Bielefeld / Berlin: Kerber Verlag / Kerber Photo Art, 2016. Hardcover. 233p., alkaline paperstock featuring lavish color photography and intermittant text (interviews with aging male and female hipsters, happy enthusiastica from Swedish compilers), texts are printed largepoint, an odd design element as you will see, huge hardbound tome in laminated..... More
Cat.No: 241342
Austin: Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press, 1974. Hardcover. xiv, 125p., preface, appendix, bibliographic notes, musical transcriptions, very good first edition in buckram cloth and unclipped dj. Memoir Series volume 60, Wm. Hugh Jansen, general editor. More
Cat.No: 132266
n.p. the Committee, 1988. 17p., very good stapled booklet in wraps. On an Intifada-period boatlift to return Palestinians who had been deported in previous years; includes a list of the names and occupations of those on the boat. More
Cat.No: 161706
![The Navigator. Eighth Edition [1814] // The Navigator; containing directions for navigating the...](/pictures/thumb/264793.jpg?v=1618456747)
no place: Readex Microprint Corporation, 1966. Hardcover. Reprint: unpaginated preliminaries, 360p., illustrated with a dozen or so plats of tricky riverine passages, these and the text are photographically printed, we see several smudges which must have been "original", hardbound item in 7.5x5 inch pebbled faux-leather boards gilt with black spine..... More
Cat.No: 264793
Napa: Napa County Historical Society, 1984. [10p] 6x9 inches, tables, illustrations, notes, very good historical journal in booklet form, stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 177246
Menlo Park: Lane Publishing Co., 1953. 32p.,8.5x11 inches, maps, very good first edition stated in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 158914
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Kobe Japan / Rochester MI: Kobe City Museum of Namban Art / Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 1978. Paperback. 173p., vignette b&w exhibit photography throughout a double-column running text, with a brief colorphoto section. Softbound in 12x9 inch decorated wraps, externally a tad edgeworn, a sound copy within and without, textblock..... More
Cat.No: 264632
Washington, D.C. American Folklife Center Library of Congress, 1986. 144 p., oversized wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 117870
San Francisco: Open Mind Pub. 2005. Unpaginated, 8.5x10 inches, illustrated with full-page color illustrations, very good first edition children's book in pictorial boards and matching unclipped dj. Personally inscribed and signed by the author in silver pen on the red endpaper. Total nonsense! neither cats nor dogs nor human children..... More
Cat.No: 161815
Orono, ME: Maine Folklore Center, 1998. Paperback. 112 p., profuse period photography, 8.5-inch-sqare wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 114088
New York: Melrose Music Corp. 1948. Single large folio leaf printed and folded to make a typical two-page sheet music spread with monochrome cover illustration and a terminal page advertisement for other 1948 efforts (none so durable as this). Item very slightly edgeworn with some light creasings along its bottom..... More
Cat.No: 229388
Tokyo: Kashiwa Shobo, 1977. 298p., very good hardcover in slipcase. Black and white photos, text in Japanese. On funa-ema, or wooden votive plates for boats. More
Cat.No: 243768
Glendale: Trans-Anglo Books, 1991. Unpaginated preliminaries, 233-544p., presswork on clay-coated alkaline paperstock throughout, profuse b&w period photography integrated into the running double-column text, plus line maps special to this text and two differing double-spread maps doing duty as endsheets. Hardbound in green plastikoid boards gilt and enclosed in the dust..... More
Cat.No: 265113
Auckland, NZ: Graphic Publications, 1986. 60p., stapled wraps, 8.25 x 10.5 inches, profusely illus. with black and white photos, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 255863
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Barcelona: Imprenta de Mariano Galve, 1915. Three issues of the Spanish language martime magazine from 1915. Issues present are Año 1 Numero 1 (1st de Febrero de 1915), 2 (16 de Diciembre de 1915) and 3 (1 de Marzo de 1915), presumably both 2 and 3 are mis-numbered. Various pagination..... More
Cat.No: 242093
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Providence RI: Steamship Historical Society, 1989-94. Magazine. Slick format, each about 70p. and printed on semigloss paperstick, b&w and (a few) color illustrations each. Softcover 11x8.5 inch magazines, staplebound into high-gloss cardstock color wraps; fine copies, one (the "Poster Issue") in original mailing envelope, all have publisher's ephemeral materials laid..... More
Cat.No: 183222
Caracas: Instituto Autonomo Corporacion de Turismo de Venezuela (CORPOTURISMO), 1978. 150p., profuse uncaptioned color and b&w plates, minimal text, 8.5x9.2 inch titled boards in colorphoto dust jacket. Jacket slightly edgeworn, former owner's inscription on the ffep, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 169675
Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1979. Hardcover. 166p., cloth-covered boards, 8.75x11.5 inches, chiefly illus., boards lightly worn else very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 260168
La Mirada CA: James Willert, Publisher, 1980. Hardcover. xv, unpaginated illustrations, 59p., numerous illustrations from period photography and modern sketches, hardbound in 11x8.5 inch oilcloth boards titled and decorated gilt. Willert has signed on the half-title. Slight edgewear, unsightly cracked front hinge where we have successfully repaired a bindery flaw..... More
Cat.No: 190031
![Zhongguo gu chuan tupu 中国古船图谱 [A pictorial history of ancient Chinese boats]. Wang...](/pictures/thumb/265667.jpg?v=1620269449)
Beijing: Xiu ding ban, 2011. Paperback. iv, 362pp., 8x8 inches, 48 pages of plates, illustrations, some in color, very good condition Text in Chinese. More
Cat.No: 265667
Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1940. 96p., 40 leaves of plates, front cover stained, interior textblock unmarked. The Maritime Customs. III, Miscellaneous series, no. 51. Detailed drawings accompany the text in this investigation of the specialized boats adapted to local needs and conditions. More
Cat.No: 263915
