Search Results: Titles starting with E from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

Kendal, UK: World Ship Society, 1966. Paperback. Good +. 13 pp; staple-bound pamphlet with 2 page history of the EAGLE OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY; with rest being a Fleet List with b & w photos; some staining and browning to covers; illustrated paper covers.

Saddle River, NJ: Upper Saddle River Library, 1971. Paperback. Fine. 52 pp; staple-bound booklet giving a fine overview of the history of Saddle River, NJ; well-illustrated with b & w photos and maps; in illustrated wraps.

Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1989. Hardcover. New/new. 135 pp; first study in more that seventy years to consider the early monasteries of Cornwall emphasizing identification of sites and tracing their survival to later periods; illustrated with 11 line drawing maps.

Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. Paperback. Fine. 404 pp; closely examines early social developments on the island of Cyprus including trading, funerary and religious systems organizing this information thematically; well-illustrated with b & w photos and detailed line-drawing maps; in full-color photo wraps.

Haarlem, The Netherlands: H. J. W. Becht. Paperback. Near Fine. 72 pp; well-written account of the sinking of the AMSTERDAM on he rmaiden voyage off the Sussex coast and subsequent recovery of her treasure some 200 years later; profusely illustrated with full-color, b & w photos; line drawings, maps, etc.; in full-color illustrated wraps.

Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. Fine. 87 pp; fascinating guide to the most significant lighthouses on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron; profusely illustrated with high-quality, vivid, full-color photos; giving directions, details on access and advise on vantage points on over sixty lighthouses; in full-color photo wraps.

Old Saybrook, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. 87 pp; fascinating guide to the most significant lighthouses on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron; profusely illustrated with high-quality, vivid, full-color photos; giving directions, details on access and advise on vantage points on over sixty lighthouses; has small bookstore stickerin bottom right corner of half-title page; in full-color photo wraps.

Clarence W. Peterson, 1981. Paperback. Very Good +. 76 pp; staple-bound booklet; fictional account of young man growing up in Salmons Falls, ME (later called Berwick) in ther mid 1700's when this area was governed by the Massachuaetts Bay governemnt. Book is a continuation of work previously published by the same author entitled EBENZER'S TALE in 1971; line drawings and maps by the author; in illustrated wraps...the words "Corrected Copy" are written in ink on the title page and there are numerous, hand written corrections throughout the book.

London: Joseph Masters, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good +. 118 pp; plus 36 pp of publisher's advertisements; numerous line drawings; original brown cloth boards; with gilt stamping on front board; which is still clean, sharp and unmarked; binding tight, hinges completely intact; interior pp all clean and free of marks; moderate foxing to page edges; NOT extending into pp; spine faded and only very slight wear to boards; 4 pp of the advertisement are uncut at top edge; errata details are printed on last page (PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST).

London, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 223 pp; chronicles the challenge to the revolutionary all big-gun DREADNOUGHT from 1906 which found itslef threatened first by torpedo boats and submarines and later by aircraft; profusely illustrated with detailed b & w photos, line drawings, charts, etc.; minor "dings" to corners. This edition is limited to 2,000 od which this is No. 1544.

St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. 19 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine overview of the building and service of the Cheasapeake wooden boat, the EDNA E. LOCKWOOD; well-illustrated with b & w photos; rear cover has original price sticker and small tear to bottom left corner; in illustrated wraps.

Beverly, MA: Crowley & Lunt, 1898. Hardcover. Good. 148 pp; plus 9 pages of advertising; superb collection of b & w photos of the Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts at Chickamauga Park with views of the Regiment and complete history of each company from founding to time of writing; has name of previous owner and date of 1898 on first blank page; first 4 pages have separated from binding; first signature very loose, but still attached; front hinge split; rear hinge partially split; boards slightly stained; binding very loose; includes a loose, browned newspaper article cut from the Beverly, MA newspaper dated August 29, 1930; the headline of which reads " CO. E. 8TH. MASS. U.S.V. MARKS THIRTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF MUSTERING OUT OF THE REGIMENT; with 2 photos; interior pages all clean and free of marks; published in landscape format.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 169 pp of text, followed by 172 illustrations; 151 of these are in full-color; all are tipped in; the first book to focus on the paintings that El Greco executed in Toledo during the last twenty years of his life; published in Elephant Folio format with rough-cut pages; dj has very minor crease to extreme, top left edge of rear panel.

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1915. Second revised. Hardcover. Very Good. 396 pp; academic examination of the fundamental principals of railroad track and construction aimed at the engineering student; with this Second Revised edition adding the theoretical discussion of switches, turnouts and crossovers to work first published in 1908; minor wear to boards and fading to spine.

Boston: Angel Guardian Press, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 267 pp; civil war fiction with religious overtones; illustrated with line drawings; front and rear end papers torn at gutter; but hinges are not spit; published without a dj; slight browning to end papers; boards slightly scuffed and soiled, gilt stamping on spine is faded; it's clear and sharp on front board; binding tight.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. New/new. 480 pp; published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Metropolitasn Museum in kew York, 458 illustrations with 208 of these in full color, 2 maps and 2 tables.

Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 2001. Paperback. Near Fine. 92 pp; coast to coast look at over fifty North American lighthouses in peril at the time of writing; such as Cape Hatteras, NC, Cedar Island Lighthouse, NY and Waugoshance Lighthouse, MI etc.; gives history of each; how they are being threatened and what can be done to keep these beacons shining; profusely illustrated with superb b & w and full-color photos; in full-color photo wraps.

UK: Countryside Publications Limited, 1984. Paperback. Fine. 40 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine overview of Cumbria's passenger ships; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, 1 map, fleet lists, etc.; in full-color photo wraps; Fine/.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.

New York: Sotheby's, 1996. Paperback. Near Fine. 585 pp; the catalogue issued by Sotheby's listing items from the estate of Jackie Kennedy that were auction on April 23-26, 1996; includes original, unused absentee bid form which has been folded and is frayed around the edges and has come loose from the binding; in printed wraps.