Search Results: History - Nautical from W. Fraser Sandercombe

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Navy blue cloth decorated in silver on the spine; blue and white endpaper maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with small chips from the head and foot of the spine; price clipped; no interior markings..

Toronto: Tutor Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 184 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the upper right of the front cover and a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with drawings, diagrams, charts and black and white photographs. The Contents are: Introduction to Navigation; The Compass; Navigational Instruments; Charts and Publications; Tides and Currents; Dead Reckoning; Piloting; Basic Electronic Navigation Systems; Advanced Electronic Navigation Systems; Nautical Astronomy; Time; Sight Reduction; Other Celestial Computations; and Duties of the Navigator; followed by appendices and an index..

Fredericton, New Brunswick: Brunswick Press, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. (vii) 129 pp. Blue cloth lettered in a darker blue on the spine; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a small chip from the foot of the spine; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Foreword to the First Edition by Hon. Harold Connolly; Author's Note; Prologue: Bluenose Sunk Off Haiti; and the story of Captain Angus Walters and the ship..

Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 119 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. An account of the schooner men who once traded along North America's rugged east coast, the Contents are: A.D. 1636; The Minas Channel; A Boy's World; A Man's Career; Close Encounters; Cumberland Economy; The Coasting Business; The Ferries; Can Dead Men Vote Twice; The Way of a Schooner; To Build a Schooner; Treen and Other Gadgets; Small Beauties; Masting Our Schooner; Plain Sailing; The Great Rafts; Mostly Merriam Mariners; Some Vessels; and Ode to an Old Love; followed by Appendices: Annie Laurie's Manifest; Mrs. Ivy Longmire's Account of Coasting; and Index..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. Book. Illus. by W. R. MacAskill;. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 4to. 112 pp. Oversized softcover. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and a few small scuff marks on the covers; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs by William MacAskill and others. The Chapters are: Prologue by Jack Brayley; Proud Harbour; Still Water Astern; and Stepping a Legend; followed by an epilogue; and an appendix: MacAskill - Lens Log of an Era, a photo portfolio..

London: Bracken Books, 1986. Book. Illus. by Stephen Reid;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 319 pp. Navy blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with colour plates. The Contents are: The Pirates Who Captured Caesar; The Pirates of the Saxon Shore; The Pirate Who Founded a Dukedom; The Corsairs of the Mediterranean: The Punishment of a Crime; The Pirate with the Red Beard; The Buccaneers of the Spanish Main: The Narrative of Stephen Hooper; Blackbeard; The Last of the Pirates: The Story of Captain Kidd; and Captain Avery - The Successful Pirate..

London: Pan Books, 1978. Book. Illus. by Jeff Hunt;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. 190 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; some darkening around the edges of the text block. Wraparound cover art by Jeff Hunt. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The Contents are: List of Illustrations; Introduction; From Sennen to Cape Cornwall; Pedeen Watch; St Ives Bay; Over the Bar; Portreath to Perran; North to Trevose; The Doom Bar; Pentire to Pentargon; The Wracks of Bude; and Bencoolen to Capricorno; followed by and index of ships and an index..

New York: Award Books, 1967. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Edition. (vi) 144 pp. Award Book Z226XK. Edge and corner wear with rubbing on the covers and an uncreased spine; creased on the last page; store stamped. The Chapters are: They're Off; Goodby Madhouse; Six Cold Boilers; In Low Esteem; Alone Against the Navy; O Pioneers; Foxy Grandpa; In the Best Theatrical Tradition; Like a Lamb to the Slaughter; The Big Bang; Mad Momentum; Save Our Ship; The Launchings Were Lubberly; Like Any Other Man; She's Gone; Enough Damage; The Lady Who Chewed Gum; A Big Night for the Undertakers; You Can See Some Coffins; Too Proud to Fight..

