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Gibson, Walter.
The Boat.
Illustrated by John Groth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. 1st U.S. edition.
101 pages. Illustrations.
Good cloth-covered hardcover binding in poor dust jacket. #13069. $17.50
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Gill, C. C.
Naval Power in The War, 1914-1918.
Foreword by Allan Westcott. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. xiv, 302 pages.
Diagrams. Maps. Illustrations.
Good hardcover. Frontispiece map torn along fold. #19317. $12.50
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Green, Fitzhugh.
Our Naval Heritage.
New York: Century, 1925. 459 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13340. $17.50
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Gretton, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter.
Crisis Convoy: The Story of the HX231.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974. 182 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper maps.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0870219251. #17057. $17.50
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Hezlet, Arthur.
Aircraft and Sea Power.
New York: Stein and Day, 1970. 1st edition. 370 pages. Diagrams. Illustrations.
Photographs. Endpaper maps.
The influence of aircraft on sea power since the turn of the century, and
probable future developments. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket.
ISBN 0812813081. #14213. $17.50
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Holmes, W. J.
Double-Edged Secrets: United States Naval Intelligence
Operations in the Pacific during World War II.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979. Large 8vo. 231 pages. Portraits. Maps.
Endpaper maps.
Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. ISBN 0870211625. #13334. $12.50
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Hythe, Viscount, editor.
The Naval Annual 1913.
New York: Arco, 1970. 520 pages. Illustrations. Plans. Reprint of Portsmouth: The
Hard, 1913.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0688022671. #13325. $20
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Ireland, Bernard.
Sea Power 2000.
London: Arms and Armour, 1990. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 160 pages. Index.
Photographs. Illustrations.
An analysis of the changing technology and status of modern warships. Very good
hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's name sticker on upper
right-hand corner of blank front flyleaf. ISBN 0853689792. #22446.
$12.50
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Kenworthy, J. M., and George Young.
Freedom of The Seas.
New York: Liveright, 1928? Large 8vo. 283 pages.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, pages slightly foxed. #13290. $17.50
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King, Cecil.
Rule Britannia.
London: Studio, 1941. 280 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Fair. #13331. $17.50
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Knox, Dudley W.
Register of Officer Personnel United States Navy and Marine
Corps and Ships' Data, 1801-1807.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. iv, 86 pages. 20 sheets of
plans of ship hulls, masting and deck drawings in rear pocket. Published under
the direction of James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.
Maroon buckram with gilt spine title. Very good. #17316. $92.50
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MacIntyre, Donald, Capt.
Fighting Ships and Seamen.
London: Evans, 1963. 1st edition. 192 pages. Photographs.
British naval exploits of world wars I and II. Cloth-covered hardcover binding.
Good, some pages slightly soiled. #14596. $15
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MacIntyre, Donald, Capt.
Jutland.
New York: Norton, 1958. 1st edition. 282 pages. Maps. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
The two greatest fleets of dreadnoughts fight in the North Sea's Jutland or
Skaggerak, June, 1916. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #14597. $17.50
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McKie, Ronald.
The Survivors.
Drawings by Frank Norton. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. 246 pages.
Illustrations.
The story of the fight of the cruisers Perth and Houston and how ten men
survived in the Sunda Strait. Fair hardcover copy in poor dust jacket. #12121.
$17.50
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Merrill, James M.
The Rebel Shore: The Story of Union Sea Power in The Civil War.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. 1st edition. 246 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Endpaper maps.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #10980. $22.50
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Miller, Max.
Always The Mediterranean.
Foreword by Capt. Walter Karig. New York: Dutton, 1952. 1st edition. 256 pages.
Endpaper maps.
On an assignment with the Sixth Fleet, the author has become acquainted with
the ancient body of water which for centuries was known as 'The Sea' and which
the articulate Romans dubbed 'The center of the world.' Written against the
borad expanse of the entire Mediteranean, from the Dardanelles and Bosporus to
Gibraltar, from the Moroccan coast to Trieste and the French Riviera. - From
front and rear dust jacket panels. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #13052. $12.50
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Morison, Samuel Eliot.
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. A
complete set of 16 volumes consisting of 15 numbered volumes, plus one
additional unnumbered volume. Volumes. I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September
1939-May 1943. II: Operations in North African Waters, October 1941-June 1943.
III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942. IV: Coral Sea, Midway and
Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal,
August 1942-February 1943. VI: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, July 22,
1942-May 1, 1944. VII: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls, June 1942-April
1944. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944. IX:
Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944. X: The Atlantic Battle Won, May
1943-May 1945. XI: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945. XII: Leyte,
June 1944-January 1945. XIII: The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon,
Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945. XIV: Victory in the Pacific, 1945. XV:
Supplement and General Index. No number: Strategy & Compromise.
Introduction in Volume I by Commodore Dudley W. Knox, 'The United States Navy
between World Wars'. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. Reprinted. 16 volumes. Each
of the 15 numbered volumes includes an Index, Illustrations, Photographs, Maps
and Folding Maps. Appendices. The 15 numbered volumes were originally published
between 1947 and 1962. This 1982 reprint may be a book club edition. 'Strategy
& Compromise,' published in 1956, is a first edition.
Very good hardcover books. No dust jackets. #25520. $250
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Neeser, Robert W.
A Landsman's Log.
Introduction by Rear. Adm. Charles J. Badger. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1913. 1st printing. 199 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, some stains on front cover. #13048.
$17.50
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Nelson, Curtis L.
Hunters in the Shallows: A History of the PT Boat.
Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1998. 1st printing. x, 242 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Photographs. Maps.
An examination of the development and role of the small torpedo boat in U.S.
naval history. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 1574881671. #25488. $17.50
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