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1396235612.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
194363455Berlin : Delius, Klasing & Co. 1943. 285 S. : mit Abb. ; 8°Eigentümersignatur auf Titelblatt nachgebundener Ausgabe Halblederband, Exemplar in gutem Erhaltungszustand
P30035Northshore Yacht: 1988 UK softcover 4 pages with photos of the yacht and interior lay-out and specifications. In very good condition. English language paperback
196539641New York:: North American Yacht Racing Union 1965. paperback. NEAR FINE. Almost like new--extremely slight barely visible edgewear raised surface of embossment on cover have lost a little gold color. This is a large blue softcover imitation leather on stiff card stock gold lettering and gold embossment of the seal of the NAYRU on front cover. No publication date but mention of changes made to the rules in 1965 suggests that as the date of publication. 69 pages 2 tables. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order daily shipments and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. North American Yacht Racing Union, paperback
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with 231 burgees illustrated in colour; navy cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, covers marked, creased and faded (but all lettering wholly legible), expertly recased, a sound, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. ALL EARLY ISSUES OF THIS 'YACHTSMAN'S BIBLE' ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
P29639Nord West Yachts: 1997 Sweden softcover 22 pages with photos of the yachts and her interior also layout and specifications. About the Nord West 330 355 410 and 470. In very good condition. In Swedish language. Also comes with original Nord west specifications and pricelist. paperback
1986002561Paris, Association des Cahiers Roger Nimier, 1986
Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
230 p. : illus. ; 26 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
189640711New York : New York Yacht Club 1896. xxx 556 pp. <br /><br />The unfortunate challenge led to a controversy more bitter than that engendered by James Ashburys two challenges.Toy. Dunraven contended the Defender had illegally removed ballast. The NYYC investigated and exonerated itself. All the testimony and wrangling are presented here. An early and important Americas Cup piece. Toy 1610. Morris & Howland p. 100 Rulon Miller #7. In original printed wrappers which are chipped. Text is clean and fresh untrimmed. New York Yacht Club books
191435686NY n.d. 1914. Color plates b/w ills. 12mo. 314 pp. plus plates. Forty-five color plates showing hundreds of flags of members club flags signals. Also member list vessel lists charts music for bugle calls color plate of yachting uniform ornaments etc. Bound in half black morocco over boards. All edges gilt. books
0666148325.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1332959229.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19152230833New York: Knickerbocker Press 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 318 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Both outer corners significantly bumped. Some separation along lower hinge of front end papers but spine tight. Slight fading to edges of front end papers. Previous owner's name inside front cover "Charles Case" and inscription to former owner on front end papers "6/10/00". Long list of notable aristocratic club members of the era including Astors Vanderbilts Morgans FDR King George V and His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor. Record # 2230833 Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1130831000.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1331966566.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0364420499.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1885014505New York Yacht Club. Yellow paper cover. 8vo 23.5 cm. 8 pp. An Americas Cup rarity. Worldcat shows only Navy Department and Mariner's Museum holding copies of "Supplementary and Final Report" of the 1885 America's Cup race in which the American yacht "Puritan" defeated the English challenger "Genesta." This pamphlet officially confirms the American yacht's victory. It is related to the "Brenton's Reef" pamphlet which we also offer for sale because the English yacht "Genesta" after being defeated in the 1885 America's Cup races participated in the Brenton's Reef race a couple of weeks later and was victorious against the American yacht "Dauntless." Bound in original printed wrappers. Old vertical fold line else fine condition. Scarce. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1885. New York Yacht Club paperback
6778Admiralty. 20 May 1937. Printed by 'H & S Ltd.'. 8vo; 33 pp. In original blue printed wraps. On lightly-aged paper with occasional foxing in creased wraps. With the stamp of the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club. The entries for the eighteen nations listed on the second page have been ticked off in blue pencil and the ships of two other nations Canada and India added beneath the list in manuscript. Listing the crews of the various ships with seniority. Represented are both the U.S.S.R. with the 'Marat' 'Flagman 2nd Rank Rear Admiral - V. I. Ivanov Commanding Officer. 4 Nov. 1936.' and Germany with the 'Admiral Graf Spee' 'Kapitan zur See Captain - Conrad Patzig Commanding Officer 1 Oct. 1933.' Scarce: no copy recorded on WorldCat COPAC currently down! Admiralty. 20 May 1937. [Printed by 'H & S, Ltd.'] paperback
