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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x1x10; Library stamp and label, else Very Good. Appears to be uncirculated. The Dustjacket is unmarked. You don't have to be a maritime history buff--or even a sailor--to find Lincoln Paine's Ships of the World fascinating. Certainly no scholar or student of the history of ships will want to be without it: it consists of more than 1, 000 alphabetical entries describing individual ships' histories and fates. Yet because of the author's flair for language and the skill with which he has made his selections, the book is a browser's delight--almost a short-story collection. Look up an entry on any celebrated vessel--the Titanic, the Monitor, the Lusitania--and you'll find an admirably concise history of the boat and the events that made it famous. But browsing turns up countless unexpected pleasures, from the story of the Politician (a freighter that ran aground in the Outer Hebrides, where its cargo of Scotch was efficiently plundered by locals) to that of Jacques Cousteau's Calypso. The hundreds of well-chosen black-and-white illustrations help bring the tales alive.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition, Second Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine second printing in an equally fine dust jacket. Very clean navy blue faux leather boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Large book (size approx. 8-1/2" x 10"), printed on quality paper, liberally illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs of ships throughout the ages. 680 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. From Noah's Ark to the Exxon Valdez--all the ships and boats that have left their mark in history. A fantastic compendium of noteworthy yachts, ocean liners, windships, warships, legends, and myths. For anyone who is in love with nautical history and the sea.