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Pages 109-144. Features. Cover photo of The London dock strike; Two pages of photos and write-up of the London dock strike - action and stagnation; Photos of Princess Elizabeth and family; Photos of personalities of the week include Dr. Douglas Hyde, Gen. Sir Kenneth Wigram, Major-Gen. V.E. Prichard, Senor Don R.R. Schreiber, the Emir of Cyrenaica, Mr. William H. Newton, Mr. H.R. Knickerbocker, Mr. F.R. Brown, Brian Close, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Captain E.W.H. Brookes, Otto Abetz, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Chiang Kai-Shek, Philippine President Quirino and Sir Hartley Shawcross; Photos from the A.A.A. Championships include G.W. Nankeville, McDonald Bailey, D.O. Finlay, A.S. Paterson, H.G. Churcher and H.E. Whittle; Photos of de-fusing of a 1940 German bomb in Grafton Way, off Tottenham Court Road; Photo of the new turbine liner Presidente Peron; Photographing underwater from three miles up in Africa, using a magnetometer; History repeats itself in the Balkans - with photos of Marshal Tito; Four photos of a massive German gun with 33-inch calibre, now scrapped, designed to blast Gibraltar; Photos of yachts competing in the Clyde Fortnight Regattas; Illustrations of forgotten inventions and outmoded gadgets include a faciallyl-mounted cigarette-holder for the man who needs both hands free!; Centrefold illustration celebrates centenary of Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex; Article and aerial photos of dry ice being used to create rain over Louisiana; Striking discoveries from recent excavation in remote Azerbaijan; Photos of Royal occasions in London; Czech lawn-tennis players V. Cernik and J. Drobny; fire aboard the Turkish ship Coram; Former ammo dump near Pruem explodes; Police raid of Marx House, the Australian H.Q. of the Communist Party; French luxury liner Ile De France sails again; Photos of downed K.L.M. Constellation near Bombay which killed 33 in India's worst air disaster to-date; and more. Complete, intact and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: JENNY NORMAN comes alive - Jim Richardson builds a bugeye for himself; Pert Lowell and the Art of the Mast Hoop; VARUA - Soul of the Southern Sea - a tale of construction, reconstruction and new life; A Matter of Detail - the finer points of boatbuilding; A Story of Priorities - a realistic approach to restoration; My Brother Everett - The boatbuilder as artist, the artist as boatbuilder; Four great wooden boat regattas; A conversation with Dick Clarke - he keeps Lake Tahoe's classsics going strong; Bagging the GULL - Constant Camber goes Mono - Part II. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
8vo., with numerous engraved illustrations and facsimiles throughout; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the Yachtsman's Annual and General Register, 1845
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, price clipped.
