Search Results: Titles starting with C from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1993. Paperback. Fine. 85 pp; comprehensive guide and reference; profusely illustrated throughout with superb full-color and b & w photos; in full-color photo wraps.

New York, NY: The american Tract Society. Hardcover. Good +. 159 pp; with an "Abridged" Introductory Essay by Rev. Thomas Chalmers; corners bumped; cloth boards are scuffed and rubed; scattered foxing throughout; hinges and spine tight and intact.

UK: Black Dog Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good +. 112 pp; stunning photographic book of ships at Cape Town, SA from 1862 to 2000; 195 superb b & w photos plus 19 full-color photos; published without a dj; in full-color photo, laminated boards; has chip on top edge of rear board.

Hemel Hempstead, UK: Model & Allied Publications Ltd, 1972. Paperback. Very Good +. 74 pp; in an era when plastics reigned supreme in ship model making; the author is a throw back to another era who fuses his conderable skills as a model maker with a philosophy of gaining pleasure from making things with his hands and brain; profusely illustrated with line drawings, b & w photos and 4 detailed fold-outs; in full-color photo wraps.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 197 pp; comprehensive look at the cultivation, improvement and development of the carnation; with chapters on the carnation in Scotland and Ireland; includes 1 fold-out; several pages of related advertisements; in dark brown, full-leather boards with gilt stamping; page edges gilted as well; red, marbled end-papers; some scuffing to boards, corners bumped; minor foxing to prelims;.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd, 1978. Hardcover. As New/fine. 64 pp; collection of superb b & w photos from the Gibson family os Scillly and Penzance; covering 19 shipwrecks of the coast of cornwall; dj has been price-clipped.

Firenze, Italia: Leo S. Olschki - Editore, 1954. Paperback. Very Good +. 394 pp; catalogue of the scientific instruments housed in the Museo Di Storia Della Scienza in Florence, Italy; with 89 detailed illustrations and 16 b & w plates; (TEXT IS COMPLETELY IN ITALIAN); has original paper wraps folded over catalogue in printed wraps.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Wyeth, N. C.. 457 pp; novel set in Civil War; with 4 full-color illustrstions by N. C. Wyeth; tissue guard present; boards show wear.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 152 pp; commemorative book with accounts of the laying of the original corner stone, in 1793, and of the corner stone of the extension, in 1851; well-illustrated with numerous, very detailed line drawings and b & w photos; hinge is split at Contents page.

Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, L.L.C., 2009. Hardcover. New. 366 pp; scholarly examination of cemetery of Byzantin (probable 7th-c) uncovered by excavations around the Roman circus at Carthage in 1982; profusely illustrated with both b & w and full-color photos and line drawings; one fold-out map; Supplementary Series Number 75; includes CD in rear pocket; published without a dj in grey boards with red stamping.

Kendal, UK: World Ship Society, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. 92 pp; staple-bound booklet; 9 page history of this Dutch shipping company; followed by Fleet List; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; has small, circular stain spot to right edge of front cover; some rubbing to covers; published to commemorate the company's 100th Anniversary; in illustrsted wraps.

Kendal, UK: World Ship Society, 1970. Paperback. Near Fine. 92 pp; staple-bound booklet; 9 page history of this Dutch shipping company; followed by Fleet List; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; published to commemorate the company's 100th Anniversary; in illustrsted wraps.

Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd, 1981. Hardcover. As New/fine. 124 pp; well-written and profusley illustrated with b & w photos; this book is a nostalgic look backward at Cross-channels Ferries and the service they provided; dj has been price-clipped and has another price sticker at bottom of front flap 64mo - up to 3" tall.

UK: World Ship Society, 1985. Paperback. Fine. 80 pp; staple-bound booklet; the story of a Tyneside tramp shipping company; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; in illustrated wraps; very slight rubbing to covers.

New York: Swann Auction Galleries, 2010. Paperback. New. unpaginated; catalogue for the auction of the magnificent collection of ocean liner posters from Stephen Bennet Chase that was held at Swann's New York showroom on March 4, 2010; has printed notice that all posters are linen backed and archivally mounted that was laid in; in full-color illustrated wraps.

Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. As New/very good +. 211 pp; fascinating overview of Chesapeake Bay as seen through the eyes of over fifty true experiences; profusley illustrated with superb b & w photos from the authors personal collection; dj has small closed tear of approximately 1/4" to top edge of front panel.

St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1982. Paperback. Near Fine. 56 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine history of Chesapeake Bay sloops; with 19 b & w photos and line drawings; in b & w photo wraps; has name and address stamp of former owner on half-title page.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980. Contains photographs.

1stBooks, 2001. Paperback. Fine. 284 pp; first of three books portraying the initial landfall, descent into feudalism and eventual rediscovery of a lost space colony; in full color, illustrated wraps; has remainder mark to bottom of page edges; else Fine/.

Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 295 pp; history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades; well-illustrated with b & w photos; charts, tables, etc.; front boards has slight staining to both lower corners; dj has very minor chipping to head of spine and shows rubbing and scuffing overall; crease to edge of front flap as well.