Search Results: Nautical from The Novel Shoppe

Stein and Day. Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 081282881X . Previous owner's label on heel of DJ spine. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; 27957 .

Control Data Publishing, Minneapolis,. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0898935067 . One large--~1"-- and one small tear at top edge of back and minor rubbing at extremities. DJ in mylar book jacket cover. Color illustration of "Yankee Girl At Dawn" by Jerome F Ryan. The Yankee Girl was the craft in which Mr. Spiess successfully crossed the transatlantic. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; 16713 .

San Diego, CA: United States Naval Institute. Very Good-. 1969. Hardcover. Cover soil, minor dampstain. Includes 33 1/3 rpm record "Bluejackets on Parade" ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 18018 .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fold-out plates of old ships at end of book. Corners bumped; previous owner's name. ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139+ pages; 31835 .

Air Nav. Very Good. 1988. Softcover. Aerial photographs for each map. ; 14814 .

J. B. Lippincott. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1959. Hardcover. DJ edgeworn, rubbed, soiled. Pencil outline of sailboat on front of DJ. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 88 pages; 17932 .

NY: Gramercy. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0517160722 . B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages; 25826 .

NY: Coward-Mccann. Near Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Illustrated with photos, drawings and charts ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 221 pages; 16714pta-. .

Warner Books Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0446518514 . The author of the best-selling "The Discovery of the Titanic" explores the controversies surrounding the sinking of the cruise ship in 1915, in a large-format gift book featuring more than three hundred photographs and illustrations. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 227 pages; 24058 .

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1967. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's cataloging label neatly taped to spine of DJ which is moderately edgeworn. Previous owner's name. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; 24633 .

Coward - Mccann, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1968. BOMC. Hardcover. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs in full color and black and white. DJ rubbed and edgeworn, in mylar cover. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 269 pages; 17811pta-. .

Blakiston / Dutton. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1943. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Faint stains on spine edge and adjoining boards. Previous owner's name. Front map endpapers are upside down. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; 20490 .

NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1958. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. First book dealing with this last, greatest, and most controversial battle of the dreadnoughts. Light foxing, DJ edgeworn, chipped, torn, in new mylar ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages; 28133 .

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1977. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. 0030184665 . Endpapers show The High Seas Fleet under Admiral Reinhard Scheer and The Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. Mildly edgeworn DJ. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 230+index pages; 24134 .

NY: Hyperion Books. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0786862963 . Riding the wave of ocean liner nostalgia, "Lost Liners" presents the most comprehensive and spectacular volume ever--a guided tour encompassing the beginnings, heyday, and eventual decline of the great Atlantic express liners. Ken Marschall's lavish paintings depict the ships in their shining prime as well as in their eerily poignant underwater repose. Minor edgewear to DJ. ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 223 pages; 24136 .

The Mentor. Very Good-. 1929. Magazine. First page shows picture of the painting of the ship, "Constitution--Outward Bound" by Thomas Birch, one of the treasures of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's collection of ship pictures. Governor Roosevelt then had in his possession many rare and interesting pictures of frigates and clipper ships that were among the first to carry America's flag on the high seas. Portrait of Governor Roosevelt by Paul Troubetskoy on verso. Cover missing, stapled. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 70 pages; 21440 .

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing. Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cutaways of ship on endpapers and B/W photographs. Laid down in 1916, in her first and only major engagement on May 24, 1941, she was sunk by the Bismarck with the second volley ever fired at her. Edgeworn DJ with small chips and tears, now in new mylar. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages; 13765 .

NY: Random House Value Publishing. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0517613506 . An informed analysis, magnificently illustrated, of current naval technology, the forms and the functions of modern warships and their weapons. The design, armament and equipment of today's fighting ships, and the tactics devised for their employment on, under and above the seas and oceans of the world. Small tear at heel of spine. ; Folio - 13" to 23" tall; 19213 .

NY: Motor Boating. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Heavy, oversize volume 5 of Motor Boating's Ideal Series. Boards rubbed and stained. Map endpapers, illustrations, charts, graphs. ; 4to - 11" to 13" tall; 15972 .

Motor Boating Sailing Bks. Near Fine in Poor Dust Jacket. 1975. 51st; 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 0910990212 . Contents, in part: nautical terms; equipment for boats; anchoring; the skipper; seamanship; safety afloat; weather; navigation aids; flag etiquette; electronic equipment; signaling; charts. Appendixes, index. This 1975 revision is authored by Elbert S. Maloney, William Koelbel, John Wilde, and Gardner Emmons. Laid in are remnants of the DJ: rear panel including the flap, front flap with top corner of front of DJ attached. Remainder of front panel is missing. Front endpapers showing charts and navigation aids. Rear endpapers Illustrations of common knots, bends, hitches, and splices. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 640 pages; 30673 .