Steamers from Maiden Voyage Booksellers

Duxbury, MA: Seamaster Boats, Inc, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; story of the walking beam engines that powered the steamboats of America from the early nineteenth century to well into the twentieth; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings of the engines and the vessels they powered; in b & w photo wraps; has small, closed… Read more about this item

Chorley, Lancashire, UK: Countryside Publications Limited, 1980. Paperback. Fine. 88 pp; fine overview of the mail and passenger steamships that plied the North West of England; i.e. Liverpool to Carlisle and environs; profusely illustrated with superb, archival b & w photos; published in landscape format; in b & w photo wraps.

Cornwall, UK: Twelveheads Press, 1987. Paperback. Fine. 72 pp; comprehensive history of the passenger steamers that plied the River Dart on the south coast of Devon; includes the history of the Kingswear Castle, the last operational paddle steamewr of the River Dart Steamboat Co., Ltd.; profusely illustrated with superb, archival b & w photos; the highly detailed, fold-out… Read more about this item

Nuneaton, UK: Allan T. Condie Publications, 1987. Paperback. Very Good +. 48 pp; superb collection of 112 b & w photos showing paddle wheel steamers that p[lied the coast of Britain from late 1800's onward; each photo has brief description of each vessel; in full-color photo wraps.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1982. Paperback. Fine. 55 pp; staple-bound booklet that incorporates the many changes that had occurred in the various fleets covered by the Third Edition when it was published in 1972, covering the alterations since 1st. September 1971, when the fleet lists were completed; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; in b… Read more about this item

Hertshire, UK: Strong Oak Press, 2001. Paperback. Near Fine. 185 pp; an account of the steamers that plied the River Clyde and Firth of clyde in the early 1870's, together with the many boats which came and went up to the 1920's; originally published in 1923; this copy of a Reprint done in 1990; well-illustrated with b &… Read more about this item

Cardiff, Wales: Wheelhouse Books, 1998. Hardcover. Fine. 208 pp; well-written account of the difficulties of the WHITE FUNNEL FLEET during the years 1919 to 1939; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; many never before published; plus reproductions of advertisements, newspaper articles, etc.

London, UK: Conway Maritime Press, 1988. Hardcover. As New/fine. 192 pp; comprehensive description of all the hundred or so operating steam ships, some two hundred conversions, and a number of statically preserved vessels; ships are listed ship by ship and country by country; with details of passager profiles, routes and areas of operation of each; profusely illustrated with… Read more about this item

Glasgow, Scotland: Brown, son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 244 pp; fine overview of passenger and mail lines that plied the Pacific between the South Pacific and the UK; well-illustrated with b & w photos; has name and address stamp of former owner on ffep.

New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 240 pp; description of the development of steam navigation from the end of the eighteenth century to the time of writing; well-illustrated with b & w photos, line drawings and ilustrations. dj has been price-clipped.

Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd, 1981. Hardcover. As New/fine. 124 pp; well-written and profusley illustrated with b & w photos; this book is a nostalgic look backward at Cross-channels Ferries and the service they provided; dj has been price-clipped and has another price sticker at bottom of front flap 64mo - up to 3" tall.

Staten Island, NY: The Steamship Historical Society of America, 1971. Hardcover. As New/fine. 142 pp; comprehensive history of steamboats on this Ohio river; profusely illustrated with period b & w photos; list of steamboats on the river between 1824-1913; includes the separate, 20 pp; staple-bound Explanatory Note from author and index of vessels.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 136 pp; fine overview of the STEAM PACKET COMPANY'S ships; profusely illustrated with full-page b & w photos; in full-coor photo wraps; this copy is from the Fifth Editon of work originally publilshed in 1962; has sticker of bookshop on title page; bend to rear cover at upper… Read more about this item

West Bloomfield, MI: Altwerger & Mandel Publishing Co., Inc, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine. 245 pp; collection of author's most popular stories about spectacular sinkings, explosions, fires and wrecks of steamboats on the Great Lakes beginning with the violent demise of the historic WALK-IN-THE-WATER in 1821 and ending with the mysterious foundering of the EDMUND FITZGERALD in 1975; in… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 112 pp; short history of the pleasure steamer industry based at Bristol and South Wales ports, with individual descriptions and histories of all the major vessels that have served in the area since the 1880's; profusely illustrated with superb b & w photos.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. As New/near fine. 92 pp; covers the whole of paddle-wheel propulsion on the Atlantic; from the SAVANNAH of 1818 to the last CUNARD paddle steamer, the SCOTIA of 1861 and the last FRENCH LINE paddle steamers to be built for transatlantic service; well-illustrated with b & w photos;… Read more about this item

UK: Colin Venton, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 208 pp; well-written story of the paddle-steamers and the men who built, owned and sailed in them; 21 b & w photos; has name and address stamp of former owner on ffep; dj has been price-clipped.

Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1982. Hardcover. As New/fine. 207 pp; superb collection of essays on Clyde paddle steamers; profusely illustrated with b & w photos and illustrations; dj has minute closed tear to extreme botom of right corner of rear panel; else As New/Fine.

UK: Countryside Publications Limited, 1984. Paperback. Fine. 40 pp; staple-bound booklet; fine overview of Cumbria's passenger ships; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, 1 map, fleet lists, etc.; in full-color photo wraps; Fine/.

Lawrence, MA: Quarterman Publications, Inc, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 421 pp; superb history of the opening up of California beginning in 1846 and takes up in chronological order all the ships to California from 1846 to 1869; also covers the inauguration of the PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY; also describes the postal history of the era. This… Read more about this item