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	N/A Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Bremen, Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd). Hard Cover. No date; circa 1906. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: oblong octavo. Beige cloth with gilt stamped titles; red nautical flag design on front board. Anchor-design company logo endpapers. Text in English, German, and French. 136 pages, with hundreds of great captioned photos of many Norddeutscher Lloyd ships, ships' interiors, and the various ports of call for the line. Also, many photos of Bremen and Bremerhaven. Solid book with light wear and much soiling to boards. A page or 2 of text is dog-eared. Good. Good/No Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 \| £UK 45 \| JP¥ 6669] Book number: 33500 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	N/A Thrilling Adventures at Sea, or Noted Shipwrecks and Famous Sailors New York, Wm. L. Allison. Hard Cover. No date, circa 1895. Hardcover, size: 12mo. Decorative boards. Gray cloth with elaborate brown stamped decorations and borders. Embossed spine title in a gilt field. 300 pages, chock full of nice engraved illustrations. Book about famous shipwrecks, arctic exploration, Old Ironsides, pearl diving, whale boats, slave ships, icebergs, pirates, shark fishing, and monsters of the deep. Solid book with moderate wear and much soiling to boards. Small paper sticker pasted to front board; some dark staining on rear board. Old bookplate (of Lieutenant L,C. Allen, U.S. Army) on front pastedown. Text is slightly browned. Fair. Fair. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 34932 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	N/A USS Jason : West Pac-Indian Ocean Deployment, 1 Oct. 1980-31 March 1981 1981. Hard Cover. Cruise book circa 1981; no publisher or date. Blue leatherette; size: 4to. Illustrated boards, with embossed gilt emblem on front board. 208pp with hundreds of photos; photographic endpapers. The USS Jason was launched in 1943, as the first and only hull repair ship. She saw action in the South Pacific, and helped repair the carriers USS Randolph, and USS Lexington, among other damaged ships. She also saw service off Korea and Vietnam. Book is solid, with bright boards and light edgewear; a slight spine lean. VG. Very Good. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.75 \| £UK 39 \| JP¥ 5780] Book number: 24675 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY The Lucky Bag 1912 : (Graduating Class of Richard E. Byrd) Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy. 1912. Hard Cover. Yearbook of the United States Naval Academy for 1912--the senior year of Richard E. Byrd. Full black leather with gilt stamped titles. Size: 4to. 396 pages. Full page of photos and text about Byrd. Last sentence is prophetic--"He has already lived a life rich in experience, and he will live a life richer still..". Backstrip is missing. Boards are shaken, but holding. Much rubbing to boards and fraying to edges. Narrow strip of light dampstaining at fore edge of text affects only the blank margins. A good candidate for re-binding. Poor. Poor. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 \| £UK 60 \| JP¥ 8892] Book number: 21782 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ACKLEY, W. WORTH Tales of the Sea and Other Poems The Decker Press. 1949. Hard Cover. Includes a separate typed letter SIGNED by the author, plus an original copyrighted song, also by the author. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: octavo. Red cloth with gilt stamped titles. 41 pages of poetry. Book has bright boards, light wear, faint soiling, and small corner bumps. VG. Letter dated 1959 is from the author to Roger Whiting, narrator of the radio poetry program "Driftwood", on KHOF radio, Los Angeles. He is sending the book to Whiting, and giving his permission to use the poetry on the program. He also encloses a mimeographed copy of "A Colleen's Dream", a copyrighted song that he wrote (1 page). Also enclosed is an unused S.A.S.E. Very Good. Signed. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 37334 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ASSOCIATION OF THE CLASS OF 1942, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY Scorebook: 20th Anniversary of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1942 Association of the Class of 1942, U.S. Naval Academy. 1962. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: folio. No jacket. Navy blue leatherette boards with yellow embossed titles and Class of 1942 emblem on front board. 128 pages, with many photographs. Biographies and photos of the class members. Light wear and moderate soiling to boards. Light soiling to first and last few pages. Many signatures on rear blank page. Book has a musty odor, from storage. VG-. Very Good. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 35882 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BENTWICH, NORMAN The Declaration of London, with an Introduction and Notes and Appendices London, Effingham Wilson; Sweet & Maxwell, Limited. 