Navalperson Books and More from Bob (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Splendid engravings throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Ballad Stories of The Affections", from the Scandinavian, by Robert Buchanan. No copyright date, generally considered 1865 First Edition, most likely from the 1869 Second Printing of this work. Published by George Routledge & Sons, London United Kingdom. 'Bound by W. Bone & Son, 76 Fleet St., London E.C'. Not Ex-library. No ISBN. Good condition in ornate green/bright shiny gilt lettered and decorated cloth-covered and beveled-edge hard boards, 9 1/4" x 7" x 174 thick, high-quality pages of remarkable romantic poetry and beautiful illustration. All 34 full-page illustration plates remain in place. A medieval Romantic poem told and illustrated in the classical style by a classical poet. Wear includes: (a) whitening at the spine edges, wearthrough at the bottom leading corners, 1/8" each, fuzziness at the spine ends, five tiny black dots, leading edge of front board. A tiny faint waterstain, 1/4" along the top edge of perhaps 1/2 of the pages - does not affect the text. Foxing to the first five pages of the title and preface pages only. No mustiness. No smoke smell. No pencilings, No other markings, No names, No bookplates. NOT remainder-marked. A magnificent antiquarian find!.

Seller Inventory # 015983

Pictorial Cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout (illustrator). 2nd Edition. "Architectural Treasures of Early America, edited by Lisa C. Mullins, with Roy Underhill. Copyrights to 1987, 1988, National Historical Society, Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Second Edition. NOT Ex-Library. The first eleven volumes listed here are based upon The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, edited by Russell Whitehead and Frank Brown 1916-1920. The final five volumes are based upon The Georgian Period, edited by William Rotch Ware in 1902. A 16-volume set in Like New condition in green/gold-lettered and illustrated hard boards, 11 1/4" x 8 3/8" x perhaps 3,700 well illustrated pages of splendid Architectural history. Unread, or very lightly read pages of splendid information for you. Survey of Early American Design, Early Architecture of the South, New England By The Sea, Colonial Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic, Houses of New York and Connecticut, Early Architecture of Rhode Island, Village Architecture of Early New England, Early American Southern Homes,The Evolution of Colonial Architecture, Early American Community Structures, Blueprints for America's Past, The Southern Tradition, Styles of the Emerging Nation, The Grandeur of the South, The Georgian Heritage, Spirit of New England, No wear, No looseness, No dogears, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No dogears, there is a name, with a date and acquisition price on the ffep of each. No other markings. NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. Photos available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 016201

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thousands of period photos and maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. "World War II", Time Life series, 26 volumes, Time-Life Books, Alexandria Virginia. Copyright 1976. Published by Tim-Life Books. First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBNs. 26 volumes, tight and firm. Very Good or better. Multicolor illustrated hard boards, each is 11 1/2" x 9 1/2" x about 216 pages of splendid military history from the end of World War I through to the aftermath of World War II. A remarkable grouping - the classic of the genre. Prelude to War; The Rising Sun; The Battle of Britain; Blitzkrieg; Battle of the Atlantic; War in the Desert; Russia Besieged; China-Burma-India; Island Fighting; The Italian Campaign; Partisans and Guerrillas; The Second Front; Liberation; Return to the Philippines; Air War in Europe; The Resistance; Battle of the Bulge; Road to Tokyo, Red Army Resurgent; The Nazis; Across the Rhine; War Under the Pacific; War in the Outposts; The Soviet Juggernaut; The Mediterranean; Battles for Scandinavia. Clean, no wear, No mustiness, No smoke smell. Still tight and firm. Splendid for the World War II specialist. Due to the weight of this item (60 pounds shipped in two boxes) we will not ship internationally. No names. NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous find.

