DUST OF DESTINY
Chicago: Moody Press, 1949. Paperback. 96 pp; pocket-sized, in full-collor illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers; browning to pages edges throughout.
Chicago: Moody Press, 1949. Paperback. 96 pp; pocket-sized, in full-collor illustrated wraps; slight wear to covers; browning to pages edges throughout.
London, UK: Fairplay Publications Ltd., 1987. Paperback. 87 pp; series of articles detail cruise industry at time of writing; profusely illustrated with b & w photos of various vessels plus advertisements of companies relating to the cruise industry; in b & w photo wraps.
Hillsborough, NC: Menasha Ridge Press, 1985. Paperback. 264 pp; comprehensive look at over 70 shipwrecks dating from the 1800's to contemporary times, off the coast of North Carolina including history,photographs, maps, and diving diving information; in full-color photo wraps.
London: Terminus Publications Limited, 1959. Hardcover. 308 pp; extensive overview of the world's tanker fleet at the time of writing; each country or company has a separate chapter; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; advtertisements pertinant to the industry are interspersed throughout the book; has address stamp of former.....
Munich: Prestel, 2004. Hardcover. 157 pp; thorough examination of the magnificent works of art by Raffaelo Santi, born in Urbino in 1483 and widely acknowledged as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance; outstanding full-color reproductions throughout; with orignal slipcase, which is in New condition as well.
UK: World Ship Society, 1979. Paperback. 24 pp; staple bound booklet; comprehensive company history; 6 pp of b & w photos; in illustrated wraps.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Hardcover. 169 pp of text, followed by 172 illustrations; 151 of these are in full-color; all are tipped in; the first book to focus on the paintings that El Greco executed in Toledo during the last twenty years of his life; published in Elephant.....
Edison, NJ: The Wellfleet Press, 2003. Hardcover. 446 pp; lavish, coffee table book that extensively detsils the life and works of Leonardo Da Vinci; profusley illlustrated with superb full-color photos of his paintings; various Italian cities, his works etc. plus b & w photos and illustrations of plans, drawings, etc.;.....
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. 319 pp; this stidy challenges a popularly held belief that Christianity came into the world as an essentially iconophobic form of religiousity, one that was opposed on principle to the use of visual images in religious contexts; profusely illustrated with b &.....
New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1951. Hardcover. 227 pp; published to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the United States Steel Corporation which summarizes the achievements and services since its formation in 1901; profusely illustrated with b & w photos and illustrations; with several ful-color, full-page photos, full-color illustrated end.....
New York, NY: Negro Univrsities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 283 pp; facsimile edion of work originally published in 1896; published without a dj in dark brown boards with gilt stamping.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. Hardcover. 204 pp; superb collection of modern prayers from around the world set against the country and culture which gave them birth; illustrated with line drawings; dj has been price-clipped; has dedication to former owner; dj has small chips and creasing to both.....
Arhus C. Forlaget Seapress ApS, 1983. Paperback. 5278 pp; current to 1st July, 1982; includes ships of more than100 grt. and 200 h.p. (tugs ertc.) are included; also included are ships sailing under a foreign flag but owned 50% or more by Danish shipping companies; each vessel has a captioned.....
Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1980. Hardcover. 208 pp; arguably the finest reference work on warships of the seventeenth century. Extensive research by the author has produced a book which combines for the first time a balanced appreciation of Restoration warship design, with a specific account of the whole battlefleet.....
Northbrook, IL: The Jewish Theologial Society of Illinois, 1989. Second edition. Paperback. 311 pp; a translation guide designed for use with only those 19th-century Polish-language civil registration documents which follow the Napoleonic format; book is encased in hard plastic covers with the Quick Reference Guide in front pocket; in illustrated.....
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1981.
New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1981.
New American Library.
Hamburg: Edition Maritim, 1996. Hardcover. 312 pp; THIS IS THE GERMAN EDITION of the popluar BEKEN OF COWES: OCEAN LINERS, originally published in 1992. A lavish, coffee table book that covers over 100 years of photos taken by the Beken family of Cowes, as these vessel passed through the Solent;.....
Zagreb: Privredni Vjesnik, 1984. Paperback. 124 pp; guidebook for this natio0nal park in Yugoslavia; very detailed, with 120 full-color photos; has actual ticket of admission used by former owner laid in; in full-color photo wraps.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover. 324 pp; well-written history of North Atlantic steam navigation as experienced in the late 1800's; with over 50 b & w illustrations and line drawings; fold-out map in rear is in fine condition; front hinge split; fading to gilt stamping; backstrip is.....
Staten Island, NY: The Steamship Historical Society of America, 1971. Hardcover. 142 pp; comprehensive history of steamboats on this Ohio river; profusely illustrated with period b & w photos; list of steamboats on the river between 1824-1913; includes the separate, 20 pp; staple-bound Explanatory Note from author and index of.....
London, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1994. Hardcover. 188 pp; traces the development of seagoing vessels of late antiquity to the all important emergence of the three-masted ship; with thorough overview of principal ship types; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, illustrations and highly detailed line drawings. This edition is.....
London, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1992. Hardcover. 223 pp; chronicles the challenge to the revolutionary all big-gun DREADNOUGHT from 1906 which found itslef threatened first by torpedo boats and submarines and later by aircraft; profusely illustrated with detailed b & w photos, line drawings, charts, etc.; minor "dings" to corners.....
Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books Inc., 2001. Hardcover. 176 pp; thorough examination of the transition from sailing ships to steamships brought about by technological developments that helped the advance of the steamship; profusely illustrated with b & w photos and line drawings. This copy is Reprint from work originally published in.....