Book shows light wear to covers, heavy creasing at spine with some chipping away of the outer layer at the bottom spine. Binding is otherwise solid, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illumstated with a great many b&w photos, a section at back of 58 plans. "Never before has such a comprehensive compilation of watercraft in a museum collection been published. the Mystic Seaport Museum watercraft collection, largest in the United States, is a treasury of Northeastern vessel types. Not simply a collection of boats, it is also tangible evidence of a practical art form: the shaping of wood into useful and aesthetic watercraft." 280 pages. "Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft" features the 220 craft in the collection, with complete descriptions, 434 illustrations, selected plans, and supplementary reading lists. For easy reference, the vessels are arranged in four categories, according to power source. The entire volume is meticulously indexed. For the historian, the boatbuilder, and for those who appreciate fine craftsmanship, this book will provide hours of pleasure and will serve as a continuing reference." Contents include catboats, sailing dinghies, yachts, working craft, ketch rigged, schooner and square rigged, punts, skiffs, dories, pulling boats, tenders , guide boats, peapods, surf boats, shells salmon wherries, sea briight skiff, yankee skiff, waterfowl boats, inboards, outboards, paddling, canoes, dugouts kayaks,
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Long Distance enters Canada's North Country; Telephone reunites B.C. Mother, Whilma Hincks, with son in Switzerland; Bayview and West win traffic service contest; Telephone calls that keep the doctor away; Article on diet/eating by K.F. Robins, Health Supervisor; The dial telephone's magic wheel and how it works - 4 page illustrated article; 2 photos and caption of the only Chinese telephone office outside of China - Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, San Francisco; Statistics re: number of telephone sets per community province-wide; Numerous changes in Vancouver's new telephone directory; Many merry mix-ups followed the directory changes; Calls to Australia now routed across the Pacific; Fred Buckle; A visit to London, England via its telephone directory; The Rolling Pin to the Rescue - the tabulators in the information office; B.C. Ship-to-Shore service expands rapidly in year; Harley D. Miller; Paving the way for Vancouver's dial system; White Rock to have dial system; Carrier now used on Gulf cables linking Vancouver and Nanaimo; New submarine cable laid from Copper Cove to Bowen Island; Greater Vancouver and Royal City have big cable programme; Half a million calls daily in Vancouver; William Tyre; Robert Browning Smith; Vacation from work but not from health; Cover photo of King George and Queen Elizabeth bidding farewell at Chilliwack; Gordon Farrell's yacht on Burrard Inlet; Telephones at the fingertips of Royal Couple throught the tour - 5 page article with great photos; Australia wins telephone 'ashes' in Port Day 'word match'; Wire Photos Transmitted from Vancouver for First Time - 3 pages with photos; "Our PNE exhibit was a crowd magnet - voice mirror"; Cecil Austin McMaster; Robert Smyth; Telephoning popular pastime of singers; Telephone equipment in new Hotel Vancouver - many photos plus article entitled "The House with 700 Phones"; White Rock now has dial system; Percy H. Wilson; Miss Dorothy Howard; Ernest E. Harris; Article on operators by Damon Runyon; Our Al Hunter now a one-man phone company in Liberia, Africa; Vancouver's First Dial Office now in service - 8 page article with photos; Thirtieth Year of Telephone Talk; Flood waters fail to keep Courtenay operators from work; Photos of heavy gang work near Kamloops; Fraser Office will go dial in fall of 1941; The Marine Office Power Plant; A.L. Creech; Some highlights of Vancouver's first dial office - 3 page article with photos; Take Care of your Skin; West Vancouver Office is doubled in size to keep pace with growth; Miss Grace D. Smith; Telephone displays are features of 'Bay' anniversary windows; Walter Hughes, Royal City Plant Man; Sunspots 'sabotage' service - one page article with diagram; Community gift of phone to Colebrook couple Mr. and Mrs. George Frith; Phone Company joins Vancouver's dial system; Allan W. Hunter in Liberia - 4 pages with photos; UBC Silver Jubilee section with many nice photos; Frederick J. Tremblay; Back cover devoted to Dunkerque (Dunkirk); Lumber for the Empire - 9 super pages of great photos (all with captions) of sawmills, logging scenes, buildings constructed of B.C wood; 3 page PNE report with photos; Marine Office now serves over 11,000 telephones; sensational 11-page photographic tribute to B.C's fishing industry; New Book
Features: In light of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Barbara Amiel argues that the rabbis are wrong to suggest that debating certain questions is wrong; Turning off the tap of Soviet emigration; Alberta's separatist WCC party; Tough times for unions; Hospital lineups in BC; Troubles with Haitian taxi drivers in Montreal - Serge Veilleux shot; The Iraq Iran war; Geoffrey Prime - tip of an espionage iceberg; Unemployed Irishman finds his way into Queen's bedroom; Namibia - a faltering breakthrough; Trouble on Nicaragua's border; Geoge Schultz - new Secretary of State; Pulitzer Prize winner Fred Sparks bequeathes $30k to the PLO - Jewish lobby opposes; Cover Story - The Future of the PLO; Jamil Hilal of the DFLP - Q&A; Power play splits OPEC; Operation Exodus makes a haul - illegal computer shipments from US to Soviet Union; Bow Valley Industries increases its East Coast oil position; Dome Petroleum and its plan to build a $1.7 billion liquefied Natural Gass (LNG) plant and pipeline in Northern B.C. with terminal at Prince Rupert; Victoria - Maui Yacht race; Sweep Six proves very popular at Vancouver's Exhibition Park - horse racing/betting; Canadian team leaves for second Everest attempt; Another voice stilled - Today Magazine to cease publication - Paul Zimmerman; Homeschool article by Judy Shapiro - parents are battling for the right to educate at home; Rapes getting more violent - countermeasures being taken - Jennifer Isford; Branding cattle for a vacation; 1982 Toyota SR5 Corolla hardtop ad inside back cover. Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Approximately 55 pages. Contents include: Uncle Tom and Clayton - Fact, Fiction, and Mystery; The Wilmington-Provincial, Atlantic Coastal Steamer and Toronto Yacht Clubhouse; Broad Pennants on Point Frederick; A Settler's Autobiographical Sketch; An Account of the First Mission of the Associate Synod to Canada West. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book
