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Friends and Colleagues,

It should not be a surprise to anyone that the house I grew up in was full of books.  Among them was my Dad’s copy of The Bluejackets’ Manual; It was issued to him when he enrolled in Officer Candidate School in Newport at the beginning of our entry into World War II.

As a child, I was enchanted with this artifact from the war that spawned “the greatest generation”.  Let me be honest.  I didn’t read the manual (or at least not much of it).  It was the illustrations I found captivating.  There were photographs of battleships.  There were diagrams of knots and splices.  Most appealing of all were color images of flags and pennants and ribbons.   I do believe I studied them for hours.

I was not a macho lad.  Just the opposite in fact. My interest in going to war was about nil. But still there was something irresistible about The Bluejacket’s Manual.  Was it the lure of the sea?  Was it a way to bond with my dad, whom I loved and admired?  Was it the compelling color images?  It was all of these.

Today we’re offering a manual from 1927, less common than the 1940 copies which were cranked out for Navy personnel in “the war”.  Google tells me  that during WWII there were over 3 ½ million enlistment in the US Navy  That’s a lot of Bluejacket Manuals. 

I still look at this book through the eyes of a child.  It’s not a bad way to look at a lot of books.

Cheers,

Nick

298632
United States Navy. [MILITARY] THE BLUEJACKETS’ MANUAL 1927. Price: $300.00  
298627
John W[esley]] Cromwell | [Dr. O. B. H. Bowser]. [PRESENTATION COPY] [AFRICAN-AMERICAN] THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY. MEN AND WOMEN EMINENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN OF AFRICAN DESCENT. Price: $750.00  
 
298605
Harold Gray | Gary W. Gallagher. [HUMOR] [COMICS] LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE. THE FIRST NINE VOLUMES. Price: $1,950.00  
298618
Emilio Abreu Gomez | Maria Izquierdo [Drawings]. [MEXICAN IMPRINT] [CHILDREN] PIRRIMPLIN EN LA LUNA. Price: $95.00  
298606
Edith Wharton. [LITERATURE] [SLIPCASE] OLD NEW YORK. [FOUR VOLUMES] VOL. 1. FALSE DAWN (The 'Forties); Vol II: THE OLD MAID (The 'Fifties); Vol III: THE SPARK (The 'Sixties); Vol IV: NEW YEAR’S DAY (The 'Seventies). Price: $150.00  
298617
[A.Serdan Y Mina]. EL TEATRO BLANQUITA~~. Price: $75.00  
298607
A Colorado Woman [Josephine Getchell]. [AMERICANA] FLOWERS AND FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED. Price: $100.00  
298621
Apuleius | J.H Mason [Translator]; Illustrated by Vivien Gribble. [SPECIAL PRESS] CUPID & PSYCHE. Price: $450.00  
298609
Gilbert Hagerty. [FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR] MASSACRE AT FORT BULL. THE de LERY EXPEDITION AGAINST ONEIDA CARRY, 1756. Price: $50.00  
298623
Jonathan Swift [Author] | Shane Leslie [Introduciton] | Alexander King [Illustrations]. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE TRAVELS OF LEMUEL GULLIVER. Price: $150.00  
298610
[NEWSPAPER] SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON-GAZETTE, , JUNE 5, 1769. Price: $250.00  
298624
Jack London. [LITERATURE] WHITE FANG. Price: $150.00  
298611
[NEWSPAPER] ISSUE. THE BOSTON-GAZETTE AND COUNTRY JOURNAL. FEBRUARY 12, 1770. Price: $450.00  
298625
Jack London. [LITERATURE] THE CALL OF THE WILD. Price: $175.00  
298612
Lawrence T. Jones, III | Gary W. Gallagher. [AMERICANA] LENS ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER. Price: $125.00  
298626
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] THE CIVIL WAR IN THE AMERICAN WEST. Price: $40.00  
298613
Stanley Horn | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE. Price: $95.00  
298628
Thomas P. Buford; Thomas H. Chilton; Bem Price | The Survivors’ Association of Lamar Rifles. [CIVIL WAR] LAMAR RIFLES. A HISTORY OF COMPANY G, ELEVENTH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT, C. S. A. WITH THE OFFICIAL ROLL, GIVING EACH MAN’S RECORD FROM TIME OF ENLISTMENT TO TWENTY-NINTH OF MARCH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SITY-FIVE; INDIVIDUAL AND COMPANY SKETCHES; INCIDENTS OF THE CAMP, THE MARCH, AND BATTLEFIELD. Price: $500.00  
298614
Charles Shoffner [PHOTOGRAPHER] | Gary W. Gallagher. [VIRGINIANA] THEN AND NOW. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Price: $60.00  
298629
Samuel Mordecai [An Old Citizen]. [VIRGINIA] RICHMOND, IN BY-GONE DAYS; WITH A GLANCE AT THE PRESENT: BEING REMINISCENCES AND LAST WORDS OF AN OLD CITIZEN. Price: $125.00  
298615
Franklin W. Dixon. [LITERATURE] THE HARDY BOYS | THE SINISTER SIGN POST. Price: $50.00  
298630
Frances Hodgson Burnett | Maria L. Kirk [Illustrator]. [CHILDREN] THE SECRET GARDEN. Price: $300.00  
298616
Elisabeth V. Quinn [Text and Music] | Rose O’Neill [Illustrations]. [CHILDREN] [WOMEN] THE KEWPIE PRIMER. Price: $95.00  
298631

Herbert T. Ezekiel. [RICHMOND] THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A VIRGINIA NEWSPAPERMAN. Price: $150.00 

 
298619
Byron, Lord [Thomas Moore et al.]. [POETRY] THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. Price: $100.00  
298634
[CONTRACTOR’S BLUEPRINT; VMI] MEASURED DRAWINGS FOR THE VMI DRILL HALL, 1942. Price: $125.00  
 

 

298622
Gary Gallagher; Stephen Engel; Robert Krick; Joseph Glatthaar | James McPherson [Foreward]. [SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] CIVIL WAR. FORT SUMTER TO APPOMATTOX. Price: $125.00  
298469
William Alexander & James Minot. [FRENCH INDIAN WAR] [AMERICANA] PERSONAL COPY OF GARRISONING OF FORT EDWARD AND FORT WILLIAM HENRY. Price: $150.00  
 

 

 

 

 

 

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