Seller Inventory # 016902

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lester G. Brookman (illustrator). 2nd Edition. "The United States Postage Stamps of the Nineteenth Century", Three volume set complete, by Lester G. Brookman. Each volume is signed on the title page by the author Mr. Brookman. Originally published 1947-1967; this set is Copyrighted 1966, 1966 and 1967, H. L. Lindquist Publishing Company, New York. They published the work. Presumed Second, Second and First Editions. Ex-Library as described below. No ISBNs. The classic study of the Postage Stamps of the United States for the period of the Nineteenth Century. A detailed History and Study of those stamps. Tight, firm clean books in G condition due to the removal of the free front endpage of each. Philatelists understand those pages being removed when the books were donated to the Research (non-circulating) Department of a library, to retain anonymity. Otherwise Very Good, near Like New condition in burgundy/black/gilt-lettered hard boards, 10 1/4" x 7" x a total of 882 clean, slick, photo-quality and photo-laden pages of remarkable Philatelic history and fact. The books are ex-Library with the ffeps of each neatly excised (removed), there is a bookplate on the front endpage of each and the name of a public library has been neatly handstamped on the three edges of the text block of each volume and on the back endpage of each. The interiors and boards are in Very Good, near Like New condition, with no whitening and no wear. The dust jackets are Very Good, with just a trifle of darkening where library spine number stickers were neatly removed from the spine of each dust jacket. There are no spine numbers on the boards. No looseness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, Ex-Library as described above, NOT Remainder-marked. We combine S&H on multiple purchases. A marvelous and historic Stamp Collecting find. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 016567

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Brethren Dress", A Testimony of Dress, by Esther Fern Rupel. Author-Signed on the Title Page. Copyright 1994, Brethren Encyclopedia Inc., Philadelphia Pennsylvania. First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. A big, tight, firm book, clean interiors in dark gray/gilt-lettered hard boards, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4" x 183 clean high-quality photo-quality and photo-laden pages of history for the raiment of the members of the Church of the Brethren from the beginning of the church all the way to the 1970s. 211 pllates showing grooming, male dress, female dress, Children's dress through the history of the church. Boards and interior are Like New. No dogears, No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. A name/address, ffep - they were the original owners. No pencilings, No other markings, No bookplates. NOT ex-library. NOT remainder-marked. A marvelous Christian history find!.

Seller Inventory # 015860

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Many fine plates of the subjects (illustrator). 1st Edition. "The Lives and Deeds of our Self-Made Men", by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Published by Worthington, Dustin & Co., Hartford Connecticut. First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN A big, tight, firm clean volume, bound in full leather, an original from 1872. Hard boards, 9" x 6 1/4" if you count the big graceful curve of the spine. Complete with black/gilt, gilt-lettered pastedowns to the spine. A remarkable and very well written group of biographies from the middle of the 19th Century. Each, plus the Frontispiece, is illustrated with a fine engraving. Lincoln, Grant, William L. Garrison, Charles Sumner, Chase, Henry Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Gov. J. A. Andrew, Coufax, Stanton, Sheridan, Sherman, O. O. Howard, Gov. Buckingham, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, B. Gratz Brown. The boards are worn through the bottom edges following 150 years on bookshelves including the rough shelves of the 19th Century. The leather at the back board is eroded away, 3 1/2" x 1/2". There never would have been a dust jacket. Overall Good condition. Clean, attractive. No mustiness. No smoke smell. No pencilings, No other markings, No names, no bookplates. NOT ex-library. NOT remainder-marked. A marvelous antequarian find!.

Seller Inventory # 015918

Illustrated Soft Cover. Condition: As New. Well illustrated throughout (illustrator). 2nd Edition. "The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)", by Beata Boleslawska, translated to English by Richard J. Reisner. Copyright 2015 by the author. This is a First Softcover Edition, 2020, from Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York. NOT Ex-Library. Like New condition in deep green illustrated soft wraps, 9 1/4" x 6" x 335 clean, unmarked, unopened and unread pages of excellent historical biography of a brilliant Polish composer through his early life, World War II years, the Polish reconstruction and life under Communism, on to Britain and then to McCarthy-era America, where the fear of Communism even extended to refugees. On to his life as a composer again, to the end of his life - all here. No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No names. No other markings. NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous find.

