We have SO MANY cool, old, eccentric, fascinating, historically intriguing BOOKS. We could send you a random one... a grab-bag... or the exact tomes you have been yearning after (especially if said tomes feature old-time shipwrecks, the Australian gold rush, &/or the Auckland Islands, or are by Patrick O'Brian!)
March 2021: Skip to the end for the current list of Titles I Have Typed (this is most of them now!)
[CAVEATS: Folks are already grabbing a few -- yay! -- so please see list as well as photos. List may not 100% reflect the entire and actual archive available. Some pages may have been tasted by long-dead florida insects. Ideas may be considered illegal in certain u.s. states, territories, or internment camps. Postage and barter rates vary.]
[CAVEATS: Folks are already grabbing a few -- yay! -- so please see list as well as photos. List may not 100% reflect the entire and actual archive available. Some pages may have been tasted by long-dead florida insects. Ideas may be considered illegal in certain u.s. states, territories, or internment camps. Postage and barter rates vary.]
 |
| (Packing slip with details on the 1868 "Harper's Weekly" pictured above) |
Titles I Have Typed (an incomplete list of the books available, but getting closer!)
[Still to be added, some of the oldest volumes & the Auckland Islands collection]
NOVELS of the Sea, Exploration, and Adventure (Alphabetical by Author)
Andrea Barrett - The Voyage of the Narwhal (paperback, 1999 - in beautiful shape other than the slight discoloration of the page-edges. Strikingly pretty spine for a paperback. Nice illustrations.)
Philip Caputo - The Voyage (paperback, 1999 - somewhat worn and brown-edged, but in fine readable condition.) Three brothers' 1901 sail from Maine to the Florida Keys, and the dark family secrets discovered a century later.
Henri Charriere - Papillon, translated from the French by June P. Wilson & Walter Benn Michaels (hardcover, 1970) "The greatest adventure story of all time." (Dustjacket is aged & tattered, some spotting on the coverboards, and of course the page-edges have that characteristic C.R.T. collection browning, but otherwise it's in surprisingly lovely shape.) Autobiographical novel of escape from a French penal colony and related escapades in South America and the Caribbean, 1930s-40s. "One closes this book drunk with adventure..."
James Fenimore Cooper - The Wing-and-Wing (paperback, 1998 - in good condition other than discoloration of page-edges and softcover) Originally published in 1842.
Andrew Geer - The Sea Chase (First edition, 1948. Hardcover in pretty good shape, but dustjacket is stained and slightly tattered.)
James Hanley - The Ocean (paperback, 1999 - in very good condition other than the browning/discoloration of page-edges due to the sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke of the C.R. Tucker library.) Originally published in 1941.
Capt. Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) - three novels:
- The Privateersman (paperback, 2000, almost like new except for the sepia page-edges)
- Peter Simple (paperback, 1998 - very good condition but the cover and page-edges are discolored unevenly due to years of bathing in the C.R. Tucker library's jovial miasma of sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke.)
- Mr Midshipman Easy (paperback, 1998 - as above, but cover is also stained and has bent corner. Still, in good shape for reading.)
Herman Melville - Typee (Penguin Classics paperback, cover and page-edges very browned/spotted, but in good reading shape)
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Mutiny on the Bounty (paperback, in very good shape except for very slight browning at edges & a few bent page-corners)
Patrick O'Brian: Master and Commander
[Need new pic] We have ALL the Patrick O'Brian books -- the entire "Master and Commander" series (including the posthumous/unfinished novel), biographies and collected other writings -- even his juvenilia!
-- cross-posted in Nonfiction:
Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed - Dean King (First edition, 2000. Hardcover in good shape, other than the characteristic browning of the page-edges and the edges of the dustjacket.)
Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography - ed. A.E. Cunningham (hardcover, 1994) Good shape, minor browning at edges/dustjacket.
Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels - Anne Chotzinoff Grossman & Lisa Grossman Thomas, foreword by Patrick O'Brian (hardcover, 1997 - very good condition, other than the browning/discoloration of page-edges and dustjacket)
Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea (hardcover, 2002 - in very good condition, other than the browning/discoloration of page-edges and dustjacket due to the sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke of the C.R. Tucker library.) Historical thriller about the passengers of a ship fleeing Irish famine in 1847 -- and arriving in New York; i.e., not about a shipwreck.
