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Garoche, Pierre, Capt.
Stowage, Handling and Transport of Ship Cargoes.
New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1941. 437 pages. Illustrations. Folding plates.
Good cloth-covered hardcover binding in poor dust jacket. #13263. $22.50
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Goldberg, Joseph P.
The Maritime Story: A Study in Labor-Management Relations.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. xv, 361 pages. Wertheim Publications in
Industrial Relations.
Good maroon hardcover. #14056. $22.50
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Hamburg-Amerika Linie.
Small notepad in red leather case.
Inside top cover picture of a steamship with the legend, "90 Jahre
Hamburg-Amerika Linie 1947/1937." Underneath notepad are calendars for 1937,
1938, and 1939. No Place: Hamburg-Amerika Linie, 1937? Unpaged.
3-3/4 inch high x 2-3/8 inch wide. Leather, gilt edges. Lacks small pencil.
#15666. $85
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Harding, Addie C., as told by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew.
America Rides the Liners.
Illustrated by Constance Enslow. New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. 1st printing.
271 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Good hardcover in slightly frayed and worn dust jacket. #14155. $17.50
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Hough, B. Olney.
Ocean Traffic and Trade.
Chicago: LaSalle Extension University, 1918. 448 pages. Photographs. Folding
plates.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Fair. #13006. $15
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Jane's Freight Containers.
Jane's Freight Containers, 1968-69.
Edited by George Downie. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. 1st edition. Folio (very
large book). 597 pages. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover. #13589. $20
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Knap, Ger. H.
Gekroonde Koopvaart: Reisresultaat van Honderd Jaar Zeevaart
door de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij N.V., 1856-1956.
Amsterdam: J. H. De Bussy, 1956. Small 4to (medium-large book). 143 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Endpaper maps.
A history of the KNSM, including a series of maps showing the growth of its
regular routes, profiles and brief descriptions of the fleet over the years, as
well as many photographs. Text in Dutch. Very good hardcover. Former owner's
name and bookplate inside front cover. #23263. $37.50
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Knott, J. R.
The Collision Rules with Questions and Answers.
Whyteleafe, Surrey: Kandy Publishing Ltd., 1965. 65 pages.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #13240. $20
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Leeming, Joseph.
Modern Ship Stowage, Including Methods of Handling Cargo at
Ocean Terminals.
New York: Sweetman, 1957. Reprint of 1942 edition. 718 pages. Photographs.
Buckram. Good. #16588. $12.50
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Low, F. R.
Condensers: A Series of Lectures and Articles upon the Subject
Reprinted from the Columns of "Power."
New York: McGraw-Hill & London: Hill Publishing Co., 1907. Large 8vo. 79 pages.
Illustrations.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #12484. $20
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McAdam, Roger Williams.
The Old Fall River Line: Being a Chronicle of the
World-Renowned Steamship Line with Tales of Romantic Events and Personages
during Its Ninety Years of Daily Service and Accounts of the Last Voyages by
the Famous Sound Steamers.
New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1955. Revised and enlarged. 288 pages. Index.
Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper Maps.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. #27467. $15
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McAdam, Roger Williams.
Salts of the Sound: An Informal History of Steamboat Days and
the Famous Skippers Who Sailed Long Island Sound.
New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1957. Revised and enlarged. 240 pages. Index.
Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket; bookplate on verso of flyleaf;
stamp below half title. #15511. $10
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MacKenzie, Colin.
Sailors of Fortune.
Foreword by Quentin Reynolds. New York: Dutton, 1944. 1st edition. 190 pages.
Photographs.
An account of the merchant navy during World War II. Cloth-covered hardcover
binding. Good. #14600. $15
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Manolis, Nicholas, Capt.
We at Sea: The Epic of the American Mariner.
New York: Anatolia Press, 1949. 185, 3 pages.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #12992. $22.50
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Maxtone-Graham, John.
Legend of the Seas.
Miami Beach, Florida: Royal Caribbean, 1995. 208 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations.
A book to celebrate the launching of the cruise ship 'Legend of the Seas.' Very
good hardcover. #20717. $20
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Miller, William H., and David F.
Hutchings.
Transatlantic Liners at War: The Story of the Queens.
Foreword by Peter Jackson. New York: Arco Publishing, 1985. 175 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Plans. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author,
William Miller.
Story of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth during the second world war. Very
good dark blue cloth in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0668063955. #27469.
$20
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Morris, Charles F.
Origins, Orient and Oriana.
Introduction by Sir Colin Anderson. Brighton, Sussex: Teredo Books, 1980. xx,
491 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Endpaper
illustrations. Signed by the author on the back of the front flyleaf (facing
the half-title page).
A history of the Orient Lines, one of the most notable passenger liner
companies, from its sailing ships through its century of passenger steamships,
written by the company's Chief Naval Architect. - Title page. Very good
hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0903662078. #22973. $45
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Morrison, John H.
History of American Steam Navigation.
Foreword by Frank O. Braynard. Illustrations by Samuel Ward Stanton. New York:
Stephen Daye Press, 1958. [8], 630, vii pages. Index. Illustrations.
The book covers the entire steam maritime scene, but its major emphasis is on
the Hudson River and Long Island Sound waterways, with their many steamboat
lines. - Front jacket panel. Good hardcover in slightly worn, rubbed and torn
dust jacket; some of the early pages are wrinkled. #26505. $10
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Nelson, Stewart B.
Oceanographic Ships Fore and Aft.
Washington, D.C.: Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy & Government Printing
Office, 1971. 4to (large book). xvii, 240 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Illustrations.
Good pictorial hardcover binding, edges slightly rubbed. #11104. $7.50
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Nevins, Allan.
Sail On: The Story of the American Merchant Marine.
Foreword by Basil Harris. New York: United States Lines Company, 1946. Small
4to (medium-large book). 103 pages. Illustrations.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #26513. $6.50
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Ocean Publishing Co.
The Blue Book of Facts on Marine Engineering.
New York: Ocean Publishing Co., 1917? 2d edition. 12mo (small book). 95 pages.
A textbook for Engineer's license applicants. Cloth-covered hardcover binding.
Good. #10349. $20
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