Search Results: Titles starting with P from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

UK: Fan Publications, 1993. Paperback. As New. 48 pp; profusely illustrated with superb b & w photos; plus 4 in full-color; fine overview of these two vessels; in full-color photo wraps.

Aucland, NZ: David Bateman Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 192 pp; highly detailed and accurate paintings and illustrations, representing a wide selection of sailing ships that plied the Pacific over four centuries; most of which are in full-color; each vessel is realistically depicted and accompanied by extensive text.

New York: Bonanza Books. Hardcover. Fine/Fine, but has been price-cut.

Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 244 pp; fine overview of passenger and mail lines that plied the Pacific between the South Pacific and the UK; well-illustrated with b & w photos; has name and address stamp of former owner on ffep.

New York, NY: Bonanza Books, 1977.

New York, NY: Touchstone, 1992. Contains photographs.

Nuneaton, UK: Allan T. Condie Publications, 1987. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; superb collection of 112 b & w photos showing paddle wheel steamers that p[lied the coast of Britain from late 1800's onward; each photo has brief description of each vessel; in full-color photo wraps.

St. Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Limited, 1990. Hardcover. As New. 64 pp; fine overview of paddle wheelers the plied the Great Lakes; with over 50, full-page, b & w photos; published without a dj in laminated, full-color illustrsted boards.

Duxbury, MA: Seamaster Boats, Inc, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; story of the walking beam engines that powered the steamboats of America from the early nineteenth century to well into the twentieth; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings of the engines and the vessels they powered; in b & w photo wraps; has small, closed tear to top right corner of rear panel.

Providence, RI: The Steamboat Historical S1983ociety of America, Inc, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. 70 pp; reprint of material written in two successive isues of The American Neptune in 1947 covering a unique segment of steamboat navigation in the United States, highly detailed text, with line drawing illustratons, and 17 b & w plates. Number 1 of Reprints in Marine History from The Steamboat Histoprical Society of America, Inc.; in printed wraps; slight wear to spine.

Nante: Marines Editions. Paperback. Near Fine. 209 pp; fine overview with full-color photos of each vessel listed, and detailed line drawings of many as well; (TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN FRENCH); in full-color photo wraps; has minor diagonal crease to bottom right corner of front cover.

The College Arts Association of America, 1964. Hardcover. Fine. a monograph on the art of Cluny ( an area in central France) in the twelfth century; with 85 pp of text followed by appendices and 90 b & w reproductions; published without a dj in red cloth boards with title stamped on spine only; has date and name of former owner written on top right corner of ffep. Volume XI in the Monographs on Archaeology and Fine Arts sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America and the College Art Association of America.

Tokyo, Japan: Privately Printed, 1981. Paperback. Near Fine. 80 pp; superb collection of passenger ships from around the world at the time of writing; over 200 vessels are listed; each with b & w photos; with statistics, former names etc. in English. ( DESCRIPTIONS OF VESSELS ARE ENTIRELY IN JAPANESE). Index, and operators and agents are in English. In b & w photo wraps; end paper line drawings. Has minor crease to top right corner of rear cover that has scotch tape over it.

London: Conway Maritime Press, Ltd, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 224 pp; the most comprehensive coverage to time of writing on these vessels; covers 21 companies with 125 vessesl; with over 160 b & w photos; comprehensive fleet list covering all ships and has full-color House Flags of companies listed as end papers; has bookplate of former owner on front paste-down and name in upper right corner of ffep; dj has closed tear on top right corner of front panel at fold point.

Cornwall, UK: Twelveheads Press, 1987. Paperback. Fine. 72 pp; comprehensive history of the passenger steamers that plied the River Dart on the south coast of Devon; includes the history of the Kingswear Castle, the last operational paddle steamewr of the River Dart Steamboat Co., Ltd.; profusely illustrated with superb, archival b & w photos; the highly detailed, fold-out line drawing of the P. S. KINGSWEAR CASTLEi that's laid in after last page isin "As New" condition; published in landscape format; in b & w photo wraps.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Hardcover. New/new. 285 pp; demonstrates that any individual, male or female, could - and usually did - live simultaneously withing the patriarchal structure, the nuclear family, and the horizontal family composed of of sprawling and flexible networks of kin; several charts,tables.

Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 1995.

Bloomington, IN: Arbor House UK Ltd, 2013. Paperback. New. 355 pp; engaging, first person recollection of the author's adventures across the oceans and upon the high seas around the as a young man comes to terms with ever changing environments and the social demands of a work hard/ play hard regime; in full-color photo wraps.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 88 pp; detailed look at Findland in the early 1900's; written from a young adult perspective; 12 superb, full-color illuxtrations; an ex-library copy with usual markings etc.; card pocket has been torn off; noticeable fraying to foot of spine; tissue guard present; interior pages all clean and free of marks.

Swansea, UK: Christopher Davies (Publishers) Ltd, 1988. Paperback. As New. 198 pp; fascinating and detailed record of shipwrecks on one of the most dangerous stretches of coastline in the world; well-illustrated with b & w photos; detailed map of wrecks; with chronological list of shipwrecks and rescues from 1668 until 1979. This copy is 1988 Reprint of work originally published in 1983.