Whalers & Whaling

Diddel, Margarita Thompson. Thistle in Her Hand: The Sea Adventures of a Young Whaling Wife. Interlaken, New York: Windswept Press, 1988. 413 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. 'This is a whaling wife's true story. When Maria Tobey married John C. Hamblin, the sea captain she loved, she also wed herself to the sea she had hated since her girlhood on Cape Cod. But she made the ship, the Roman, a home for her husband, herself, and over the years, her two children born on board the ship in the Pacific Islands [with] details of life aboard a whaling vessel in the 1800's.' - Rear cover. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary with spine label, stamp on top edge and on the title page, barcode label on front flyleaf, stamps on rear flyleaf and inside rear cover. ISBN 1557870357. #26383. $20
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Druett, Joan. In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003. 1st edition, 1st printing. 292 pages. Index. Map. Signed by the author. Account of mutinies on the whaleship Sharon, which left Fairhaven, Massachusetts on May 25, 1841 for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket; name sticker removed from blank front flyleaf. ISBN 1565123476. #27916. $40
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Hare, Lloyd C. M. Salted Tories: The Story of the Whaling Fleets of San Francisco. Mystic, Connecticut: Marine Historical Association, 1960. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 114 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Marine Historical Association Publication, 37. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Small rectangle cut out near bottom of title page, not affecting text. #13667. $7.50
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Lien, Jon. Wet and Fat: Whales and Seals of Newfoundland and Labrador. Drawings by Don Wright. St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1985. Oblong 8vo. 136 pages. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps inside covers. A publication of the Whale Research Group of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0919519768. #27183. $15
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Nichols, William Henry. A Journal of a Whaling Voyage to the South Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, on Board Barque 'Emerald' of Salem, Joseph Dexter Master and kept by William Henry Nichols. Salem, Massachusetts: Naumkeag Publications, 1973. 1st edition. 184 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Inscribed and signed by the author's grandson, Capt. Henry C. Nichols, USN (ret.), who edited the journal. Nichols, who had just completed his 7 years' indenture, was the cooper and ship's clerk On this voyage from May 24, 1838 to February 28, 1840. Very good hardcover. #11124. $40
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Nielsen, Aage Krarup. En Hvalfangerfaerd: Gennem Troperne til Sydishavet. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1942. 8. Udgave. Small 4to (medium-large book). 117 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Folding map. Frontispiece map. First published in 1921. Title loosely translated: Through the tropics to the arctic seas to hunt whales. Text in Danish or Norwegian. Very good hardcover. Original softcover bound in quarter leather spine and marbled boards, with gilt title and author on spine. Edges slightly rubbed. #26818. $35
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Phillips, Marion. The Whale, Going, Going, Gone? Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press, 1978. 1st edition. 94 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Signed by the author. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0682488925. #27538. $20
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Schmitt, Frederick P. Mark Well the Whale! Long Island Ships to Distant Seas. Port Washington, New York: Ira J. Friedman Division, Kennikat Press, 1971. vii, 151 pages. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper Maps. Empire State Historical Publications Series, 97. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0804680973. #16335. $7.50
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Stackpole, Edouard A. The Voyage of the Huron and the Huntress: The American Sealers and the Discovery of the Continent of Antarctica. Mystic, Connecticut: Marine Historical Association, 1955. Small 4to (medium-large book). 86 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Folding map. Marine Historical Association, 29. 'It is with the voyages of these mariners among the South Shetland Islands that we are herein chiefly concerned' - Foreword. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26947. $12.50
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True, Frederick W. The Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with Those Occurring in European Waters with Some Observations on the Species of the North Pacific. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Facsimile reprint. 4to (large book). 332 pages. 50 plates. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. First published in 1904. As New hardcover. ISBN 0874749220. #27184. $52.50
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Villiers, Alan J. Whalers of the Midnight Sun: A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles Pont. New York: Scribner's, 1934. 1st edition. 285 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Pictorial hardcover. Very good, except for small gash on spine title, right on the word 'sun'. #11848. $27.50
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