Barnes, James

The Mentor; the Story of the American Navy; Department of History

New York, The Mentor, 1917. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 12; Six large sepia plates; original printed paper wrappers. A nicely illustrated encapsulated history of the American Navy. Very good .

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Book number: 16859

Catalogue: Maritime

Keywords: Ephemera

Kipling, Rudyard

The Fringes of the Fleet; a Companion Volume to "France at War

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; (vi), 122; brown mottled paper covered boards, upper board with a large paste on label printed in black and decorated with a British Admiralty flag in black, red and blue, spine with paper label, black lettering; jacket with chiips at edges and lightly soiled, the book, bright and clean. Bibliographies; Richards A284; Livingston 401; Stewart 396. This covers "Auxilleries, Submarines & Patrol Boats". WWI naval subjects. Very good/a good or better.

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Book number: 16384

Catalogue: Maritime

Keywords: Submarines World War I

Lehman, John

On Seas of Glory. Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy

New York, The Free Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 436, index; illustrated with black and white photographs, maps; blue cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. In "On Seas of Glory" the U.S. Navy meets a storyteller worthy of its epic. John Lehman was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy, and the man most responsible for rejuvenating the service during the 1980s. Lehman here gives a sweeping narrative of the Navy, from the Revolutionary War to the present day, filled with the ships that dominated, equally titanic personalities, and the battles that made history. Lehman profiles naval greats -- from John Paul Jones and David Glasgow Farragut to Commodore George Dewey and FDR -- but also gives credit to the lesser-known sailors who have made the U.S. Navy the mightiest in the world. "On Seas of Glory" uses the diaries, memoirs, and letters of average sailors to reveal naval combat as though firsthand. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 18047

Catalogue: Maritime

McFee, William

Sailors of Fortune

Garden City, Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1935. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 415; blue cloth, with a spine label lettered in black, color pictorial endpapers in a pictorial dust jacket. The romance of ships and sailors in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean; A son of the commodore.--The armoire.--The roving heart.--The wife of the dictator.--Captain Musker's vacation.--The vanished passenger.--The sword of Doctor Damocles.--At the Villa Agostino.--Relesse.--The garden of the Bey.--The Virgin of Loreto.--Os the Malecón.--Deckers on the coast.--The untarnished shield. A bright copy!. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17982

Catalogue: Maritime

Weld, Philip S.

Moxie: The American Challenge

London, The Bodley Head, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. (1982). Octavo, blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 245pp. Illustrated with photographs and charts in black and white. Illustrated endpapers. Very good in very good jacket. Foreword by H. G. "Blondie" Hasler. From the library of Maine sailboat designer Dick Newick, and with a note card in his hand on his stationery about the author of the foreword, "Blondie" Hasler. The note card reads, " 'Blondie' Hasler was a royal Marine Commando who, among other things, did a kayak raid on the German submarine pens near San Nazaire (?) France in WWII. We got to know and like him." Also included are a brochure about Newick's "Mocking Bird" sailboat and a plan of it. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13456

Catalogue: Maritime

Keywords: Maritime; Sailing; Sailboat Design; Dick Newick; H.G. "Blondie" Hasler; Nautical; Ocean Racing; Sail