GREAT SHIPS IN NEW YORK HARBOR: 1935-2005 ... a fascinating & insightful photographic review ... 175 mostly unpublished views from the Normandie and Queen Mary to ships at war, the docks, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, other shipyards, tugs, barges & floating cranes and right up to the Queen Mary 2 ... 102 glossy pages in all ... $16.95.

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ON THE WATERFRONT: THE GREAT SHIPS OF HOBOKEN ... a tribute in word and picture of the waterfront of the New Jersey city that is rich in maritime histiory ... there's the early German liners, American Export & Holland America operations, the Bethlehem Steel & Todd shipyards, the Lackawanna ferries and of course another look at tyhe immortal film of 1954 starring Marlon Brando ... published in high-grade softcover by the Hoboken Historical Museum at $20 per copy.

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LINERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE ... by Bill Miller, Anthony Cooke & Maurizio Eliseo ... a grand, glossy hardcover from London's Carmania Press, 240 pages, over 300 black & white photos, all the great and grand liners of the 1920s and ‘30s ... “This is the golden book about the golden age of passenger liners!” reported Mainmast Books. “Not to be missed said,” said another ocean liner buff. $70 for autographed copies. Special $4.50 s&h.

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PICTURE HISTORY OF THE ANDREA DORIA ... by Bill Miller, another Dover pictorial, published spring 2005, spanning Italian liners such as Rex & Conte di Savoia beginning in 1932, then highlighting construction, operation & finally tragic demise of the glorious, post-WWII flagship Andrea Doria and finishing with last liners of Italian Line ... timed for the 50 th anniversary of the ship's completion & her dramatic sinking on July 26, 1956. $18.95.

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PICTURE HISTORY OF THE QUEEN MARY &
QUEEN ELIZABETH Another fine photo-filled history by Dover Publications, due out this summer. By Bill Miller, 128 pages & approx 150 photos, covering great Cunard Queens, but also beginning with Mauretania & Lusitania, other pre-war Cunarders and of course the 12-liner Cunard fleet of the 1950s.QE2 and QM2 included as well. Foreword by Captain Ian McNaught.
Autographed at $16.95.

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THE LAST WHITE EMPRESSES. Now available in the USA: a superb book from Carmania Press, London, written in loving & detailed style by Clive Harvey on the life & times of the last three Canadian Pacific Empress liners, the Empress of Britain, Empress of England & Empress of Canada. All three had subsequent careers, including sailings as Carnival's first two ships, the Mardi Gras & Carnivale. Softcover, with color cover by Stephen Card, Wonderful b&w and color photos, at $33.75.

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