Middletown, CT: Seth Richards, 1815. Second Edition. 12mo (18cm). Contemporary full marbled sheep, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 204pp; wood-engraved frontispiece. Ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. Sound, externally rubbed with minor wear, internally rubbed and foxed, with horizontal tears to three early leaves, frontispiece and title page somewhat..... More

Moskva: "Sovetskii Khudozhnik" 1982. First Edition. Slim quarto (30cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 11pp. & unnumbered leaves of colored plates. Some wear and chipping to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Catalog of Soviet maritime paintings, text almost entirely in Russian, save list of reproductions..... More

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. First American Edition. Nautical tale by the prolific English sailor and author, often writing under the pseudonym the "Old Sailor." This a minor work for children, recounting the adventures of young Frank Fairfield, who becomes a cabin boy and sails to Jamaica, falls ill with..... More

Santa Cruz: Odin Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp; illus. Fine, unread copy in unworn dustwrapper - as-new. Well-researched biography of the Norwegian-American labor leader, co-founder of both the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen's Union. More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First Edition. First impression. Autographed letter tipped on to front pastedown, addressed to a C.L.P. Scott, Cambridge, dated January, 1924. Octavo; deep olive cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of color plates; text illus. A straight, tight copy..... More

Rochester: M.T. Gardner, 1848. 32mo (12cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 192pp.; woodcut frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, small chip at spine foot, textblock uniformly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The adventures of Sammy, who reads "Two Years Before the Mast" and is inspired to embark..... More

Philadelphia: David McKay, N.d. (ca 1920s). Reprint. Small octavo (19cm). Attractively rebound (20th c.) in quarter maroon morocco over hand-marbled boards; 385pp, seven inserted leaves of color plates (including frontispiece). Fine. Pretty copy of this celebrated first-person account of life on a 19th-century whaler. Originally published in 1898, the work..... More

New York: Bramhall House, 1938. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Octavo (26cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 212pp; illus. Base of spine bumped, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket has a corresponding bump to base of spine panel, modest wear..... More

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1981. Octavo (22cm). Cream cloth in blue and cream dust jacket; [xvi],218pp; black and white illustrations. Straight and clean, rubbed at edges and bumped at corners: around Very Good. Jacket rubbed at edges, Very Good. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1884-87. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). 5 parts in 7 volumes, rebound in modern half brown leather, brown cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spines; modern endpapers; vol. I: xxxiv, 3-895pp; vol. I plates: xx pp, plates; vol. II: [xx], 3-787pp; vol. III-IV (bound together)..... More

New York: William Farquhar Payson, [n.d. but 1932]. Quarto (27cm). Publisher's rough tan cloth, stamped in green and brick red; blue and green pictorial endpapers; xiv,126pp; 64 plates. Gift inscription to front flyleaf. A straight copy with mild dustiness to cloth, slight toning to page edges, but sound and fresh..... More

Newton St. Margarets: Pequena, 2006. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Blue paper over boards, titled in silver, with black dust jacket; xvi,363,[3]pp; black and white illus. A straight copy, pushed at head and tail: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges: Near Fine. More

Philadelphia: Printed by Order of the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia / William F. Geddes, 1828. Third Edition. Octavo (27cm.); publisher's tan printed stitched wrappers; 24pp.; illus., text printed in double columns. Wrappers and textblock a bit worn with some curling to leaves, contemporary ownership signature of a Mr. Harvey..... More