Dudley Pope (two novels)
- Decision at Trafalgar (paperback, 1999 - in good shape, only slight discoloration of edges. Orig. pub. 1959)
- The Black Ship (paperback, 1998 - more browning of page-edges and cover is worn, bent corner. Still, in good shape for reading. Orig. pub. 1963)
NONFICTION - History, Exploration, Shipwrecks (Alphabetical by Title)
50 Years Hard: The Story of Pentridge Gaol from 1850 to 1900 - Denton Prout / Fred Feely (Hardcover, 1967, with glossy B&W pix. Dustjacket is worn and a bit tattered, but has protected the hardcover well.) Australian history.
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage - James P. Delgado (1999 - lavishly illustrated oversized hardcover. Good condition, other than slight discoloration around edge of dustjacket and page-edges.)
Advanced Wreck Diving Guide - Gary Gentile (paperback, 1988). In decent shape, with the characteristic browning of the page-edges and some brown spotting on the cover. B&W photos of artifacts from the Andrea Doria, etc.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Ocean - George Deacon (short, wide hardcover - Studies in Polar Research series. 1984, Cambridge Univ. Press. Has used-bookstore price of $32.50 in pencil on front endpaper, but now has discoloration on page-edges and the front cover has acquired a bit of a curve.)
Atlantic: The Last Great Race of Princes - Scott Cookman (hardcover, 2002, very good shape except for light browning of dustjacket, cover, and page-edges due to the C.R. Tucker library's years of ceaseless bathing in sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke)
Atlantic Seafaring - Roger Morris (oversized hardcover, lavishly illustrated)
Australian phrasebook (Lonely Planet) - paperback
Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839 - Alan Gurney (hardcover, 1997). (Dustjacket slightly worn at edges, page edges slightly tinged, otherwise in good shape)
Boston: A Topographical History - Walter Muir Whitehill & Lawrence W. Kennedy (paperback in good condition, B&W photos/maps/engravings. This is the third edition, "enlarged," from 2000. The first edition was 1959.)
The Boston Irish: A Political History - Thomas H. O'Connor (paperback in good shape except smudged page-edges)
Bound for Australia: The loss of the emigrant ship TAYLEUR at Lambay on the coast of Ireland - Edward J. Bourke (paperback, 2003. B&W illustrations, 4 pages of color photos. In good shape except for discoloration on page-edges)
The Buccaneers of America - John Esquemeling - New intro by Percy G. Adams. (1967 Dover Edition reprint of 1893 book by one of the actual buccaneers. Paperback with worn but colorful cover; some brown spotting on endpapers and browning of page-edges. See pics for the title page and facing illustration.)
Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of her Survivors - Stephen Taylor (2005 paperback, in very good condition except that pages are a tad brown)
Castaway on the Auckland Isles [beautiful old, small hardback. Worn. 1866]
The Colonial Clippers - Basil Lubbock (This is a fairly new paperback reprint of a 1921 edition. The binding is glossy and recent (but undated), with some discoloration from sitting on the shelf. All pages have the original typesetting & illustrations from the 1921 edition.) Covers the Australian gold rush period, so currently filed with the other Oz/Gold books, but it's also maritime history.
Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia - Amanda Laugerson (paperback, 2002) (good shape except for slight yellowing of page-edges)
The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo - Neil Hanson (hardcover, 1999, very good shape except for the characteristic brownish page-edges due to the C.R. Tucker library's years of ceaseless bathing in sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke)
Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman - Caroline Healey Dall; edited by Helen R. Deese (2005 hardcover in very good shape, including the dustjacket)
Days and Ways in Old Boston - ed. William S. Rossiter (1915 - hardcover with no dustjacket; interesting pattern on front cover. This is a former library book with a pocket glued on the inside front cover, Dewey Decimal # on the spine, etc. In good shape except for one torn flyleaf page, and the many library stampings. Pages mildly browned with age.)
The Difficulties of My Position: The Diaries of Prison Governor John Buckley Castieau, 1855-1884. Edited & intro. by Mark Finnane (2004 paperback with B&W pix, good shape other than some discoloration on page-edges and back cover) National Library of Australia
[Ned Deloach's] Diving Guide to Underwater Florida (1988 - paperback guidebook with maps, ads on back cover, etc.) Arguably less out-of-date than other travel guides from 1988, since it's about sunken treasure etc., but we will definitely throw this in for free if you want it.
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure - F.A. Worsley (Captain of HMS Endurance), Preface by Patrick O'Brian [file in POB box] (paperback in good shape - text 1931, preface 1999)
Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson, 1793-1815 - ed. Dean King & John B. Hattendorf (paperback, 1997, good shape except for the characteristic brownish page-edges from years of ceaseless bathing in sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke in the C.R. Tucker library)
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier - edited & intro by Tim Flannery (paperback, 1998) (Fair shape but discoloration on page-edges & back endpapers; slightly warped)
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North - Dr. Fridjof Nansen (first pub. 1897; paperback with intro. by Roland Huntford, 1999 - Modern Library Exploration series editor Jon Krakauer. In quite good shape except for discoloration on page-edges.)
