New York: Sea Cliff Editions, 1985. de Kooning, Elaine. First Edition, Number 29 of 120 copies, signed by both author and artist. Read More about Where the Blue Begins

London: sold by A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson, n.d. [ca. 1766-69?]. First edition. This Journal of the circumnavigation of the Dolphin in 1764-6 starts out as a seafaring account of travel from Plymouth to Madeira to Brazil, and the claiming of the Falkland Islands for the..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage round the world, in His Majesty’s ship the Dolphin, commanded by the...

Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First edition. Clancy's first novel, INSCRIBED on the half title "To Vicki / with best wishes / Tom Clancy" Read More about The Hunt for Red October

New York: Doubleday McClure, 1900. First American edition, second state. First American edition of Conrad's great novel. At the time of publication, Doubleday & McClure were in the process of breaking up (into Doubleday Page, and McClure Philips), and there was some uncertainty as to which firm would inherit the..... Read More about Lord Jim

London: G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett, 1782. First edition. Cook's Third Voyage. First edition of this account of Cook's final voyage. "Ellis was a surgeon's mate during Cook's third voyage, first on the Discovery and later on the Resoultion, and gives quite a good history of this expedition..... Read More about An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's...

[Otsego Hall, Cooperstown: 1848]. Published: London, 29 March 1849 by Bentley (vol. III, pp. 195-6). Two and a half substantial paragraphs, beginning, “I’ll not answer for the craft, though that’s her blue peter …” and continuing to: “… as almost to persuade the expectant legatees that their visit was premature..... Read More about Autograph manuscript page: The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

London: Published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Ormond Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition. A famous and popular early production of Cruikshank's, illustrating the nautical accounts of Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846). The artist illustrated other of Barker's sea tales; in 1820..... Read More about Greenwich Hospital, A series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By...

Newburyport: Printed at Osborne’s Office, Market-Square, 1793. Margreta Dodge her book. An uncommon early American juvenile adaptation of the classic novel of shipwreck and self-reliance in adversity. ESTC reports only three locations. With a nice contemporary ownership signature at the back, “Margreta Dodge her book”. Read More about The Most Surprising Adventures and Wonderful Life of Robinson Crusoe

Cape Cod: ca. 1937. Candid photograph of O'Neill on the beach. This photograph was likely taken at Cape Cod in the spring of 1937 by New England photographer Alton H. "Blackie" Blackington, who took several other photographs of O'Neill with his wife Agnes Boulton, and daughter Oona on May 7th..... Read More about Eugene O'Neill photograph and autograph

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Limited edition, #31 of 47 copies on Crane's Old Book Paper, signed by the Author. Lively illustrations of life at sea toward the end of the era of full-masted schooners. Read More about Sail Ho! Windjammer Sketches Alow and Aloft

Aug 1-1924. Comprising the first half of Chapter 2, Giant Nova Scotia Tuna, pp. 12-63 in Tales of Swordfish and Tuna. Published: Harpers, 1927. After Bluefin Tuna in Nova Scotia. A substantial manuscript by Zane Grey, comprising the first half of Chapter 2, "Great Nova Scotia Tuna," pages 12 to..... Read More about Giant Nova Scotia Tuna.] Manuscript Section, from Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

London: Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1917. First edition. Scarce. Collection of crime stories, narrated by the scrupulous smuggler and ladies' man, Captain Gault. Scarce. Read More about Captain Gault. Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain

London: Whittaker & Co. N.Y. Macmillan, 1892. First Edition. Read More about The Atlantic Ferry, its Ships, Men, and Working