Archive for October, 2008

Merchant Adventure : John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd

Pictorial board covers displaying edge wear and discolouration, cracked along inside edges with the spine missing. Intact fold-out colour map at back. No publication date supplied, generally presumed 1950. No place of publication indicated, possibly Liverpool. Inscribed with previous owner’s name and date on front endpaper.

Operation Neptune

Dust jacket also displays some foxing and a sunned spine. An account of the naval operations that formed part of the Normandy D-Day landings.

In the Wake of Endeavour : The History of the New Zealand Shipping Company and Federal Steam Navigation Company

Dust jacket in good condition with slight wear. Previous owner’s name inscribed on front endpaper.

Saints, Devils and Ordinary Seamen : Life on the Royal Canadian Navy’s Lower Deck

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers displaying minor wear and staining, with a worn and sunned spine. 1946 second printing of 1945 edition.

Liners of the Ocean Highway

No dust jacket. Brown cloth covers in good condition displaying minor wear, with a sunned spine. No publication date supplied, generally presumed 1936/1937. Previous bookseller’s logo pasted on inside front cover. Companion volumes by the same author: “Giant liners of the world”; “Famous liners and their stories”; “Mail liners of the world”.

Pearl Harbor

Dust jacket in very good condition. Some staining to title page

Majesty at Sea : The Four-Stackers

1984 reprint of 1981 edition.

Trial of Heinz Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter Weisspfennig, Hans Richard Lenz and Wolfgang Schwender (the Peleus trial)

No dust jacket. Red cloth covers in firm condition with a sunned edge worn spine displaying a small tear to the top edge. Volume I of the series: War crimes trials.

Pearl Harbour : An Eye-Witness Account

Green cloth cover cracked along front inside edge.

The Mutiny at Invergordon

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers displaying slight wear and cracked along inside edges, with a worn and sunned spine. Inscribed with previous owner’s initials on inside front cover.

A Business of National Importance : The Royal Mail Shipping Group, 1902-1937


Cableships and Submarine Cables


Norway and the Bergen Line : a Centenary Publication

No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in good condition displaying minor edge wear, with a sunned spine. No publisher details supplied, possibly privately published by the Bergen Line.

Union Fleet, 1875-1975 : Being a List of Ships Owned By the Union Steam Ship Company of N.Z. Ltd., Since Its Inception in Dunedin in 1875, Together with a List of Some of the Significant Dates in the History of the Line

Limp covers in good condition with slight discolouring.

Merchant Adventure

Card covers displaying wear, tear and stains with an absent spine. Intact colour map fold-out at back. No publication date indicated, generally presumed 1950/51. An account of the history of the Liverpool shipping company John Holt & Co.

Seaports South of Sahara: The Achievements of an American Steamship Service

With the collaboration of Jennie B. Pope. Dust jacket in very god condition. Good form copy.

The Bowring Story

No dust jacket. Light blue cloth covers in good condition displaying minor wear and staining with a sunned spine. Intact fold-out at back. Contains attached errata slip.

The Panama Route, 1848-1869

No dust jacket. Blue leather covers half covered in paper, in good condition. Reprinted from the edition of 1943

Harbours in Action

Card covers, in good condition. No publication date supplied but generally presumed 1975/1976.

The Ship That Stood Still: The Californian and Her Mysterious Role in the Titanic Disaster

Edited and updated by Edward P. De Groot.