Paddlewheelers from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

Duxbury, MA: Seamaster Boats, Inc, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; story of the walking beam engines that powered the steamboats of America from the early nineteenth century to well into the twentieth; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings of the engines and the vessels they powered; in b & w photo wraps; has small, closed… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 112 pp; short history of the pleasure steamer industry based at Bristol and South Wales ports, with individual descriptions and histories of all the major vessels that have served in the area since the 1880's; profusely illustrated with superb b & w photos.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. As New/near fine. 92 pp; covers the whole of paddle-wheel propulsion on the Atlantic; from the SAVANNAH of 1818 to the last CUNARD paddle steamer, the SCOTIA of 1861 and the last FRENCH LINE paddle steamers to be built for transatlantic service; well-illustrated with b & w photos;… Read more about this item

UK: Colin Venton, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 208 pp; well-written story of the paddle-steamers and the men who built, owned and sailed in them; 21 b & w photos; has name and address stamp of former owner on ffep; dj has been price-clipped.

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1982. Hardcover. As New/fine. 207 pp; superb collection of essays on Clyde paddle steamers; profusely illustrated with b & w photos and illustrations; dj has minute closed tear to extreme botom of right corner of rear panel; else As New/Fine.