Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Exploits of a Modern Soldier of Fortune, British Agent, Danger Hunter and One-Man Task Force" - an autobiography by "one of England's great adventurers .. .Spanning two wars and the exciting years between, [this] recreates his exploits - using logbooks, scrapbooks, letters, and the captain's own astounding memory. At 21, Orsborne was the youngest captain in the British Merchant Marine and ready for the extraordinary life that was to involve him, at one time or another, in pearl hunting, a safari to destroy a man-eating tiger, an escape through a crocodile-infested river, espionage for British Intelligence, and almost anything that looked like danger." Edited and with an introductory note Joe McCarthy. ix, 278 pp.

Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1987). First edition - Illustrated with photographs. Appendices listing all of the ships in the lines. Notes on sources, index. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-874133211.

By the author, (1968). Hardcover first edition - Correspondence between the sea captain, Joseph Griffin, his wife Abbie and others in his extensive family. Laid in is a 2 page typed summary on how these letters were saved after Joseph's death by drowning off Halifax at the age of 31. Also included is a brief note SIGNED by Ralph Griffin and dated in 1969, and 2 pages of photocopies of early reviews. Index. 284 pp

Carmichael, CA: By the author, (1994). First edition - An account of a trip aboard a Nauticat 33, renamed by its new owners "Tout Va Bien" (all goes well) from Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. Illustrated with photographs. 62 pp. Cover art by Walter Wright.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book written with practical information for sailors and descriptions of destinations from the Bahamas to the Chesapeake, the Baltic Sea to Dalmation coast for armchair travelers. Illustrated with maps. 280 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684125595.

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publisher, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A collection of stories about the well-known pirates of the Atlantic Coast during the 17th and 18th Centuries - in addition to Edward Teach (Blackbeard), this includes stories of Calico Jack RAckham, Anne Bonny, Edward Low, William Kidd, Rachel Law and others. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated Christmas 2000. Glossary, bibliography. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-895870983.

North Quincy, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous, somewhat fictitious account by this Maine author of life with a husband who "rode his hobbies hard" - in this case, the hobby was sailing. 112 pp. ISBN: 0-815802641.

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

New York: Frederick Fell, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which highlights Rieseberg's career in searching for sunken wrecks on the ocean floor. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 217 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1930. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the ship which inspired one of Masefield's poems - from her building, her launching in 1891 and fifteen years on the sea, despite her reputation as unlucky ship. A four-master barque she was built to be one of the strongest and most beautiful ships at sea at the time. Includes a selection of Masefield's poems about the sea and ships. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, 38 black and white photographs on glossy stock, 4 plans, including 3 fold-out ones at the rear of the book. ix, 139 pp.

New York: Crown, (2015). First edition - On May 1st, 1915 the Lusitania set sail on its final voyage, sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. In addition to the account of its sinking, this focuses on the politics of World War I, on the rise of the importance of Germany's submarines, and on some of the passengers - including the famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat and pioneering female architect Theodate Pope - on the Captain, William Thomas Turner, and on the total unpreparedness for the attack, despite a warning from the Germans as the ship left New York. Notes, bibliography. 418 pp.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Hardcover first edition - H.O. Publication no. 218. Reproduced by photo-lithographic process for emergency use from British Air Publication 1618. "RESTRICTED" is printed in bold letters on the cover and the title page. Laid in a sheet with instructions on how to use this volume. 232 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of life aboard one of the last of the US merchant marine ships. McPhee accompanies second mate Andy Chase both in his search for a position and in the 42 day voyage on the S.S. Stella Lykes through the Panama Canal and down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops in Cartagena, Lima, Balboa. INSCRIBED by McPhee on the half title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-374-190771.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - The "hour-by-hour account of the bravery, bungling, helplessness and heroism of men trapped by the sea." On June 1, 1939, the Submarine Thetis sailed out of Liverpool Bay with 103 men on board for diving trials, but on the very first dive it failed to surface - the escape hatch jammed, and help was too slow in coming. Originally published in England under the title "The Admiralty Regrets." Illustrated with photographs, and maps and diagrams. Index. x, 219 pp.

Auburn, California: By the author, nd. (ca 1995). SIGNED first edition - An account of the building of a 45 foot ferro-cement hulled yacht, and of the ten years which the authors spent living on board, traveling some 30,000 nautical miles along the coasts of Mexico, Florida and in the Caribbean, in part so they could skin and scuba dive, and do underwater photography. Illustrated with photographs. Glossary, index, even a few recipes. SIGNED on the dedication page by both authors - with the comment "Welcome aboard & pleasant reading!" . 338 pp

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fascinating story of life aboard one of the last of the US merchant marine ships - a 42 day voyage through the Panama Canal and down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops in Cartagena, Lima, Balboa. SIGNED by McPhee on the half title page and uncommon thus. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-374-190771.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-471-38934X.

New York: H. Z. Walck / David McKay, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to information on the origins of scrimshaw, this includes a brief history of whaling. Illustrated throughout with black and whitel photographs. Glossary, bibliography, index. Slightly oversized. x, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-809839245.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the enterprising women who sailed on oceangoing merchant ships throughout the nineteenth century - an interweaving of first person accounts from letters and journals with Druett's narrative of sea journeys. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Includes an appendix listing the names of all such women who kept journals. Index. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-684-839687.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories for young adults by this award-winning author. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-15-201408x.

Seattle: Superior Publishing Company. (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The stories of the ships - both sail and steam - that plied the lumber trade in and out of Pacific ports like Seattle, Tacoma, Eureka, San Francisco, and Hawaii, bringing the lumber needed to build the new West. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of old photographs. Index of pictures. Large format, 192 pp.

Denver: Outskirts Press, (2008.). SIGNED - True life adventures of the author, set in the 1960's when he was a teenager and working on his father's tuna fishing boat. INSCRIBED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 9781432719425.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed description of life aboard one of the last of the US merchant marine ships - a 42 day voyage through the Panama Canal and down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops in Cartagena, Lima, Balboa. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-374-190771.

New York: The Viking Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of the world and the last such all-sail convoy. Under the Command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and despite losing two ships and 71 men, the expedition -which included botanists, geologists, biologists and mapmakers - logged 87,000 miles, discovered a new Southern continent which Wilkes named Antarctica, surveyed 280 Pacific islands and created 180 charts and collected thousands of specimens which eventually became the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Solidly researched and a fascinating story. Illustrated with drawings and maps, Notes, selected bibliography, index. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-67003231X.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - A chronologically arranged collection of the best songs and ballads recounting American naval history from the time of the Revolution - the taking of the British armed schooner Margaretta at Machias in 1775- to 1882 (to the grim fate of Lieutenant De Long's Arctic Expedition) - the years of ships under sail. Includes halftone reproductions of twenty original broadsides. Bibliography, index of first lines, of proper names and of ship's names. xvii, 372 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. dj. The story of the collision of the Arctic with the French ship Vesta off the coast of Newfoundland in 1845. Photographs, index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-22172.