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The Business of Shipping
Kendall, Lane C 326 pages; black and white
photographs; original dust jacket; mint copy; Cornell Maritime Press
Inc; 1973. (A source book on all aspects of commercial ocean shipping.
Covers such matters as liner services and tramp shipping,
terminal operations, bunkering, ship design and tariffs.)
Pas16087 $30.00
The Busy Channel Ireland,
Bernard 144 pages; black and white
photographs; original dust jacket; fine copy, near mint; Ian Allan;
1981. (The English Channel sees over 500 ship movements a day and this
album gives a glimpse at the wide range of vessels that use this
waterway – from ferries to warships, tugs to supertankers, under a
variety of national flags.) Pas16085 $30.00
The Compass 3 issues of this publicity magazine
Mobil Oil Each
issue has 40 pages; coloured photos; card covers; fine copy, near mint;
Issues are 1976 # 1, 1977 - # 4 and 1978 - # 1 (Articles include
Lykes Bros Steamship Co, Brostrom Shipping Co,
Burmeister & Wain, destiny of sister ships and Sanko Steamship
Co.) Pas04052 The Lot $15.00
The Cunard Line Woolley,
Peter and Moore, Terry 112 pages; black
and white photographs; coloured and black and white drawings; card
covers; mint copy; Ship Pictorial Publications; 1990. (A photograph
album of all ships of Cunard with a brief history and specification of
each vessel from 1840 to 1990.) Pas23123 $30.00
The Fabulous Interiors Of The Great Ocean Liners in historic photographs Miller, William H Jr 146 pages; black and white photographs; card covers; mint copy; Dover; 1985. (Details of the lavish interiors of 72 of the great liners from the 1890s to the 1980s. Wonderful photographs of a bygone age.) Pas35106 $32.00
The Ferries Of Sydney Andrews, Graeme 128 pages; coloured and black and white photographs; maps; card covers; fine copy, near mint; A H & A W Reed; 1976; reprint. (A detailed account of the ferries of Sydney from 1833 to the 1970’s.) Pas24065 $35.00
The Great Luxury Liners – A Photographic Record Miller, William H Jr 164 pages; black and white photographs; card covers; mint copy; Dover; 1981. (Over 180 photographs of 101 ships that plied the oceans from 1927 to 1954 with brief details of each ship. A lovely tribute.) Pas35107 $32.00
The Grey Seas Under Mowat, Farley 318 pages; original dust jacket; Michael Joseph; 1959. (The story of the ocean-going salvage tug ‘Foundation Franklin’ built in Dundee in 1918, found in a Hamburg scrapyard in 1930, restored and worked for a Canadian company on salvage and rescue ventures on the Atlantic seaboard from 1930 to 1948.) Pas35113 $22.00
The Holland America Line Kohler, Peter C 126 pages; black and white photographs; coloured and black and white drawings; card covers; mint copy; Ship Pictorial Publications; 1993. (A 120th anniversary celebration in postcards of the ships of this trans-Atlantic passenger and cargo shipping company.) Pas16089 $35.00
The Last Atlantic Liners Miller, William H 192 pages; black and white photographs; tables; specifications; original dust jacket; fine copy, near mint; Conway; 1985. (Comprehensive details 112 passenger vessels that regularly crossed the Northern Atlantic from 1945 until the seventies.) Pas33098 $35.00
The Last Blue Water Liners
Miller, William H 224 pages; black and
white photographs; original dust jacket; mint copy; Conway; 1986. (An
account of the last passenger ships owned by 44 of the world’s shipping
companies. Covers the period of the 1960s and 1970s.) Pas30087
$45.00
The Last Voyage Of The Lusitania
Hoehling, A A and Mary
184 pages; black and white photographs; original dust
jacket; average copy, some wear; Longmans; 1957. (Details of the last
voyage, the passengers, the sinking and rescue of survivors of this
great tragedy.)
Pas30081 $25.00
The Liner Conference System
Anon 100 pages; 1970.
