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185411315Washington: Pr. by Robert Armstrong 1854. 8vo. 131 pp. <br><br>Contains much service information including date of present commission or warrant date of original entry into service duty or station duration of service at sea ashore and total when last at sea how long unemployed and state of birth citizenship and state of appointment. Also includes laws general orders pay tables and an index; the organization of the Navy Department and Naval Academy; lists and tables of vessels of war squadrons Navy yards and shore stations; and lists of resignations deaths and dismissals. Original wrappers; spine chipped wrappers soiled wrapper edges slightly toned. Signed by previous owner at top of front wrapper. Pamphlet with lengthwise fold marks as to fit in an envelope or pocket. Spots of foxing on blank pages at rear. Pr. by Robert Armstrong unknown books
1946186338Air Group 86 Publishing Committee 1946-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated cloth boards have mild wear. Has a good binding no marks or notations. Air Group 86 Publishing Committee hardcover books
026064Lederer Street and Zeus Printers; Berkeley California; 1946. Oblong Quarto. Construction battalion detachment was the one assigned to the Solomon Islands where they performed major tasks to create a major docking facility while fighting malaria and insects. This remarkable volume has hundreds of photographs that document the 1008th which was one of the larger battalions some on smaller islands had as few as sixty men. Laid in are papers of how the Association funds were spent on the printing engravings editing and other task in producing one of the most thorough Seabee volumes at the cost of $9480.50 in 1946. Only two copies are found on OCLC. Also laid in is a mimeographed list of the men and where they were located in the photographs of the entire battalion. A handsome copy near fine bound in brown and blue cloth lettered in brown and blue Owner's subscriber name stamped in gilt to upper board. [Lederer, Street and Zeus, Printers; Berkeley, California; 1946] unknown books
1858285462Washington: William A. Harris 1858. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair binding. The Navy Register of the United States for the year 1858 with the official status of U.S. Navy personnel vessels shipyards general orders and laws. Soiling to the publisher's paper wrappers. Green tape repair to the spine. Blue paper wrappers with lettering and illustration printed in black. Eicher 20. . Fair binding. William A. Harris unknown books
1856285461Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson 1856. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair binding. The Navy Register of the United States for the year 1856 with the official status of U.S. Navy personnel vessels shipyards general orders and laws. Soiling to the publisher's paper wrappers and loss to the bottom front corner; small chips and tears. Green tape repair to the spine. Blue paper wrappers with lettering and illustration printed in black. Eicher 20. . Fair binding. A. O. P. Nicholson unknown books
1857285459Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson 1857. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair binding. The Navy Register of the United States for the year 1857 with the official status of U.S. Navy personnel vessels shipyards general orders and laws. Soiling and marks in pencil to the publisher's paper wrappers. Green tape repair to the spine. Blue paper wrappers with lettering and illustration printed in black. Eicher 20. . Fair binding. A. O. P. Nicholson unknown books
1979007847Soviet Union 1979. Dated 1979-1982 a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album 13 1/2" w x 9" h in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink drawings of warships 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships on rice paper with each drawing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist. . Photograph Album. Very Good. 13 1/2" w x 9" h. Hardcover books
1946182271n.p c. 1946 1946-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Boards have minor wear. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. n.p, c. 1946 hardcover books
1970182916Naval Institute 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Brown boards. Clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Light wear. Naval Institute hardcover books
1968297597Marceline: Walsworth 1968. First. hardcover. very good. Profusely illustrated with thousands of photographs depicting life on the aircraft carrier some in color. 364 pages. 4to black pebbled boards with embossed gilt emblem on cover. Marceline MO: Walsworth 1968. One page with photo of 3rd division crew is intentionally torn at corner otherwise a very good copy. Includes a loose Holiday card with image of the carrier.<br/><br/> Ownership information in red ink on preliminary page "Robert Bermudez 3rd Div. 67-68 Med. Deployment" and names and home addresses of 8 other crewmen on rear page.<br/><br/> Walsworth unknown books
1944190039GPO 1944 1944-01-01. Paperback. Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor wear. 138 pages. GPO, 1944 paperback books
