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• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Lake Erie Sidewheel Steamers of Frank E. Kirby (Detroit: Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, 1955), by Gordon Pritchard Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Lansing, MI: D.D. Thorp, 1892), by Chester D. Berry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early American Steamers (2 public domain volumes (later copyrighted volumes searchable but not readable online); Buffalo: E. Heyl, 1953-1956), by Erik Heyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Record of American and Foreign Shipping (partial serial archives)

• Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1939 (2 typescript volumes, second titled "Ship Licenses Issued to Vessels Under Twenty Tons and Ship Licenses on Enrollments Issued Out of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island"; Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-1941), by Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rollo on the Atlantic (Boston: Taggard and Thompson, 1864), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats (American Society of Civil Engineers Transactions #15, 1873), by Theodore F. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Foreign Ships in Micronesia, by Francis X. Hezel (HTML at micsem.org)

• Proceedings of a Meeting, and Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Cleveland, in Relation to Steamboat Disasters on the Western Lakes, by Cleveland Committee on Steam Navigation on the western lakes (page images at MOA)

• Mosquitoes: A Novel (New York: Liveright Publishing, c1927), by William Faulkner (multiple formats with commentary at fadedpage.com)
• Little by Little: or, The Cruise of the Flyaway (Chicago: Union School Furnishing Co., ca. 1860), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Bristol, UK: J. W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1889), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics (illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures)

• Dorothy on a House-Boat (New York: Platte and Peck Co., c1909), by Evelyn Raymond, illust. by Rudolf Mencl (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)

• Stories of Ships and the Sea (Little Blue Book #1169; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1922), by Jack London, ed. by E. Haldeman-Julius (Gutenberg text)

• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Narrow Corner (c1932), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dialstone Lane, by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Dialstone Lane (London: G. Newnes, 1904), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Master of Craft (c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• A Master of Craft (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org
• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Persuasion (based on the 1906 Stoneleigh edition, with added illustrations), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The New Centurion: A Tale Of Automatic War (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895), by James Eastwick
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), 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)
• 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 (New York: United States Book Company, c1892), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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