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THE U.S. LIFE SAVING SERVICE Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard by Shanks, Ralph C. & Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks - 1995

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THE U.S. LIFE SAVING SERVICE Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early  Coast Guard by Shanks, Ralph C. &  Wick York &  Lisa Woo Shanks - 1995

THE U.S. LIFE SAVING SERVICE Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard

by Shanks, Ralph C. & Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks

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Petaluma, CA: Costano Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0930268156 . Quarto; Book: Veery light foxing along top edge ; Photographs old engravings; 262 pages .
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Sea-Life Sixty Years Ago: A Record of Adventures Which Led Up To the Discovery of the Reclics of...
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Sea-Life Sixty Years Ago: A Record of Adventures Which Led Up To the Discovery of the Reclics of the Long Missing Expedition

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viii+224+[44 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with gilt pictorial to cover. Inscribed by the author. First edition.George Bayly followed in the family tradition of seafaring and sailed to the far corners of the British Empire. He kept meticulous diaries, including pen-and-ink wash drawings of his travels. A naval captain and sketcher, was born in Rotherhithe, London, third of the 10 children of George Bayly, a sailmaker and ships' chandler, and Ann, nee Boyd. He was baptized in St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 1 April 1808. After being educated at Ramsgate, Kent, he signed on as an apprentice officer on the Almorah in 1824, a ship owned by his uncle Captain Matthew Boyd and captained by another relative, George H. Boyd, that was transporting over 100 female convicts from Cork to Sydney. 'Over the next 24 years he sailed to most of the major ports between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, with Calcutta as his main… Read More
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Lloyd's Register of Ships (Three Volumes)

Lloyd's Register of Ships (Three Volumes)

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London, UK: Lloyd's, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover, first edition, 10kg, coloured endpapers, set of three volumes. Complete 1983-84 register of ships from Lloyd's. Volume I (A - G) 1934pgs, includes pocket inside front cover with conversion tables and proforma for registration. Volume II (H - O) 1916pgs. Volume III (P - Z) 1958pgs. Books are in good condition with mild general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Due to the weight of items, postage estimate will most likely be insufficient. Photo featured is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title your looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!!..
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A Volume containing a Series of Papers from the Shipmasters’ Society, London 1896-1899:...

A Volume containing a Series of Papers from the Shipmasters’ Society, London 1896-1899: Seventh Session, Course of Papers No. 4, April 1896; Eighth Session, No. 46, October 1896 etc

by W Caius Crutchley; Charles W Dilke; Benedict W Ginsburg; Capt M J Butcher; Prof F Clownes; William Allingham; Anthony S Thomson; W F Caborne; Thomas Walton; Stephen Harding Terry; W G Romeril; Edward Blackmore; H M W P Johnson; M W Campbell; S R Chandler;

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Shipmasters' Society, London, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A Volume containing a Series of Papers from the Shipmasters’ Society, London 1896-1899. Includes Seventh Session, Course of Papers No. 45: April 1896, Why the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Should be Members of a Shipmasters’ Society by W Caius Crutchley; Eighth Session, Course of Papers No. 46, October 1986, Introductory Address to the Members by Rt Hon. Sir Charles W Dilke; Legal Duties of the Shipmaster at Home and Abroad by Benedict W Ginsburg; Course of Papers No. 47, November 1986 Notes on Details of Steamship Construction by Captain M J Butcher; Course of Papers No. 48, January 1897 The Detection of Inflammable Gas and Vapour on board Ships by Professor F Clownes; Course of Papers No. 49 February 1987, Sea Apprentices of the British Merchant Navy by William Allingham; Course of Papers No. 50 & 51 April 1987, Hints on Elementary Stability with Some Remarks on the Carriage of… Read More
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VIEWS ALONG SHORE: Boston and Portsmouth S/S Co
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VIEWS ALONG SHORE: Boston and Portsmouth S/S Co

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Boston: Boston & Portsmouth Steamship Co, 1891. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good. (35)pp; 17 views from photographs, descriptions on facing pages; folding map bound at back, opens to 8" x 16". Printed by Thomas H. Brackett, Boston. Pictorial light-board covers; lower portion of spine roughened, else clean and tight. 5.75" x 9" Views include: Steamer "John Brooks"; Marblehead Rock; Baker's Island; Cape Ann Lights; Isles of Shoals; Appledore Island; Whale's Back; &c. [OCLC does not record this title.].
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STATE OF NEW YORK, REPORT ON THE BARGE CANAL FROM THE HUDSON RIVER TO THE  GREAT LAKES FEBRUARY...
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STATE OF NEW YORK, REPORT ON THE BARGE CANAL FROM THE HUDSON RIVER TO THE GREAT LAKES FEBRUARY 12, 1901 (PART 1 ONLY)

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Albany, N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes, part 1 . Text and tables; part 2. Maps and profiles. PART ONE ONLY. Clean black cloth with gilt decorated spine. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. (i-x) 1020pp. Illustrated with 5 fold-out plans, 2 of which are mended with Document repair tape at folds. Plus numerous tables and index.. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Prior owner ink stamp first & last pages. New York Canals ; Tables, fold out plates; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1020 pages .
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STEAM ON THE CANAL, SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY  CHAPTER 868, LAWS OF...

