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9024 . Barrow, Clayton R., Jr. (Compiler, Editor). America Spreads Her Sails: U. S. Seapower in the 19th Century .
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1973); First printing. Octavo, Full cloth , Black & White photographs, maps , xiv, 241 pages. Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket in Mylar protector.
A collection of 14 chapters by different authors which demonstrate, once again, the importance of seapower in shaping the United States. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers. Some light foxing to textblock edges and underside of dust jacket. Lower fore corners just slightly bumped. Jacket has minor edge wear.
$15.00 order or inquire Naval History Seamanship Merchant Marine Pirates Sea Power shipping Commerce Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson
261 . Cahill, Robert Ellis. New England's Naughty Navy (Chandler-Smith Publishing House Collectible Classics Series, No. 11) .
Peabody: Chandler-Smith Publishing, 1987; First printing. Octavo, Wrappers , b&w illustrations , 60 pages. Condition: Near Fine.
A fascinating booklet on New England shipping and privateering, and the fledgling American Navy in the Revolution. Price on front cover blacked out with a small ink marker line. Very slight surface rubs. Top fore corners of a few leaves folded.
$19.00 order or inquire U.S. Navy Great Britain Maritime Massachusetts Rhode Island Pirates Slave trade Shipbuilding Nautical
10004 . Stick, David. The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958 (Signed) .
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1958). Octavo, Full cloth , black and white drawings, maps , xvi, 352 pages. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Jacket in Mylar protector.
Fascinating history of whalers, boatmen, lifesavers, shipwrecks, pirates, stockmen, fishermen and tourists on these low and narrow sandy islands stretching 175 along North Carolina's coast. SIGNED by Stick on half title. Illustrations by the author's father, Frank Stick. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in gilt with a blue rule, endpaper maps. Slight rubs at spine ends, foxing to top edge of textblock. Jacket has minor edge wear. Nice copy.
$15.00 order or inquire North Carolina Outer Banks barrier islands Blackbeard Pirates Ocracoke hatteras Wright Brothers kitty hawk
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