44154various various. Ca. 1918 - 1936. Most items loose disbound. PARTIAL COLLECTION with at least one element a 1919 diary known to be elsewhere. Two letters quite toned and brittle; evidence of photo album removal to verso of postcards and occasional other items including 6 RPPCs affixed to full leaf; slight mustiness. Some photographs poorly developed and/or lightly soiled. Overall text is clean legible and images are sharp. About Very Good. Total of 83 manuscript and 2 typescript letters plus 1 V-mail comprising 250 pp; of these 54 are from Arthur to various friends etc. 155 pp and 29 are from Arthur's parents and 3 are from others 97 pp. "Notes" folder: 64 ruled leaves 1 blank manuscript text to recto only. Scrapbook album: 46 tan construction paper leaves several blank and/or noticeably missing items. Numerous loose ephemera. Over 250 b/w photographs ranging in size from ~2-1/4" x 1-1/4" to 8" x 10" including many official Navy photos. Also 8 b/w RPPCs 2 half-tones and various negatives color printed certificates postcards etc. Most text on 10-1/2" x 8" leaves. <br/><br/>A collection of material detailing career sailor and struggling writer Arthur Gordon’s attempts to find work in the Merchant Marine during the height of the Great Depression as well as his considerable efforts to set aside time for writing and honing his craft. Gordon served as a lieutenant in the Navy during WWI as Chief Writer on the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Oceanographer during the early 1930s and again as an officer in the U.S. Navy during WWII eventually attaining the rank of commander; his stories of sea life were published in various popular magazines primarily during the 1940s. Gordon is an introspective writer with a good if sometimes uneven sense of how to turn his experiences and thoughts into an often humorous and lightly self-mocking story particularly in "Notes upon leaving the Coast Survey and looking for employment as a Merchant Mate Jan 5 - June 14 1935" a 63 pp autobiography of these experiences written in the third person. "Notes" offers a highly detailed account of Gordon's experiences as an unemployed seaman during the Depression and life aboard an oil tanker when his attempt to gain a position as a 3rd Mate didn't work out: "Las Piedras is an oil tank town with a single narrow dock extending from the shore providing bollards for tying up the ships and supports for the pipe lines. The town is small and I think exists only because of the oil tanks for the location has no charm otherwise. The white oil men live as colonials in an impoverished outpost. They take what stores they need from the steward's supplies aboard ship. Loading is done by gravity since the storage tanks ashore are on the cliff." The letters roughly divided between copies of correspondence sent from Arthur to his friends and letters sent to Arthur from his parents show Gordon to be an enthusiastic and encouraging friend to multiple young men and a few women as well as a dutiful son whose unemployed parents relied heavily on his earnings. Of some note as well are a handful of thoughtful if conflicted references to homosexuality with at least one of Gordon's male friends appearing to have a crush on him and hints that Gordon may have been in gay relationships himself and/or struggled with his sexuality: "…. I quite fully agree with you concerning the chemical make-up of man and the push and pull of attraction or dislike. I have had occasion to study what it is that draws me to which I react most noticeably and I am continually dismayed that usually it is the ‘wrong’ thing. . I’m skeptical of any kind of relation that presupposes permanency. Knowing myself I feel that ‘vows’ would soon be broken. I cannot stand constant association. Routine maddens me. The merest suggestion of ‘chain’ of compulsory anything and I’m off. I don’t think hetero marriages are particularly successful and I don’t think homo are either for almost the same reasons. I don’t mind the companionate idea with women. With men I fight shy. I am getting to the age where in others I condemn homo as degeneracy. I mean that among young people it seems almost natural as a manifestation of excess love as an overflow which can be handled without social consequences. At 45 it’s greasy and quite awful. Consider the advanced homos you know . . . Am I right I am not dictating here; nor dogmatizing. I hope to start a discussion. Homos are interesting to me because I find that along with it is usually an unidentified awareness and an understanding of life unequalled in the stolid conventionites. I do not think they are God’s elected but I don’t think that about any one….” All-in-all in interesting multilayered primary source account of one man's experiences at sea during the Depression and his deep engagement with his correspondents with heavy overtones of a writer's bildungsroman traveling seeking new experiences etc. unknown books
195546142Dallas: Armed Forces Publications 1955. 1st Edition. Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding embossed with ship bow & anchor gold & white lettering. Color photographic eps depicting the base. Modest wear VG. Unpaginated though ~ 100 pp. Profusely illustrated in color & b/w. 4to. 12-5/8" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/> Armed Forces Publications hardcover books