and
The Regulation Of Liner Conferences
34 pages; 1972 card covers; from an institutional
library but fine copy, near mint; United Nations. (Papers on how a
conference system operates including lists of the world’s conference
lines.) Pas09070 Both volumes $12.00
The Liners Coleman, Terry 232 pages; black and white and coloured photographs and drawings; original dust jacket; mint copy; Allen Lane; 1976. (A social history of the ships and passengers that travelled the North Atlantic route in the 20th century.) Pas32080 $18.00
The Liners Coleman, Terry 232 pages; black and white and coloured photographs and drawings; card covers; average copy, some wear; Penguin; 1977. (A social history of the ships and passengers that travelled the North Atlantic route in the 20th century.) Pas35091 $12.00
The Liners Coleman, Terry 232 pages; black and white and coloured photographs and drawings; original dust jacket; fine copy, near mint; Penguin; 1977. (A social history of the ships and passengers that travelled the North Atlantic route in the 20th century.) Pas35092 $15.00
The Liners – A Voyage Of Discovery
McAuley, Rob 160
pages; coloured and black and white photos; coloured adverts; original
dust jacket; mint copy; Boxtree; 1997. (A well illustrated account of
the growth of the passenger liner from the 1820s to the 1990s and plans
into the 2000s. A lovely book.) Pas08104 $45.00
The Liners Of Liverpool - Part 2
Whale, Derek M
128 pages; black and white photos; card
covers; mint copy; Countryvise; 1987 (Memories of Athenia, Berengaria,
Britannic [I, II and III], Caledonia, Ceramic, Cilicia, Circassia [II],
Georgic, Letitia and the Empresses of - Australia [I], Britain [I, II
and III], Canada [I, II and III], England, France and Russia.) Pas12095
$35.00
The Liners Of Liverpool - Part 3
Whale, Derek M
174 pages; black and white photos; card covers; mint copy; Countryvise;
1988 (further memories of shipping at Liverpool featuring such ships as
Carinthia, Caronia, Derbyshire [II and IV], Empress
of Ireland, Empress of Scotland [I and II], Ivernia, Lancastria,
Mauretania [II], Orduna, Oxfordshire [I, II and III], Saxonia and
Sylvania.) Pas12096 $35.00
The Maiden Voyage Marcus,
Geoffrey
320 pages; black and white photos; paperback; average copy, some wear;
Unwin; 1988 (A complete and documented account of the Titanic
disaster.) Pas05066 $10.00
The Maple Leaf Ahead – Volume 1 Heal, S C 184 pages; black and white photographs; map; drawings; lists; card cover; mint copy; Cardillera; 1992. (‘West Coast Maritime Memories’ is the sub title and the book covers nautical stories about the West Coast of Canada. Discusses the regular shipping lines and tramp operators servicing this port of North America.) Pas34135 $30.00
The Merchant Service Today Howe, Leslie 160 pages; black and white photographs; folded maps; hard covers; fine copy, near mint; Oxford University; 1942. (Covers types and tonnage, propulsion, routes and cargoes, navigation, loading, chartering, organisation, bunkering, insurance, building new tonnage and merchant service at war. A good account.) Pas10081 $12.00
The Night Lives On Lord, Walter 272 pages; black and white photographs; drawings; card covers; fine copy, near mint; Penguin; 1998. (Sub-titled ‘Thoughts, Theories and Revelations about the Titanic’, explores questions about the construction of the ship, competency of the Captain and what happened that fateful night.) Pas33095 $12.00
The North Atlantic Run Maxtone-Graham, John 434 pages; black and white photographs; drawings; maps; original dust jacket; fine copy, near mint; Cassell; 1972. (Recounts the great days of North Atlantic liners and the rivalry for the finest ship afloat. Covers the era from the Mauretania to Queen Elizabeth II.) Pas35104 $35.00
The Princess Story – A Century and a Half of West Coast Shipping Hacking, Norman R and Lamb, W Kaye 360 pages; black and white photographs and drawings; card covers; fine copy, near mint; Mitchell Press; 1976. (A history of the coastal shipping services in British Columbia, Canada, now controlled by Canadian Pacific.) Pas34133 $32.00
The Return Of The Great Britain Goold-Adams, Richard 226 pages; black and white photographs; original dust jacket; fine copy, near mint; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 1976. (A history of the salvage of Great Britain, the world’s first propeller-driven ocean-going vessel, from the Falklands in 1970, and restoration in Bristol.) Pas32088 $30.00
The Saga Of The SS Great Britain
O’Callaghan, John 190
pages; black and white photographs; original dust jacket; fine copy,
near mint; Rupert Hart-Davis; 1971. (A history of ‘Great Britain’ from
launching in 1843 to her return to England in 1970 and restoration.
