Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

The Demon of the Water: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

Gibson, Gregory · 2002

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

Boston: Little Brown, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In 1823, Samuel Comstock led a bizarre mutiny onboard the whaleship, Globe, that ended in the murder of the captain & his officers in the South Pacific. Surviving crewmembers s...

Demon of the Waters: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

Gibson, Gregory W/ Ill By Erik Ronnberg & Gary Tonkin · 2002

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

Boston: Little Brown, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The author was given a handwritten journal which contained the first eyewitness account of the notorious & deranged mutiny of the Globe, illustrated.

The Voyage of the Challenger

Linklater, Eric · 1974

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

London: Cardinal/Sphere Books, 1974. 1st paperback (soft cover) edition., Edgewear & pages slightly darkened otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Sponsored by the British government and the Royal Society, HMS Chal...

The Incredible Voyage

Jones, Tristan · 1977

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews & McMeel, 1977. 3rd printing., Fine hard cover book/ lightly rubbed otherwise near fine price clipped dust jacket, Jones' six year journey from the lowest body of water in the world in the Dead Sea to its highest at Lake Titicaca in the Andes, illust...

Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters

Lundy, Derek · 1999

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The story of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe.

Legendary Yachts

Robinson, Bill · 1971

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: MacMillan, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light shelfwear otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ no dust jacket., The author examines the differences between a legendary yacht and other lovely, graceful yachts, illustrated.

America's Lighthouses: an Illustrated History

Holland, Francis Ross Jr · 1988

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Dover Publications, 1988. an unabridged republication of the slightly corrected 1981, Light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback book in decorative wrappers (softcover book), The first comprehensive study of the United States Lighthouse Servic...

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat

Whynott, Douglas · 1999

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Doubleday, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ closed dust jacket corner tear otherwise near fine dust jacket., The author recounts the year he spent at the Brooklin Boat Yard observing Joel White designed and later constructed W-76, a wooden racing y...

Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives

Snow, Elliot · 1986

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Dover Publications, 1986. 1st edition thus (reprint of the 1925 edition), Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Five firsthand narratives of life aboard tall ships during the Great Age of Sail.

The Romantic Challenge

Chichester, Francis · 1972

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Coward McCann Geohegan, 1972. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ edgewear on dust jacket spine & short closed tear otherwise very good+ price clipped dust jacket.

Down With the Old Canoe: a Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

Biel Steven · 1996

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Norton, 1996. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., As soon as the great ship sank, the American public insisted that the disaster must mean something.

The Yankee Mariner & Sea Power: America's Challenge of Ocean Space

Bartell, Joyce J Editor With A Foreword By Don Walsh & An Introduction By Athelstan Spilhaus · 1982

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1982. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book/ dust jacket rubbed otherwise a very good dust jacket., Papers from a conference sponsored by the Center for Study of the American Experience, March 1981. Fif...

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat

Whynott, Doughlas · 1999

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY: Doubleday, 1999. 1st printing of the 1st edition., Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover otherwise fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In June 1996, not long after he had been diagnosed with cancer, Joel White began the design of W-76, a wooden racing yac...

The Early Challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937)

John, Anthony edited by Ian Dear · 1986

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Sydney: Pierson & Co., 1986. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The world's most famous sailing race struggled at its outset and only much later did it gain the prominence and prestige associated with it today; 159 pages, illustrated.