1911, First Edition. Hard Cover. First British hardcover edition, no jacket. Size: octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamped spine titles and rules. Blindstamped borders on front board. (vii), 179pp.; plus 32 pages of publisher's ads, and index. Solid (re-glued) book with bright boards and light edgewear. Browning to endpapers, and small areas of mesh showing. One ink name on front pastedown (Harry D. Beegondy ?), and a different name on title page (J.J. Parfitt K.C. Lamb Building, Temple). Small chip at top of front free endpaper, at the gutter. One of the publisher's ad pages has a small tape repair. Good to VG. Good. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 25463 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BLANDFORD, P.W. Sailing Boat Recognition London, Ian Allan. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 071100191x) Soft Cover. First softcover edition, size: octavo. Photographic front cover. 96 pages, with hundreds of photos. Bright covers with light wear. Moderate soiling to rear cover, and a small sticker-lift on front cover. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 35251 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BOATWEIGHT, V.T. (EDITOR) Lucky Bag 1939: The Annual of the Regiment of Midshipmen Annapolis, United States Naval Academy. 1939. Hard Cover. 1939 yearbook. Hardcover, size: folio. Cream color leatherette boards with stamped and embossed titles, with blue and gilt epaulet decorations. Name (Ivan Wendell Sturgis) stamped in gilt at bottom of front board. A massive book; 623 pages. Solid book with moderate soiling and minor edge-fraying to boards. Spine is a bit tanned; front and rear boards have tanned areas. Book has a musty odor, from storage. Good. Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 35878 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BROU, WILLY-CHARLES Combat Beneath the Sea New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover. First American hardcover edition, no jacket. Size: octavo. Black cloth spine with white and orange stamped titles. Aqua color paper over boards. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 240 pages, with photos. Includes frogmen, underwater demolition, and midget submarines. Well-worn and soiled boards. Ink name on the front pastedown, and a corner-clip on the rear free endpaper. 2 stamps on top edge: "Property of U.S. Navy", and "Discard". A reading copy. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 30406 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	CLAREY, A.L. (EDITOR) USS Kansas City (AOR-3) WESTPAC 1976-77 Cruisebook San Diego, Walsworth Publishing Company. 1977. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: 4to. Light blue cloth with a silver embossed ship's insignia on the front board. Photographic endpapers. 94 pages, with hundreds of photos. Moderate soiling and edgewear to boards, plus a spine lean. Small corner-crease to last few pages. Good. The USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler; commissioned in 1970 and decommissioned in 1994. Good. USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.5 \| £UK 36 \| JP¥ 5335] Book number: 39512 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	COCHRAN, HAMILTON Captain Ebony Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1943. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jaclet. Hardcover, size: octavo. Later ptg. Brilliant blue cloth with gilt stamped titles. Yellow top edge and untrimmed fore-edge. 430 pages; map endpapers. Solid book with bright boards and scant wear. Ink name, address and date on the half-title page; o/w near fine. Extra-bright, unclipped ($2.75 price on flap) jacket has light edge-chipping, and a small closed tear at top of front panel, with a resultant light crease. Moderate soiling to rear panel. Very Good/Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 36753 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY CLASS OF 1942 FIFTIETH YEARBOOK COMMITTEE 50 Years: The United States Naval Academy Class of 1942 "Scattered Far and Wide" 1938-1991 The United States Naval Academy Class of 1942. 1991. Hard Cover. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: 4to. Dark blue marbled leatherette boards with gilt stamped and embossed titles. Gilt embossed Naval Academy and Class of 1942 emblems on front board. Photographic endpapers. 368 pages, with hundreds of photographs. Cartoons by Dave Peto. Solid book with scant wear to boards, and a slight spine lean. Minor soiling on front free endpaper. Book has a slight musty odor, from storage. VG+. Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 35883 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	U.S.S. LEVIATHAN HISTORY COMMITTEE History of the U.S.S. Leviathan: Cruiser and Transport Forces, United States Atlantic Fleet (Copy of Ship's Newsletter Included) Brooklyn Eagle Press. 1919. Hard Cover. No date; circa 1919. