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1940. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. 18 Photographs,6 7/8" X 5 1/84", All Of A Low Lying Naval Installation- Possibly Guantanamo, Or Pacific. With Mailing Envelope From Fedral Works Agency / Works Projects Administrator Of Nebraska, Official Business, With Handwritten "Photo Lab", Addressed To "Comdr. Bergen / Operations".

Pacific Coast Steamship Company, 1916. Original Document . No Binding. Near Fine. Annual Pass 1916, Near Fine. Pass Is In Name Of D. A. Munger, Gpa, Pacific Electric.

John F. Rider, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. Vii, 102, Ii, 114 Pp. Two Volumes, Soft Cover. Light Usage; Some Fading To Blue Background Color On Front Cover Of Volume 1. Ownership Signatures Of Aeronautical Engineer Peter Lissamen.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xii, 330 Pp. + 28 Publisher's Catalog. Illustrated Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. Floral Endpapers. Australian Copyright Copy With Stamps Of The Library, Parliament On Front Endpaper, Half Title And Title Pages. Some Wear, Gilt Still Brilliant, A Few Points Of Fraying At Corners, Front Hinge Cracked, Rear Hinge Partly Cracked, Tiny Dent At Foredge Of Front Board.

Los Angeles: Murray & Gee, 1933. First Edition . Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. 197 Pp. Black Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine Book With Immaculate Paper Spine And Cover Labels, #94 Of The "Author's Edition". With The Scarce Illustrated Dustjacket Printed On Brown Paper, Immaculate, Small Loss At Corners And Tips, 1" X 3/4" Chip At Top Spine Edge Of Rear Panel, Not Affecting Any Text. Inscribed By The Author At Length To His "Pal" Homer Laughlin Jr., "In Remembrance Of The Happy Dreams We Had Together". Laughlin, An Engineer, Was The Son Of The Founder Of The Laughlin China Works. With The Large Decorative Bookplate Of William Henry Burnham, Financier And At One Time President Of The Bank Of Orange, And His Wife, The Artist Katharine French, With Artists's Signature At Bottom "E D French 1902". Edwin Davis French (1851-1906) Was A Highly Esteemed Bookplate Engraver, Producing At Least 330 Beginning In 1893. Born In North… Read More

Liverpool: Blue Star Line / John Gardner, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. 159, Xiii Pp. + Large Folding Map At Rear. Blue Leather, Stamped In Gilt With Red And Gilt Flag. Original 1948 Edition, Not The 1970 Foulsham Reprint. Wear And Fraying But Gilt Bright, No Marks.

London: Foulsham, 1973. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 159, Xiii Pp. + Large Folding Map At Rear. Blue Boards, Gilt. Second Edition (First Published 1947/1948). Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Except For Very Slight Bumping At Top Edge Of Spine, No Wear,

Annapolis Md: Trident Society/ Unitd States Naval Academy, 1955. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 159 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Map Endpapers. Fourth Edition, 1955. Lightly Used, No Marks.

New York: Thomas Fleming Day, 1922. First Edition . Green Cloth. Good. 113 pp. #19 of 100 of a privately printed limited edition. This book inscribed on front endpaper "To Morris Solow with the authors best wishes. Thos Fleming day October 3, 1924". Covers dampstained but gilt lettering on spine and covers still complete and clear. Ink stain along top edge of page block between pages 57 and 91 [only] with a little ink showing on top edge of each of these pages. Fleming was editor of The Rudder for many years, and occupies a prominent place in the history of American yachting, including founding of the Newport-Bermuda Race in 1906.

San Marino Ca: The Huntington Library, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. X, 246 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine, Gilt, Illustrated Boards. First Printing. Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $5.00, Light Wear With Small Losses At Corners, Tear At Top Of Rear Spine Edge.

Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1931. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. Eight Woodcuts By Freda Bone. 160 Pp. Sea Chanteys. Extensive Glossary At End. Fine Book, No Wear Or Marks, Gilt Bright, In Fine, As New Dj, No Wear Or Fading At All, Small Areas Of Faint Blue Offsetting To Spine And Front Panel, Not Price-Clipped; Dj Was Preserved Separately From The Book. Exhibition Quality.

