Hardin Mel (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover, black boards lettered in silver in publisher's yellow pictorial dust-jacket. 191 pages. Glossary, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Published under the auspices of the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Association and United New York Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Association. A history and memoir of experiences along the compass course used to guide ocean-going ships into New York harbor. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. A very scarce title in the original hardcover edition. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. …

A catalog for an exhibition of material from the archives, but not showing or listing any of it; maily a reprinting of a 1873 early illustrated history that appeared in "Harper's". #239 pf 500 copies; 8vo; 20 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original wrappers. Exhibition Catalog.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. First edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. First edition. Hardcover, xxix+191 with glossary, appendix of transcriptions of annual Christmas card "pilot reminiscences " sent by Winters to correspondents beginning in 1948. Illustrated. Quite scarce, a rare look at the experiences of some of New York harbor's unsung heroes, the "Sandy Hook Pilots", who navigate ships in and out of the busy port. Captain Winters began his career in the sail-powered schooners before 1910 and continued as senior pilot through World War II.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.