Seller Inventory # 016842

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. "Register Book" Register of Ships A-L, and "Appendix", 1966-67, by R. B. Nancarrow, Secretary and the writers of Lloyd's Register, London. Published in four volumes periodically, listing all ships over 500 Gross Register Tons with detail. This is the 1966 information for one half of the alphabet. Published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London UK. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. Two tight firm books in Very Good, near Like New condition (one) and Like New (Appendix) volumes in scarlet/bright shiny gilt-lettered and decorated hard boards, 11 1/2" x 9 3/4" x a total of 2.417 thin 'Bible-leaf' pages of splendid registry information. Splendid for the historian, genealogist, family history writer. Register Book, 1966-67, Register of Ships, A-L, 1,800 clean and unmarked red-edged pages of information, most pages covering perhaps 12 ships per page - Name, previous name(s), GRT, Construction date and firm, location, propulsion, more. Very Good boards with fuzziness to the leathers after a half-century, with Like New interiors; Register Book, 1966-67, Appendix, 617 clean and unmarked red-edged pages of information - Shipbuilders, Docks, Telegraphic Addresses, Marine Insurance. Like New; Two explanation sheets, one for each volume, explaining the change from "Chinese Rep." to "People's Rep. of China" throughout. There are no dust jackets - we believe there never were. No looseness, no markings. No mustiness, No looseness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous and historic find.

Seller Inventory # 016591

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Lightly Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. "War Diaries", The 1861 Kanawha Valley Campaigns, by David L. Phillips. Signed on the title page by the author. Copyright 1990 by the author. First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. Brand New book and Dust Jacket. Blue-black/bright shiny gilt-lettered hard boards, 8 3/4" x 6 1/4" x 480 pages of Civil War history. A classic view of an early campaign in the Civil War - the State of Virginia was, in the majority, anti-secession, but the slave-owning piedmont plantation owners and slave traders, cotton traders, etc., took control of the Virginia state house at gunpoint and Seceded. The western counties were poor, white, non-slave holding and anti-secession. Robert E. Lee was sent to hold the western counties but found he did not have the troops nor the weaponry - the Confederates lost, Lee was made an advisor to Jefferson Davis, and removed from active command. Here are diaries of involved parties - well edited, easy to read, a splendid portrait. Author-signed on the title page - just his name, no dedication. No whitening, No wear, no looseness, no markings. No mustiness, No looseness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Ex-Library, NOT Remainder-marked. We combine S&H on multiple purchases. Photos available upon request. Amarvelous and historic find. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 016516

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Society illustrators (illustrator). 1st Edition. "The Old Arm-Chair", A Retrospective Panorama of Travels by Land and Sea, by the writers and illustrators of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London England. No copyright date. Research indicates the book was first published, by this Society, in 1850. This is an 1854 printing of that same First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. A tight firm volume in worn blue-gray deeply embossed hard boards, 7" x 4 1/2" x 365 lightly toned, mildly foxed pages of world travel reporting as was put together in the 1850s, when most persons never ventured more than 20 miles from home. The illustrations are quaint to us today, but the cities which became large later were pictured as modest villages in those years. A remarkable period piece. Fair condition throughout. We noted a missing margin piece from the first page of text - no text missing - just a portion of margin. There is light foxing throughout. This one has been loved, and read, well. Still tight and firm. No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. A giftatory, front endpage - appears to be period to the 1850s. No other names, No other markings, No looseness. NOT Ex-Library, NOT Remainder-marked. We combine S&H on multiple purchases. A marvelous and historic find.

Seller Inventory # 016620

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. A. R. Tarr (illustrator). 1st Edition. "A. R. Tarr System of Navigation", Lessons 1-8 complete, by A. R. Tarr. Copyright 1971 by the author. Self-Published by A. R. Tarr. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN - there were none in those years. Following years of sailing the waters from Kamchatka to Singapore Mr. Tarr served as Executive Officer of a U. S. Navy Destroyer Escort during World War II. He lived in Tahiti, returned to the United States and taught sailing and navigation - hence this course. A clean grouping of eight lessons in Very Good condition, stapled by Lesson, unbound. Drilled for a three-ring binder (Binder not included). 11" x 8 1/2". Clean, unmarked pages of excellent instruction in Navigation. A clean grouping of lessons. No markings, no wear. No mustiness, No smoke smell. A wonderful find for the boater, navigator, teacher, collector, historian, author. No names. No other markings. NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous seafaring find.