New York City Ny: Mcgraw-Hill Book Conmpany, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Xiii, 201 Pp.; 23 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. With The 24 Pp Stapled Solutions. Light Wear, Gilt Bright, Pocket Scar On Front Pastedown But No Marks.

Montreal Canada: Editorial Associateslimited, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Maroon Cloth Spine, Illustrated Boards And Endpapers.Large Children's Book. With The Large Errata Slip. First Edition Stated. Very Good, Light Usage, Paper Covered Boards Frayed Around Tips. No Marks.

London [1895]: Macmillan and Company, 1924. Reprint . Full Blue Calf, Gilt. Near Fine. 7 1/4" Tall. 484 Pp. All Edges Gilt, Bound In Blue Morocco, Gilt Lettering On Spine, Tooled Spine And Covers And Turns. Fifth Printing, 1924, Of Macaulay's Edition Of Bourchier's Froissart, First Published 1895. Very Near Fine, Gift Quality.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. First Edition, First Printing . Blue Cloth. Near Fine. Photographs Throughout. 1/4265 Copies. Frontispiece (In Color), Xiv;340, 9341,342); Advertisements 343-346. With Extra Stub Showing Between Copyright Page And Dedication Page, And Unusual Thus; Title Page Tipped In, As In All Known Copies. Extra Platen Inserted Between 270 And 271, But Not Included In List Of Illustrations; No Copies Without This Extra Plate Were Known To Sissons And Martens, And It May Be That All Copies Were Issued With The Inserted Plate, Just As All 4265 Copies Were Issued With The Tipped-In Title Page. This Copy With The Bookplate Of James Wayne Norris, Grandson Of James Pattie, And Himself A Noted Collector Of California And Far West Literature, Whose Library Was The Subject Of A Catalog Issued In 500 Copies By The Holmes Book Company In 1948 And Then Published By Grabhorne Press. With Small January 8, 1932 News Clipping From The S. F. Chronicle Announcing The Discovery Of The Wreck… Read More

Amsterdam Circa 1785: F. Yver, J. Smit / F. W. Greebe, 1785. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good +. An Engraving 35.8 X 26.7 Cm. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. De Jong Was A Publisher And Engraver Active In Rotterdam Between 1779 And Circa 1802. He Worked From His Own Drawings As Well As Those Of Other Artists. This Print Was Engraved By Matthias (Mathias) De Sallieth (1749-1791) As Part Of A Set Of Prints Of Dutch Seaports Based On Similar Designs By De Jong.

London : J. Stratford, 1804. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Near Fine. Original Engraving. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. Richard Corbould (1757 In London - 1831 In London) Was An English Artist, Sometimes Misspelled "Corbold" . He Was A Painter, In Oil And Watercolor, Of Portraits, Landscape, And Occasionally History; Of Porcelain, And Miniatures On Ivory, And Enamels; And Was Furthermore An Important Illustrator Of Books Renowned For His Napoleonic Sketches Of Ships, And A Follower Of The Old Masters. From 1777 To 1811 He Was A Constant Contributor To The Royal Academy.

Washington: Department of the Navy / O, 1955. 1st Edition . Staples. Very Good. 30 Pp. Plus Cover Letter And Attachments. A Digest Of The Study "Deny, Control, Exploit" Which, Although Originally Classified Top Secret, Was Not Given Official Approval By Pnav And Was Eventually Declassified. An Interesting Document Providing Insight Into Concerns Of The Navy In The Mid-1950'S.

Orient Lines, 1955. Original Menu . Soft cover. Near Fine. Cards, Folded, Color Litho Cover. 6 Separate Menus, 2 Different Each Day

Holland-America Line, 1955. Original Menu . Soft cover. Near Fine. Four Cards, Folded, Color Litho Cover. 4 Separate Menus. Three Fine, One With Tear And Bumpig To Foredges