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189126982Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1891. 104 pages. With reports and statistics fiscal requirements and findings for various naval yards and establishments and the overall health of the U.S. Navy. Especially for the larger facilities as the Norfolk yards the report has much detail on nearly every aspect of base life; the quarters food water hygiene and other topics of vital interest to the well-being of the service. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9"size; bound in the original gray-blue printed paper wraps Some wear & darkening to the binding & text color dull; back cover edge-chipped a bit; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Government Printing Office paperback books
182117422Washington: Gales & Seaton 1821. 5 3 blank pp. Disbound. Light tanning scattered foxing. Good. Gales & Seaton unknown books
18441551728th Cong. 1st Sess. Senate. 1844. No. 392. 1844. 72pp disbound. Very Good. unknown books
1858155141858. 11pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18561540134th Cong. 1st Sess. SED No. 1856. 44. 1856. 80pp Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
1856166991856. 34th Cong. 1st Sess. SED44. 1856. 80pp disbound loosening. Minor foxing. Very Good. unknown books
181018312Washington: A. & G. Way prs. 1810 i.e. 1811. 8vo. 40 pp.; 1 fold. leaf. <br><br>The report consists chiefly of correspondence accounts and other supporting documents. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24305. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on title-page. Light foxing. Very good overall. A. & G. Way, prs. unknown books
186742016Washington D.C.: Gov. Printing Office 1867. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Washington D.C.: Gov. Printing Office 1867. 311 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Brown cloth. Head and heel of spine chipped; cloth split along both hinges; bookplate on front pastedown; textblock tight and clean. Good/No dust jacket. Gov. Printing Office hardcover books
18611372936th Cong. 2d Sess.: SED4. 1861. Stitched as issued 65pp. Untrimmed partly uncut Very Good. SED4. unknown books
18521440932D Cong. 1st Sess.: SED42. 1852. 119pp Disbound Very Good. SED42. unknown books
182217424Washington: Gales & Seaton 1822. 91 1 blank pp 2 folding charts disbound foxed. Good. Gales & Seaton unknown books
1879TB21310Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1879. First Edition. First printing Good in purple pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is heavily worn and rubbed. Without a dust jacket probably as issued. An octavo measuring just shy of 9" tall by 5 3/4" deep. 23 pages of text and tables followed by 45 fold-out isometric drawings. Government Printing Office hardcover books
185240064Washington DC: C. Alexander 1852. may18. ix 72 pp. <br /><br />This is a fascinating report as the Navy tries to figure out if dehydrated peas beans carrots turnips potatoes etc. would be useful. The experiments were based on processes developed in Europe. They found "Edwards' 'Preserved Potato' as positively bad. Of Masson's vegetables we found the cabbage carrots and green peas of good quality. Gannal's vegetables. proved good in our hands. Lewis' 'Preserved Potato' we found good though not so beautiful a preparation as that of Gannal." Contrary to the reports trials at sea of Edwards' potatoes were successful. However I don't believe dehydrated foods were widely used in the military until WW II. Worn half calf over marbled boards. Text clean and fresh with some contemporary manuscript notes. C. Alexander hardcover books
187485381Washington: GPO 1874. Hardcover. Fair. 143p text plus 20 folded maps and charts. Worn contemporary 1/2 leather lacking most of backstrip with front and back covers having some staining and other wear and also at least partially detached. Contents sound. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
18745091Washington: Government Printing Office 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 268pp. 14 sepia toned lithos after photographs by famed photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan and 17 folding maps at rear 16 are listed in the map index Short tear to map #1 near gutter; bound in original brown cloth slight fading to spine; minor fraying at spine ends and ghost of label removal; bookplate Rhode Island State Library on front pastedown and small stamp on title page; neat contemporary owner's name on title page. The present title laid the ground work for the building of the Panama Canal. Internally plates and text are clean and bright. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
2003032057New York Etc.: Free Press 2003. ix 242p. dj. Free Press unknown books
1989022355Heidelberg: Edition Braus 1989. 1. Auflage. Photographie Hans Siwik. 88 8p. colored plates original stiff printed boards. Edition Braus unknown 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
1987185763Berkeley: University of California Press 1987. Hardcover. VG/VG Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; white dj bw illustrated mylar cover; xii 334 pp. Translated from the Russian by Nicolas Slonimsky ; with introductory essays by Marina Scriabine. "An intellectual biography in which chronology serves only as a guiding line to trace the subject's spiritual and artistic development. Schloezer presents many poignant vignettes of the mystic composer."-dj. University of California Press hardcover books
20041328219Milan: Electa 2004. Softcover. Octavo; First edition 1999 Reprint 2004; VG; Paperback; Spine black with white print; Cover has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Text block has name in ink on half-title page else clean and tight; 117 pages illustrated color. Shelf: Ancient & Classical Art. 1328219. FP New Rockville Stock. Electa unknown 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
192812434NY: American Merchant Marine Library Assoc 1928. Third edn. 12mo pp. 22p. Little rubbed and worn cloth a good tight copy. A listing of facilities available for sailors in the ports around the world. American Merchant Marine Library Assoc unknown books
1976267108Boston: Second Marine Division Association 1976. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Very Good binding. Second Marine Division Association unknown books
199328670Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0824815629 . Illustrated. First edition. Remainder dot on spine else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Hawaii Press hardcover books
20009016648New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 352 pages 315 illustrations including 223 colorplates and 92 black & white illustrations. <br/><br/> Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
