Ashley, Clifford W.

The Ashley Book of Knots

New York, Doubleday, 1993. Hardcover. pp. x, 610. 4to. Bound in blue cloth with embossed decoration to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations. Light scuffing, ink lettering to ffep, somewhat smoky odour. Dustjacket price clipped and age toned, with some scuffing as well as nicking and tearing to edges, now protected in plastic brodart sleeve; very good in good dustjacket. Facsimile reprint of the original 1944 edition, with 7000 drawings representing over 3900 knots. .

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Book number: 092864

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: crafts; hobbies; classic;

Berlitz, Charles

The Bermuda Triangle

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. Hardcover. pp. 189. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light shelf wear; very good in good- dustjacket, with 2 inch tear to front cover. .

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Book number: 077382

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Shipping; Gulf of Mexico; Mystery; Shipwrecks;

Clarke, D. H.

The Blue Water Dream: The Escape-to-the-Sea Syndrome; How to Get Away from It All-If You Really Must

New York, David McKay Company, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. pp. 277. 8vo. Light shelfwear, foxing to foredge, else contents clean and unmarked; very good in price-clipped, very good- dustjacket with a few short closed tears and some creasing to edges. .

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Book number: 062453

Catalogue: Nautical

Ferguson, Peter (Ed.)

Topsail: The Journal of the Society for Spritsail Barge Research, Issue No. 15

London, Thomas Barge Sailing Club Journal, 1976. Stapled Wraps. pp. 56. Slim 8vo. Maps and black and white photos and illustrations. Very good. .

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Book number: 052053

Catalogue: Nautical

Gibbons, Tony; David Miller

The New Illustrated Guide to Modern Warships

London, Smithmark Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 8vo. Full colour photographs. Near fine. .

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Book number: 064811

Catalogue: Nautical

Grann, David

The Wager; a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

New York, Doubleday, 2023. Hardcover. pp. xii, 329. 8vo. B&W and colour photographs. Light shelfwear, small marks to extremities; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 092134

Catalogue: Nautical

O'Hara, Vincent P.; W. David Dickson; Richard Worth (Eds.)

To Crown the Waves; the Great Navies of the First World War

Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2013. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographs, maps. Slight spine slant, light shelfwear; very good- in lightly rubbed, very good-. dustjacket. .

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Book number: 058036

Catalogue: Nautical

Hickman, W. Albert

The Sacrifice of the Shannon; Illustrated

Toronto, William Briggs, 1903. Hardcover. pp. 323. 8vo. Spine slant, light chafing to extremities, bumping to corners, Hinge spleit at rear pastedown; good. .

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Book number: 017917

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: canada travel; nautical; canada ships; canadiana

Kent, Rockwell

N by E.

New York, New York Literary Guild, 1930. ed. not stated. Hardcover. pp. xi, 281. 8vo. Bound in beige linen with green lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Nice woocuts. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in lightly rubbed, good dustjacket with a few short closed tears, tiny chips, and some creasing to edges. .

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Book number: 064866

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Sailing;

McFEE, William

Sailors of Fortune

New York City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. reprint. Hardcover. pp. 415.smaller 8vo,,Minor bumping, scuffing & soiling; else gd+ in chipped, gd- dj, 'The Romance of ships and sailors in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, by the master story teller of the sea.'. .

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Book number: 9900027949

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Sailing;Ships;Seamen;;;;;;

Farley Mowat

A Whale for the Killing

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, rubbed dustjacket showing sunning to spine. .

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Book number: 051259

Catalogue: Nautical

Paldan, Capt. George

Forty Years on Seven Seas

Brooklyn, NY, Finnish Newspaper Co. Inc, 1962. Ed. not stated. Hardcover. 180 pp.12mo,,Some bumping & edge wear, dj mod. soiled, about g+/g+. Scarce. Dj is water stained on rear panel & spine & is stuck to rear board, which also shows staining. Conts are clean, unaffected. Ill.: Black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900020520

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Sailing;;;;;;;; Black-and-white photographs

PEARSE, A. W. [Charles W. Gordon's copy - inscribed by author]

Windward Ho Windjammer Days

Sydney, Australia, John Andrew & Co, 1932. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 186.8vo,,,This copy from the library of famous Canadian author Charles W. Gordon, who wrote under the pen name of 'Ralph Connor'. His distinctive 'sporting' bookplate is affixed to the inside front board, and this copy is inscribed on the half-title page to 'Rev. C. W. Gordon / with good wishes from / the Author / A. W. Pearse / 19/6/35'. Book a bit rubbed at spine ends and tips, else clean, tight, and in very good condition. The publisher's dust jacket is present, although sunned and chipped with several small closed tears and a small stain across the rear panel; else in fair to good condition. .

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Book number: 9900019951

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Sailing;Mercantile;Grain race;Ralph Connor;Charles W. Gordon;;;;

POPE, Dudley

The Black Ship

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 367. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Name & phone no. written in ink to rear free endpaper; else near fine. Jacket not price-clipped; slightly chipped; vg. Ill.: map, b&w illustrations.

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Book number: 9900030167

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: Mutiny;Royal Navy;Hermione;;;;;; map, b&w illustrations

Potter, Russell A.

Finding Franklin; the Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 262. 8vo. Black and white maps and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 091942

Catalogue: Nautical