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193719137Henry Holt and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Maroon cloth over is stained with wear to corners and caps but bright and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs clean and in very good condition. Former owner's small bookplate affixed to front paste down and dust jacket flaps are tipped onto paste downs. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. . Henry Holt and Company hardcover
19909780486264400-2025Dover Publications 1990. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Hervey Garrett Smith</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Dover Publications</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780486264400</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1990</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 256</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Over 150 years ago the skills needed to operate a merchant sailing vessel were many and varied. While not nearly as much in demand today as they were in the days of the Yankee clippers these skills nevertheless remain important and necessary to today's yachtsmen and owners of smaller pleasure boats.In this excellent handbook on basic shipboard skills marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging working and maintaining a ship. More than 100 illustrations help the reader grasp the fundamentals and fine points of handling a ship while the author describes in detail a sailor's tools basic knots and useful hitches as well as the arts of splicing handsewing and canvas work.Other topics equally important to safe economical and efficient boat maintenance and management include belaying coiling and stowing; towing procedures; how to make a chafing gear; and much more. Easy-to-follow instructions for fashioning decorative knots ornamental coverings and nettings and even how to make a proper bucket round out this engaging and informative guide.Packed with useful "hands-on" information conveyed in a chatty humorous style The Arts of the Sailor is the perfect book to keep aboard ship for study and for ready reference when the need arises. It also makes delightful reading for armchair sailors and the legions of landlubbers with an interest in the sea.</p> Dover Publications hardcover
19909780486264400-2025Dover Publications 1990. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Hervey Garrett Smith</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Dover Publications</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780486264400</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1990</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 256</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Over 150 years ago the skills needed to operate a merchant sailing vessel were many and varied. While not nearly as much in demand today as they were in the days of the Yankee clippers these skills nevertheless remain important and necessary to today's yachtsmen and owners of smaller pleasure boats.In this excellent handbook on basic shipboard skills marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging working and maintaining a ship. More than 100 illustrations help the reader grasp the fundamentals and fine points of handling a ship while the author describes in detail a sailor's tools basic knots and useful hitches as well as the arts of splicing handsewing and canvas work.Other topics equally important to safe economical and efficient boat maintenance and management include belaying coiling and stowing; towing procedures; how to make a chafing gear; and much more. Easy-to-follow instructions for fashioning decorative knots ornamental coverings and nettings and even how to make a proper bucket round out this engaging and informative guide.Packed with useful "hands-on" information conveyed in a chatty humorous style The Arts of the Sailor is the perfect book to keep aboard ship for study and for ready reference when the need arises. It also makes delightful reading for armchair sailors and the legions of landlubbers with an interest in the sea.</p> Dover Publications hardcover
1953097372New York and Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company. Top corners very lightly bumped spine almost cracked. Jacket in brodart has some soil small tears and pieces missing. Pages very bright. . Good . Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953. D. Van Nostrand Company hardcover
192486969London: Thornton Butterworth 1924. Second impression. Hardcover. Good. Jacket artwork by Abbey. First edition second impression. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket priced 7/6. Set in Southeast Asia<em> The Black Parrot</em> is a romantic adventure novel that follows an American protagonist through the exotic landscapes of the Golden Chersonese modern-day Malaysia. The narrative weaves themes of colonial intrigue and the allure of the Orient. Inscription to front endpaper some foxing and minor marking; cloth slightly sunned at spine corners some spotting; jacket with some wear & tear some loss to head of spine. Thornton Butterworth hardcover
192349001New York: The Century Co 1923. 1st edition Smith H-574. Black cloth binding with orange & yellow stamping. No dust jacket. Slight cock. General wear & soiling. Very Good. 10 337 3 blank pp. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
192351318New York & London: Century Co 1923. First edition of the author's second book; 8vo pp. 10 3-337 1; original pictorial black cloth stamped in yellow and orange; spine a bit faded; a good sound copy. This copy with a long inscription from the author "To - the 'Lonely Lady' Mary Frances Buffum who if she shall read the neat volume of my juvenilia will find her personality pressed into the pages - just as a flower is pressed between the pages of a book . Meanwhile may this stir faint and perhaps poignant memories of certain days in the brutal white-hot glare of the Indian Ocean . Harry Hervey." <br/><br/> Century Co hardcover books
19232263125Grosset & Dunlap 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reissue. Front board slightly bowed ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 337 pp. A travelogue of the author's voyages in Southeast Asia. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1923622542New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Blue papercovered boards titled in silver. Small red leather gilt bookplate of Anne J. Smith on front pastedown which has offset onto the facing page else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eugene Delafield. Yale University Press hardcover
1923z012313New Haven: Yale University Press 1923. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/good. SIGNED on the flyleaf by Hervey Allen. 1923. First edition thus. Hardcover 8vo. in blue boards and glassine dust jacket. Unpaginated. Very good in good dust jacket. Shallow chipping loss to dj extremities mostly complete and unclipped. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally bright and unmarked. Yale University Press hardcover
