Search Results: Titles starting with H from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

UK: Countryvise Ltd, 1989. Paperback. As New. 159 pp; a look at the TITANIC tragedy from the viewpoint of analyzing the handwriting of numerous people closely associated with the ship by a graphologist; and explaining how handwritig can "fingerprint" character and behavior; with 74 b & w photos, illustrations and handwriting samples, etc.; the title has a double meaning i.e. "hands" that produced the writing and that the ship should be left alone; in color illustrated wraps.

New Bendford, MA: William H. Hand, Jr., 1921. Paperback. Very Good. 48 pp; staple bound booklet that was the catalogue for these innovative motor boats designed by William H. Hand, Jr. in the ealry 1920's; with highly detailed line drawings and many superb b & w photos of various designs; which give dimensions, speed, suggested motors and power plants, etc. Still has the original, perforated order form as last page; missing bottom outside corner of page 13/14; some scattered staining to front cover, which is slightly faded and has minute chip to top edge, minor rubbing and wear to rear cover; interior pages all clean and free of marks; published in landscape format in printed wraps.

Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good, minor scuffing to corners of top edge of front panel.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 155 pp; combination of writings in the field of science and the Bible; dj has been price-clipped; is rubbed; creased, large closed tear to rear panel; chips to head and foot of spine; but basically intact.

Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 1993. Hardcover. New. 148 pp; collection of 10 scholarly papers by various authors most of which were selected from the Society's 1991 International Conference at the University of Houston; published without a dj in dark blue boards with gilt stamped spine.

Washington, D. C.: ReView and Herald Publishing Association, 1920. Paperback. Very Good +. 128 pp; profusely illustrated with b & w photos and drawings; a verse-by-verse study of the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew; in illustrated wraps; only very slightest signs of wear.

Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 1984. Paperback. Fine. 183 pp; Transactions of The American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Knowledge Volume 74, Part 5, 1984; in printed wraps.

Baarn, The Netherlands: De Boekerij, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 177 pp; published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the NSM Shipyards in Amsterdam; well-illustrated with sepis tone photos and b & w drawings, fleet list (TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN DUTCH); some browing to end papers; dj has piece missing fomr head of spine, is scuffed, worn with edge tears.

Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. 429 pp; comprehensive 100 year history of the COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE (CGT); over 200 illustrations, including many fabulous, full-color photos, b & w photos, line drawings etc.; (TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN FRENCH), lacks dj.

Boston: Klein Post Card Services, 2003. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; 200 exceptionally vivid, full-color photos of 53 lighthouses on the Massachusetts coastline; each has a brief descriptive history and folklore details; has remains of price sticker on rear cover; in full-color photo wraps.

Editions Maritimes & D'Outre-Mer, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 452 pp; superb overview of French shipping companies; profusely illustrated with 100's of b & w photos, charts, etc. with 16 pp in full-color of flags and funnels. (TEXT IS ENTIRELY IN FRENCH).

London, England: Stein and Day Publishers, 1974.

Liverpool: United Molasses Company Limited, 1977. Hardcover. As New. 212 pp; detailed history of the UNITED MOLASSES COMPANY and it's molasses tanker fleet, published to commemorate it's 50th anniversary; details of war losses; fleet list; 24 pages of b & w photos; has both the original errata slip and "With Compliments..." slip laid in; published without a dj in silver stamped, blue boards.

New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 192 pp; a full-color guide to the ships and tresures at the bottom of the sea; with timelines, maps and sections on famous divers and treasure hunters.

Portland, ME: B. Thurston & Company, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. 797 pp; comprehensive history of the Maine towns of Wells and Kennebunk from earliest times to the year 1820; spine slightly faded with minor fraying to head; top 1/3 of rear board is faded; else a clean, tight copy, free of marks; has original tissue overlay over frontispiece.

Liverpool: Bibby Line, Limited, 1970. Paperback. Very Good +. 78 pp; superb company history with 23 outstanding, full-page b & w photos; with complete Fleet List plus 2 pages of sillouette drawings; in illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers, small stain spot on front cover outside image; else VG+/.

London: Robson Lowe Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. 180 pp; fine history of UK postal history of Wreck covers; each selection has b & w photo and extensive descriptive text; the copy is the third Edition of work originally published in 1940; ffep has minute tear on bottom edge; dj has been price-clipped and shows some signs of wear.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 324 pp; well-written history of North Atlantic steam navigation as experienced in the late 1800's; with over 50 b & w illustrations and line drawings; fold-out map in rear is in fine condition; front hinge split; fading to gilt stamping; backstrip is split on front board edge for approximately 2" from head, corners mildly bumped.

Kendall, UK: The World Ship Society, 1976. Paperback. Near Fine. 48 pp; staple-bound booklet which is a detailed chronological history of this Swedish shipping company; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; fleet lists, etc. has name of former owner in top right corner of FFEP; in ful-color, illustrated wraps.

Market Drayton, Shropshire: Shipping Books Press, 1996. Second edition. Paperback. As New. 64 pp; exceptionally well done overview of the HMHS BRITANNIC; profusely illustrated with superb, archival b & w photos; this copy is form the Secobnd Edition of 1996 of work originally published in 1992; in b & w photo wraps.