FS: Naval, nautical - 24 titles

[Suzanne and Truman Price]

Andrews, Ralph W., and Harry A. Kirwin. This Was Seafaring: A Sea Chest
of Salty Memories. Seattle: Superior, 1955, 1st. Cloth, 8.5x10.7", 155
pp, double-column text. many old photos in text. 9973.1 VG/G chipped
dj; book is clean solid and unmarked; jacket has 1/2" chips at top and at
bottom of spine, 2" tear top front. $27

Barton, Humphrey. Atlantic Adventurers: Voyages in Small Craft.
Southhampton: Adlard Coles, no date. Green cloth, 252 pp, plates. First
published 1953, foreword to 2nd ed dated 1961. With 43 drawings, paintings
and photographs. 7606.1 G/G, ex-lib usual marks. $8

Barton, Humphrey. Westward Crossing. NY: Norton, 1950, stated 1st Ed.
HB in jacket, 209 pp. Barton and a mate sailed a 25-foot sloop from
England to New York in 1950; well written. 12362.1 VG/Good; book has a
small bookplate at top of front endpaper, also has a 1/4" bump at bottom
center of front board, else clean and solid, straight; jacket is clean,
chipped along top 1/8" of spine, 1/4" chips at two corners. $18

Blackwell, Meike. Ships in Early Irish History. Whilegate, County
Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1992. Pictorial hardboard, 6.5x8.7", 65 pp. A
straightforward book describing currans, boats and ships through all the
periods of Irish history, with many text illustrations. The last chapter is
on Irish families or cities with ships in their crests or seals and why.
11520.1 Inscribed "To Mary and Peter with best wishes" and signed by the
author. Very Near Fine: Clean, straight, solid, unmarked; corners lighty
bumped 1/4". $35

Blake, George. Down to the Sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Cloth,
354 pp. "The Romance of the Clyde, its ships and shipbuilders." 10 photo
plates. 9537.1 VG/G; 1" light-greasy spot on free front endpaper; dj
corners chipped 1/2", 1/2" strip gone from top of clean dj spine. $20

Borden, Charles A. Sea Quest: Global Blue-Water Adventuring in Small
Craft. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith (1967), 3rd. Clothbound, 352 pp. A
survey of the long-distance sailors in small ships, past, present and
future. With four charts, notes on blue-water voyaging books, a reading
list, and various photos in text, and index. 7668.1 G/VG, spine lean. $8

Bryant, Samuel W. The Sea and the States: A Maritime History of the
American People. NY: Crowell, 1947, 1st. Navy cloth, gilt title; 598 pp
One of "The Growth of America Series." With 21 photos on 16 pp, index.
7525.1 VG; gift inscription ffep. $12

Casey, Robert J. Torpedo Junction. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943,
1st. With the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor to Midway. 5566.1 NF in
bright dw with edgewear and chips. $15

Casson, Lionel. The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the
Mediterranean in Ancient Times. NY: Macmillan, 1959, 1st. Clothbound, 286
pp. With numerous plates, figures, maps, and index. 7669.1 G/in partial
dw; dampwrinkling on 2" corner of some pages; 2" chip in dj at spine
bottom. $6

Chaffee, Allen. Heroes of the Shoals. New York: Henry Holt and Co.,
1935, stated 1st printing. Green cloth, 196 pp. Chaffee departs from his
usual animal stories in this incident-packed collection of events in the
history of the U.S. Coast Guard. Filled with both dialogue and research.
With 20 b&w photo plates of disasters or Coast Guardsmen at work. 11150.1
VG, with these three ex-lib marks: spine label, stamp on front ep, pocket
removal trace rear ep; else clean, solid. $25

Connolly, James B. Master Mariner: The Life and Voyages of Amasa Delano.
Doubleday Doran, 1943, stated 1st. Tan cloth with green stamping, 324 pp.
Starting out in 1789, the New Englander had a distinguished career
including consideral explorations in the South Pacific, early landing in
Japan, capture of slave ships, etc. 10146.1 This was very good, then I
pushed the rolling shelf over to the light bulb and charred the top corner
of the spine 1.5"x.25" ; it was clean and solid, corners very lightly
bumped, unmarked; now reduced by over half. $5

Cree, Dr. Edward H; Michael Levien, editor. Naval Surgeon/ The Voyages
of Dr. Edward H. Cree, RN, as related in his private journals, 1837-1856.
New York: Dutton, 1981, 1st. Cloth, 8x10", 275 pp. Cree served 10 years
in the Far East, including the First Opium War of 1839-1842; over half the
paintings illustrating these journals are of China. With 200 watercolors
by Dr. Cree. Endpaper maps show his travels in China. 5631.1 F/NF; dw
clipped (small). $17

