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McAlister, A. A., and Leonard Gray. A Short History of H. Hogarth & Sons Limited, and Fleet List by Leonard Gray. London, England: World Ship Society, 1976. 56 pages. Index. Photographs. Color ship photographs inside front and rear covers. On front cover: H. Hogarth & Sons Limited, Baron Line. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26570. $12.50
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MacArthur, C. E. On Navigation Simplified. New York: Rudder, 1906. 12mo (small book). 121, 3 pages. Rudder On Series. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13023. $27.50
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McCusker, John J. Alfred: The First Continental Flagship, 1775-1778. Washington, D.C..: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973. Small 4to (medium-large book). 18 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece map. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, 20. Chronicles the career of the Alfred, a converted merchantman, that participated in the American Revolution. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26518. $10
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McFee, William. An Ocean Tramp. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1921. 189 pages. Issued in London, 1908, as Letters From An Ocean Tramp. Very good hardcover in poor dust jacket. #12115. $22.50
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Macintyre, Donald. The Adventure of Sail, 1520-1914. Introduction by Uffa Fox. New York: Random House, 1970. 1st American edition. Oblong 4to (large book). 256 pages. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. 'A historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square-rigged ship. Followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914, each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail.' - Front dust jacket. Very good pictorial hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #23092. $25
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McKay, Richard C. South Street: A Maritime History of New York. Preface by Peter Stanford. Riverside, Connecticut: 7 C's Press, Inc., 1969. 2d revised edition. xxiii, 460 pages, [21 plates]. Index Illustrations. Frontispiece. First published in 1934. Very good hardcover in fair dust jacket; the pictorial dust jacket is heavily foxed and the edges are slightly frayed and torn. #26507. $18
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Maloney, Richard C. Fifty Notable Ship Portraits at Mystic Seaport. Introduction by Edouard A. Stackpole. Mystic, Connecticut: Marine Historical Association, 1963. Small 4to (medium-large book). 63 pages, including 51 plates. Color frontispiece. Marine Historical Association Publication, 41. A selection of ship and marine paintings and prints in the several collections of the Marine Historical Association. Good stiff paper wrappers (soft cover), spine slightly sunned. #12078. $7.50
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Manning, S. F. (Samuel F.). New England Masts and The King's Broad Arrow. Illustrated by the author. Kennebunk, Maine: Thomas Murphy, 1979. 1st printing. iv, 52 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. An examination of the colonial mast trade which laid the foundations for lumbering and shipbuilding in Maine thereafter. - iii. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0932006086. #27554. $20
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Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Figureheads at the Mariners Museum. Newport News, Virginia: Mariners Museum, 1975? Folio. 12 colored leaves in portfolio, with one leaf of descriptive text, and text printed inside rear cover. Figureheads of the Benmore, Bear, Mermaid, Mayflower, Formidable, Lancaster, Circe, Commodore Morris, Derwent, Belle of Oregon, Merrie Monarch, and Galatea. Very good wrappers (soft cover). #27215. $70
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The Maritime Trust. Story of the Kathleen & May. Richard J. Scott provided the research and narrative. London: Maritime Trust, 1987. 2d edition. Oblong 4to (large book). 16 pages. Photographs. Plans. Small 'Welcome aboard the schooner' poster laid in. First published in 1972. Sail plan of the Lizzie May inside front cover drawn by Charles V. Waine. 'Sail, Rigging and Internal Details of the Kathleen & May' drawn by Captain R. M. Willoughby. One of the last schooners in the British home trade. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24372. $20
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Martingale, Hawser. Tales of the Ocean, and Essays for the Forecastle: Containing Matters and Incidents Humorous, Pathetic, Romantic and Sentimental. Philadelphia: D. N. Goodchild, The Press at Toad Hall, 1999. Reprint. 12mo (small book). 460 pages. Facsimiles of the original illustrations. The Shellback's Library. Date on title page is 1999, on date on front cover and dust jacket is 2000. First published Boston: William J. Reynolds, 1846. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover) slightly worn dust jacket. #26966. $20
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Martin, Esmond Bradley, and Chryssee Perry Martin. Cargoes of the East: The Ports, Trade and Culture of the Arabian Seas and Western Indian Ocean. Foreword by Elspeth Huxley. London: Elm Tree Books, 1978. 1st printing. xii, 244 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Color and black-and-white photographs. Exlibrary. Good hardcover in good acetate-covered dust jacket; pocket on front flyleaf, stamps and black marker on title page; rear flyleaf removed; black marker on all edges covering up stamps. ISBN 0241898552. #28242. $50
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Masefield, John. Sea Life in Nelson's Time. New introduction by Professor C. C. Lloyd. London: Sphere Books, 1972. 3d edition. 1st Sphere Books Edition. xi, [1], 105 pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. #21101. $17.50
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Mason, Arthur. Ocean Echoes: An Autobiography. Introduction by William McFee. New York: Holt, 1922. 1st printing. Small 8vo. 287 pages. Frontispiece. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, covers darkened. #14651. $17.50
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Miller, William H. British Ocean Liners: A Twilight Era, 1960-85. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986. 1st American edition, 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 136 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Endpaper photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0393023362. #27531. $25
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Miller, William H. The Last Blue Water Liners. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986. Small 4to (medium-large book). 224 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0851774008. #27529. $25
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Mitford, William. Lovely She Goes! A Story of Arctic Trawling. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970. 194 pages. Endpaper maps. 'The heroine of the story--small, trim, and occasionally stubborn--is the Arctic Fox, a fishing trawler out of the English port of Grimsby. This is an account of a three-week voyage that takes the Arctic Fox 3,421 miles across two of the most inhospitable oceans of the world to the southern limits of the polar ice cap. There, enduring the winter's fury and endless darkness, she lets out her great nets to fish; there, in temperatures that reach 80 degrees below freezing, she becomes buried under two hundred tons of ice.' - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. Black smudge on upper right-hand front flyleaf. #13107. $12.50
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Mjelde, Michael Jay. Glory of the Seas. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. Limited edition. 4to (large book). x, 303 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper ships plans. Copy 358 of 500 signed by author. American Maritime Library, 1. Published for The Marine Historical Association. Story of the McKay clipper ships and of the people who sailed them, from the aftermath of the Civil War to the 1920's. Very good hardcover in very good slipcase. ISBN 0819540161. #11011. $20
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Mjelde, Michael Jay. Glory of the Seas. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. 1st edition. 4to (large book). x, 303 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper ships plans. American Maritime Library, 1. Published for The Marine Historical Association. Story of the McKay clipper ships and of the people who sailed them, from the aftermath of the Civil War to the 1920's. Very good hardcover in slightly torn, worn, and frayed dust jacket. ISBN 0819540153. #17994. $5
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Mortland, Donald F. Lincoln Colcord: At Sea and at Home. Searsport, Maine: Penobscot Marine Museum, 1985. 19 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #25603. $20
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Mugridge, Donald H., compiler. Christopher Columbus: A Selected List of Books and Articles by American Authors or Published in America, 1892-1950. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Reference Department, General Reference and Bibliography Division, 1950. Small 4to (medium-large book). iv, 37 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good hardcover. The original softcover has been rebound with a printed spine title. Former owners name and bookplate inside front cover and inside original cover. #27359. $25
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