FS: MARINE --Bowditch/Bradford/Coggins/Duncan/Eastman/Heine/MacMullen/Marvin/Mate/Maxtone-Graham/Noble/Shaw/Thomas/Weems
Gerard Gormley
Bowditch, Nathaniel. AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR. No. 9. Washington: US
Govt. Printing Office, 1939. Large octavo: 10-1/4". Good+ -- spine sunned,
overall soiling to covers. Heavy -- S&H quoted when destination known.
126A. $17
Bradford, Gershom. THE MARINER'S DICTIONARY. Barre MA: Barre Publishers,
1972. First Printing thus (SD and NAP). Subject: Nautical terms defined.
Price-clipped. 307 pages, ill. 12mo: 7-3/4". Green full cloth, gilt. Book
VG -- lightest rubbing top/bottom spine and fore-corners. DJ Good -- price-
clip, edge-wear, 2 small tears. 127A. $18
Coggins, Jack. SHIPS AND SEAMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: vessels, crews,
weapons, gear, naval tactics, and actions of the War for Independence.
Promontory Press, 1969. Not a first. Quarto, 224 pages, illustrated
throughout. VG/VG. 148C. $19
Duncan, Roger F. and Fessenden S. Blanchard. A CRUISING GUIDE TO THE NEW
ENGLAND COAST. NY: Dodd Mead. 1965 Edition. Price intact. 478 pages,
Appendices, Index, ill. Subject: Marine Cruising Guide. 8vo: 9-1/2". Blue
full cloth, blind/gold-stamped. Book VG+ -- name penned ffl, light bumping
top fore-corners, moderate wrinkle spine-top/bottom. DJ Good+ -- spine
heavily sunned (front lightly), heavy chipping spine-top (less bottom).
Heavy: S&H quoted on order entry. 188A. $25
Eastman, Ralph M. PILOTS AND PILOT BOATS OF BOSTON HARBOR. Boston:
Privately Printed for Second Bank-State Street Trust Company, 1956. First
Printing (NAP). Paperback. Subject: Marine -- Boston -- Pilot Boats in Age
of Sail. 91 pages, ill. Octavo: 9". Pictorial wrappers. Book VG+ --
light edge-wear top/bottom. 189B. $15
Heine, William C. HISTORIC SHIPS OF THE WORLD. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1977. First printing (NAP). Subject: Marine, historic ships. Price
clipped. 156 pages, Index, ill. Wide octavo: 9-1/2" x 9". Terra-cotta full
cloth, gilt. Book Fine. DJ VG -- price-clip, light edge-wear top. 235B.
$18
MacMullen, Jerry. STAR OF INDIA:The Log of An Iron Ship. Berkeley CA:
Howell-North, 1961. First Edition (SD/NAP). Price-clip, no BCE evidence.
133 pages, ill. Octavo: 8-1/2". Tan full cloth, black. Additional Star of
India material laid in. Book Fine. DJ Good+ -- price-clip, wear/tear
spine-top, 2 closed-tears top front (1/4" with associated multiple creasing,
and 1"), spine faded, light rubbing. 288D. $23
Marvin, Winthrop L. THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE: Its History and Romance
from 1620 to 1902. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First (SD/NAP). Ex-
libris. Subject: Marine -- U.S. Merchant Marine Service. No DJ. 444 pages,
Index. Octavo: 8-1/2". Blue full cloth, pictorial gilt (sailing vessel).
Book Good -- heavy rubbing top/bottom spine, moderate bumping/rubbing to
fore-corners, front hinge hanging on by fabric, back hinge taped, usual
library trappings. A Good reading copy. 290E. $15
Mate, Ferenc. THE WORLD'S BEST SAILBOATS: A Survey. (No city): Albatross
Publishing House, 1986. 4th printing (1988). 281 pages, color photos,
design drawings for 60 boat designs. Subject: Sailing Yachts -- A Design
Survey. Price ($45) intact. Quarto: 12". Navy blue full cloth, gold-
stamped -- inside and out, a beautiful book. Book Fine -- one bump (light
outside, moderate inside) to front fore-edge. DJ VG -- some edge-
wear/scoring (light front, heavy back). 291A. $24
Maxtone-Graham, John. THE ONLY WAY TO CROSS. NY: Macmillan, 1972. First
printing (stated). Subject: splendor/romance of ocean liners. Price intact.
434 pages, bibliography, index, b/w photos throughout. Octavo: 9-1/2".
White/blue full cloth, spine gilt/blue. Book NF -- name penned ffl. DJ Fine
(opens into poster of principal Atlantic ocean liners). 294A. $24
Noble, Sam. SAM NOBLE, ABLE SEAMAN: 'TWEEN DECKS IN THE 'SEVENTIES.
Subject: Autobiography -- life under sail in the 1870's. New York: Frederick
A Stokes Company, 1926. First Printing (Same date on title and copyright
pages, no additional printings indicated, "First published in the United
States of America, 1926"). No dust jacket. 305 pages, frontispiece
illustration. Octavo: 9-9/16" x 6-9/16" (to curve of spine) x 1-7/16"
(across spine). Blue cloth, front cover and spine gold-stamped, top leaf-
edges gilt. Book VG+ -- some soiling/dulling to top leaf-edges, slight
fading to spine gilt, slightest fading to front cover gilt, upper fore-
corners bumped, slightest rubbing to fore-corners and joint edges, non-author
inscription penned on front flyleaf with metal Christmas Greetings seal
affixed, page margins just starting to brown. DB4. $32
Shaw, George Russell. KNOTS: Useful and Ornamental. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1924. Ex-libris. Possible First Printing (no date title-page, 1924
copyright-page). Subject: Marine (and other) knots. No DJ. 109 pages, ill.
Octavo: 8-1/4". Blue full cloth, pictorial gilt. Book Good -- heavy
bumping/rubbing top/bottom spine/fore-corners, spine badly faded, usual
library trappings. Pluses -- binding strong/tight, all text/illustrations
clear/bright. A useful, interesting book. 340C. $15
Thomas, Stephen D. THE LAST NAVIGATOR. NY: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition
(stated), First Printing (N). Subject: Marine -- navigation, primitive --
Micronesians. Price intact. 308 pages, Appendices, Glossary, Index, ill.
Octavo: 9-1/4". Book NF -- light bumping top fore-corners. DJ NF --
lightest wrinkle top/bottom spine, one small score front, lightest rubbing
front half-cloth boundary (light back). 360C. $29
Weems, P.V.H. MARINE NAVIGATION. NY: Van Nostrand, 1940. 1st Printing
(SD/NAP). Subject: Marine -- Navigation. No DJ. 443 pages, Index, ill.
throughout, fold-out charts. Octavo: 9-1/8". Black full cloth over flexible
boards, gilt. Book Good+ -- heavy bumping/rubbing spine-top (no bumping,
light rubbing bottom), spine cloth wrinkled, fore-corners bumped (lightest
rubbing), settle-soiling bottom leaf-edges, name penned ffl. 385A. $24
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