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot - Ken McGoogan (2001, hardcover. Good condition other than a bit of spotting and discoloration on dustjacket and page-edges.)
The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding - Robert Hughes (paperback, 1986) (good shape except for discoloration on page-edges)
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia (large hardcover, 2001, B&W and a few color photographs) - ed. by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook, and Andrew Reeves. [Removed from a library? Fading/uneven color of endpapers where there might have been a pocket. Also a note taped under the cellophane sleeve re: recently deceased person in photo...]
Gold! Gold! Gold! : The Language of the Nineteenth-Century Australian Gold Rushes - Bruce Moore (paperback, 2000. In good shape. 6 glossy pages of B&W pictures.)
The Golden Age: A history of the colony of Victoria 1851-1861 - Geoffrey Serle (1977, large stiff paperback with map endpapers, B&W illustrations)
Harper's Weekly from 1868 -- [see description in pic of packing slip] -- safely contained in a big, heavy plastic ziploc sleeve with a piece of cardboard; it's in good shape.
The Heart of the Antarctic - Sir Ernest Shackleton (1909 text) - large paperback reprint, 1999, in good condition except the text on the spine has faded.
The History of American Sailing Ships - Howard I. Chapelle (oversized hardcover, "over 200 illustrations" -- reprint of 1935 book. Some wear and tear, dustjacket ragged at edges, but the pages and binding are good.)
The History of Ships - Peter Kemp - oversized hardcover, lavishly illustrated. warped pages, torn dustjacket.
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk - Jennifer Niven (2000, nice hardcover with deckled page-edges, maps on endpapers, and 12 glossy pages of B&W photos. In good condition; dustjacket shows some wear.)
Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, or, God's Protecting Providence... A True Story of Shipwreck and Torture on the Florida Coast in 1696 (paperback reprint with foldout map - 1985, Florida Classics Library)
Journey to the Polar Sea - John Franklin. 1908 introduction by Captain Robert F. Scott ("of the Antarctic" -- that Scott); new introduction (2000) by James P. Delgado. Hardcover with a few little stains on the dustjacket and page-edges. Has 24 glossy pages of illustrations in the center.
Key West: Images of the Past - Joan & Wright Langley (1986 - large-format paperback, full of B&W photos. Cover is discolored with age, especially edges, and has "Hemingway House" sticker on it.
The Last of the Cape Horners: Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships - ed. Spencer Apollonio (hardcover, 2000, very good shape except for a bit of darkening of page-edges)
Law of Gold Mining in Australia and New Zealand - H.J. Armstrong (Second Edition, 1901) (antique hardcover, somewhat damaged - spine broken, front flyleaf torn, pencil marks and smudges on a few pages; back flyleaf & last page of index are loose, but no pages missing.)
Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels - Anne Chotzinoff Grossman & Lisa Grossman Thomas, foreword by Patrick O'Brian (hardcover, 1997 - very good condition, other than the browning/discoloration of page-edges and dustjacket) [pic of recipes]
filed with POB novels.
The Log of Christopher Columbus: His own account of the voyage that changed the world, in the acclaimed new translation by Robert H. Fuson (large paperback, 1992 - cover a bit spotted and bent. Nice illustrations, woodcuts and use of color ink.)
Lost Boston - Jane Holtz Kay (oversized paperback in very good shape - 1999 "expanded and updated edition") "An elegant architectural history, excellently illustrated." -- many B&W photographs.
The North Pole - Robert E. Peary, foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. New introduction by Robert M. Bryce. (2001 paperback reproduction of the 1910 edition, including B&W illustrations and handwritten documents in appendices. In good shape except for very slight browning of page-edges. [Based on the Bryce intro, this could also be filed under FICTION -- it sounds pretty unlikely that Peary did reach the Pole! The introduction itself is a fascinating, entertaining read.]
Old Melbourne Gaol - 20-pg booklet and souvenir photo-packet - National Trust of Australia (Victoria) - possibly 1948?
Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed - Dean King (First edition, 2000. Hardcover in good shape, other than the characteristic browning of the page-edges and the edges of the dustjacket.) filed with POB novels.
Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography - ed. A.E. Cunningham (hardcover, 1994) Good shape, minor browning at edges/dustjacket. filed with POB novels.