STEAM ON THE CANAL, SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED BY CHAPTER 868, LAWS OF 1871. TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE FEBRUARY 25, 1873

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Albany, N. Y.: Argus Company. Very Good. 1873. First Edition. Soft Covers. Original clean blue paper covers with black titles on front cover. Interior of booklet is tight, clean & intact. Steam on the New York Canals ; Tables; 8vo; 164 pages .
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor

by Brooks, Walter R.

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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels
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Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels

by Smith, Peter C

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Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011-06-13. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Lovely copy. Text and photos are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean, very light edge/shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Binding is VG, solid, square. First edition. Pen and Sword Maritime (June 13, 2011). Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels. Ships in box quickly and with care.
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The Country Of The Pointed Firs

The Country Of The Pointed Firs

by Jewett, Sarah Orne

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Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."
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The Royal Warship Vasa (Architectura Navalis)
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The Royal Warship Vasa (Architectura Navalis)

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Hardcover Cloth 156 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1988. Nice white boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A book on the building and embellishment, the rigging and armaments of the Vasa, the Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628. The book includes comparative studies of Danish, English and Dutch shipbuilding methods of the time.
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The U. S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the  Early Coast Guard (Signed)
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The U. S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard (Signed)

by Shanks, Ralph; York, Wick; Shanks, Lisa Woo

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Petaluma, California, U. S. A.: Costano Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0930268156 . Signed by Ralph Shanks on the 2nd endpaper. Interestingly, he dated his signature "1996" when the publication data says it wasn't printed until 1997. Go figure. ; 11"; 262 pages; Signed by Author .
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Us Life Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues, and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard
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Us Life Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues, and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard

by Shanks, Ralph C.; York, Wick; Shanks, Lisa Woo

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Costano Books, 1996-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9055 in x 11.5748 in x 8.7795 in.
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD

by Richardson, Stephen

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Solid binding, clean interiors free of any markings. Light shelwear to bottom corner. tiny crease on the edge of page 115. Includes a CD rom of photos. 169 pages. Nonfiction. Sailing. Mountaineering. 0.25" X 7" X 10" 0.7cm X 18cm X 25.5cm Author describes three different adventures he went on: trekking in Nepal on a path along Annapurna in 1981, sailing a small catamaran along the New England Coast in 1983, and as crew on a replicate of James Cook's square rigged sailing ship Endeavor from Bermuda to the West Indies in 1998. There are black and white photos illustrating the text and a CD containing additional bonus photos of the voyages.
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Pirates of the Southern Coast

Pirates of the Southern Coast

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Lighthouse Publications, 2002. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new- gift quality! 24 pages of factual information on Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane, Mary Read ann Anne Bonny illustrated with fine art and photos of artifacts on high quality, glossy paper. 0.9
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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S.S. ILE DE FRANCE -- the Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic
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S.S. ILE DE FRANCE -- "the Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic

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NY: French Line, 1949. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 20pp; illustrated throughout from photographs and full-color watercolor drawings by Richard Lindner. The text sets the scene as the Ship leaves New York harbor: "You are aboard the Ile de France--a completely rebuilt Ile de France." Described are: the Versailles Suite, the Chantilly Suite, the Cafe de Paris; First Class and Cabin Class dining and smoking rooms; theatre; reading room; gymnasium; tourist class salon, smoking room and bar. A 24-inch centerspread from a Lindner painting shows the Ile de France in full color. 12" x 8.25" Originally launched in 1927, the S.S. Ile de France was converted to a troopship in 1941. In 1947, the ship was returned to France, rebuilt, and launched on her second maiden voyage in 1949. This brochure celebrates the post-war, transatlantic Ile de France.
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with...
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.
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Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach

Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach

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International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1999. 13th Printing. Paperback. light shelfwear. Fine, excellent condition
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Pacific Ocean - Fiji Islands to Samoa Islands
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Pacific Ocean - Fiji Islands to Samoa Islands

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Interesting vintage nautical map of the Pacific Ocean, from Fiji Island in the east to Samoan Island in the west. The map also shows Tonga and a few other islands in the South Pacific.Printed in London by Admiralty and under the supervision of the British Royal Navy. Size: 104 x 71 cmCondition: Lines of folding, some wrinkles, in very good condition overall.
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TRICKS OF THE TRADE FOR DIVERS
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TRICKS OF THE TRADE FOR DIVERS

by Malatich, John M. & Wayne C. Tucker

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Centreville, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press. Very Good+. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth has gilt titles on spine and front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with drawings and B/W photographs. Nautical. ; Ex-Library; Drawing, B/W Photograph ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages .
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The Bone People
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The Bone People

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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).
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