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamped titles and Leviathan illustration on front board, plus gilt stamped name of 'J.C. Murray at bottom. 218 pages, photo-illustrated. Frontis photo of the Leviathan; fold-out photo of Admiral Gleaves and Staff, and a rear fold-out chart. Errata slip is tipped in. Fairly bright boards, with moderate wear and soiling. Some oily fingerprints on front endpaper; one of the roster pages has some paper-lift that affects text. Good. Also included: a 5/29/1919 copy of "Transport Ace" the ship's newsletter printed daily at sea; a partial copy of U.S.S. Leviathan's Navy Guard booklet, and a contemporary photograph of a sailor (or sailorette? hard to tell) that came with the book. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 35780 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY Cruising to Alaska Seattle, Alaska Steamship Company. 1935. Soft Cover. Folded pamphlet; size: octavo. Beautifully illustrated front cover. Text has information about Alaskan destinations, with illustrations and photos. Also, a color illustrated map of Alaska, the Canadian coast, and Seattle. Cruises offered are: Inside Passage Cruise, Totemland Cruise, Prince William Sound Cruise, Arctic Cruise; also, Interior Tours. Bright covers with light edgewear and faint soiling. VG+. Very Good. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2445] Book number: 33704 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	COPPLESTONE, BENNET (F. HARCOURT KITCHIN) Dead Men's Tales Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1926. Hard Cover. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: small octavo. Pictorial front board. Gray cloth with green stamped titles & front board nautical pictorial. 329 pages. Solid book, with bright boards, light wear, and a moderate spine lean. VG+. Stories of sailors and sailing ships, including: Alexander Selkirk, the Nestor, the Neptune, Dick Peeke, John Nutt, Henry Teonge, Captain Kidd, the Gaspee, John Paul Jones, Captain Bligh, the Thetis, Thomas Dickinson, and Ralph Semmes of the Alabama. Very Good. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: x9811 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PRINCESS CRUISES Princess Cruises Souvenir Book: M/V Italia, March 8-21, 1968 (Wilmington, Ca. To La Paz, Mexico) Princess Cruises. 1968. Soft Cover. Post-bound softcover portfolio, size: 4to. Souvenir book for a voyage on Princess Cruises M/V Italia, from Wilmington, Ca. to La Paz, Mexico, and return; March 8th to March 21st, 1968. Ship's illustration on front cover. Includes 13 issues of Princess Patter, a daily newsletter published at sea, folded menus for the Gala Dinner and the Captain's Dinner, an 8 other menus, which have full color artwork (1 has a map of the Gulf of Mexico). Covers have light creasing and soiling. VG. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 35177 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	NAVAL AMMUNITION DEPOT, HAWTHORNE, NEVADA NAD Hawthorne: Strategies for the 1980's; Ready and Responsive to the Needs of National Defense Hawthorne, Nevada, Naval Ammunition Depot. 1976. Soft Cover. No date; circa 1976. Stapled softcover, size: 4to. Purple front cover with yellow titles and ammo designs, and a yellow rear cover. 40 pages, with many photos, plus a frontis map. Includes accessibility, climate, versatility, loading-assembly-renovation of TNT, RDX, HBX, mines and depth charges, rockets, and missiles, inert loading, sensitive weapons, advanced weapons, demilitarization and disposal, weapons testing, storage, containerization, laboratories, computer support, weapons testing parameter capabilities, ordnance plant facilities, and public works shop and facilities. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. VG-. Includes a separate 11-page pamphlet entitled "Attendance List 1976 Annual Meeting ADPA Environmental Research Section, Chemical & Biological Division. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada 20-22 April 1976". (NAD Hawthorne was transferred to the Army in 1977, and is now called Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant). Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 40446 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DRACOPOULOS, GEORGE M. Aegean Maritime Museum Greece, Myconos. 1987. Soft Cover. Softcover, size: 0blong octavo. Glossy photographic covers. 121 pages, with many color photos and reproductions of vintage maritime illustrations and maps. Text in English. Book has bright covers with light wear. Small sticker-shadow on the front free endpaper. VG+. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 26243 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DRAKE, FRANCIS AND WILLIAM CORNELISON SCHOUTEN The World Encompassed and The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage Cleveland, The World Publishing Company. 