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New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
50 Years New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
Camden, New Jersey: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, 1949. 4to (large book).
80 pages. Photographs. Endpaper photographs.
Very good hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt title device. #26688. $60
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Newby, Eric.
Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice Seaman on the Last of the
Windjammers.
New York: Times Books / Random House, 1999. 1st U.S. edition. Small 4to
(medium-large book). 144 pages. Photographs. Map. Endpaper photographs.
The author's account his 1938 voyage on the Moshulu (formerly the Dreadnought
and the Kurt), a square-rigged four-masted steel barque built in 1904 carrying
cargo of grain on round-the-world voyages between Europe and Australia,
illustrated with photographs with many photographs. Very good hardcover in very
good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author. ISBN 0812932528.
#27507. $50
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Noble, Sam.
Sam Noble, Able Seaman, 'Tween Decks in the 'Seventies': An
Autobiography.
Foreword by Rear-Adm. A. F. Davidson. New York: Stokes, 1926. 1st edition. xii,
305 pages. Photographs. Maps. Frontispiece.
Good hardcover, edges slightly worn. #13229. $17.50
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Oakeshott, Walter.
Founded upon the Seas: A Narrative of Some English Maritime and
Overseas Enterprises during the Period 1550 to 1616.
Cambridge: University Press, 1942. 200 pages. Illustrations.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #11143. $17.50
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Oliver, Richard B.
The Oceanliner: Speed, Style, Symbol.
Foreword by Lisa Taylor. New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Design, 1980. 1st printing. 4to (large book).
40 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Catalog for an exhibition
held from January 22 to April 6, 1980.
A look at ocean liners with an emphasis on design and decoration. Very good
stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26595. $15
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Owens, William A.
Slave Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad.
New York: John Day, 1953. 312 pages. Illustrations.
Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #13148. $17.50
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