1922469410New York: James F. Drake Inc 1922. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octav. Illustrated reproducing decorations by Bernhardt Wall. 37pp. Quarter cloth spine and decorated gold foil paper-covered boards. Small pencil name of Miner Allen on front fly foil boards moderately rubbed; a few pages roughly opened causing a few nicks and short tears else near fine. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Hervey Allen. The book was printed at the Press of William Edwin Rudge with typography by Bruce Rogers. James F. Drake, Inc hardcover
192211762New York:: James F. Drake 1922. First edition; No. 330 of 350 copies signed by the author. publisher's cloth-backed boards in glassine. Slight sunning to spine and edges of boards else a nice copy in glassine with some chips. 8vo. Illustrated by Bernhardt Wall. James F. Drake, hardcover
1922176477New York: James F. Drake Inc 1922. Hardcover. VG- overall wear to boards but pages are in very good clean condition. Orangish-red paper decorative boards with red cloth spine that has title block 34 1 pp illustrated. Signed by author on ffep. This copy is signed by the author on ffep. Author numbered this copy 281. "Three hundred and fifty copies printed at the press of William Edwin Rudge Mount Vernon N.Y. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Decorations by Bernhardt Wall." -colophon. James F. Drake, Inc hardcover
1922176477New York: James F. Drake Inc 1922. Hardcover. VG- overall wear to boards but pages are in very good clean condition. Orangish-red paper decorative boards with red cloth spine that has title block 34 1 pp illustrated. Signed by author on ffep. This copy is signed by the author on ffep. Author numbered this copy 281. "Three hundred and fifty copies printed at the press of William Edwin Rudge Mount Vernon N.Y. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Decorations by Bernhardt Wall." -colophon. James F. Drake, Inc hardcover books
195723274New York: The Ronald Press Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library labels and markings including blacked out rubber stamps.; xii 319 1 blank pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 228 x 150mm. Selected chapter titles: A Sexual Renaissance; Abstraction and Actuality; Parodies on a Sexual Theme; Sunday Beliefs; Portrait of a Lady - Nonobjective Style; Adolescent Hero Worship; The Dynamics of Illustion; Where Knowledge Leaves Off; Fugitives from Eros; Travesty and Disappointment; Errands of Sisyphus; Crusade to Nonsense; Art Illness and Propaganda; Pied Pipers of Pathology; Misogyny and the Flesh; Antisexuality; Medusa; The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name; Eros; The Undefined. . The Ronald Press Company hardcover
196747593New York:: The Ronald Press Company. VG-/NONE. 1967. Hardcover. Hardback second edition originally published 1957 bound in red cloth covers with light wear sound hinges clean pages. Signed "Hervey Cleckley" by the author with lengthy inscription in French to the previous owners. No DJ. Not library discard. MOVED TO END OF DB; . The Ronald Press Company, hardcover
19501269797968Wiley; Chapman & Hall 1950. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Minor loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Wiley; Chapman & Hall hardcover
194854387Rinhart & Company January 1948. Hardcover. Used. Vintage Classics a Floor Rinhart & Company hardcover
19771149Amsco 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. All 3 volumes sold together. Some wear and folding to the covers and some small markings here and there. Overall condition is still very nice. 96 126 96 pp. Amsco paperback
1953307005London : Published by the Viscount Kemsley at the Dropmore Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn with some loss and dust-toned dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xii 116 pages plates some color 36 cm. Subjects; Tower of London London England ; Catalogues. Regalia Insigia Great Britain. Crown jewels Great Britain. Regalia Insignia Great Britain. Crown jewels Great Britain History. Crown jewels Great Britain ; Catalogues. Regalia Insignia Great Britain ; Catalogues. Regalia Insignia England London ; Catalogues. Crown jewels. Regalia Insignia. Regalia. Tower of London. Tower of London Crown jewels. Great Britain. Crown jewels. Jewellery. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. London : Published by the Viscount Kemsley at the Dropmore Press hardcover
193913024New York: The Greystone Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Toning to inside dust jacket. Chips and wear to corners and head and heel of spine 1' closed tear to top left side of dust jacket. Housed in custome clamshell box. The Greystone Press hardcover
193987557New York: The Greystone Press 1939. First edition first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page "For - Nicholas Eli Parker. Sincerely Harry Hervey September 1941". Rare in the dust jacket. Hervey was a screenwriter and the author of Shanghai Express. Octavo. Original turquoise cloth titles and foliate border to spine and front board in black. With dust jacket. Just a little rubbed and faded at the edges. An excellent fresh copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few short closed tears. hardcover
19472352924New York: Rinehart & Company Inc 1947. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Fink Robert. 4th printing. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1947 Hard Cover. 406 pp. Black-and-white woodcut vignettes by Robert Fink. One of the scarcest titles in the Rivers of America series. "The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years.The Everglades: River of Grass is a non-fiction book written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1947. Published the same year as the formal opening of Everglades National Park the book was a call to attention about the degrading quality of life in the Everglades and continues to remain an influential book on nature conservation as well as a reference for information on South Florida used as recently as 2007 by the New York Times. Rinehart & Company, Inc hardcover
194376242New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Owner name on the verso of the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a touch of rubbing. An unusually fine copy of the first novel in Allen's Disinherited series. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1943205109New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 344 pages in very good clean condition. Colour frontispiece. Endpapers clean; slightly yellowed. Grey cloth with blue titles. Covers show very light wear. Black DJ with illustrations and orange titles. Small chips at head/tail of spine. Lightly soiled. Small tears along edges and corners worn. Jacket not price-clipped. VG/GOOD <br/> <br/> Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated hardcover
