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286p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition
272 pages including index. A comprehensive handbook for all of Mexico's fascinating Sea of Cortez from San Felipe to Cabo San Lucas along Baja California, and from El Golfo to Mazatlan on the Mexican mainland. Includes 115 photos and 96 charts. Well worn and soiled. Unmarked. Book
Features: Ships in the News - Flashback to Wartime; Royal Holland Lloyd Liner "Flandria" of 1922; "Oropesa" the Fourth; With Prince Line Round the Land; New Ships - North Sea Diving Support Vessel; Fleetwood Memories (2); Ships on Stamps - Steam Yachts and Cargo Vessels; French Line on the North Atlantic; Ferry Scene - Manx Challenge; Danish Sailing Coasters Decline. Book
288p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
288p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
184 p. Record of yacht race winners up to 1934. Hardcover Good condition
Fine/VG (dj not clipped, book and dj both fine condition, save for faint sunning to spine) octavo 237pp. Autobiography, and the extraordinary tale of the dramatic rescue of Tony Bullimore on 9 January 1997 from his capsized yacht in the Southern Ocean. Maps to endpapers and colour photographs.
Folio 256p., illus. Foreword by Dennis Conner Hardcover Very good condition good
139p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
223p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
245 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
245 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Oversize. 160 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A comprehensive guide to the art and sport of sailing covering sailboats, rigging and equipment. It explains the principles of wind and tides and gives basic information on deck seamanship and sailing techniques. Well illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
Features: Landfall at Diamond Head - ONDINE surts to the Transpac finish line; The Widgeon - class close-up of a big 12.5-foot pocket sailboat, ready for abuse, designed to give a good ride; Footing up the (Puget) Sound - 26-footers on the Gold Cup course off Shilshole Bay Marina; The Tumlaren - she gets into your blood; On Shore, by Paul Darling; Where mountains loom over quite beaches and bowls of coconut chips grace the bar - the Windward Islands in the Caribbean; Hail Skipjacks! - last of a breed; Nicholson 33 - 3/4 tonner by Holland; Ericson Cruising 36 - Rakish cutter by Bruce King; Sea Sprite - 22'6" sloop by Carl Alberg; Shannon 38 - Modern Ocean Cruising Yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: 1,046 boats plu 90 classes plus 14 yacht clubs equals one mega-regatta - the 46th Annual Southern California Yachting Association Regatta; The thriving Thunderbird - 26 foot sloop; Memories of Georgian Bay and the splendor of north country; Norway - land of sailors; A Sailing Legacy, by Taylor Walsh; Foul Weather Dinghy Sailing across the Atlantic - an invigorating view about the buoys by English photographer Alistair Black; A Look at Speed under Sail; 470s and a Tempest meet on Buzzards Bay; Marauder - innovations for the Canada's Cup; Newport 28 has good ideas from worlds of racing and cruising; Modern Maxi 95 - novel 32-footer by upcoming Swedish designer Pelle Petterson; Beautiful, distinctive 34-foot pinky is Jay Benford's own; Hinckley Sou'wester 48 - modern cruiser of conventional lines; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Sea Hawk - profile of a cruising man's yacht - from navy launch to stately schooner; Dutchman in flight; William Crealock designs distant voyager - Westsail 42; Palmer Johnson SF 47, flush deck racer by Frans Maas; On Bonaire (off Venezuela) - like being at sea; 5-0-5 acrobatics; afternoon on the Indian River, Florida; Sally has a knockdown; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Exotic Friendly Isla Mujeres Beckons; Easter Fleet found itself in difficiult straits near Vancouver; Columbia 30 more 40-footer than 30; Westsail is appealing double Ender; Gary Mull's One Ton Yacht in Production at Ranger; Three Bidders for the Canada's Cup - Merrythought, Dynamite, Aggressive; "Pert" family day-sailer of the 30s still a New England favorite; Two Gaff Riggers; Olympics here we come; Robin off Scituate; Can a sailor be liberated in a bikini?; 400 miles north to Charleston - the annual Fort Lauderdale to Charleston race; Number 4 for Capt. Gray and TIDA WAVE; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: Suddenly I wanted to go sailing - G.A. (Andy) Marken; Kialoa III; AMERICA Lives! (colour centerfold!); Little Yacht for blue water and big fun - the 20 foot Able; Swampfire - American level racer and 3/4 ton winner; Rating is no handicap for Wylie's impressive NO GO-7; Stylish Palmer Johnson cruiser 43CR built by Wauquiez; Miller & Whitworth design GINKGO type for glass production; Twin Screw Nicholson 70 designed for plush cruising; Bonjour Tahiti - Hobie sailors race in paradise - world competition at Baie de Matavai; Javelin - a class close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Autumn on the Chesapeake; Last Dance off Steel Shore (Chicago); Cape 25 is small cruiser with good looks; Luxurious Challenger 48 is large cruising sailer; The Triton - glass success of the fifites; A Portfolio... by Denis Mason; Schooners at play in race sponsored by Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, Rhode Island; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Features: A date with nostalgia - a fleet of square riggers and schooners off New Bedford, Massachusetts; Newport Again - this time the world prize for One Ton yachts; Rusty at the Helm - Sylvia Everdell of Boston; Why sail alone across Lake Michigan? - well, why not?; Racing the Trailerable; A Boast and a Big Prize - the first MacGregor Challenge; Tobago Cays - gems of the Grenadines; The Westerly Conway - offshore yacht from England; Allied Seawind II - New Gillmer Circumnatigator; Downeaster 38 - Traditional cruiser from California; Kaufman 30-footer - C-Flex 1/2 ton cup yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Two -Ton Test - who's the best at IOP 32?; They call it the greatest spectacle in yacht racing - from Newport Harbor, California to Ensenada, Mexico; Under iron canopies through pastures on an inland passage to teh lakes; Victoria Yachtscape - another Balboa?; Alden's MALABAR IV lives! - she's MISTRESS II of New Orleans; Innovative monocoque 1/4 tonner, a cruiser too - Art Paine and TWO BITS; English Archer type is connoisseur's cruising yacht - Charles Ward, builder of the Saga 34; Frers turns to cruising with attractive 40-footer - the Frers 40; Farallon 29 - stiff family cruiser, competent to weather; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Class A Yachts get good grades in SORC; Dorothy Crossley's Virgin Island Interlude - a life of cruising; A day of hard winter sailing; Swedish Mistress - a liberated gal; Yankee 30 - for MORC or offshore competition; Ericson's Dramatic look matched by high performance features; Allied's new 30-footer - a good chance to win; Schock's Santana 37 features expansive rig; Thunderbird; FUN is pretty, fast, seaworthy - and was built in a basement; Bolero on Satin; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 15 fine mounted coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; blue pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked with Royal Standard and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 459). Published by gracious permission of His Majesty the King.