Seller Inventory # 015464

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Well illustrated throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. "The Cleveland Indians", by Franklin Lewis. Signed by the author, ffep. Copyright 1949 by the author. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. First Edition. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. Very Good condition, without a dust jacket. Crimson/bright shiny silver gilt-lettered hard boards, 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" x 276 thick supple clean pages of splendid Cleveland Indians baseball history to the 1948 World Series victory over the Boston Braves - all here. An uncommon item, and author-signed. No whitening, Minimal wear, No looseness, No dogears, No mustiness, No smoke smell. The hinges are NOT starting. No markings. No names beyond the author signature, NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous Historic Cleveland Indians find. Signed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 015934

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. "Southern Stories", Slaveholders in Peace and War, by Drew Gilpin Faust. Copyright 1992 by the author. Published by the University of Missouri Press. First Edition. Brand New condition in red hard boards and a Brand New dust jacket - still in the publisher's shrink-wrap, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 252 (presumed) pages. The South as it really was - not just dashing Cavalier warriors but Black men, women, children, White men and women who supported, or opposed, slavery, slave institutions and the white male oligarchy in Confederate lands and Confederate government. Clean, tight, firm, no wear - brand new. No dogears, No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. Lovingly maintained on a bookshelf for 30 years. No names, no wear, no looseness. No bookplates, NOT remainder-marked. NOT Ex-library. Photos available upon request. An historic find.

Seller Inventory # 016521

Illustrated Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Well illustrated throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. "A History of the Ohio Conference", by Richard Kern, Editor. Mel Leavitt. Copyright 1986 by the author. Published by Evangel Press, Nappanee, Indiana. First Edition - published only in soft wraps. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. A tight firm book in multicolor illustrated soft wraps, 9" x 6" x 291 well illustrated pages of splendid church history for the Churches of God and their Ohio Churches, leaders and confeerence. Minimal whitening at the spine ends Illustrated throughout. No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Ex-Library, NOT Remainder-marked. We combine S&H on multiple purchases. Photos available upon request. A marvelous and historic find.

Seller Inventory # 016511

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Allan Keller (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Morgan's Raid", by Allan Keller. Copyright 1961 by the author. Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis Indiana. First Edition, Stated First Printing. No ISBN. Very Good condition in scarlet/cream/black-lettered and decorated hard boards, 9 1/4" x 6 3/8" x 272 thick, supple pages of splendid Civil War Military history. Illustrated with a block of fine illustrations, most of them portraits of the principals in the raid, and a separate group of illustrations of the Ohio State Penitentiary and Morgan's escape. Very Good condition, with wear at the extremities, principally at the bottom leading - after 60 years. In a Good but priceclipped dust jacket. No looseness, No dogears, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No markings. No names, NOT Ex-library. NOT Remainder-marked. Photos available upon request. A marvelous and Historic find. Inscribed by Author(s).

Seller Inventory # 016103

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ohio Geology Department (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Geology and Mineral Resources of Athens County, Ohio", by Myron T. Sturgeon and Associates, Columbus Ohio, 1958. Published by the Geological Survey of Ohio, Columbus Ohio. Unstated First Edition (the only edition). Lightly Ex-Library as described below. No ISBN. Good condition but for the Ex-Library markings. Deep green/bright shiny silver gilt-lettered soft wraps, 11" x 8 1/2" x 600 clean, well illustrated and well mapped pages of splendid historical information. All of the Geographical Structures, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian systems, Coal reserves, Limestone, Sandstone, Clay, Berea Grit, more. Drainage, glacial history, cyclothems, Permian systems, Coal, Molder's Sand, Builder's sand and gravel, soils, clay, shale, builder's stone. Many charts and maps tipped in. Two large maps in a pocket at the back endpage. Thirty tables, 11 illustrations, 34 figures, 30 maps. No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No names, no extraneous non-library markings. NOT Remainder-marked. Ex-library with: Spine numbers and a silver bar on the spine. Clear library tape protecting the spine. A Library name and "Reference Book" stamped, title page. A library name handstamped text block edges. That's it. An historic find.

Seller Inventory # 016608