I recently wrote a blog entitled “What Was I Thinking?” about my inexplicable purchase of several hundred maritime books that were perfectly sound intellectually, but which had almost no value. These were the sorts of books I sold in the old days, before the Internet, when I had a retail shop stocked with cheap books for folks who simply liked to read. I speculated in that blog entry that my purchase was a nostalgic gesture to those past days.
I managed to lay off some of them on a young fellow with a new retail shop. Some I donated to libraries. That still left about 80 of them on my shelves. So, not having much else to do yesterday, I cataloged them all in a marathon orgy of cutting, pasting, deleting, and condensing old database records, and then photographing them so you can see what they look like.
So here they are, in all their inexpensive glory. I have enjoyed many of these titles over the years, and I hope you will, too. I’m sorry to add that, as is the case with these low-value offerings, I must charge for postage and insurance. $5 for the first book $3 for each additional.
Alvord, Douglas.
On the Water.
Yankee Books, ( (1988)), Dublin, NH
Oblong 4to. 160 pp. b/w line ills.
Item #:40329
Price: $10
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Archibald, E.H.H.
Dictionary of Sea Painters.
Antique Collector's Club, ( 1980.)), (Woodbridge, Suffolk
455 pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:40288
Price: $20
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Boyle, Richard J.
Lewis Henry Meakin 1850-1917 An American Landscape Painter Rediscovered.
Cincinnati Art Galleries, ( 1987), Cincinnati, OH
4to. 66 pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:40273
Price: $10
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Brook-Hart, Denys.
British 19th Century Marine Painting.
Antique Collector's Club, ( (1974)), (Suffolk, ENG)
4to, 368 pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:40278
Price: $20
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Cape Ann Historical Assn.
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane.
Cape Ann Historical Association, ( (1974)), Gloucester
Oblong 4to, unpaginated. b/w and color plates.
Item #:40334
Price: $20
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Chapelle, Howard I.
The History of the American Sailing Navy.
W.W. Norton & Company, ( (1949)), NY
xxii, 558 pp. Color frontis. b/w plates, lines.
Item #:40311
Price: $15
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Chapelle, Howard I.
The Search for Speed Under Sail 1700-1855.
Bonanza Books, ( (1967)), New York
4to. xviii, 543 pp. b/w plans, lines, some folding.
Item #:40337
Price: $15
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(Charles Lauriat Co.)
Old Sailing Ships of New England.
Charles E. Lauritat, ( (1927)), Boston
Oblong 4to. 151 pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:40326
Price: $10
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Conkling, Philip; David A. Platt, (Editors).
Holding Ground. The Best of Island Journal. 1984 – 2004.
(Island Institute), ( (2004)), (Rockland, ME)
4to. 258 pp. Color and b/w illustrations and plates.
Item #:40320
Price: $10
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Cordingly, David.
Marine Painting in England 1700-1900.
Clarkson N. Potter, ( (1973)), New York
4to. 200 pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:40313
Price: $20
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Crossman, Carl L.
The Decorative Arts of the China Trade
Antique Collectors' Club, ( (1997)), (Suffolk, UK)
4to. 462 pp. color, b/w plates.
Item #:40294
Price: $15
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Cutler, Carl C.
Greyhounds of the Sea.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, ( 1930), New York
4to. xxvii, 592 pp. b/w, color and gravure plates.
Item #:40300
Price: $20
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Cutler, Carl C.
Queens of the Western Ocean.
Naval Institute Press, ( (1967)), Annapolis, MD
xxi, 672 pp. b/w plates.
Item #:40298
Price: $10
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de Jong, Nicolas J. and Marven E. Moore,
Shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, ( (1994)), (Quebec)
iv, (2) 411 pp. b/w plates and maps.
Item #:40331
Price: $10
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Dow, George Francis.
The Sailing Ships of New England. Series Three
Marine Research Soc, ( 1928), Salem, MA
4to. b/w plates. 4to. 45 pp. plus 556-770 plates.
Item #:40266
Price: $20
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Ebert, John and Katherine.
American Folk Painters.
Charles Scribner's Sons, ( (1975)), New York
Small 4to. 225 pp. b/w plates.
Item #:40330
Price: $10
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Ephemera.
Collection of 18 Artist’s Monographs and Exhibition Catalogs.
Item #:40328
Price: $100
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Everson Museum of Art.
American Ship Portraits & Marine Paintings.
Everson Museum, ( 1970), Syracuse, NY
Oblong 4to, 64 pp. b/w and color plates.
Item #:40319
Price: $10
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Fairbrother, Trevor.
Painting Summer in New England.
Peabody Essex Museum, ( n.d.), Salem, MA
Large square 4to 133, (1) pp. Color plates.
Item #:40341
Price: $10
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Fairburn, William Armstrong.
Merchant Sail. Volumes IV and V.
Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, ( (1945 -1955))), Center Lovell, ME
viii, pp.2159 - 2738, and xi, pp 2739 - 3600.
Item #:40287
Price: $100
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