1966. Hard Cover. Book and pamphlet, enclosed in a clamshell box. Full vellum hardcover; size: octavo. Gilt stamped spine titles and coat of arms on front board. Silk string ties. 2 books in one: a modern facsimile reprint of Drake's "The World Encompassed" (1628), 108 pages, with frontis engraving of Drake; and "The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage", by Schouten (1619); 82 pages, with a title page map. Includes the publisher's pamphlet. Velvet-lined clamshell box with green cloth, a leather spine label, and paper front and rear labels. Book has light wear and soiling. Box has a small scuff on the front. VG. Very Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 37675 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DUPREE, HENRY The Dirty Old Man: A Sexy Montage of Political Corruption, Navy Life, Passion and Intrigue Hicksville, N.Y. Exposition Press. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 068247990x) Hard Cover. VG, in a Good, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1974 hardcover first edition; size: octavo. 219 pages. Book has miniscule wear, and a faint dampstain at bottom of front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate rubbing & edgewear. Dampstain at bottom of front & spine panels; spine panel a bit sunned. "A sexy montage of political corruption, Navy life, passion and intrigue". Very Good/Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 25019 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	VARIOUS EDITORS The Wide World Magazine: 10 Different Issues, from 1937 to 1962 London, George Newnes Limited. Magazine. 10 different issues of the magazine, from 1937 to 1962. Conditions range from Good to VG, with each issue having nice, bright cover artwork. (1) Vol. LXXIX No. 470 May 1937. Good+. (2) Vol. LXXXV, No. 505 April 1940. VG. (3) Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 528 March 1942. Good. (4) Vol. 117, No. 696, July 1956. Good+. (5) Vol. 118 No. 705, April 1957. Good+. (6) Vol. 119 No. 711, October 1957. VG-. (7) Vol. 121, No. 718, May 1958. VG. (8) Vol. 121, No. 723, October 1958 Special Diamond Jubilee Issue. Good+. (9) Vol. 122, No. 728, March 1959. VG. (10) Vol. 129, No. 770, November 1962. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 38937 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	FEHRENBATCH, JOHN A Library of Steam Engineering Cincinnati, The Ohio Valley Company. 1897. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: tall octavo. Green blindstamped cloth with gilt stamped titles. Red text block edges. 803 pages, plus ads. Hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, plus frontis photo of author. Includes mathematics, safety valves, boiler plate, steam boilers, riveted joints, boiler flues, pumps, smoke stacks, boiler testing, machinery, electricity ("this newly developed science"), inspection, engineer licence laws, U.S. battleships, Western river steamboat practice, slide-valve engines, locomotives, and steam boiler injectors. Includes the following engines: Corliss, Atlas automatic, Brown, Buckeye, Porter-Allen, and Weir-Harden compound. Solid book with much rubbing and moderate edge-fraying to boards. Last page of ads is creased and tape repaired. Scattered minor soiling in text; several pages have erased pencil scribbles or small edge-tears. Good. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 36437 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	FITLER, MARY BIDDLE Reddy: A Boy and a Boat Race New York, Grosset & Dunlap. 1929. Hard Cover. VG, in a Good to VG, mylar-protected dust jacket. Hardcover, size: octavo. Aqua cloth with navy blue stamped titles. Dark blue top edge. Pictorial endpapers. 218 pages, with illustrations, including frontis, by Zack Hogg. Bright boards with light wear. Bump on top edge of rear board. Discoloration to fore-edge of last 2 rear blank pages. Bright jacket has small, closed edge-tears, a hint of spine-sunning, and moderate soiling to rear panel. Chipping to spine and fold extremities. Spine chips have been backed with colored paper. Very Good/Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 40139 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	CARL GARDNER (EDITOR) Our Navy, First of February, 1936 Harrisburg, Pa, Our Navy, Inc. 1936. Magazine published on the 1st and 15th of each month. Size: small folio. 64 pages, whth hundreds of photos, illustrations, and cartoons. Ships and/or crew members pictured in this issue: USS's Pennsylvania, Dent, Nevada, Monaghan, Augusta, Owen, Honolulu, Salt Lake City, California, Tennessee, Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, Colorado, New York, Astoria, Smith Thompson, Tutuila, Cushing, Perkins, Maryland, Seattle, and Langley. Photos of entire crews of USS's Partridge, Gamble, Dorsey, Zane, and Pinola. Also, 10 different platoon photos of graduates of Naval Training Station, Norfolk. Includes many Navy articles and news items. Bright covers with creasing and edgewear. Small piece missing from bottom of rear cover. Good. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2445] Book number: 41016 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.

