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159 pages. Authors set sail from the shores of traditional literature and are translated into a world of strange syntax and surprising connections. Along the way they meet almost everyone from Archibald Lampman to Bob Dylan, arriving finally at the keys of a grand piano where the ghost of Gertrude Stein hovers. Witty and direct, moving and eloquent, abstract and challenging, always intriguing. Well worn. Unmarked. Rectangular patch of browning upon half-title page. Book
Articles: You Don't Make a Torpedo Gunner Out of a Drunkard - Agnes Weston, Temperance, and the British Navy; Business for Ships is Miserable Dull - A New Brunswick Mariner Confronts the Waning Days of Sail; The Battle for Convoy HG-75, 22-29 October 1941; Tyranny of the Lash? - Punishment in the Royal Navy during the American War, 1776-1783; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Fantastic El San Juan Hotel ad features Hirschfeld caricatures of these entertainers in a party scene - Paul Anka, Tony Bennett, Victor Borge, Sammy Davis, Robert Goulet, Miss Peggy Lee, Tony Martin, Jane Morgan, Dick Shawn, Kaye Stevens, Leslie Uggams, Jerry Vale and Bobby Vinton; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; It's Not a Bad Crisis to Live In - Is City Life Getting Worse?; Dr. Jonathan Miller Operates on "Alice" - Pronounced 'unfit for children' by B.B.C.'s-TV's Controller; The Lord Proprietors of Congress - article with photos of 16 influential men; Loneliness of the Long-Distance Sailor - what makes Francis Chichester Sail On and On?; Making of a President - Uganda Style - article with photo of Apollo Milton Obote; Hobart D. Betts and Ulrich Franzen win the annuanl competition of the American Institute of Architects - photos of their creations; Getting the Kids We Deserve; and more. Faint library stamp on front cover. Above-average wear to covers which are almost loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at extremities. A maritime classic. Very scarce in this condition. Scarce in this condition
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 7 plates; pictorial blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With bookplate on front paste-down and 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Crisp copy of a maritime classic from the days of sail.
8vo., with frontispiece, plates and large folding plan; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper The author's first book. Newby resigns his post in an advertising agency and signs as apprentice on the four-master MOSHULU. Much-needed reissue of a modern maritime classic, first published in 1956. This edition retains all the plates and folding sail plan of the original but omits the endpaper maps. Now elusive in its own right.
61p. Uncut. Bookseller's stamp. Inked ownership of "William J. Phillips, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., September 23, 1954". 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, gold lettered spine. Top edges slightly darkened. Original dust jacket, soiled with loss. Hardbound. POETRY/W40
49 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: Coming from the Mountains; Oh, Sail Away; Take Her Out of Pity; Don't You Weep, Mary; The Whistling Gypsy; O Ken Karanga; Jesse James; Glorious Kingdom; When My Love Was Here; Karu; Weeping Willow; Reuben James. Above-average external wear. Coverfold almost completely open. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
<p>41 cm, solida rilegatura coeva in piena tela, titolo in oro al dorso, p. 1000 ca. numerosissime ill. e foto anche a piena e doppia pagina. Illustrazioni relative a: equitazione, caccia, sport, canottaggio,teatro, moda, abbigliamento, automobilismo, aeronautica, cinofilia, tennis. Numerose pubblicità, canotaggio, armi. The Chrismas Number con copertina a colori, p. 44. </p>
<p>41 cm, 24 fascicoli in solida rilegatura coeva in piena tela, titolo in oro al dorso p.1000 ca. numerosissime ill. e foto anche a piena e doppia pagina. Illustrazioni relative a equitazione, caccia, sport, canottaggio,teatro, moda, abbigliamento di epoca vittoriana. Include il numero speciale per il Natale 1904. Numerose pubblicità. Ex libris nobiliare al risguardo del piatto. </p>
Pages 477-504. Features: nice colour ad or Guinness inside front cover; Cover photo of Southampton celebrating two 500th anniversaries with old-time pageantry at the historic Bargate on May Day; Five photos illustrate how the Italians protected Trajan's Column against modern war; Two pages of photos illustrate Denmark mourning the loss of its late King, Christian X; Book review of "John Wildman, Plotter and Postmaster"; Five photos from Crete show British war graves, a German troop memorial, and other scenes; Page of photos and illustrations show how electric power will be generated at new Scottish projects; Five photos of oilfields in an English countryside - Eakkring's 150 ton-per-day wells in Nottinghamshire; Article on the Moscow Conference; Five photos of Viceroy and Lady Mountbatten in Peshawar; Photo of Norwegian scientists setting sail in a balsa raft, to prove a point about ancient Peruvian migration; One page photo of May Morning at Magdalen Tower, Oxford; Six centrefold illustrations of the services club for British officers in Paris run by N. A. A. F. I. in the Rothschild mansion in the Rue Du Faubourg-St.