Pirates, Shipwrecks and Historic Chronicles - Edward Rowe Snow (hardcover, 1981. Aging/discoloration on dustjacket, end papers and page-edges) - "wonderful yarns" for "readers of all ages"
Preliminary Results of the Auckland Islands Expedition 1972-1973 - J.C. Yaldwyn, ed. - Department of Lands and Survey, N.Z. (A4 size, perfect-bound)
The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic - Alan Gurney (2000, hardcover. Dustjacket and page-edges discolored, but book is in good shape and has wonderful illustrations)
Sailortown - Stan Hugill (1967, hardcover. B&W illustrations - sketches and maps drawn by the author. Withdrawn from Los Gatos library -- has pocket; library name stamped on flyleaves and multiple pages. Some discoloration, and dustjacket is tattered at edges.) box 8
Scott's Last Journey - ed. Peter King, foreword by Beryl Bainbridge (1999 - oversized hardcover, many B&W photos. Good condition, other than slight discoloration around edge of dustjacket and page-edges.)
The Sea Chain - John E. Duncan (paperback, 1986) -- Biography follows a seafaring family through the Civil War to the 1880s, including their interactions with Mark Twain, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc.
The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship ARCTIC - David W. Shaw, 2002 (hardcover in very good shape, even the dustjacket. 8 pages of glossy B&W illustrations)
Seafaring Lore & Legend - Peter D. Jeans, 2004 (subtitled "A Miscellany of Maritime Myth, Superstition, Fable, and Fact" -- this is a nice hardcover with a terrifically illustrated dustjacket (the Kraken!) & looks like it would be GREAT for writers seeking jumpstarts -- it's full of intriguing tidbits. Might need to keep this???)
Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe - Diana Souhami (2001, hardcover with dustjacket, in very good condition other than a bit of brownness and smudging of page edges and endpapers, due to its years in the C.R. Tucker library)
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the ENDURANCE Epic - Lennard Bickel, 2001 (paperback: slightly dog-eared, with smudged/discolored page-edges, but binding etc. in good shape)
The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the FANTOME - Jim Carrier (paperback, 2001, in good shape)
Shipwrecks in the Americas - Robert F. Marx (paperback, with 73 illustrations - 1987 Dover edition, in good condition except spine shows wear)
Shipwrecks in Florida Waters: A Billion Dollar Graveyard - Robert F. Marx (paperback, 1985 - browned page-edges, browned/spotted cover)
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival - Dean King (2004 hardcover in good shape) (don't worry; it does start with a shipwreck, off the coast of Africa! And the same author wrote a biography of Patrick O'Brian.) box 8
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-17 - by Sir Ernest Shackleton, edited by Peter King (oversized paperback, lots of B&W photos with detailed captions and annotations to accompany the original text.) [Trafalgar Square Publishing - North Pomfret, VT.] [Fabulous portraits of sled dogs!]
Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 - Willie Drye (2002, hardcover, fair condition)
Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the PAMIR, ALBATROSS, MARQUES, PRIDE OF BALTIMORE, and MARIA ASUMPTA - by Daniel S. Parrott, captain of the PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II (2003, hardcover w/dustjacket, all in good shape)
The Treasure Diver's Guide: Including Locations of Sunken Treasures; Techniques of Research, Search, and Salvage; Wreck Identification; and Submarine Archaeology - John S. Potter, Jr. (Revised Edition, 1988 - paperback with )
Trial By Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 POLARIS Expedition - Richard Parry (2001, paperback in good shape except for browning of page-edges)
The Vagabond Papers -John Stanley James (hardcover with plastic sleeve protecting the dustjacket, 1969 abridged edition - first published in 5 volumes, 1877-8) Fantastic illustrations!
The Voyage of the Catalpa - Peter F. Stevens (2002, hardcover w/ slightly nicked dustjacket, otherwise in quite good shape)
The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger's Voyage in the Last Days of Sail - Derek Lundy (hardcover, 2002, very good shape except for light browning of dustjacket, cover, and page-edges due to the C.R. Tucker library's years of ceaseless bathing in sea air, cat fur, and tobacco smoke)
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, with a new intro. by Anthony Brandt (orig. text 1922; large paperback in good shape - National Geographic Adventure Classics, 2002) [I kind of love the writing, might have to read this before letting it go!]
The Wreck of the Grosvenor - W. Clark Russell, orig. published 1877; foreword by Herman Melville orig. pub. 1888 (this paperback, 1999. Good condition except for the characteristic C.R. Tucker Library discoloration of the page-edges.)
No comments:
Post a Comment