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	N/A Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Bremen, Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd). Hard Cover. No date; circa 1906. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: oblong octavo. Beige cloth with gilt stamped titles; red nautical flag design on front board. Anchor-design company logo endpapers. Text in English, German, and French. 136 pages, with hundreds of great captioned photos of many Norddeutscher Lloyd ships, ships' interiors, and the various ports of call for the line. Also, many photos of Bremen and Bremerhaven. Solid book with light wear and much soiling to boards. A page or 2 of text is dog-eared. Good. Good/No Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 \| £UK 45 \| JP¥ 6669] Book number: 33500 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	N/A Thrilling Adventures at Sea, or Noted Shipwrecks and Famous Sailors New York, Wm. L. Allison. Hard Cover. No date, circa 1895. Hardcover, size: 12mo. Decorative boards. Gray cloth with elaborate brown stamped decorations and borders. Embossed spine title in a gilt field. 300 pages, chock full of nice engraved illustrations. Book about famous shipwrecks, arctic exploration, Old Ironsides, pearl diving, whale boats, slave ships, icebergs, pirates, shark fishing, and monsters of the deep. Solid book with moderate wear and much soiling to boards. Small paper sticker pasted to front board; some dark staining on rear board. Old bookplate (of Lieutenant L,C. Allen, U.S. Army) on front pastedown. Text is slightly browned. Fair. Fair. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 34932 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	N/A USS Jason : West Pac-Indian Ocean Deployment, 1 Oct. 1980-31 March 1981 1981. Hard Cover. Cruise book circa 1981; no publisher or date. Blue leatherette; size: 4to. Illustrated boards, with embossed gilt emblem on front board. 208pp with hundreds of photos; photographic endpapers. The USS Jason was launched in 1943, as the first and only hull repair ship. She saw action in the South Pacific, and helped repair the carriers USS Randolph, and USS Lexington, among other damaged ships. She also saw service off Korea and Vietnam. Book is solid, with bright boards and light edgewear; a slight spine lean. VG. Very Good. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.75 \| £UK 39 \| JP¥ 5780] Book number: 24675 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY The Lucky Bag 1912 : (Graduating Class of Richard E. Byrd) Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy. 1912. Hard Cover. Yearbook of the United States Naval Academy for 1912--the senior year of Richard E. Byrd. Full black leather with gilt stamped titles. Size: 4to. 396 pages. Full page of photos and text about Byrd. Last sentence is prophetic--"He has already lived a life rich in experience, and he will live a life richer still..". Backstrip is missing. Boards are shaken, but holding. Much rubbing to boards and fraying to edges. Narrow strip of light dampstaining at fore edge of text affects only the blank margins. A good candidate for re-binding. Poor. Poor. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 \| £UK 60 \| JP¥ 8892] Book number: 21782 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ACKLEY, W. WORTH Tales of the Sea and Other Poems The Decker Press. 1949. Hard Cover. Includes a separate typed letter SIGNED by the author, plus an original copyrighted song, also by the author. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: octavo. Red cloth with gilt stamped titles. 41 pages of poetry. Book has bright boards, light wear, faint soiling, and small corner bumps. VG. Letter dated 1959 is from the author to Roger Whiting, narrator of the radio poetry program "Driftwood", on KHOF radio, Los Angeles. He is sending the book to Whiting, and giving his permission to use the poetry on the program. He also encloses a mimeographed copy of "A Colleen's Dream", a copyrighted song that he wrote (1 page). Also enclosed is an unused S.A.S.E. Very Good. Signed. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 37334 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ASSOCIATION OF THE CLASS OF 1942, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY Scorebook: 20th Anniversary of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1942 Association of the Class of 1942, U.S. Naval Academy. 1962. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: folio. No jacket. Navy blue leatherette boards with yellow embossed titles and Class of 1942 emblem on front board. 128 pages, with many photographs. Biographies and photos of the class members. Light wear and moderate soiling to boards. Light soiling to first and last few pages. Many signatures on rear blank page. Book has a musty odor, from storage. VG-. Very Good. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 35882 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BENTWICH, NORMAN The Declaration of London, with an Introduction and Notes and Appendices London, Effingham Wilson; Sweet & Maxwell, Limited. 