First Edition. A collection of Hodgson's macabre sea stories. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. 2556 copies printed; x, 301, [1] pages. Joshi, Eighty Years of Arkham House, 89; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion, 97. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine jacket. With the Lovecraft-inspired letterpress bookplate of.....
Price: $100
First Edition. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). Not quite very good copy with some.....
Price: $1,500
A pair of photographs of wooden-hulled ships, probably barkentines, under construction at Rolph's Shipyard in Fairhaven, on the Samoa penninsula across Humboldt Bay from Eureka, California. The shipyard at Fairhaven was founded by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish shipbuilder, in 1869. He built about a hundred large vessels there until 1910.....
Price: $150
Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short.....
Price: $200
A stereograph view of the Oregon Steam Navigation pier at The Dalles, a lumber and passenger port about 80 miles east of Portland. Watkins copyrighted this view in 1867. This stereo card is seen on orange (this) and yellow mounts. The yellow mount examples include the date adopted here. The.....
Price: $500
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First Edition. The very scarce first issue (with the jacket flap unclipped) of the tenth Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel, set during the War of 1812. This novel provides the plot to the film Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe (the first book in the series supplied the title).....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A scarce navigation textbook written by a Seattle ship captain. Smith pursued a variety of business ventures in the early 20th century, including running a navigation school for which he wrote this book. It went through several editions with slightly different content. The first two editions are not.....
Price: $100
