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• The Pale Blonde of Sands Street (New York: Viking Press, 1946), by William Chapman White (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. S. Utah (New York: International Publishers, 1933), by Mike Pell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dead Command (translation of "Los Muertos Mandan"; New York: Duffield and Co., 1919), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, trans. by Frances Douglas (Gutenberg text)
• The Gold Brick (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1866), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Liverpool Jarge (waterfront edition; yarns printed in reverse order; Boston: Square Rigger Co., c1922), by Halliday Witherspoon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los Muertos Mandan (in Spanish), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Gutenberg text)
• Redburn: His First Voyage, by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)
• Sailor's Knots (1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Sailor's Return (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925), by David Garnett, illust. by R. A. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sea Plunder (New York: J. Lane and Co.; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1917), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
• The Skipper's Wooing; and The Brown Man's Servant (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1897), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Skipper's Wooing; and The Brown Man's Servant (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1897), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deep Waters, by W. W. Jacobs
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fearsome Island (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1896), by Albert Kinross (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Odd Craft (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd Craft (1909), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Out O' Luck: Biltmore Oswald Very Much at Sea (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Thorne Smith (page images at Google; US access only)
• Sea Urchins (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by W. W. Jacobs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sea Urchins (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1899), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Pitcairn's Island (c1934), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1923), by Herman Melville, illust. by Mead Schaeffer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Typee: A Real Romance of the South Sea (Boston: The St. Botolph society, c1892), by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee: A Romance of the South Seas, by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island, by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Company, c1892), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1922), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: St. Botolph Society, 1923), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Wiley and Putnam ; London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846., 1846), by Herman Melville, Thomas B. Smith, R. Craighead's Power Press, John Murray (Firm), and Wiley & Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack Tench : or, The midshipman turned idler (W. Brittain, 1841), by Blowhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bunch of rope yarns (Richard G. Badger, The Graham Press, 1903), by Stanton H. King, Gorham Press, and Richard G. Badger (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sailor (D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by J. C. Snaith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roderick Random (The American news company; London. J. C. Hotten, 1860), by T. Smollett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea plunder (J. Lane Co. ;, 1917), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Out o' luck Biltmore Oswald very much at sea (W. Briggs, 1919), by Thorne Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sailors knots (Copp, Clark, 1909), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mystery (Musson, 1907), by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The salvage of a sailor (Musson, 1919), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sailor (T. Langton, 1916), by J. C. Snaith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frank Brown sea apprentice (Copp, Clark, 1906), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• White Jacket : or, The world in a man-of war (A.L. Burt, 1892), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The skipper's wooing : and The brown man's servant (F.A. Stokes company, 1897), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden lamp (Small, Maynard & Company, 1916), by Phoebe Gray, Blanche Greer, and Maynard & Company Small (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild oranges (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXIX [1919], 1919), by Joseph Hergesheimer, Vail-Ballou Press, and Inc Alfred A. Knopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where the sea-flag floats : a story of the seal fisheries (Published by David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1912), by Elsie Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and the enchanted isles (Press of the Readers Club, 1942), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lucy Hardinge. (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1893), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden harpoon, or Lost among the floes : a story of the whaling grounds (Beadle, 1865), by Roger Starbuck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers ; London : John Murray, 1849., 1849), by Herman Melville, John Murray (Firm), and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee, a narrative of the Marquesas Islands (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1921), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mate of the Vancouver, by Morley Roberts (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golden Harpoon; Or, Lost Among the Floes: A Story of the Whaling Grounds, by Roger Starbuck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Os Trabalhadores do Mar (in Portuguese), by Victor Hugo, trans. by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas.: Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate, by T. Jenkins Hains, illust. by H. C. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wind-Jammers, by T. Jenkins Hains (Gutenberg ebook)
• Within the Capes, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Search of Mademoiselle, by George Gibbs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man, by Bartimeus (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ford of H.M.S. Vigilant: A Tale of the Chusan Archipelago, by T. T. Jeans, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lady of Lynn, by Walter Besant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flying Bo'sun: A Mystery of the Sea, by Arthur Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ο δεκαπενταετής πλοίαρχος (in Greek), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kaptajnen paa 15 Aar (I Slavelænker) (in Danish), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo, ed. by Ernest Rhys, trans. by W. Moy Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Doomed ship, or, The wreck in the Arctic regions (London: William Andrews & Co., 1865), by William Hurton (page images at Florida)
• Travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships, in four parts ... (London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883), by Jonathan Swift, illust. by Adolphe Lalauze (page images at Florida)

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