1911, First Edition. Hard Cover. First British hardcover edition, no jacket. Size: octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamped spine titles and rules. Blindstamped borders on front board. (vii), 179pp.; plus 32 pages of publisher's ads, and index. Solid (re-glued) book with bright boards and light edgewear. Browning to endpapers, and small areas of mesh showing. One ink name on front pastedown (Harry D. Beegondy ?), and a different name on title page (J.J. Parfitt K.C. Lamb Building, Temple). Small chip at top of front free endpaper, at the gutter. One of the publisher's ad pages has a small tape repair. Good to VG. Good. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27 \| JP¥ 4001] Book number: 25463 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BLANDFORD, P.W. Sailing Boat Recognition London, Ian Allan. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 071100191x) Soft Cover. First softcover edition, size: octavo. Photographic front cover. 96 pages, with hundreds of photos. Bright covers with light wear. Moderate soiling to rear cover, and a small sticker-lift on front cover. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 35251 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BOATWEIGHT, V.T. (EDITOR) Lucky Bag 1939: The Annual of the Regiment of Midshipmen Annapolis, United States Naval Academy. 1939. Hard Cover. 1939 yearbook. Hardcover, size: folio. Cream color leatherette boards with stamped and embossed titles, with blue and gilt epaulet decorations. Name (Ivan Wendell Sturgis) stamped in gilt at bottom of front board. A massive book; 623 pages. Solid book with moderate soiling and minor edge-fraying to boards. Spine is a bit tanned; front and rear boards have tanned areas. Book has a musty odor, from storage. Good. Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 35878 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	BROU, WILLY-CHARLES Combat Beneath the Sea New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover. First American hardcover edition, no jacket. Size: octavo. Black cloth spine with white and orange stamped titles. Aqua color paper over boards. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 240 pages, with photos. Includes frogmen, underwater demolition, and midget submarines. Well-worn and soiled boards. Ink name on the front pastedown, and a corner-clip on the rear free endpaper. 2 stamps on top edge: "Property of U.S. Navy", and "Discard". A reading copy. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 30406 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	CLAREY, A.L. (EDITOR) USS Kansas City (AOR-3) WESTPAC 1976-77 Cruisebook San Diego, Walsworth Publishing Company. 1977. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: 4to. Light blue cloth with a silver embossed ship's insignia on the front board. Photographic endpapers. 94 pages, with hundreds of photos. Moderate soiling and edgewear to boards, plus a spine lean. Small corner-crease to last few pages. Good. The USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler; commissioned in 1970 and decommissioned in 1994. Good. USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.5 \| £UK 36 \| JP¥ 5335] Book number: 39512 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	COCHRAN, HAMILTON Captain Ebony Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1943. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jaclet. Hardcover, size: octavo. Later ptg. Brilliant blue cloth with gilt stamped titles. Yellow top edge and untrimmed fore-edge. 430 pages; map endpapers. Solid book with bright boards and scant wear. Ink name, address and date on the half-title page; o/w near fine. Extra-bright, unclipped ($2.75 price on flap) jacket has light edge-chipping, and a small closed tear at top of front panel, with a resultant light crease. Moderate soiling to rear panel. Very Good/Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 36753 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY CLASS OF 1942 FIFTIETH YEARBOOK COMMITTEE 50 Years: The United States Naval Academy Class of 1942 "Scattered Far and Wide" 1938-1991 The United States Naval Academy Class of 1942. 1991. Hard Cover. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: 4to. Dark blue marbled leatherette boards with gilt stamped and embossed titles. Gilt embossed Naval Academy and Class of 1942 emblems on front board. Photographic endpapers. 368 pages, with hundreds of photographs. Cartoons by Dave Peto. Solid book with scant wear to boards, and a slight spine lean. Minor soiling on front free endpaper. Book has a slight musty odor, from storage. VG+. Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 35883 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	U.S.S. LEVIATHAN HISTORY COMMITTEE History of the U.S.S. Leviathan: Cruiser and Transport Forces, United States Atlantic Fleet (Copy of Ship's Newsletter Included) Brooklyn Eagle Press. 1919. Hard Cover. No date; circa 1919. