1969, ISBN: cd4f1000521ab8d84b0d51c7c726a45d

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USA.: McCall Corporation, 1948. BLUE BOOK - April 1948 MAGAZINE Vol. 86, No. 6 TWO SHORT NOVELS - (1)"A Quest Must End" by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (The wizard Merlin aids Kin… Mehr…

USA.: McCall Corporation, 1948. BLUE BOOK - April 1948 MAGAZINE Vol. 86, No. 6 TWO SHORT NOVELS - (1)"A Quest Must End" by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (The wizard Merlin aids King Torrice and the Mazed Kinght on their ride to the rescue of Dame Clara.); (2) "Crooked face" by Adrian Kuepper (A fascinating detective- mystery story with a racetrack background.); TEN SHORT STORIES - (1)"The Course of Justice" by Ludwig Lewisohn; (2)"Tails Up!" by John Beames; (3) "Mardi Gras Bondmaid" by Wilbur S. Peacock; (4)" The Wild Blue Yonder" by Donovan Fitzpatrick; (5)"Animal Man" by Robert Barbour Johnson; (6)"Bar Gold" by H. Bedford-Jones; (7)" Old Man Owlhoot" by Norman A. Fox; (8)" Back-Counrty Boy" by Louis Kaye; (9) "Thunderbolt at Large" by Ross De Lue; (10) "The Needed Spark" by Joel Reeve; STORIES OF FACT & EXPERIENCE - (1)"He Saw America First" by Glenn R. Vernam; (A hundred years before Lewis & Clark, an Indian journeyed from Louisiana to the Northwest coast.); (2) "Action off Salerno" by Clary Thompson (A stirring story, from a Navy view-point, of a hazardous landing.); (3) "Whale Below!" by Bill Adams (A weird experience of our favorite sailor-writer.); (4)"The Battle for Leyte Gulf" by Robert L. Johnson Jr. (A letter home describes the all-but-suicidal attack of a DE upon a Japanese cruiser.); (5) "Forgotten Sweethearts of the Sea" by Will Talsey (The Last of them led one of Dewey's ships into action at Manila.); (6) "The Wrath of Vesuvius" by Captain Michael A. Musmanno (His car buried by cinders, he barely escadered the fate of the Pompeians.); (7) "And in This Courner - Polydeuces of Greece!" by Robert Foreman (In classic times boxing was frequently a battle to the death.); (8) "Tony Stands by a Friend" by Robert H. Bridges (A brief picture of a devoted machine-gunner in battle.) >>> Beautiful painted Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops = Part of the "These United States" series of covers, this issue features; KANSAS - Free Soil or SLAVERY? (1787 Congress passed the Northwest Territory Ordinance forbidding Slavery in all New States north of Ohio River) = Wraparound Painted cover; Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus.. Soft Cover. FINE. Illus. by Herbert Morton Stoops Wraparound Painted Cover Art.. Oversized "Bedsheet" PULP Mag., McCall Corporation, 1948, 5, New York: David McKay Co, 1969. HEAVY. Translated from the French by M W B Sanderson. 360pp, illustrated with color and b/w photographs, line drawings, maps, bibliography, end-paper maps. The endpages are lightly foxed. Blue cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. The book is a study of ocean-going sailing ships and the men who sailed them; in particular, their struggles against one of nature's most formidable obstacles, Cape Horn and the terrible seas that pound its shores. The book covers exploration, colonization and includes essays on such subjects as whaling, shipwrecks off the Horn, naval architecture, French sailing-ship companies, and life on board a windjammer in the 1880s.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to., David McKay Co, 1969, 3, Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. Revised Edition.. The record of a brilliant era of American achievement, revised with a new preface and with a new and complete index. Ownership signature on the front endpaper is Wm. H. Slocum, possibly a relative of Joshua. Ilustrations throughout, the frontispiece ship is The Panay bound from Boston to Manila. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1923, 2.5<

1924, ISBN: cd4f1000521ab8d84b0d51c7c726a45d

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Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 12.71], [PU: Heath Cranton], MARITIME BZDB28 NAVAL SHIP SHIPS SHIPPING NAVY SAILOR SAILORS SAILING SEAFARER MARITIME; THE AND OF OLD SALEM PAINE RALPH … Mehr…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 12.71], [PU: Heath Cranton], MARITIME BZDB28 NAVAL SHIP SHIPS SHIPPING NAVY SAILOR SAILORS SAILING SEAFARER MARITIME; THE AND OF OLD SALEM PAINE RALPH D, Tales of the American square-rigged sailing ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, working out of Salem, Massachusetts. Clean, tight and sound copy. Publisher's dark red hardcover binding, gilt lettered. Slightly faded on spine, some small splash marks to boards. Xvii + 471 pages, plates, index. From the maritime library of the late Dr John Coates, former Chief Naval Architect at the Ministry of Defence and world authority on wooden ship construction - particularly the Greek trireme. With his ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Maritime; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0022789.<

1923, ISBN: cd4f1000521ab8d84b0d51c7c726a45d

Hardcover, Book, Good. No Jacket, Whaling|Yachting, The record of a brilliant era of American achievement, revised with a new preface and with a new and complete index. Ownership signatur… Mehr…

Hardcover, Book, Good. No Jacket, Whaling|Yachting, The record of a brilliant era of American achievement, revised with a new preface and with a new and complete index. Ownership signature on the front endpaper is Wm. H. Slocum, possibly a relative of Joshua. Ilustrations throughout, the frontispiece ship is The Panay bound from Boston to Manila. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall., Boston, [PU: Charles E. Lauriat Company]<

1912, ISBN: cd4f1000521ab8d84b0d51c7c726a45d

Hard Cover, 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall., Good. No Jacket, NAUTICAL-This regular size hardcover is good; edge worn, book plate. dark brown w/gilt titles., Chicago, IL, [PU: A.C. McClerg]