1943016126Washingon DC: U.S. Department of the Navy 1943. Quarto. 218p. Fold-out plates of mounts. Over a thousand pictures of the most minute parts. Cross-index. Essential for mechanics aboard ship on repair and for the homefront to send the exact replacements. A very nice copy bound in gray stiff paper wraps printed in black light soiling on rear cover. U.S. Department of the Navy unknown books
185590811Washington D.C. 1855. Paperback. Good. 4 503 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27 cm. Cover soiling and wear. Back cover also has extensive old staining.Edges ends of backstrip and corners chipped. Backcover and edge of front cover dampstained. Bookplate David Todd. <br/><br/> paperback books
9875pamphlet. 26 pages. Slim 8vo unopened uncut stitched. Washington 1850.<br/><br/> A response to the House's earlier resolution "to inquire and ascertain the most favorable terms on which suitable sites can be obtained for marine hospitals at."<br/><br/> unknown books
194931130Kings Point: Bureau of Maritime Services 1949. First edition. Embossed Leather. Minor wear to tail of spine small dent in rear board rear hinge coming loose along with rear free endpaper. 430 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Bureau of Maritime Services hardcover books
190731197N.p. Japan ca 1907. Pair of large trapunto banners both removed from original frames. First 82cm x 60cm ca 32" x 24"; embroidered in silk with trapunto elements on a black silk ground; photographic portrait on cabinet card inserted in embroidered pocket at center inscribed "Mellie McKeever" on verso. Silk ground fragile with a few thin tears but no significant losses; light soil; embroidered portions generally well-preserved and colors bright. Very Good. Second banner 65cm x 50cm ca 25" x 20"; photo-transfer on silk with embroidered ornaments. Slight fading to embroidered portions but generally well-preserved and sound; Very Good. Both banners with firm provenance purchased from the descendants of Mellie McKeever of Richwood West Virginia. Two exceptional and well-preserved examples of the ornamental trapunto banners that were popular souvenirs among U.S. sailors and marines during the late 19th and early 20th century. Yokohama was the principal point of production for these naval souvenirs but we have also seen examples from the Philippines and mainland China; Japanese examples such as these are generally distinguished by a higher quality of embroidery and more sophisticated composition. The banners became popular among British and American sailors beginning as early as the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War but seem to have reached their peak of popularity with the arrival in the Far East of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet in 1908. Some 14000 sailors and marines made land at various Japanese ports-of-call in that year and given the regularity with which these textiles still appear one imagines that every sailor must have brought at least one of these souvenirs home with him. <br/><br/>The first example though of an unusually impressive size is of a type frequently seen displaying typical naval iconography right down to the hand-painted battleship portrait of a two-stack battleship of the Kearsarge class its hull painted white reflecting its peace-time mission at bottom center. The embroidered frame to hold a cabinet portrait of the sailor or perhaps a loved one is a typical feature found on more elaborate examples. The American Eagle in full battle stance is a nearly universal element of these banners. <br/><br/>The second banner is of a style we have not previously seen and for which we can find no analogues in the extensive literature of naval souvenirs. It is clearly a family portrait probably a composite made from cartes-des-visites carried by McKeever; the portraits are printed by silkscreen using a photo-transfer process with applied trapunto decorations. The likenesses are clearly enlarged -- it is highly unlikely that a common sailor would have had room aboard a battleship to carry full-size portraits -- and it strikes us that this must have seemed an almost magical process at the time of creation especially to a young man from a tiny lumber-and-coal town in central West Virginia. <br/><br/>Aside from their obvious virtues as objects of art and handicraft we regard these banners as compelling pieces of material culture from a period of tremendous social transformation in the United States. According to the Naval Historical Center U.S. naval rolls expanded by nearly 400% between the beginning of the Spanish-American War and the launching of the Great White Fleet. To meet this demand for the first time in its history the Navy began recruiting from the American heartland rather than solely from the Eastern Seaboard states. The generation of inland farmers and mechanics to follow was thus the first in American history to experience first-hand cultures as diverse and divergent from their own as those of Europe Asia and the Pacific Islands; they represented not only the beginning of the American imperialist enterprise but also the first stirrings of America's global consciousness. That so many of these banners have survived in good condition is evidence of the degree to which they were treasured by their owners for whom they represented an experience that must have been transformative and definitive. unknown books