A history of triumph and tragedy.) Pas24103 $30.00
The Sea My Steed – The Personal Story of Captain Donald Sorrell Duncan, Sylvia and Peter 192 pages; black and white photographs; torn original dust jacket otherwise average copy, some wear; Hale; 1960. (A biography of nearly 50 years at sea culminating as Captain of Queen Mary. In 1953 he successfully berthed and departed New York with Queen Mary without the aid of pilots or tugs as these services were on strike.) Pas32085 $25.00
The Ship – Channel Packets and Ocean Liners 1850-1970
Maber, John M 60
pages; black and white photographs; drawings; hard covers; from an
institutional library but fine copy, near mint; HMSO; 1980. (A general
account of cargo ship development.) Pas32096 $8.00
The Ship – Steam Tramps and Cargo Liners 1850-1950 Craig, Robin 60 pages; black and white photographs; drawings; hard covers; mint copy; HMSO; 1980. (A general account of cargo ship development.) Pas32083 $8.00
The Ship –The Revolution in Merchant Shipping 1950-1980 Corlett, Ewan 60 pages; black and white photographs with coloured photograph on front cover; map; drawings; graphs; plans; hard covers; mint copy; HMSO; 1981. (A general account of the development of merchant shipping over a 30 year period.) Pas32081 $12.00
The Titanic And The Californian Padfield, Peter 318 pages; black and white photographs; original dust jacket; average copy, some wear; Hodder & Stoughton; 1965. (Looks at the role [or lack of] of the Californian in the rescue of passengers from the sinking Titanic. The author disapproves of the theory that both liners were insight of each other at the time of the collision.) Pas35114 $35.00
The Union–Castle Line Mallett, Alasn S 136 pages; black and white photographs; coloured and black and white drawings; card cover; mint copy; Ship Pictorial Publications; 1990. (A photograph album of all ships of Union–Castle Line with brief details of each vessel.) Pas30085 $30.00
The United States
Merchant Marine – At War Anon
80 pages; black and white photographs;
drawings; card covers; average copy, some wear; War Shipping
Administrator; 1946. (A good account of the role played by the US
merchant navy in World War II.) Pas23056 $12.00
The World’s Merchant Ships – Images and Impressions Lloyd, Robert 112 pages; coloured paintings; original dust jacket; mint copy; Ships in Focus; 2005. (Features 55 superb paintings of ships from UK, USA, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. The emphasis is on the classic passenger and cargo ships. Landscape format, a magnificent publication.) Pas34142 $52.00
The World’s Tankers
Dunn, Laurence
176 pages; black and white photographs; drawings; scale drawings;
original dust jacket; average copy, some wear; Adlad Coles; 1956.
(Outlines the development of the tanker from the 1860s to the
supertankers(?) of the mid 50s, whalers, coastal and river tankers,
special types and leading tanker fleets.) Pas19113 $48.00
Titanic McGaughan, Michael
32 pages; black and white photographs;
drawings; plans; adverts; card covers; mint copy; Ulster Folk and
Transport Museum; 1982. (A short account of construction, in service and
sinking of this ship. Lovely photographs.) Pas31083 $12.00
Titanic – An Illustrated History Lynch, Don 228 pages; coloured and black and white photographs and drawings; card covers; fine copy, near mint; Madison; 1998. (A good account of the building, and maiden voyage of Titanic together with subsequent inquiries and discovery of the wreck. A fascinating account.) Pas34144 $35.00
Titanic And The White Star Line
Anon 14 pages; black
and white photographs; drawings; adverts; paper covers; mint copy;
Shipping – Today and Yesterday; 2002. (A brief history of the White Star
Line.) Pas31067 $10.00
Touching The Adventures…
Kerr, J Lennox 256 pages; black and white
drawings; original dust jacket; name or signature; average copy, some
wear; George G. Harrap; 1953. (Stories of merchant navy seamen in World
War II. 26 stories of courage, tragedy and humour.)
Pas19124 $22.00
Tramps And Ladies Bissett, Sir James 316 pages; black and white photographs; maps; coloured frontispiece; original dust jacket; average copy, some wear; Angus and Robertson; 1960; reprint. (The ex-commodore of the Cunard Line tells of his life at sea from 1905 to 1913, including being an officer on the S S ‘Carpathia’, the first vessel to pick up survivors from ‘Titanic’.) Pas34125 $38.00
Transatlantic Paddle Steamers
Spratt, H Philip 92
pages; black and white photographs; folded lists; original dust jacket;
mint copy; Brown, Son & Ferguson; 1951. (An account of the crossing made
by paddle steamers from 1820 to 1875 with a good description of each
vessel.) Pas31089
$25.00
Triumph Of A Great Tradition
Anon 80 pages; coloured
and black and white photographs; adverts; card covers; mint copy;
Cunard; 1990. (Official souvenir history of 150 years of the Cunard Line
1840-1990. A magnificent book covering Cunard’s
passenger and cruise ships.) Pas20052 $36.00
World Freight Profile 1986 – Europe
Hastings, Phillip (Ed)
244 pages; black and white and coloured photos; drawings; graphs;
average copy, some wear; Sterling; 1986. (Deals with freight
transport methods between Europe and North America. Good coverage on
shipping as well as road transport.) Pas07060 $10.00
Wreck Of The Admella Mudie,
Ian 184 pages; black and white
photographs; map; original dust jacket; from an institutional library
but average copy, some wear; Rigby; 1966. (In 1859, the steamer
‘Admella’ was wrecked on the South Australian coast with the loss of 89
lives. What happened is examined.) Pas14086
$12.00