calahan harold augustin (41 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First printing. Illustrated with both photographs and drawings. 311 pp. Very good+ in blue cloth boards with silver lettering, lacking the dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Blue Cloth, Xii + 316 Pages, Illustrated. A Soundly Bound Book, A Little Shelf-Wear, Previous Owner's Name On Endpaper. Not Ex Library.

Condizione: Good. 1936. First Published. 145 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plate to page 18 and frontispiece. Course selector tool inserted to pocket to rear pastedown. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second Edition of this classic discussion of techniques in yacht inscribed by publisher Gabriella Placht. Placht was a mid 20th century publisher of sailing and yachting books and her inscription to the previous owner reads: To X, with all good wishes from Gabriella Placht, the publisher behind the eight ball." The 'eight ball' is a wry reference to John Trevor's Eight Ball Chart which the last page of the book. Loose leaf at rear is Trevor's True Distance Finder and Course Selector. Blue cloth, 146 pages, illustrated. Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards with a lean. Content has light toning and writing on the ffep. No DJ.

Includes 62 illustrations. Hardcover. Condition: very good (owner name; outer pages discolored; no jacket).

Condizione: Good. 1940. First Edition. 276 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth w/DJ. Condizione: G/G. Black & White Illustrations (illustratore). First Edition. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. G/G. (1946). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 351 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, cover edges rubbed, writing on ffe, pages lightly toned .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Book.

First printing. Hardcover. Ex-library, with usual indications; internally clean and tight.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 145 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs, charts, and maps. Includes calculator in envelope pocket on inside back cover. Minor foxing to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Record # 607633.

Hardbound. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Voorhies, Stephen J. (illustratore). First Edition. No DJ.

6th reprint in September 1945 of the 1937 original. XIV, (2), 323 PP with 38 figures, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w photos. Fp: Barnacles. Cloth cover. Spine sunned, ageing of paper. Very good. 19.2 x 13.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Ed. 4to, blue cloth binding, dust jacket has chips and edge tears, bookplate remnant on front endpaper, 145 pages, course selector tool in pocket in rear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. All pages intact and free from tears. Writing from previous author inside front cover. Tanning to spine, pages and page edges. Bumping and rubbing to board edges and corners. No DJ. KRM/Nautical.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (sailing, yachting, racing, maritime) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condizione: Good. 1940. Third Printing. 276 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth with silver lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is dulled. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The cover is somewhat faded and the top and bottom of the spine are worn.

1st edn. 4to. Original gilt decorayed blue cloth (near Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xiv + 145, illus with b&w diagrams and distance finder in rear pocket (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Aus Bibliothek aussortiert; Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke. Pribeh teto knihy dejove navazuje na prosluly dobrodruzny roman Ostrov pokladu. Znami hrdinove se vydavaji na ostrov znovu, aby nasli druhou cast pokladu.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. The Sky and the Sailor by Harold Augustin Calahan. Harper & Brothers, 1952. Stated First Edition. Book Condition / Dust Jacket Condition : Book: Very Good +; Clean gray cloth boards with navy spine panel; binding tight and square. Spine lettering bright and fully legible. Cloth shows only light handling wear at extremities. Internally clean with no writing or marks. Moderate, even age-toning to pages, consistent with mid-century paper stock. Notable moisture staining confined to the rear endpapers and a small number of preliminary pages only, with no effect on text legibility and no rippling through the main text block. Illustrated with diagrams and maps throughout. Dust Jacket: Good (complete but worn); Original pictorial dust jacket present (confirmed by first two photos). Jacket shows notable wear: edge chipping, creasing, and small losses along folds; surface scuffing and overall toning. Back panel exhibits moisture staining and tide marks; price ($4.00) still present on rear panel. Jacket remains complete and serviceable, but clearly well-used. (see photos) The Sky and the Sailor is a detailed and highly readable history of celestial navigation, tracing how mariners learned to determine position at sea using the stars, sun, and instruments from antiquity through the modern era. Drawing on both historical scholarship and firsthand naval experience, Harold A. Calahan explains the development of tools such as the astrolabe, sextant, and chronometer, making complex navigational principles accessible to the general reader.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the other board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dustwrapper has some edge wear so best described as very good condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, mylar, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Ships rigging an illustrated treatise for sailors and seamanship. Ref KK 5.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Well illustrated with b/w line drawings and photographs (62). blue cloth covered boards have silver gilt text on spine and front panel. Spine ends are slightly scuffed, pp. 267-276 have production fault and the bottom corner is under cut. Price clipped DJhas edge wear and significant chipping, but is intact. Ahoy! Bookseller's Inventory # 081859.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's original blue hardback with gilt lettering to spine and gilt design on the upper cover. Firm and square, strong joints, no splits, just rubbed and sunned. Contents sound and clean. No pen-marks save a former owner name at the endpaper. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 285mm x 220mm. Pages: pp. xiv, 145, complete with numerous full page diagrams. Also illustrated with photos, etc. Includes a course selector and true distance calculator inside a rear cover pocket. Thus a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, as stated. Beautiful blue boards with stamped gold gilt sun decoration and blind stampted rays of sun on front cover. Spine titling slightly faded.

Illustrated with photographs, charts, and diagrams, and containing new instruments for the navigation of a yacht in a race. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1936. First Edition. xiv,145p. Frontispiece, chart endsheets, 23 plates, calculator in rear pocket. 29x22cm, cloth, dj remnants. VG.