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A Voyage from Boston to California, 1852

By: Duchow, John Charles

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Kentfield, Mallette, Dean [Allen Press}: 1959

Seller ID: dg17121005

Condition: Fine

4to, quarter cloth, blue on green boards with ocean wave pattern; printed title label on spine. [66] pp. One of 200 unnumbered copies set in Bulmer types and printed on handmade Umbria paper. After a pioneering voyage from Boston to California to seek fame and fortune, Duchow settled in the gold rush town of Columbia where he became a respected journalist and newspaper publisher.
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Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: 1972

Seller ID: s180622m

Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle passage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. “Fair Angelica” is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. “Black Cargoes” is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2-post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout b...
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Image for A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

By: McNevin, Captain Edmund

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco: , A. L. Bancroft & Company: 1878

Seller ID: k200614b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, original black cloth with a mariner’s compass blocked on upper cover, leather spine and corners. 324 pp. [16 advts] + one leaf with a Mariner’s Compass inserted between pages [8]-9 and four pages of testimonials inserted before the title leaf. Profusely illustrated with charts and nautical tables. Captain Edmund McNevin was born in Ireland left for the US in 1847 on The Great Western. For nearly twenty-five years he commanded a variety of ships. He moved to San Francisco in 1874 and opened a school for Navigation. This is one of several authoritative nautical works he publ...
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Blue Meridian/The Search for the Great White Shark [Signed copy]

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $60.00

Publisher: NY: Random House: 1971

Seller ID: s180622s

Condition: Near fine.

1st ed., 8vo, cream and blue cloth. Matthiessen accompanies a crew of professional divers on a world-ranging expedition to find and film the great white shark. Adapted for the film Blue Water/White Death. Near fine in d/w. The book itself is bright and tight with no interior flaws; there is a thin line of sun fading at top and bottom of spine and a small, light smudge at front top edge. The dustjacket has a narrow band of toning at top and bottom of flaps and a ¼” nick to front flap. Signed on title page.
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Men's Lives. The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork / 2 volume ed in slipcase / signed

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $350.00

Publisher: (n.p.): Rock Foundation: 1986

Seller ID: s180624c

Condition: Fine

A two-volume deluxe folio-sized edition in matching slipcase. The first volume containing all of the text by Matthiessen. The second volume contains all of the photographs. An identical two-volume edition, but in a clamshell case and an original print of one of the photographs was given out free to attendees of a $500-a-plate benefit dinner for the historical society attempting to preserve the record and legacy of the fishermen's lives. There were 500 numbered copies stated, although it is possible that fewer than 500 copies were actually given out. This particular set was offered for sale by ...
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Men's Lives. The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork / Deluxe limited edition, 2 vols., signed

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $850.00

Publisher: (n.p.): Rock Foundation: 1986

Seller ID: s180624d

Condition: Fine.

The two-volume folio-sized edition; limited to 500 copies in clamshell case. The first volume containing all of the text by Matthiessen. The second volume contains all of the photographs. With the second volume is also an original print of one of the book's photographs laid into a folding chemise and signed by the photographer Lynn Johnson. Never formally offered for sale, copies of this edition were given out free to attendees of a $500-a-plate benefit dinner for the historical society attempting to preserve the record and legacy of the fishermen's lives. One of a stated 500 numbered copies, ...
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Category: Sea and Sailing

A Voyage from Boston to California, 1852

Fair Angelica / Black Cargoes - Original screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship during the middle passage, circa 1835

Blue Meridian/The Search for the Great White Shark [Signed copy]

Men's Lives. The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork / 2 volume ed in slipcase / signed

Men's Lives. The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork / Deluxe limited edition, 2 vols., signed