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Gibson, Walter.
The Boat.
Illustrated by John Groth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. 1st U.S. edition.
101 pages. Illustrations.
Good hardcover 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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Golden Boot.
Golden Boot: The Class Book of the Officer's Indoctrination
School, Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, November, 1942.
Newport, Rhode Island: Officer's Indoctrination School, 1942. Small 4to
(medium-large book). 191 pages. Advertising. Photographs. Illustrations. Many
of the short biographies adjacent to portraits of members of Company 2005 are signed.
Good hardcover, edges and corners slightly worn; some foxing. #27345. $20
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Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Directorate of Public Relations.
HMS Lynx. Leopard Class Anti-Aircraft Frigates.
England: HMSO, 1973. 4 pages. Photographs. This is a small 4-page leaflet with
a photograph of the HMS Lynx on the front page and the HMS Jaguar on the rear
page, and a photograph of the engine room control station inside.
Very good pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26606. $20
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Green, Fitzhugh.
Our Naval Heritage.
New York: Century, 1925. 459 pages. Photographs.
Good hardcover. #13340. $17.50
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Hythe, Viscount, editor.
The Naval Annual 1913.
New York: Arco, 1970. Library edition. 520 pages. Illustrations. Plans. Reprint
of Portsmouth: J. Griffin, 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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Jane's Fighting Ships.
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1944-45. Corrected to April, 1946.
Edited by Francis E. McMurtrie. New York: Macmillan, 1947. Oblong 4to
(medium-large book). 71 pages of advertising, xxx, 636 pages. Photographs.
Diagrams. 48th year of issue.
Very good hardcover. Former owner's stamps on front flyleaf and title page.
#26537. $85
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Kenworthy, J. M., and George Young.
Freedom of the Seas.
New York: Liveright, 1928? Large 8vo (regular size). 283 pages.
Good hardcover, pages slightly foxed. #13290. $17.50
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King, Cecil.
Rule Britannia.
London: Studio, 1941. 280 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps.
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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Kroese, A.
Neerland's Zeemacht in Oorlog.
Illustraties door J. H. Hoowij. Kaarten en silhouetten door G. Rhee. London:
Netherland Publishing Company, 1944. 1st printing. ix, 141 pages. Maps.
Photographs. Illustrations. Folding maps. Frontispiece.
Text in Dutch. Good pictorial hardcover. Edges slightly worn. Number in white
ink on spine. Stamp on half-title page, marking on title page on affecting
text. #17402. $27.50
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MacDonald, Scot.
Evolution of Aircraft Carriers.
Foreword by Vice Admiral Thach. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1964. Small 4to (medium-large book). 73 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations.
Issued by the Department of the Navy's Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
Based on a series of articles written by the author and published in Naval
Aviation News starting in February 1962 that chronicle a history of carriers
since the mobile airfield idea was initially conceived. - From Foreword. Very
good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26607. $15
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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. Good hardcover, some pages
slightly soiled. #14596. $15
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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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Miller, Mary, editor.
U.S.S. Payette County, LST-1079: 50th Anniversary Reunion.
Memory Book. Life and Times aboard the LST-1079. Volume II: Memory Book &
Directory. (2 volumes).
Houston, Texas: 1995. 4to (large books). 2 volumes. About 100 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. The reunion was held October 20-22, 1995 at the
South Shore Harbour Resort in Houston, Texas.
Very good plastic clamshell bindings. #27364. $35
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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
broad expanse of the entire Mediterranean, from the Dardanelles and Bosporus to
Gibraltar, from the Moroccan coast to Trieste and the French Riviera. - From
front and rear dust jacket panels. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and
frayed dust jacket. #13052. $12.50
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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.
Good hardcover, some stains on front cover. #13048. $17.50
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