London: Fontana Books - Collins, 1976. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 268 pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; small scuff mark on the upper right of the front cover; not store stamped. The Chapters are: Landlocked - June 1816; A Passage to Senegal - 17 June to 2 July; Stranded off the Sahara - Afternoon 2 July to Morning 5 July; We Abandon Them - Morning 5 July; Land Land - Morning 5 July to Evening 6 July; Terrible Darkness - Night 6 to 7 July; Intolerable Pressures - 7 and 8 July; Time Running Out - 9 to 13 July; The Eyes of Argus - The Castaways 9 to 19 July; The Spectre at the Window - In Senegal July and August 1816; There's One Who'll Never Get to France - In Paris and St Louis September to December 1816; Due Process of Law - At Brest and Rochefort 1816 - 1817; The Chaumareys Case - Rochefort February to March 1817; A British Medusa - The Alceste in the South China Sea February to March 1817;… Read More

London: Grub Street, 1999. Book. Illus. by J. S. Bailie;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (vi) 218 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by J. S. Bailie. The Chapters are: The Luigi Torelli and the Leigh Light; U373 - 12th Time Lucky; Happy Birthday Wolf; Battles in the Bay; Fighting Back; Shot Down; Eleven Days in a Dinghy; US Navy Cats and Libs; Into the Teeth of Flak; Catalinas in the Indian Ocean; Operation Swamp; U415; Mosquito Bites; Mosquito Mayhem; and Epilogue; followed by an index of personal..

New York: Scribners - Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Book. Illus. by Mary Frances Gazze;. Very Good. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo. (vii) 190 pp. Black and yellow cloth decorated in silver on the front panel and spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few short nicks around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with seven maps: The Isthmus of Panama 1570 - 1596; The Concept of Terra Australis; Drake in the West Indies 1585 - 1586; The Iberian Coasts: Drake's Expeditions of 1587 and 1589; The Lisbon Campaign 1589; Drake in the West Indies 1595 - 1596; and San Juan de Puerto Rico November 1595. The Chapters are: The Background; The Early Voyages; The Circumnavigation: Prelude; The Approach to War; The Great West Indies Raid; The Cadiz Expedition; The Armada; Portugal; The Privateering War; The Last Voyage; and Reflections..

New York: Rand McNally and Company, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 239 pp. Blue cloth lettered in pale gray on the spine; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some scuffing along the spine; price intact; no interior markings. In the fall of 1941, German submarines roamed the oceans at will. American merchant ships, filled with arms and men, were sailing into an Atlantic graveyard... The Contents are: Foreword; The Lost and Lonely; Raids and Rewards; Gray Lady; Nations on Board; Ship Personalities; Escorts at Work; Stormy North; Around the Isles; To the Strait and Beyond; Crossroads of Egypt; Pets Afloat; Dour Scotland; The Battered British; The Land of Wind; Weird and Unknown; Under Pressure; Medical Chart; The Shadow War; Action Below; Action Above; The Rising Crest; and Rendezvour; followed by an index..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 198 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with colour plates. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Prologue: A Wild Call and a Clear Call; Survivor; Capsize; Man Overboard; Those Infernal Ribble Banks - and the Lighter Side of Lifeboat Service; Hell and High Water; The Last Place in England; Triple Crew Copper; Voices Voices... I Heard Voices; The Captain and the Storm Petrel; Brush with Danger; Born to be Cox - and Coxswain Hornblower; The Daughters of Grace Darling; ...and a Child of Neptune; The Tarts of Dungeness; A Price to Pay; Nightmares in Dover; The Deadly Goodwins; Caister Men Never Turn Back and Never Take No for an Answer; The Greatest Lifeboatman of Them All; Dylan Thomas and the Buoy Boy; Snarling Mountains of Fury and Two Lads Ready to Die for a Pint; Across the Sea to Ireland and Deadly Dublin Bay; The Marathon Men… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 134 pp. Blue boards with a small black pictorial on the front panel; decorated in black on the spine; illustrated with a map and some diagrams. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a small nick at the head of a slightly faded spine; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Which Is Really the Preface; The Firecrest; Westward to Gibralter; The Atlantic; Alarming Discoveries; In the Trade Winds; Thirst and the Dorados; Stormy Days; Nights at the Tiller; Fierce Gales in the Hurricane Zone; The Test; Gulf Stream and a Liner; The End of the Cruise; First Days on Land; The Call of the Sea; and The Rejuvenated Firecrest..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 182 pp. Gray cloth with a black and blue pictorial on the front panel; lettered in black on the front panel; decorated in black and blue on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband; profusely illustrated with black and blue photographs and drawings; black and white photographs and drawings; blue drawings, and maps. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with few small nicks and short tears around the edges; small scuff mark on the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The First Fishermen from Europe; Early New England Fishermen; Fishermen and Early American Trade; The Ways and Methods of Fishing; The Dangers in a Fisherman's Life; Periods of Growth and Decline; and Our Fishing Fleets Today; followed by an index..

