Yale University Press, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Full

Yale University Press, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Full page b/w historic photos printed on thick matte paper. Clean in bright covers. Edges of covers have faded. Jacket has ruffling at upper edges, and fading on rear cover. Heavy book..

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards with

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by numerous (mostly unknown) 19th-20th-century photographers. Photograph selection and introduction by John Szarkowski. Essays by Richard Benson. Includes a checklist and notes on the plates. Designed by John Gambell, New Haven, Connecticut. 248 pp., with 100 duotone plates. 11-1/4 x 9-3/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories at the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia (traveled to numerous venues). Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "This book, featuring 100 photographs culled from the archives of the Mariner's Museum, depicts the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea....[E]ach photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters and much more....Benson's essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a richly evocative vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning."