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Wadoux, Pierre. Du Moussaillon au Command. Avatars autobiographiques d'un specimen maritime en voie d'extinction. Preface de Guy Feat, Secretaire General A.C.O.M.M., Association des Capitaines et des Officiers de la Marine Marchand. Lorient, France: Self-Edit', 1997. Small 4to (medium-large book). 345 pages. Photographs. Text in French. Good stiff pictorial wrappers. Lower front cover worn, partially affecting front cover photograph of a ship. ISBN 2951140304. #22653. $40
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Warburton, Christine, and L. Glover. H.M.S. Victory: 12 Superb Drawings of Parts of Lord Nelson Famous Flagship, by Christine Warburton. 12 Superb Drawings of Parts of the Exterior of Lord Nelson's Famous Flagship, by L. Glover. No place: No publisher, 1970. 24 plates. 2 large illustrated envelopes with sets of 12 plates each. Warburton's illustrations are undated. Glover's drawings are dated 1970. Very good pictorial wrappers. #26601. $45
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Warwick, Ronald W., and William H. Flayhart III. QE2 (Queen Elizabeth 2). New York: W. W. Norton, 1985. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 176 pages. Index. Bibliography. Color and black-and-white photographs. Endpaper QE2 Deck Plans. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Signed by one of the authors, William Flayhart. ISBN 0393018857. #24786. $20
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West, Richard S., Jr. Mr. Lincoln's Navy. New York: Longmans, Green, 1957. 328 pages. Illustrations. Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. #12186. $17.50
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Whidden, John D., Capt. Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-deck. Introduction by Ralph D. Paine. Boston: Lauriat, 1925. xvii, 314 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Illustrations. Portrait. Endpaper Maps. First published in 1908. In 1845, when he was 12, Whidden sailed out of Salem on the half-clipper 'Ariel' for Liverpool and China and sailed for 25 years in a variety of sailing ships. Good hardcover, some foxing. #11923. $15
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Whiteley, George. Northern Seas, Hardy Sailors. New York: Norton, 1982. 1st printing. 270 pages. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Frontispiece. No price on dust jacket. Aboard his ketch Neptune, the author sailed north from Maine to revisit the scenes of his childhood in Newfoundland and to recall there the family yarns about the rugged seafaring life of his ancestors on that rugged coast.--Dust jacket. Very good cloth-covered hardcover in good dust jacket. ISBN 0393032701. #13630. $15
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Wiltsee, Ernest A. Gold Rush Steamers of the Pacific. Foreword by Basil C. Pearce. Lawrence, Massachusetts: Quartermain Publications, 1976. [ii], x, 421 pages. Index. Illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. Endpaper maps. Publication announcement laid in. Facsimile reprint of the original edition published in 1938 by the Grabhorn Press, with a new foreword and additional illustrations. 'The story starts in 1846, right after the conquest of California, and takes up in chronological order all the ships to California from 1848 to 1869. Mr. Wiltsee based his studies upon newspaper accounts, propaganda hand stamps used by the steamship companies on letters carried by their vessels, and other sources.' - Foreword. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 088000083X. #26660. $110
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Wossidlo, Richard. Reise, Quartier, in Gottesnaam: Das Seemannsleben auf den alten Segelschiffen im Munde alter Fahrensleute. Edited by Dr. Paul Beckmann. Rostock: Carl Hinstorff Verlag, 1951. 3d revised edition. 318 pages. Text in German. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #13246. $27.50
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Wright, Theon, with Ione Ulrich Sutton. The Voyage of the Herman. New York: Hawthorn, 1966. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 284 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. 1903 search for lost treasure in the South Pacific. Good hardcover in worn and frayed dust jacket. #12019. $12.50
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Youell, George. Lower Class. Foreword by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer. Seattle: Author, 1938. 265 pages. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in chipped, worn and frayed dust jacket. #13245. $12.50
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