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamped titles and Leviathan illustration on front board, plus gilt stamped name of 'J.C. Murray at bottom. 218 pages, photo-illustrated. Frontis photo of the Leviathan; fold-out photo of Admiral Gleaves and Staff, and a rear fold-out chart. Errata slip is tipped in. Fairly bright boards, with moderate wear and soiling. Some oily fingerprints on front endpaper; one of the roster pages has some paper-lift that affects text. Good. Also included: a 5/29/1919 copy of "Transport Ace" the ship's newsletter printed daily at sea; a partial copy of U.S.S. Leviathan's Navy Guard booklet, and a contemporary photograph of a sailor (or sailorette? hard to tell) that came with the book. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 35780 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY Cruising to Alaska Seattle, Alaska Steamship Company. 1935. Soft Cover. Folded pamphlet; size: octavo. Beautifully illustrated front cover. Text has information about Alaskan destinations, with illustrations and photos. Also, a color illustrated map of Alaska, the Canadian coast, and Seattle. Cruises offered are: Inside Passage Cruise, Totemland Cruise, Prince William Sound Cruise, Arctic Cruise; also, Interior Tours. Bright covers with light edgewear and faint soiling. VG+. Very Good. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2445] Book number: 33704 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	COPPLESTONE, BENNET (F. HARCOURT KITCHIN) Dead Men's Tales Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1926. Hard Cover. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: small octavo. Pictorial front board. Gray cloth with green stamped titles & front board nautical pictorial. 329 pages. Solid book, with bright boards, light wear, and a moderate spine lean. VG+. Stories of sailors and sailing ships, including: Alexander Selkirk, the Nestor, the Neptune, Dick Peeke, John Nutt, Henry Teonge, Captain Kidd, the Gaspee, John Paul Jones, Captain Bligh, the Thetis, Thomas Dickinson, and Ralph Semmes of the Alabama. Very Good. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: x9811 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PRINCESS CRUISES Princess Cruises Souvenir Book: M/V Italia, March 8-21, 1968 (Wilmington, Ca. To La Paz, Mexico) Princess Cruises. 1968. Soft Cover. Post-bound softcover portfolio, size: 4to. Souvenir book for a voyage on Princess Cruises M/V Italia, from Wilmington, Ca. to La Paz, Mexico, and return; March 8th to March 21st, 1968. Ship's illustration on front cover. Includes 13 issues of Princess Patter, a daily newsletter published at sea, folded menus for the Gala Dinner and the Captain's Dinner, an 8 other menus, which have full color artwork (1 has a map of the Gulf of Mexico). Covers have light creasing and soiling. VG. Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 35177 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	NAVAL AMMUNITION DEPOT, HAWTHORNE, NEVADA NAD Hawthorne: Strategies for the 1980's; Ready and Responsive to the Needs of National Defense Hawthorne, Nevada, Naval Ammunition Depot. 1976. Soft Cover. No date; circa 1976. Stapled softcover, size: 4to. Purple front cover with yellow titles and ammo designs, and a yellow rear cover. 40 pages, with many photos, plus a frontis map. Includes accessibility, climate, versatility, loading-assembly-renovation of TNT, RDX, HBX, mines and depth charges, rockets, and missiles, inert loading, sensitive weapons, advanced weapons, demilitarization and disposal, weapons testing, storage, containerization, laboratories, computer support, weapons testing parameter capabilities, ordnance plant facilities, and public works shop and facilities. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. VG-. Includes a separate 11-page pamphlet entitled "Attendance List 1976 Annual Meeting ADPA Environmental Research Section, Chemical & Biological Division. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada 20-22 April 1976". (NAD Hawthorne was transferred to the Army in 1977, and is now called Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant). Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 40446 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DRACOPOULOS, GEORGE M. Aegean Maritime Museum Greece, Myconos. 1987. Soft Cover. Softcover, size: 0blong octavo. Glossy photographic covers. 121 pages, with many color photos and reproductions of vintage maritime illustrations and maps. Text in English. Book has bright covers with light wear. Small sticker-shadow on the front free endpaper. VG+. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 26243 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DRAKE, FRANCIS AND WILLIAM CORNELISON SCHOUTEN The World Encompassed and The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage Cleveland, The World Publishing Company. 