SKU1036496Chief of Naval Operations Washington DC. PAPERBACK. Good. B001J4UXCG Minor wear to the covers. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. 263 pages. Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, DC paperback books
196336865Westbury NY: Howard Wohl Associates 1963. 1st printing. Blue cloth binding with photographic image of the ship to front board. Clear acetate wrapper with red & gold outline lettering. A VG copy in a VG wrapper. 330 2 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images some in color. 12-1/4" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>The first nuclear-powered carrier and eighth vessel to carry the name Enterprise she was commissioned in 1961; for this 1963 cruise her second she deployed with the US 6th Fleet arriving in the Mediterranean in February. Scarce: OCLC records 5 institutional holdings all East of the Appalachians. Howard Wohl Associates hardcover books
195936878n. p. 1959. 1st printing. Dark blue cloth binding with silver embossing to front board. Deployment map as front eps. Photographic rear eps. Minor extremity wear. A Nr Fine copy. Unpaginated though ~ 275 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images some in color. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8" <br/><br/>"The USS Forrestal CV-59 formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59 is a supercarrier that was named after former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers. The other carriers of her class were the USS Saratoga USS Ranger and USS Independence. She superseded Shinano of World War II vintage as the largest aircraft carrier ever built by full load displacement and was the first to specifically support jet aircraft. The ship was affectionately called "The FID" because James Forrestal was the first ever Secretary of Defense FID standing for "First In Defense". This is also the slogan on the ship's insignia and patch. She was also informally known in the fleet as the "Zippo" and "Forrest Fire" or "Firestal" because of a number of highly publicized fires on board most notably a 1967 incident in which 134 sailors died and 161 were injured." Forrestal was commissioned 1 October 1955 and remained on the active Navy roles until her decommissioning in September 1993. This cruise book documents her "second tour of duty in the Mediterranean from 2 September 1958 to 12 March 1959 where Forrestal again combined a program of training patrol and participation in major exercises with ceremonial hospitality and public visiting. Her guest list during this cruise was headed by United States Secretary of Defense N. H. McElroy." Wiki. Scarce: OCLC records 5 institutional holdings. hardcover books
1971230015Washington Naval History Division Navy Department 1971. 1971. First edition thus. 4to. Profusely illustrated with halftones. Index. Originally published in six parts between 1961-66 this is the whole chronology bound in one book. Original blue buckram with gilt stamping on spine and vignette on upper front cover; pictorial endpapers. Fine fresh copy. Bookplate of Charles S. Schwartz on the front pastedown. No signatures. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Washington, Naval History Division, Navy Department, 1971. hardcover books
1933D130311933-1941. Hardcover. Fine. Collection of 50 envelopes representing as many ships; displayed in archival sleeves ina 3-ring binder with printed notes on the ship and its fate. Postmarks range from 1933-1941 and the printed notes are uniformly formated. A few examples: "USS Maryland BB-46 Battleship. Hit by two bombs. Shot down one torpedo plane." -- and -- "USS Reid DD-369 Destroyer. Fired at enemy planes helping to shoot down one." Envelopes also include the occasional handwritten address many are typed and decorations celebrating St. Patrick's Day the New Year Independence Day and more. Ships include the USS Antares Arizona Bagley Blue Breese California Case Cassin Castor Chew Curtiss Dale Dobbin Gamble Grebe Honolulu Hull Jarvis Maryland Medusa Monaghan Mugford Nevada New Orleans Oklahoma Pelias Pennsylvania Perry Phelps Pruitt Raleigh Ramapo Reid Sacramento St. Louis San Francisco Schley Selfridge Shaw Solace Sumner Swan Tangier Tennessee Trever Utah Vega Vestal Ward Worden. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1917754551917. U.S. NAVY. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNING MARITIME WARFARE. Washington: U.S. Navy; printed by Government Printing Office 1917. 79pp. 8vo. forest green cloth title gilt-stamped to spine and front board. Small nick to lower front board along joint. Clean within. Very good. unknown books
1870198117WASHINGTON DC GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1870. 1870. ORIGINAL GILT STAMPED BLUE CLOTH; 379 PAGES; CONTEMPORARY SIGNATURE OF A.L. SPRAGUE USN WASHINGTON DC OCT 4 1870; BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. WASHINGTON, DC, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1870. hardcover books
