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Sea Gift
Ashby, John
0395776031 / 9780395776032
Clarion Books 2003, First Edition; First Printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Crisp tight book in crisp jacket. Price intact on jacket flap. Free of names or markings. Jacket art by Jason Chin. Packaged with care and shipped in a box.; Packaged with care. 24661
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22.50 USD
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THE CONNECTICUT RIVER and the Valley of the Connecticut, Three Hundred and Fifty Miles from Mountain to Sea
Bacon, Edwin M.
G. P. Putnam's Sons 1907, Second Printing. Good+; Hardcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Ex-Library; 487 pages, bound in navy blue cloth, with gilt lettering and paste-on pictorial on front cover; top edge gilt. 95 illustrations including frontis with tissue guard. Fold-out map of Connecticut River at rear. Clean cover with moderate edge wear; fraying at ends of spine, corner tips bumped. Solid binding. Gilt lettering bright and intact. Typical library markings with numbers on spine; card pocket, withdrawn stamp. Interior very clean and bright. Color folding map of the Connecticut River crisp and intact, although shows an additional crease or two. Packaged with care and shipped in a box. 25882
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31.50 USD
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Against Heavy Odds; A Tale of Norse Heroism
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
Charles Scribner's Sons 1890, First Edition. Good+; Hardcover; 12mo 7" - 7˝" tall; 177 pages, bound in red cloth with black stamped design; gilt titling; dark green endpapers. Frontispiece, plus seven black & white plates. Gilt bright and intact; some soiling on edges and back of cover. Spine darkened. Front hinge tender. Moderate wear & shallow fraying at spine ends, corner tips. BAL 1273, only 2300 copies printed in first edition. Packaged with care and shipped in a box. 27554
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The Lighthouse, or, Dangers of the Sea (Sunnybank Story, No. 6)
Bullard, Asa
Lee & Shepard 1863, early printing. Very Good; Hardcover; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; Boston; 64 pp, bound in green cloth with blind embossed design. Gilt decoration on spine. Binding solid. Moderate edge wear; gilt worn. Endpapers soiled and darkened. Pages show some finger soil, foxing, but easily legible. Illustrations birght & intact. 30356
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34.20 USD
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Claire of the Sea Light
Danticat, Edwidge
030727179X / 9780307271792
Alfred A. Knopf 2013, First Edition Stated. Signed by Author Near Fine in Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; Small 8vo 7˝" - 8" tall; SIGNED by author Edwidge Danticat on blank page. Near Fine book (minor shelf- rubbing to spine ends) in crisp, fresh jacket.; Signed by Author 30065
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22.50 USD
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Amaru; A Romance of the South Seas
Frisbie, Robert Dean
Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1945, First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; 12mo 7" - 7˝" tall; 246 pp. bound in sea-green cloth; gilt flower design; gilt lettering on spine; green & white pictorial endpapers. About Fine book, bright cloth & gilt, hint of rubbing at spine ends. Firm binding. Interior bright, crisp, clean. Previous owner's small address label affixed to front endpaper. Very Good to Near Fine dust jacket, bright, unclipped , bold Vera Bock art work, statement of Wartime Commodity (paper saving) on flap; Buy War bonds on rear. Light edge wear, minor tanning/light soil on rear panel. An uncommonly bright & clean book in jacket with only minor blemish. Frisbie's novels, adventure books and autobiography ( The Island of Desire, Mr. Moonlight's Island, My Tahiti, The Book of Puka Puka, Amaru) capture the romance of the South Sea islands and Polyneian culture. 30101
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133.20 USD
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A Century in Connecticut; Written & Published by G. Fox & Co. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of its Founding in Hartford Connecticut 1847-1947
G. Fox & Co
G. Fox & Co. 1948, Very Good-; Hardcover; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Hartford, CT; 64 p, bound in blue & white pictorial cloth-backed boards. 17 Connecticut-related vignettes featured on front cover. Illlustrated blue & white endpapers. Good to Very Good book. Bright cover; solid binding. Minor scuffing on front cover. Corner tips worn to card; edges show a few chips Interior quite bright, crisp, unmarked. History of Hartford & Connecticut presented in a collection of 53 nicely-illustrated G. Fox advertisements. Featured topics: 100 Years on Main Sreet, Legend of Centinel Hill, Gershon Fox Builds His Store on the Connecticut, Lydia Huntley Signourney Hartford Poetess, Samuel Colt and the .44 Caliber Revolver, Hartford's Contribution to Baseball, The Shaker Colony at Enfield, Ezra Mallory the Danbaury hatter, Phineas T. Barnum Connecticut Yankee Extraordinaire, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Hartford Electric Company, Connecticut Whalers Go to Sea, Automobile Industry in Hartford, Growth of the New Haven Railroad, Horace Well Discovers the Use of Anesthesia, Charles Veeder Invents the Cyclometer, The Development of the Steamboat, Abel Buell Casts America's First Type Face, Francis Pratt & Amos Whitney, The Mill Industries in Connecticut, and much more. No attribution of authors or illustrators. Packaged with care and shipped in a box. 27992
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31.50 USD
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The Book of Commerce by Sea and Land; Exhibiting Its Connection with Agriculture, the Arts and Manufactures.
Hunt, Uriah
Uriah Hunt & Son 1836, Good+; Hardcover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Philadelphia; 185 pp. bound in blue pictorial paper over thick card; leather spine. Illustrated with woodcuts. This printing makes no mention of a map. Good to Very Good condition. Binding solid. Edges chipped & worn to card. Gilt worn from spine. Some of the print on cover worn away. Bookplate appears to have been removed from endpapers. Pages & illustrations very clean, bright, unmarked. Only an occasional spot of foxing. 30358
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34.20 USD
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The Dead Towns of Georgia
Jones, Charles Colcock
0877970270 / 9780877970279
Cherokee Publishing Company 1974, Facsimile Reprint. Fine with no dust jacket; Hardcover; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 263 pp. bound in sea-green cloth. Bright, crisp, tight book. No names or markings. 30183
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18.00 USD
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Can Grande's Castle
Lowell, Amy
The Macmillan Company 1918, First Edition. Good+; Hardcover; 12mo 7" - 7˝" tall; Good to Very Good book. Red cloth-backed spine, gray paper-covered boards; paper title labels on spine and front cover. Firmly bound. Spine faded; top edge of boards darkened and soiled. Interior bright,clean; previous owner's name on f.e.p.Contents include: Sea-Blue and Blood-Red; Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings; Hedge Island; The Bronze Horses. Packaged with care and shipped in a box. 27555
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27.00 USD
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Sixty Years of Memories of the Class of 1945, U.S. Naval Academy. (Sixty Years After, 1944-2004)
Members, Relatives and Friends of the Class of 1945; Van Orden, M Dick, (editor).
USNA Class of 1945 Association 2004, First Edition. Very Good; Softcover; 4to 11" - 13" tall; First printing of only 430 copies. Stories, Anecdotes, Vignettes, Wild Tales, and Sea Stories of the lives and antics of Classmates; edited by M. Dick Van Orden, James, W. Montgomery, Everett A. Parke, Charles A. Gardener, Alfred R. Olsen Jr. Tightly bound book, light edgewear on cover; small scuff, corner bent. Interior clean, unmarked. 26331
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35.96 USD
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