40.00
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Tucson, AZ: AZTEX Corporation, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Review copy with publisher's notice. Softcover in ilustrated covers. 94 pp.Illustrated with black and white photographs. The story of two children orphaned by the Titanic and a man's quest his friendship with these two children almost 70 years later. Near fine. Cover shows light use with… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Out of the Fog: The Sinking of Andrea Doria
by Algot. Mattsson
- Condition
- As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780870335457
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$25.00
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Cornell Maritime Press, 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Oversized hardcover. First American edition and first edition in English translation from the Swedish. 168 pp. with index. Illustrated. The story of one of the world's most famous modern shipwrecks, the sinking in July, 1956 of the Andrea Doria after a collision… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Naval Anecdotes : Illustrating The Character of British Seamen. and Recording the Most Impressive Examples of Their Skill, Valour, Fortitude, and Magnanimity..
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1806
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- Leather_bound
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- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$250.00
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London: James Cundee, 1806. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. Octavo in original full calf, spine stamped in gilt. (2) engraved frontis, xv, 544, (1, final blank lacking). First edition. Foxing to the endpapers, frontis and title and contents pages, only occasional light foxing to the text. Binding is well worn and rubbed and spine quite flaked, front hinge loosened… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Navigation New Modelled; or, A Treatise of Geometrical, Trigonometrical, Arithmetical, Instrumental, and Practical Navigation..
by Wilson, Henry
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1777
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- Leather_bound
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$350.00
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London: J. Mount, T. Page and W. Mount, 1777. Leather_bound. Good. Thick octavo in full original tooled calf, hubbed spine without stamping or labelling. (2) xvi + 528 (2). Ten folding plates. The Ninth Edition, so stated on the title page. Binding is worn about the edges and tips, some peeling along the gutter edges of both boards;… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
The Log of the U.S.S. Northern Pacific During the Great World War
by Egner, P.R.; Gates, G.M.; Lowrt, D.R. (photog)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1919
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- Hardcover
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$85.00
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1919. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; no place, no date (ca. 1919). Hardcover in navy blue cloth stamped in gilt. 126 pp. ; crew roster. Illustrated with full page photographic plates. The story of the U.S.S. Northern Pacific , a World War I transport ship told by exerpts from its official log. Built in 1913-14, it… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
An Account of the Construction, and Embellishment of Old Time Ships
by Stevens, John R.
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Spiral_bound
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$150.00
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Toronto: Privately Printed, 1949. Limited ed. Spiral_bound. Very Good. One of 500 numbered copies only, this being No. 328. Oblong quarto sized volume, spiral bound in black card wrappers lettered in gilt. ix+176 pp. plus section of 39 black and white photographic plates at rear. Appendices include "the Principal Dimensions and Scantlings" from the 1789 "Shipbuilders Repository", extracts… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Northwesy 3/4 West: The Experiences of A Sandy Hook Pilot, 1908-1945
by Winters, Capt. Edward C.; Hardin, Mel (ed.)
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2004
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780939500055
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$50.00
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Mystic, CT, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. First edition. Hardcover, xxix+191 with glossary, appendix of transcriptions of annual Christmas card "pilot reminiscences " sent by Winters to correspondents beginning in 1948. Illustrated. Quite scarce, a rare look at the experiences of some of New York harbor's unsung heroes, the "Sandy Hook… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II
by Robert M. Browning
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781557500878
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bordentown, New Jersey, USA
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$100.00
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Naval Inst Pr, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Firs edition. Hardcover in blue cloth stamped in gilt. xxii+575 pp. with index, bibliography, glossary. Illustrated. Encyclopedic reference work on the casualties of United States Mechant vessels during WWII. By the end of the war, some 5600 of these military/civilian ships had played a role. Each entry provides the name,… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