Fitzgerald, Edmond J. Marine Painting in Watercolor. New York:
Watson-Guptill, 1972 Hard Cover, First Printing; ISBN:0-8230-3008-3. HB,
cloth, 8.25x11", 176 pp. Materials, Techniques, Painting Outdoors,
Painting in the Studio, Still and Moving Water, Colors of Water, Sky,
Shoreline, White Water, Marine Still Lifes, Boats, Ships. 40 full color
plates, 160 b&w illustrations. 12219.1 VG/VG: brief 1977 gift
inscription top of free endpaper, else clean, straight, solid; jacket
bright with two closed tears to 1/2" on bottom edge. $17

Geen, Fox. Fitting Out a Moulded Hull. Molded. London: Hollis & Carter,
1974. Trade paperback, 173 pp. Complete instructions, with many line
drawings. 7672.1 Fine. $8

Gorsky, Bernard. Vastness of the Sea. Boston: Little, Brown, Co., 1957,
1st. Four Frenchmen's sailing and underwater adventures from Tangiers to
Tahiti. 5482.1 NF in dw with edgewer and 3/4" chip top front; one
group of pages loose on threads. $15

Graumont, Raoul, and Elmer Wenstrom. Fisherman's Knots and Nets.
Cambridge: Cornell Maritime Press, c.1948. Red cloth, 206 pp, l77
illustrations. 7613.1 Fine/VG jacket. $14

Greenhill, Basil & Giffard, Ann. Victorian and Edwardian Merchant
Steamships from old Photographs. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979,
1st printing. Clothbound, 7.7x10", 144 pp. With lengthy explanatory
captions, useful. 11117.1 Fine/VG: Book clean, straight, unmarked; dj
has very minor wrinkling at top of spine. $20

Masefield, John. The Wanderer of Liverpool. New York: Macmillan, 1930,
1930, 1st thus. HB, green cloth with gilt titles, 7x9". Color
frontispiece from painting, many b&w photo plates, 4 fold-out plans of the
ship at rear. 12464.1 Very Good: endpapers darkening from foxing;
straight and solid, unmarked; spine dulled a little. $5.00

McCutchan, Philip. Tall Ships: The Golden Age of Sail. Crown, 1976,
1st; 4to, 161 p, biblio, index. With many photos. 6626.1 F/VG, 1" tear.
$10

McDowell, Carl E. And Gibbs, Helen M. Ocean Transportation. New York:
McGraw-Hill Co, 1954 / 1954, 1st. Tan cloth, 8vo, 475 pp. With the
bookplate of Charles Wheeler, and a glowing inscription "to Charles and
Marion Wheeler / Who have inspired many and who deserve great rewards ...
They made possible all that follows in these pages" and signed by both
authors. 11152.1 VG: clean and straight no other marks, bottom corners
lightly bumped. $20

Smale, Captain Rudolph. There Go The Ships. Caxton, 1940, 1st.
Clothbound; 312 pp + 15 b&w plates. Captain Smale recalls the days of
commercial sailing, starting in 1882 at the age of 16 in an engine room,
but chiefly occupied with sailing aboard clipper ships, until 1911. Photos
of Pacific clipper shipwrecks. 6318.1 VG/chipped dw, lt soil. $25

Tooker, L. Frank. Under Rocking Skies. NY: Century Co, 1905, 1st.
Cloth, 282 pp. 6 plates from paintings. 9749.1 VG, clean & bright; name
on ffep, one plate loose. $50

White, Herbert John. Oil Tank Steamers. Glasgow: James Brown, 1919, 2nd
edition; 150 pp. Brown cloth. Their Working and Pumping Arrangements
Explained Thoroughly; with 30 chapters, 13 diagrams, and tables. 6628.1
Good condition, solid. $30

Williams, Harold (ed). One Whaling Family. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1964, 1st. Cloth, 401 pp. Eliza Williams accompanied her husband on a
whaling voyage 1858-1861, had two children born at sea, and kept a diary.
Part II concerns the destruction of the whaling fleet in the arctic in
1871, Part III the voyage of the Florence 1873-1874, from a manuscript by
her son (140 pp). First printings of the 1861 diary and 1874 manuscript.
With photos and genealogical appendix, and chronology of whaling history.
Edited by a grandson. 7638.1 VG/Good rubbed dj. $10.00

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