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CSS ALABAMA: ANATOMY OF A CONFEDERATE RAIDER
Written by Andrew Bowcock.
Stock no. 1827838
Published by Chatham Publishing. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Alabama was the most famous and successful Confederate warship of the American Civil War. This unique study and visual reconstruction of this legendary commerce raider, the wreck of which has recently been discovered and dived on, will fascinate naval historians, ship modellers and those interested in one of the most famous campaigns of the American Civil War. Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and diagrams. ISBN: 1861761899. Lower front corner is showing a tiny bit of board where cloth has worn away (rubbing). Top & tail of spine lightly bent (shelf wear). Contents are clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, a little scuffed, lower front corner is chipped where board is worn.

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THE WINDFALL YACHTS: A LEGACY OF GOODWILL
Written by Michael Cudmore.
Stock no. 1827812
Published by Topsy Ii Publishing. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

The story of a large fleet of ex German yachts mainly built in the 1930s and taken over by occupying forces in 1945. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9780954254711. SIGNED by the author (with personal gift dedication) to title page. Couple of minor knocks to board edges. Rear board lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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BOATS OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO MEDIEVAL TIMES
Written by Sean McGrail.
Stock no. 1827808
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 2004. Very good condition.

A history of water transport as it has developed over millennia, from before 40,000 BC to the mid-second millennium AD. Blue cardwraps. 480 pages including index. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0199271860. Corners lightly rubbed. Vertical crease to spine. Orange mark to top edge of text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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SEA-RUNNING!
Written by Maxie Lane.
Stock no. 1827781
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Sequel to 'Running!' which told of its author's whirlwind childhood and adolescence. This biography drops him in 1940, at the age of 24, on his first ship and newest adventure. Sea-Running! takes up the story in the same sentence as it left off, and pursues it in the same exhilarating fashion. A string of memorable merchant ships showed Maxie the wartime world, and he shared the twilit world of the boiler-rooms with men who were many times larger than life. Blue cloth boards, yellow title to spine. ISBN: 0333236513. A nice, clean copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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HMS HAMPSHIRE: A CENTURY OF MYTHS AND MYSTERIES UNRAVELLED
Written by James Irvine; Brian Budge; Jude Callister; et al.
Stock no. 1327297
Published by Orkney Heritage Society. 1st 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0953594572. SIGNED by one of the authors (Neil Kermode) to title-page by means of a dedication. Spine and corners bumped.

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DHOWS TO DELTAS
Written by Renato 'Sonny' Levi; Erroll Bruce; et al.
Stock no. 1327293
Published by Nautical Publishing Company. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Written by on e of the most stimulating personalities in high speed boat design, this book is part autobiography, partly an intriguing account of the author's design experience, and finally a section dealing iwith the theoretical and practical considerations underlying the design of fast craft, leading to imaginative thinking about speed and the future. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams and photos. ISBN: 0245599568. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light scratch mark to front cover. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn to spine and corners and slightly browned to spine.

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THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS
Written by Basil Lubbock.
Stock no. 1827691
Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd.. 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

TNew Edition. The Emigrant Ships, The Wool Clippers, The Iron Clippers and The New Zealand Trade. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations and plans. 384 pages includes index. Boards clean and bright. Text block just slightly browned & grubby. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and has a few closed edge-tears (no loss).

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RUSSIAN ARCTIC SEAS NAVIGATIONAL CONDITIONS AND ACCIDENTS
Written by Nataliya Marchenko.
Stock no. 1327286
Published by Springer-Verlag. 1st 2012. Very good condition.

Important sources of information about safe shipping in the harsh sailing conditions in the Arctic are the detailed experiences of the ice pilots who have worked in those seas... Blue boards. 274 pages. Colour maps. B/w photos. This is a physical print on demand book, printed by Books On Demand. Text in English and Russian. ISBN: 9783642221248. Heavy bumping to spine and corners. Ink stamp to front free-endpaper else contents fine.

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MERLIN'S MAN
Written by Lansdale Humphreys.
Stock no. 1327157
Published by P.M. Heaton Publishing. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Love, War and Adventure in the Life of a Welsh Seafarer (Richard Humphreys). Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 187200606X. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper has a light mark (label residue?) to front panel and is very slightly edge creased.

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THE ROLE OF ARBITRATION IN SHIPPING LAW
Written by Miriam Goldby; Loukas Mistelis.
Stock no. 1327130
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2016. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Cutting-edge analysis of the development of shipping law and the role of arbritration within it, with contributions from a team of world-class academics and practitioners. ISBN: 9780198757948. Dustwrapper is just a tiny bit creased at edges and has a tiny nick to lower corner of rear panel.

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CONSERVATION OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SHIPS AND BOATS - PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Written by Per Hoffmann.
Stock no. 1327099
Published by Archetype Publications. 1st 2013. Very good condition.

Essential reading for any archaeologist, conservator or museum curator temped to take on responsibility of preserving maritime material. Glazed pictorial boards. 173 pages. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781904982821. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some pencil annotations else contents bright and clean.

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PLEASURE STEAMERS
Written by Bernard Cox.
Stock no. 1827430
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715383337. Board corners lightly bumped, rear board scuffed. Contents clean.

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