London: Four Square Books, 1961. Book. Illus. by Roger Hall;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 192 pp. Four Square Book 281. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Roger Hall. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. The Chapters are: The Promotion of the Captain; Preparation for Departure; The Admiral Blunders; The Admiral is Unrepentant; Withdraw Your Fleet at Once; The Fleet Stagnates; Reinforcements from Home; Battle Flags Are to be Sent Up; The Meeting at Donkey's Ears; The Admiral is Transferred; The Admiral Reaches Harbour; and The Admiral Returns Home..

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 194 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated endpapers. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and chips around the edges. The Contents are: The Junior Years; The Navy Beckons; S. S. Carmel; North to the Queen Charlottes; One Hundred Fathom Shelf; Rammed from Below; The Long Tow; and The End of an Era..

Truro, Cornwall, England: Atlantic Transport Publishers, 1986. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 48 pp. Glossy pictorial boards; illustrated with colour paintings and black and white photographs. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. The front cover features the Queen Mary. A word game guessing competition card from the S. S. Orcades - Orient Line - has been dropped-in. The Contents are: The Cunard Line - A Brief History; Servia 1881 - 1902; Etruria 1884 - 1909; Lucania 1893 - 1909; Carpathia 1903 - 1918; Caronia 1905 - 1933; Carmania 1905 - 1932; Lusitania 1906 - 1915; Mauretania 1907 - 1935; Franconia 1911 - 1916; Berengaria 1913 - 1938; Aquitania 1914 - 1950; Samaria 1921 - 1956; Scythia 1921 - 1958; Andania 1922 - 1940; Antonia 1922 - 1948; Ausonia 1921 - 1965; Laconia 1922 - 1942; Lancastria 1922 - 1940; Carinthia 1925 - 1940; Ascania 1925 - 1956; Queen Mary 1936 - 1967; Queen Elizabeth 1940 - 1972; Mauretania 1939 - 1965; Parthia 1948 - 1961; Caronia 1948 -… Read More

Gillingham, Dorset, England: Blackmore Press, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 100 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the rear panel; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: PART ONE: 1875 - 1914: Fons et origo; The Golden Years; Domestic Affairs; The Masher and the Virgin; Yachting; Yachting and the Club; Regattas; and Social Affairs. PART TWO: 1914 - 1949: Business as Usual; Sailing; Regattas. PART THREE: 1939 - 1975: Modern Times; The Knell of Doom; The New Look; Post War Sailing; Regattas. PART FOUR: 1875 - 1975: Strictly Not for the Birds. PART FIVE: Epilogue; Appendix: the Yachts of 1875..

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 278 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white plates. Some edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword; The Birth of an Industry; The Maritime Square-rigged Vessel; Shipbuilders in Nova Scotia; Shipbuilders in New Brunswick; Shipbuilders in Prince Edward Island; Building a Wooden Vessel; The Mariners; The Ship's Business; Navigational Aids to Shipping; and Of Men and Ships; followed by an Epilogue and an index..