New York: Walker, 1985. Black boards. Very light yellowing to page edges, else a fine copy. Jacket has small creases to foot of spine, else fine. The 9th Ramage nautical adventure novel, this one set on the Spanish Main.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. Blue boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has some crinkling to the surface lamination on rear panel, light surface scratches to front panel, else fine and bright, flap price intact.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1980. Maroon boards. Review copy for Canada, with the Canadian's distributor's label (Collins) affixed to front free endpaper. Former owner's ink inscription to front pastedown (mostly hidden by jacket flap); else fine. Price-clipped jacket has tiny nick to outer corner, else fine.

London: Methuen, 1909. Orange pictorial cloth stamped in black, spine gilt lettered. pp (viii), (304) + 45 pp Sept. 1909 catalogue + 12 plates by Will Owen. Light tanning to endpaper & tissue guard at frontispiece (with offset tanning to title leaf); tanning and slight foxing to page edges; spine very lightly darkened; inner hinges cracked but firm: VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Lamerton A13a.

New York: Holt, 1944. Grey cloth. Spine faintly yellowed, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has small chips to ends of lightly tanned spine, VG otherwise. Thirteen short narratives originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty & other magazines. Jacket art and lettering is by Edgard Cirlin (1913-73), Montreal-born commercial artist who studied at Cooper Union under noted jacket artist George Salter. Cirlin was said to be just about the best calligrapher around.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date (1926). Blue cloth stamped in black. pp 312, (8, ads) + 12 plates. Erasure on front pastedown has caused some paper thinning; private lending library rubber stamp on rear pastedown; a bright, near fine jacketless copy otherwise. 12 short stories, including "The Interruption", which was the basis for the 1955 British crime film noir "Footsteps in the Fog," starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. Lamerton A18a.

Toronto: Ryerson, 1932. Octavo, red cloth lettered in black. pp 471. Blue top page edges faded, with small spots; soft ripples at centre of title leaf; 1 cm tear to fore edge of pp (7-8), else fine and bright, no owner names. The dust jacket nicks and slight rubbing at spine ends; yellowing to blank rear panel; spine shows some yellowing, with blue panel at top sunned to grey; otherwise VG+, flap price intact, quite nice. A tale of sailing around the Horn in a windjammer in order to expose a drug smuggling operation. His girl friend is captured by the chief smuggler and held in a vast cave on the Scottish coast. Hubin II p. 205. Made from sheets of the US edition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Octavo, light blue cloth. Very light damp spotting to covers, yellowing and a bit of foxing to page edges, else fine, bright & tight, no owner names. Dust jacket has a once inch creased and rubbed tear to upper inner corner of front cover internally mended; light yellowing to spine and rear panel, with light dust soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise. "This is the story of a few days in the life of an English mailship alone in the Pacific." Cyclone, a distinguised passenger is found dead.

New York: Putnam's, 1974. Blue cloth. Gilt spine lettering dulled, with author hard to read; light rubbing to spine tips; small light pencil erasure to front free endpaper; spine a bit concave; VG otherwise. Price-clipped dust jacket has minute nicks to spine tips; minor rubbing; near fine otherwise, colours bright, no chips or tears.

London: T. Nelson, 1903. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, white, yellow, red, and gilt. blind device on rear cover, pale green endpapers. pp 186, [6, ads]. Five full-page illustrations in text. Mild rubbing to covers; 1906 ink gift inscription to front pastedown, bit of tanning to free endpapers, text paper a little toned; front inner hinge cracked but firm; else a VG clean, tight & unworn copy of this boy's adventure novel of the immortal combat of the Monitor and the Merrimack in the US Civil War. This copy is an early printing. It was first published in 1899 (dated 1900). Canadian author.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1963. Turquoise boards. Page edges lightly yellowed, else a fine copy. White jacket shows slight yellowing to spine, else fine. flap price intact. A Cold War naval novel, basis of the 1965 film.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1947. Octavo, yellow boards. Yellowing to pagree edges; tan spot to fore margin of verso of rear free endpaper; VG otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has chips, tears, bit of soiling to rear panel; good. Australian author. Precedes the 1948 Australian edition.

London: Collins, 1979. Light blue boards. Spine has soft vertical crease, tiny specks to top page edges, very light sunning at head of spine, else fine, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has soft creases at head of spine, else fine. A nice copy of this cheaply made book, the sixth Jack Aubrey / Stephen Maturin novel.

London: Macmillan, 1980. Blue boards. Small corner crease to one leaf (pp 95-96); page edges faintly yellowed; else a fine copy, no previous owner names, in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A World War I nautical novel and an uncommon book in first edition. Based on the tragedy of the battle-cruiser Invincible, Admiral Hood's flagship and the pride of the RN, blown up 31 May, 1916, during the battle of Jutland. 1026 men were lost, only 6 survived. The novel takes four fictional sailors and traces their lives from before the war to the day of calamity.

New York: Putnam's, 1979. Blue cloth. Light sunning to extreme edges of covers, else fine in fine jacket. The 12th Richard Bolitho novel. Battle of Copenhagen, 1801.

London: Harrap, 1961. Light blue boards. Text paper lightly yellowed; crease to upper outer corner of pp 213-32; very nearly fine otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has some rubbing, creases; VG-, flap price intact. The second Harvey Landon nautical thriller, set mostly in Central America.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. Octavo. Blue boards. ADVANCE COPY FOR REVIEW, with "Review Copy - Not for Sale" rubber stamped to front free endpaper. Text paper lightly yellowed as usual; else fine in fine jacket. The 19th Richard Bolitho sea novel.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1979. Blue boards. Tiny black dot to top page edges, else fine. Small bit of bubbling to surface lamination to rear panel, else fine. Very nice copy of the 10th Ramage novel. Attacking Napoleon's ships in the Mediterranean.

New York: Norton, 1994. Beige non-pictorial card covers. Very small light brown spot on rear cover, else fine, no creases, fading, nor names. Published in the UK as COLLECTED SHORT STORIES.

New York: Macmillan, 1934. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black, black top page edges, colour endpaper maps. Light yellowing to page edges and endpapers, else fine and bright, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has small chips and tears, VG otherwise. A nautical adventure novel set on the Eastern Spanish Main.