Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2001, first edition, second printing. Clean, tight 4to, 119pp. The author's intention was to limit the book to the classification of the rigging of the ship Melampus with no mention of the numerous alternative aspects of 18th century square-riggers. The illustrations are phenomenal in..... More

Hardcover. New York, Orbit/Hatchette Book Group, 2017, first edition. The dust jacket has a slight bend to the inside front flap. The book has lighlty bumped spine ends and tips. A very nice copy. By 2140 New York City is more like Venice, Italy, since the rising of the sea..... More

1970. Hardcover. Cambridge, MD., Tidewater Publishers, 1970, first edition. Clean tight 4to, 132pp. Some tiny chips and one very small closed tear to top edge of dust jacket. From laying the keel to her final days, this is the biography of the four-masted schooner Purnell T. White. Contains a list..... More

Hardcover. Rare book. Oakland, CA., The Rather Press, 1973, limited edition. This is number 35 of 100 copies. Collectible. Rather Press "printed for pleasure. These books were written, designed, hand-set printed, usually case-bound by them." This is the biography of Robert Lewis Stevenson's beautiful little Schooner Casco. It was best..... More

Hardcover. Newport News, VA, University Of Virginia Press, 1978, first edition, Museum Publication 35. Head and tail of spine are lightly bumped, minor scuffs to tips. The dust jacket has a couple of very small chips on the edges. The very interesting and detailed biography of one of the colorful..... More

Hardcover. London, Percival Marshall & Co., Ltd. 1955, revised first edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 146pp plus a fold-out of the full rigged "St. George, a second rate 96 guns, 1701 spar and rigging plan." Book has light toning in a small strip on the ffe, otherwise no flaws. Dust jacket..... More

New York, Dover Publications, 1968 reprint of the 1926 original edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 275pp. No apparent flaws except for a special stamp on the ffe from Karl Kortum, the Director of the San Francisco Maritime museum "This book" he says, "is the finest introduction to sailing ships -- let..... More

Hardcover. New York, Edward Sweetman Co., 1974 reprint from the 1969 edition. Clean, tight, 8vo, 155pp. An explanation of terms and phrases and the progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships. Has tables of the quantities and dimensions of the standing and running rigging of ships, and much..... More

New Jersey: Castle, 1981. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean tight 8to, 484pp. Dust jacket has several closed tears and a few very small chips out of the edges. The book is good with only a neatly penned f.o. name. Fine, authentic western writing. One sees a lot of Remington's fabulous paintings..... More

Castle Books, 1986. First edition thus. Hardcover. Heavy, clean, tight 4to, 649pp. All of the writings of Frederick Remington, one of the most famous painters and sculptors of the American West. He was equally celebrated for his stories, articles and novels, much of it now out of print... More

Jane Dyer. Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown Young Readers, 1992, later printing. Clean, tight children's picture book, 96pp, 4to. Alively collection of more than 100 poems for children by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Nikki Giovanni, Jack Prelutsky, and many others. Rhymes, songs, poems, fun..... More

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster Children's Books, 2010, first edition. Clean, tight children's picture book, tall 4to, unpaginated. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear with very small scuffs and tiny chips on the head and tail of spine. The bottom third of the dust jacket has been glued to..... More

1979. Owen Wood. Hardcover. New York, Viking Press/Studio Book, 1979, probable first thus. Clean, tight 4to, unpaginated. The dust jacket has very minimal shelf wear, but does have one neatly repaired closed tear to the back cover. The book has a book plate on the front pastedown that has been..... More