Search Results: Nautical from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

London: Arms & Armour Press Ltd, 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Wonderfully tight, clean and pristine first edition.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. Edited by Joseph J. Thorndike. 4to. Blue cloth. 352pp. Extensive illustrations (many color). Near fine. This publisher does not designate edition in any ascertainable way. Tight, attractive copy.

New York: Evelyn Curro, 1955. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Green cloth with color front cover label. Near fine. Twelve handsome, color, heavy stock prints, each 8½" X 6", printed rectos only. "Shown in these twelve prints for framing are the ornate Mississippi and Ohio River boats, large and small; the shallow, and rough water boats of the Missouri River and Bayou country; the covered sternwheels of the Columbia River; the ferries of San Francisco; the beautiful sidewheelers, old and new, of the Hudson River; and the luxury boats of Long Island Sound...." First edition, tight and attractive.

Madison, GA: Southern Lion Books, 2005. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver lettering. 189pp, vii. Numerous illustrations. Fine. A prefect and pristine first edition of this hand-on guide to signature and small handwriting samples of hundreds of Civil War Figures, featured alphabetically with a mini-biography of each. Signed boldly by Hayes and Zabara in black ballpoint on the title page. Useful reference.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Just a book club edition of this WW2 chronicle, but tight and quite nice.

New York: Brick Tower Press, 1997. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 246pp. Illustrations, map. Fine/fine. Just a book club edition of the first U.S. edition of what the front jacket panel subtitles "Japanese Atrocities at Sea, 1941-1945," but perfectly pristine.

New York: Sarpedon, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 360pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. A perfect, pristine, tight first edition.

New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 206pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Just a book club edition of this account of the May 1942 World War Two battle, but tight and handsome.

New York: Hearst Marine Books, 1984. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fred Wolff. 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 238pp. Illustrations, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of minor jacket wear. First edition, tight and nice. Notes the front jacket panel, "Hundreds of Time-Saving and Money-Saving Tips on How to Put Your Boat in Bristol Condition and Keep It There."

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. Illustrations by G.R. Taylor. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with pictorial paper over boards. 95pp. Numerous full-page color plates. Very good. Faint binding edgewear; internally tight and near4 fine, with nonauthorial 1935 gift inscription on front flyleaf. Tight and nice first edition of this charming survey of such figures as Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Morgan the Terrible, Lolonois the Cruel, Rock Brasiliano the Bloody and others.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 234pp. Maps, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine oh-so-slightly sunned. A tight 'n' bright first edition.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 272pp. Near fine/fine. Admiral Chester Nimitz writes the forward to this memoir, first published 1964, about (to quote front jacket flap) "the heroism of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II by telling the story of the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket lines off Okinawa...." Third printing of this edition, tight and lovely.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth spine with black lettering and pictorial card stock boards. 148pp. Numerous diagrams. Very good. Faintest of binding wear, though internally near fine. Later reprint of the 1941 tenth edition of this maritime classic -- tight and handsome. Cover title: "Brown's Rule of the Road Manual for the Ministry of Shipping Examinations: Foreign Going, Home Trade, Fishermen, Yachtsmen."

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan and orange pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 248pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. First of this edition.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue/grey paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 462pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Just a book club edition of this biography of the world War Two naval admiral, but tight and bright.

New York: Savas Beatie, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xiv, 344pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine. First softbound edition of this 1996 study, tight and pristine.

Memphis: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial cloth with black lettering. ix, 291pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. A handsome and tight first edition of this rather uncommon study. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 448pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this collection of biographical essays -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a 5" X 3" heavy stock card signed boldly in black ballpoint by Elmore R. Zumwalt, n.p., dated 1986 September 4 in his hand. Fine. Zumwalt was the 19th and final of the naval figures discussed in this reference. Zumwalt (1920-2000) was the American navy's youngest four-star admiral ever and the commander in Vietnam who ordered the use of Agent Orange -- from which his own son contracted cancer. Zumwalt's original transmittal envelope is laid in as well.

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 254pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with couple of archivally mended (on verso) edge tears. Tight and nice first edition of this chronicle of sailing adventures aboard the "Arthur Rogers... a husky 70 foot ketch with a 16 foot beam and 8 foot drought.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and emblem, slipcase with color pictorial label. 207pp. Extensive illustrations (most color), maps, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Slipcase lightly edgeworn and sunned. A tighty and handsome first edition of this outstandingly illustrated gathering of primary source material.