-Honore; Four photos document Beatification of Maria Goretti; Photos of personalities of the week include Gerald Micklem, Squadron-Leader H. B. Martin, Lewis Douglas, Margaret Lockwood, Lady Rothermere, Mrs. N. Bolton, Sir Almroth Wright, Mr. E. W. Sturgess, M. Thorez, and M. Paul Ramadier; Three photos of "Chicago" style scenes in London streets after a motorcyclist was shot for trying to prevent the escape of three men who attempted a daylight raid on a jeweler's shop; One-page photo of Eighth Army badges made into a tapestry - an unusual gift for "Monty"; Nice colour back cover ad for the deHavilland Dove, an aircraft for executive and private travel. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 246-308. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; The Woman's Club of Henniker; By Winnipesaukee (poem); The Scotch-Irish Settlers of Peterborough; A Pathetic Monument (poem); George F. Putnam; Cloister Mar Saba; Hannah Eastman's Capture; Beyond the Veil (poem); The First Bank in Concord; Compensation (peom); The McClarys of Epsom; Sea-Dreams (poem); Kearsarge in Autumn (poem); Is the Norse Claim Authentic?; Nice full-page photo-ad for The First National Bank of Concord, N.H.; Nice full-page ad for the Boston and Maine Railroad; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, several maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
pp. vi, 285. Very XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn. Hardbound. Poor copy. NAVAL BOX 2
Features: In the Wake of Columbus; West Through the Northeast Passage; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Part I, Journey to a remote stone age rock quarry center and discovery of a unique fire starting tool; Did the Norsemen sail from Greenland to Ungava Bay for Lumber?. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Near fine/Vg (undamaged clipped dj with light handling marks to white back cover, front cover clean and bright, clean beige boards with brown lettering on white cloth backstrip, a very crisp bright copy with contents in fine condition, one small stain front free endpaper and speckling outside page edges) octavo 224pp. First edition first printing. One of America's best-known yachting writers tells stories on himself and his life afloat.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1953.
Full title: THE CRUISE OF THE STEAM YACHT NORTH STAR; A Narrative of the Excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey Madeira, Etc. pp. 353, (20) [Publisher's Ads. Engraved and woodcut illustrations. Foxed and age & damp stained. 12 mo. 200 mm. Original blue cloth binding, lightened from water exposure. Hardbound. The Steam Yacht "North Star" was the flagship of the New York Yacht Club. It was owned and sailed by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), an American industrialist and philanthropist who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history. TRAV 1
8vo., with frontispiece, 2 coloured plates of house flags, and numerous plates and plans in monochrome; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at upper edge of front panel.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs (several double-page) in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
191 pages including bibliography. Author's inscription upon front endpaper. Rips away the carefully woven veil of confusion to expose a well-financed, long-term campaign by big business to beat back the emerging wave of consumer and victim rights. Clean unmarked copy with very light wear. Minor warp to book. Damage to lower half-inch of dust jacket spine. Book
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and folding plans, small neat inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, case a little loose (but binding entirely sound), an unusually bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of the leading historians of the age of sail.
8vo., Seventh Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding plans, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean copy. A standard reference by one of the leading historians of the age of sail.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in blue and black, numerous plates, several illustrations and diagrams in the text, 3 folding maps and plans, and endpaper maps; buckram, gilt back, covers mildly age-soiled, backstrip faded (but gilt partially legible) else a very good, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND W DENYS GODIN, CHAIRMAN OF KILLICK MARTIN, ON HALF-TITLE. Splendid presentation and association copy of an uncommon and substantial shipping history. Founded in 1861 and here celebrating its centenary, Killick Martin was one of the foremost runners tea clippers.
Folio, First Edition thus , with full-page colour plates and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Well-produced modern abridgement of the original 1930s editions.