Category: Ships and the Sea Q1

1.3 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 354 pages; An in-depth biography of Sir Thomas Lipton, the founder of Lipton Tea-a portrait of a remarkable self-made man and intrepid sailor.

Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. He built a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. And his colorful pursuit of the America's Cup trophy made him a beloved figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

In A Full Cup, Michael D'Antonio tells the tale of this ...
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Captain Cook's Last Voyage; Seventy North to Fifty South:

By: Dale, Paul W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Prentice-Hall: 1969

Seller ID: 2949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Back panel of dust jacket is rubbed and lightly soiled
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ADVENTURERS OF THE PACIFIC

By: Day, A. Grove

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Meridith Press: 1969

Seller ID: 331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

former owners name FFE; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages
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The Evergreen Fleet - A Pictorial History Of Washington State Ferries

By: Demoro And Harre

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Marino, Golden West Books: 1971

Seller ID: 5052

ISBN: 0870950371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Hardbound book , lacks dust jacket , clean and unmarked and binding tight and square ; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 136 pages
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Journal of a Voyage to Nowhere

By: Fenn, Charles

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton: 1971

Seller ID: 1714

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

x-library with usual markings
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CHANTEYING ABOARD AMERICAN SHIPS

By: Harlow, Frederick Pease

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Gazette: 1962

Seller ID: 4540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Edgewear to dustjacket edges and price clipped; wrapped in new Brodartlight oily stain to spine and edge of front board but not affecting interior. Book is tight and clean. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 250 pages
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A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn; My Old Man and the Sea:

By: Hays, David; Hays, Daniel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Books: 1995

Seller ID: 3235

ISBN: 1565121023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Cutting Loose

By: Lipscomb, James

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: 1974

Seller ID: 517

First Edition, Cloth, Very Good/Very Good, two short closed tears top front and back of dj, Q1 Ships and the Sea
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In Ships More Essays In Remembrance

By: McClure , W. Raymond

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Rutland , Vermont, Sharp Offset Printing: 1968

Seller ID: 1892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

yellowing to inside hinges;long author inscription on half-title page.; Signed by Author
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SOME FAMOUS SAILING SHIPS AND THEIR BUILDER DONALD MCKAY

By: McKay , Richard C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Riverside, Conn, 7 C'S Press: 1969

Seller ID: 4266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Light shelf wear to bottoom of boards; 8vo; 395 pages
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Looking for a Ship

By: McPhee, John

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Macfarlane Walter & Ross: 1990

Seller ID: 3280

ISBN: 0921912099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

former owner's name in ink top of dedication page
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FOG AND MEN ON BEARING SEA

By: Miller, Max

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1936

Seller ID: 4123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Top edge of text block dyed blue ; no DJ; book is tight and sound. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages; Signed by Author
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The Closing Chapter; SHIPBUILDING ON THE KENNEBUNK

By: Morgan, Charles S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Kennebunkport, Maine, Historical Society of Kennebunkport: 1970

Seller ID: 3961

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light spotting and fading to card covers. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 48 pages
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The Boy, Me and the Cat Cruise of the Mascot, 1912-1913

By: Plummer, Henry M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Rye, New Hampshire, Cyrus Chandler Company: 1961

Seller ID: 1717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

first edition was limited to 700 paperbound copies; this is the second printing in hardbound, blue cloth.
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From the Revolution to the World War with Mention of Adjacent Towns. ; The Shipping Days of Old Boothbay, Maine

By: Rice, George Wharton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portland , Maine, New Hampshire Pub Co: 1984

Seller ID: 4600

ISBN: 0897250540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Lacks dust jacket. Published December, 1984 by the New England History Press in collaboration with the Boothbay Region Historical Society. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 419 pages; 463 pp. 50 illus, portraits, maps & early photos; index; photos on end papers; dj. 1984 (1938).

Until World War I the Boothbay area was a beehive of marine activity, making this a fascinating book for all those interested in the marine history of northern New England. To the many contemporary accounts gleaned from letters, maps and the like, Rice adds biographies of the early Masters and Mariners of th...
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