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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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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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