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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CEASELESS VIGIL: MY LONELY YEARS IN THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE
Written by W.J. Lewis. Illustrated by Frank Francis.
Stock no. 1827780
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Lighthouse keepers are usually considered rather lonely and romantic figures who have to while away weary hours in abject isolation. Yet few have actually told their own story. Here, Mr. Lewis's book is a fascinating revelation of the daily trials and tribulations of these little-known men. Trhough his 15 years of experience on land stations and his 30 years service on rock lighthouses, the author describes all the hazards, pleasures, hardships, and heartaches involved in manning a lighthouse. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Top edge light blue/grey. ISBN: 0245503528. Text block lightly browned. Gift inscription in ink to front enpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, a little grubby, lightly faded to spine.

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WARSHIPS OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY 1869-1945
Written by Hansgeorg Jentschura; Dieter Jung; Peter Mickel.
Stock no. 1327484
Published by Arms & Armour Press. 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Square format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. B/w photos. 284 pages. ISBN: 1854095250. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly marked (marks also to wrapper spine on verso). Contents fine. Wrapper edge rubbed.

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AIR SEA RESCUE DURING THE SIEGE OF MALTA
Written by Bill Jackson.
Stock no. 1327463
Published by Matador. 1st 2010. Very good condition.

An eyewitness account of life with HSL107 1941-1943. Cardwraps. 375 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781848764729. Slight rubbing to corners. Grubby fingerprint mark to edge of prelims.

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THE GALWAY HOOKERS: SAILING WORK BOATS OF GALWAY BAY
Written by Richard J. Scott.
Stock no. 1327417
Published by A.K. Ilen Company. 4th 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Fourth Edition. Includes DVD of TG4 documentary. Cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0954791509. Slight rubbing to corners and very slight browning to top edge of front cover. DVD still present (but untested).

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FELINHELI A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PORT OF DINORWIC
Written by Reg Chambers Jones.
Stock no. 1327368
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Charts the rise and fall of the welsh slate industry. ISBN: 1872424260. Covers lightly browned and edge rubbed.

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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 ARCTIC WHALERS
Written by Basil Lubbock.
Stock no. 1827692
Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd.. 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. 483 pages. The amazing life of the whale hunters. ISBN: 085174107x. Top & tail of spine and corners of boards lightly rubbed. Coffee (?) stain to top edge of text block (not awful). Some pencil annotation to margins (a line highlighting a paragraph), Rear pastedown map has pencil writing in margins. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a couplle of small edge-chips and is grubby, rear panel is creased, small tear to top edge.

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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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ROUND THE HORN BEFORE THE MAST
Written by Basil Lubbock.
Stock no. 1827680
Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprint of the John Murray edition. A personal record of a journey around Cape Horn in 1899. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851745067. Light vertical creasing to spine (through reading use). Else contents clean. White dustwrapper is edge-creased, lightly browned to spine, small closed tears (no loss).

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