New York: Alfred A. KNopf, 1986. Hardcover. First edition. 668pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slight fading on the board edges thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with slight rubbing and edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's information laid in. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. 352pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Front pastedown with a booksellers ticket and an owners bookplate belonging to DuPont board member and Philadelphia Phillies owner R.R.M. Carpenter, front fly with the owner name of his wife, Margaretta DuPont Carpenter..... More
London: Adlard, 1976. Hardcover. First edition. 216pp. Binding slightly cocked, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny nick, and a sticker shadow on the front flap. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1956). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 244pp. A few specks of red ink to the topedge and wear at the spine ends, near fine in very good dust jacket with stain on the spine, some wrinkling to the front panel and moderate edgewear, including nicks..... More
Cuba: 1902-1906. Hardcover. A collection of 35 letters from Joseph Cummings to his girlfriend Pauline Allis while serving with the United States Navy between 1902 and 1906. All letters are very good or better with tears from opening and age toning, most with original envelopes. There is one small photograph..... More
Garden City, New York: Junior Deluxe Editions, (1949). Hardcover. Reprint. 432pp. Illustrated with some in color by Robert Frankenberg. Pictorial gray boards stamped in red and blue with teal cloth spine. Mild mottling on cloth spine, corners lightly rubbed, else very good. Abridged for Modern Reading. Richard Henry Dana’s first..... More
1856. Unbound. Quarto leaf. Old neat folds, tiny tears in the margins, near fine. Signed ("J. C. Dobbin"). Countersigned by Dan'l B. Martin, the president of the Board of Engineers. Dobbin, a North Carolina politician was made Secretary of the Navy in exchange for his efforts in electing the underdog..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (2010). Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by David Brion Davis. Afterword by David W. Blight. Quarto. xxvi, 307pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Issued as part of the Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. More
(New York): Cambridge University Press, (2016). Softcover. First edition, simultaneous paperback. 390pp. Black and white illustrations. Fine. Inscribed by the author to noted historian Graham Hodges. More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. 279pp. Some foxing on the page edges else about near fine in a very good dust jacket with a tear on the front spine fold, toning, and some rubbing. More
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Oslo, Norway: [U.S. Navy] / U.S.S. Wisconsin, 1947. Unbound. Shipboard printed menu. One octavo sheet of yellow coated paper folded to make four pages. Old horizontal crease, light wear and soil, interior with two light spots very good. "USS Wisconsin 7-3-47-2M" printed on the final page. A handsome menu. More
Boston: Charles Tappan, (1843). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with engravings. 16mo. xvi, 305pp., +[1]p. ad. Boards blindstamped and gilt spine lettering. Missing front endpaper, hinge repaired, foxing to the page and the boards stained, rubbed and torn, fair. Howes L-224. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1998). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 458pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed to noted scholar of New York City Graham Hodges on the front fly. Issued as part of the series Early America: History, Context, Culture. More
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London: Boosey & Co., 1904. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. [2], 13pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers and pages separating along the bottom of the spine, a shallow abrasion with glue residue along the gutter of the title page with corresponding paper remnants on the verso of the front wrapper, publisher's stamp on..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (2007). Hardcover. Later printing. Quarto. 252, [4] pp. Profusely illustrated. Glossy pictorial boards in dust jacket. Binding cocked and top corners gently bumped, topedge a trifle rippled, very good in scuffed, very good dust jacket with corresponding bumping at the top corners. More
(New York): Viking, (2007). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 434pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Graham Hodges, prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects, particularly related to the African-American experience: "To my good..... More
(New York): William Morrow, (2007). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 432pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a crease on the rear flap. More
Maxwell, Iowa: The L. R. Shepherd Pub. Co., 1914. Softcover. First editions. Two volumes in one as issued. Octavo. Paginated consecutively: 90, [1]pp. Frontispiece in each volume. Printed green wrappers. Small chip in bottom corner of front wrap, modest toning on the wrappers, very good. Neatly tipped into the book..... More
Vitoria: Los Hijos de Manteli, 1878. Softcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 52 pp. Stitched printed original purple wrappers. Text in Spanish. Tiny creases at the bottoms of a few leaves, else a nice, near fine copy. Account of Spanish cod and the discovery of the whale fisheries of Newfoundland. More
(Upper Montclair, New Jersey: H. Kneeland Whiting, 1962). Softcover. First edition. Foreword by Alexander Crosby Brown. Introduction by William King Covell. Oblong, slim quarto. 48pp. Light wear, inside of cover and second page with a light paperclip rustmark, very good or better. Second volume in the American Steam Vessels Series..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 248, [3]pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. More
