ROBINSON, BILL

Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 1974

KEYWORDS: American yacht design designers yachting boats maritime nautical

CHALMERS, Rear-Admiral W. S.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w, (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1954

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Max Kennedy Horton naval navy maritime military nautical

WATERS, SYDNEY D.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1961

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history route Shaw Savill line trade

N/A

Quarto, illus string bound light card covers, illus prelims, 68pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to cover edges, light soiling to eps)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical history steam ship ships 50th anniversary jubilee

WRIGHT, DAVID G.

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, xvi + 127pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & scuffing to covers & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps & prelims, light folding to corners of some pages)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: shipwrecks pacific Fiji Joyita investigations mysteries true real life disasters maritime nautical

HOLLAND, RON & MURDOCH, RUPERT (Fore)

Square super octavo, red heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims/terminals, ix + 382pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl creasing to spine, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ron Holland Design Canada 2018

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Ron Holland maritime nautical sailing design

MURPHY Jr., EDWARD R. & GENTRY, CURT

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, 452pp, illus/photos, VG (light soiling to boards, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling/tanning to covers, 3cm closed tear to lower edge of rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1971

KEYWORDS: first edition war military spies espionage capture navy naval maritime nautical Pueblo North Korea

VISCOUNT CUNNINGHAM of HYNDHOPE

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 715pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1952

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Admiral Viscount Andrew Brown Cunningham of Hyndhope British navy naval maritime nautical war military history

BAUM, L. FRANK & NEILL, JOHN R. (Illus)

COLOUR PLATES, FIRST EDITION (1911) FIRST ISSUE WITH TRANSPOSED LINES ON Pg95 & Pg105. LIST OF PREVIOUS TITLES ENDS WITH 'JOHN DOUGH & THE CHERUB', imperial octavo, green buckram boards, green lettering to spine, colour illus title plate to front board, illus eps, illus prelims, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/plates, VG- (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine extrems, moderate scuffing & chafing to boards & edges, light soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate cracks to gutters- boards still reasonably firm, sporadic light soiling & minor closed tearing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Reilly & Britton Co. 1911

KEYWORDS: children's literature modern first edition L Frank Baum sea fairies John R Neill illustrated fantasy nautical

PESTER, BEN & DURHAM, DICK (Intro)

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Adlard Coles Nautical 2010

KEYWORDS: Ben Pester autobiography memoir travel exploration sailing nautical maritime England New Zealand Tern II

HOSMER, GEORGE L.

Duodecimo hardcover (VG-) ironically, some moderate water staining to page edges; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons 1926

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical navigation instruments charts piloting dead reckoning mercator sailing great circle azimuth sumner's method tides storms signals

WATERS, S. D.

Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine blind stamp insignia to front board, frontispiece, xvi + 570pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy chafing & surface loss to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, light foxing to prelims, light to moderate foxing & soiling to terminals) in d/w, tatty (v heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing with substantial loss to edges, failed attempts at tape repairs evident, moderate chafing with surface loss, lower portion of front cover completely detached but present)

PUBLISHER: R. E. Owen Gov't Printer 1956

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official history military navy naval ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 maritime nautical

N/A

ALSO BOUND WITH NAVAL REGULATION AMENDMENTS #1-6, WITH ORIGINAL OWNER'S INK ANNOTATIONS, super octavo, black buckram boards, blind rule to boards, title plate to front board, patterned eps, 165pp + 38pp amendments to rear, VG- (moderate bruising & chafing to spine & boards/edges, moderate soiling & chafing to boards, considerable loss to title plate on front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, binder's plate to front pastedown, ffep reinforced with blue buckram, light to moderate foxing & aforementioned annotations to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: E. V. Paul, Gov't Printer 1939-1946

KEYWORDS: New Zealand navy naval government payment history military maritime nautical armed forces regulations financial finances wages

N/A

SECOND EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, brown stiff card covers, brown & blue lettering to front cover, internally staple bound, 120pp, illus, folding plates, VG (moderate creasing to spine & covers, moderate rusting to staples- pgs 115-118 almost detached but still hanging on, some moderate closed tearing to ffep at staples, occasional additions & amendments in ink to pags throughout- unobtrusive)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ports Otago harbour jubilee Port Chalmers history maritime nautical history

ANDREWS, KENNETH R.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 297pp, folding map to centre, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w & mylar protective cover, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1964

KEYWORDS: first edition history privateering legal private war warfare maritime nautical Elizabethan times English late 16th sixteenth century

APPLEBY, JOHN C.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The History Press 2009

KEYWORDS: first edition piracy pirates tudor English history maritme nautical crime British Isles

TAUBE, ALLEN

EX-LIBRARY, imperial octavo softcover(VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: International Marine Publishing Company 1986

KEYWORDS: boatbuilding repairs boats marine maritime nautical

BARR, HUGH & HOLBURN, JAMES G.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: James Munro & Co, Ltd., undated, ca. 1960

KEYWORDS: marine engineering m.o.t. orals mot orals shipbuilding ship construction turbines electricity nautical sailing steam engines engine building material strength reference

LORD, WALTER

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to title plate on spine, top page edges stained blue, illus eps, xi + 188pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate soiling to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor water staining & prev. owner's name in pencil to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some attempts at tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1956

KEYWORDS: first edition Titanic maritime nautical disasters history Walter Lord

MATTHIESSEN, PETER

Super octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: National Geographic 2003

KEYWORDS: antarctica peter matthiessen travel polar environment environmentalism nature sailing nautical