1966. Hard Cover. Book and pamphlet, enclosed in a clamshell box. Full vellum hardcover; size: octavo. Gilt stamped spine titles and coat of arms on front board. Silk string ties. 2 books in one: a modern facsimile reprint of Drake's "The World Encompassed" (1628), 108 pages, with frontis engraving of Drake; and "The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage", by Schouten (1619); 82 pages, with a title page map. Includes the publisher's pamphlet. Velvet-lined clamshell box with green cloth, a leather spine label, and paper front and rear labels. Book has light wear and soiling. Box has a small scuff on the front. VG. Very Good. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 37675 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	DUPREE, HENRY The Dirty Old Man: A Sexy Montage of Political Corruption, Navy Life, Passion and Intrigue Hicksville, N.Y. Exposition Press. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 068247990x) Hard Cover. VG, in a Good, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1974 hardcover first edition; size: octavo. 219 pages. Book has miniscule wear, and a faint dampstain at bottom of front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate rubbing & edgewear. Dampstain at bottom of front & spine panels; spine panel a bit sunned. "A sexy montage of political corruption, Navy life, passion and intrigue". Very Good/Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 25019 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	VARIOUS EDITORS The Wide World Magazine: 10 Different Issues, from 1937 to 1962 London, George Newnes Limited. Magazine. 10 different issues of the magazine, from 1937 to 1962. Conditions range from Good to VG, with each issue having nice, bright cover artwork. (1) Vol. LXXIX No. 470 May 1937. Good+. (2) Vol. LXXXV, No. 505 April 1940. VG. (3) Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 528 March 1942. Good. (4) Vol. 117, No. 696, July 1956. Good+. (5) Vol. 118 No. 705, April 1957. Good+. (6) Vol. 119 No. 711, October 1957. VG-. (7) Vol. 121, No. 718, May 1958. VG. (8) Vol. 121, No. 723, October 1958 Special Diamond Jubilee Issue. Good+. (9) Vol. 122, No. 728, March 1959. VG. (10) Vol. 129, No. 770, November 1962. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 38937 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	FEHRENBATCH, JOHN A Library of Steam Engineering Cincinnati, The Ohio Valley Company. 1897. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: tall octavo. Green blindstamped cloth with gilt stamped titles. Red text block edges. 803 pages, plus ads. Hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, plus frontis photo of author. Includes mathematics, safety valves, boiler plate, steam boilers, riveted joints, boiler flues, pumps, smoke stacks, boiler testing, machinery, electricity ("this newly developed science"), inspection, engineer licence laws, U.S. battleships, Western river steamboat practice, slide-valve engines, locomotives, and steam boiler injectors. Includes the following engines: Corliss, Atlas automatic, Brown, Buckeye, Porter-Allen, and Weir-Harden compound. Solid book with much rubbing and moderate edge-fraying to boards. Last page of ads is creased and tape repaired. Scattered minor soiling in text; several pages have erased pencil scribbles or small edge-tears. Good. Good. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 36437 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	FITLER, MARY BIDDLE Reddy: A Boy and a Boat Race New York, Grosset & Dunlap. 1929. Hard Cover. VG, in a Good to VG, mylar-protected dust jacket. Hardcover, size: octavo. Aqua cloth with navy blue stamped titles. Dark blue top edge. Pictorial endpapers. 218 pages, with illustrations, including frontis, by Zack Hogg. Bright boards with light wear. Bump on top edge of rear board. Discoloration to fore-edge of last 2 rear blank pages. Bright jacket has small, closed edge-tears, a hint of spine-sunning, and moderate soiling to rear panel. Chipping to spine and fold extremities. Spine chips have been backed with colored paper. Very Good/Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 \| £UK 15 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 40139 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	CARL GARDNER (EDITOR) Our Navy, First of February, 1936 Harrisburg, Pa, Our Navy, Inc. 1936. Magazine published on the 1st and 15th of each month. Size: small folio. 64 pages, whth hundreds of photos, illustrations, and cartoons. Ships and/or crew members pictured in this issue: USS's Pennsylvania, Dent, Nevada, Monaghan, Augusta, Owen, Honolulu, Salt Lake City, California, Tennessee, Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, Colorado, New York, Astoria, Smith Thompson, Tutuila, Cushing, Perkins, Maryland, Seattle, and Langley. Photos of entire crews of USS's Partridge, Gamble, Dorsey, Zane, and Pinola. Also, 10 different platoon photos of graduates of Naval Training Station, Norfolk. Includes many Navy articles and news items. Bright covers with creasing and edgewear. Small piece missing from bottom of rear cover. Good. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2445] Book number: 41016 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.