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Prices do not include postage, at least £5 to the UK, much more overseas, these are heavy.
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Note - pictures all the same size, but books vary quite a lot.
Listed thus:- Stock Number (QUOTE, please!); Title; Author; date of publication; publisher; hardback (HB)/paperback (PB); number of pages; notes if needed...; Price in pounds sterling
Unless otherwise noted, all are in good or very good condition
Ship Types
MBK163 Boat Building; Howard I Chapelle; 1941; W W Norton & Co; HB no dust jacket; 624pp; £8
MBK071 Wherries and Waterways; Robert Maltster; 1971; Terence Dalton Ltd; HB with dust jacket; 176pp; £10
MBK066 Crownies of Lowestoft; Malcolm R White; 2000; Port of Lowestoft Research Society; PB with clear vinyl cover; 72pp; ex-library; £5
MBK075 Deep-water Sail; Harold A Underhill; 1955; Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd; HB no dust jacket; 300pp plus lots of plans; £30
MBK075 End papers
MBK083 Paddle Steamers; Bernard Cox; 1979; Blandford Press; HB no dust jacket;223pp; £8.50
MBK074 The Boats of The Men-of-War; Commander W E May; 2003; Chatham; HB with dust jacket; 128pp; very good condition; £15
MBK086 Gunboat! Small ships at war; Bryan Perrett; 2000; Cassell; HB with dust jacket and polythene outer cover; 224pp; ex library, one loose plate; £5
MBK055 Steam Coasters and Short Sea Traders, Third Edition; C V Waine & R S Fenton; 1994; Waine Research Publications; HB with dust jacket; 182pp; £12
MBK109 Merchant Ships of the World in colour 1910-1929; Laurence Dunn; 1973; Blandford Press; HB with dust jacket; 215pp; £3
MBK067 The Low Black Schooner Yacht America 1851 - 1945; John Rousmaniere; 1986; Mystic Seaport Museum Stores; Paperback; 71pp; £5
MBK068 The Frigate Constitution and other Historic Ships; F Alexander Magoun; 1978; Bonanza Books; HB with dust jacket; 155pp; £15
MBK091 Architectura Navalis Mercatoria; Frederick Henrik af Chapman; originally printed 1775, reprinted 1968; Adlard Coles; Hardback (printed cloth cover); 102 pp plus many fold-out plans; £25
MBK093-1 Volume 1 Souvenirs de Marine; Amiral Paris; 1975; Editions des 4 Seigneurs; HB with scruffy dust jackets; possibly the biggest books I have ever had to lift; with letters in French; pp not numbered; limited edition No 1375/1700; £60; £110 pair
MBK093-2 Volume 2 Souvenirs de Marine; Amiral Paris; 1975; Editions des 4 Seigneurs; HB with scruffy dust jackets; possibly the biggest books I have ever had to lift; with letters in French; pp not numbered; £60; £110 pair
Be warned that these weigh about 5 kilos each so carriage will not be cheap
MBK003 Building the Wooden Fighting Ship; James Dodds & James Moore; 1984; Hutchinson; HB with dust jacket; 128pp; £12
MBK038 Jane's Fighting Ships of World War 1; Various authors, foreword by Capt John Moore RN; S Studio; 2001 (reprinted from 1919 edition); HB with dust jacket; 320pp; VG; £20
MBK006 Paddle Warships - The earliest steam-powered fighting ships 1815-1850; D K Brown RCNC; 1993; Conway Maritime Press - Ship types series; HB with dust jacket; 96pp; Jacket faded on spine, otherwise good, originally; £25; £10
MBK020 The Baltimore Clipper; Howard Irving Chapelle; 1980; Bonanza Books; HB with dust jacket; 192pp; small marks on jacket; £12
MBK009 Brunel's Ships; Denis Griffiths,Andrew Lambert & Fred Walker; 1999; Chatham Publishing with NMM; HB with dust jacket; 160pp; small damage to front cover corner, originally £30; £12
MBK012 Warships of The Great Lakes, 1754-1834; Robert Malcolmson; 2001; Chatham Publishing; HB with dust jacket; 160pp; originally £30; £12
MBK024 The 50-Gun Ship; Rif Winfield; 1997; Caxton Editions; HB with dust jacket; Originally £30; 128pp + plans; VG; £15
MBK025 The First Destroyers; David Lyon; Mercury Books; 1996; PB with turned-in cover; 126pp; good; £6
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