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8 page promotional brochure. 23 x 20.5 cm when unfolded. Four pages of detailed text and black and white photos present the routes and features of four of the company's coastal tour packages, including pricing. A back page colour illustration presents the company's coastal vessels, including: Chilkoot, Lady Evelyn; Venture; Camosun; Catala; Chelohsin; Cardena; Cheakamus; Lady Alexandra; Capilano; Lady Cynthia; Lady Cecilia; Chilliwack; and Chilco. Colour centrefold map of the British Columbia coast indicates the company's "inland sea-ways of romance" from Vancouver north through Stewart, B.C., and all stops in between. Back page text refers to the company's thirty-six year history thus, since Union Steamships was founded in 1889, this item was printed circa 1925. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A lovely vintage piece of B.C. nautical ephemera. Book
Features: Great cover photo of Miss Seattle speeding across Lake Washington at over 100 mph. Features: Cruising Mexican Waters - From the Sea of Cortes to Acapulco - Part II; Seattle Bids for Harmsworth Trophy race - Stanley S. Sayres' Miss Seattle is groomed as a possible 1950 defender of the international trophy - article with photos of Sayres and his boat; Coasting Home the Hard Way - Clarence E. Walter describes his solo voyage of 1188 miles, from San Pedro to Olympia, with two LCVPs (article with photos of Walter and his converted LCVP, Thomas Kestle); Duwamish - The World's Most Powerful Fireboat - article with photos; Remote Ocean Falls, B.C. Yacht Club - article with photo; New Sardine Research Vessels - the Crest, Horizon, and Yellowfin study the life cycle of the Sardine - article with photos; NCPCA Honors Cruiser Skippers; Julie - A Model Craft for Judge John J. Miller; "Perhaps You Might Fish a Man Out of the Drink" - A Story of Flotilla 21 - USCGA; Imperial Makes Her Last Mail Delivery to Communities on the Columbia River - article with photo; Mourning the Loss of the old "S.S.Tacoma"; Pleasure and Commercial Boat Plans; Two 28-Foot Chris-Craft Patrol Boats Equipped for S.E. Alaska Waters - article with photos; and more. 52 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Numerous fantastic vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Circle of Death - dangerous fall into the great drum of the winding-engine at a Pennsylvania coal mine; In Search of Adventure part II - the story of a chequered cruise aboard a six-ton yacht; "Kermis" Time in Belgium - an annual week-long celebration during which young and old alike compete in curious races and competitions - article with many interesting photos; Trapped in a Furnace - terrible experience for Ira MacDonell at a Lewis Run, Pennsylvania brick plant; The "Apache Kid's" Last Fight - F.S. McDonald describes his terrible death-duel in the desert with a notorious Indian outlaw; A Memorable Man-Hunt - tracking down murderers Jimmy and Joe Governor in New South Wales; "Dangerous Jobs" - bronco-busters, steeplejacks, bridge-builders, shrapnel-shell makers, underground miners, steel-makers, firemen, window cleaners, undersea divers, sewer workers - article with great photos of each of these occupations; Behind the Nailed Door - Englishman A.H. Hinde posed as an Arab traded with the Moors of the African coast while trying to locate a lost silver mine; An Ill-Starred Elopement - disaster strikes two unfortunate lovers; A Woman Alone in China - part IV - Mary Gaunt set forth in a Peking cart with an interpreter and her cart men, meeting many odd experiences; ; Petre's Island - a bit of New Zealand history, showing something of the lives of the earliest settlers among their Maori hosts. pp. 6 [ads], 387-480, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
33p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends rubbed Privately printed for the author by William E. Rudge & Co. Christmas 1939. Limited edition of 200 copies. Fictionalized account of actual Bahamian fishing trip gone awry.
Roy. 4to., Fifth Edition, with many numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original blue buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt top, black endpapers, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Crisp copy of a standard reference, first published in 1854 and severally revised and updated.
112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
63 pages. Features: Nehru - Lonely leader of 500 million; Allen and Sharie Farrell built their vessel Ocean Girl - great photos and text; Carole Reinhart performs in a college orchestra and Salvation Army band in Miami, Florida; I love having my own zoo - Gerald Durrell; Men are Spoiling the Movies - Edmonton-born Dianne Foster; Lord Martin Cecil - Rancher Bishop of the Cariboo - he owns a town and is world leader of a sect that believes illness is caused by 'ill spirits' - 100 Mile House Lodge, British Columbia; Can you judge people?; Room that honour laughter - McGill University establishes a memorial to Stephen Leacock; The Balkheaded Society of Redcliff, Alberta is a highbrow service club that works for the community; Hollywood Boulevard - teenagers take advantage of traffic tangle to scout for dates (photos) - the new 'sport' of cruising; Boxer Tom McNeeley; Ginette Letondal of Montreal makes her mark in Paris; Busman's Holiday for Artists, with paintings by Gabriel Bastien; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
82 pages. Features: The famous whirlpool of Corrievreckan; Grantown-On-Spey; Climbing the Matterhorn - the first British ascent was made by T.S.G. Carruthers and a companion; The Craig Crannogs; Ballet Rambert; Physicians of Edinburgh; Meet the Stirlin' (Starling); On Being a Child Genius; Edinburgh's James Bond - story and photo of Sean Connery; Victorian Architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson; Angling Company; Photos of weddings of the month, including Mr. J. Usher and Miss R. Houldsworth; and more. Ads include: Saint Joseph, South Africa, Helena Rubinstein, Sunshine Cruising/P&O Orient Lines, Chivas Regal, Pringle at Coplands, Nice colour-photo ad for the Ford Consul Classic (white model shown by beach), Lancome, Brooke Bond, nice one-page Land-Rover ad shows logs being hauled, and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Moderate external soiling. Unmarked. Loss to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
30 pages. Features: Mailbag; Conservation in the Schools - the three 'Rs' and resources; Salt Water License?; proper use of license revenue will cost us less tomorrow; Fishing Seymour Arm - Shuswap Lake; Centrefold map of Lakes & Streams in the Princeton-Merritt District; Clay Chips - with photos of Dick Horby, Bill Jones, Victor Welder, Bill Urquhart, Carl Nishi; Mrs. Sharen Pilkington, Russ Hume, Maxie Lamusse, Clayton Sullivan, Frank Turner, Russ Hume, Jack radford, Dick Hornby, Alton See and Bob Guiliani; Boats; Coastal Cruising; Browning launches new rifle group - high-power bolt action Mausers; The Stone Fly (Hellgrammite); Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
224 pages. Abundant colour photography. Index. Signed by author upon title page. "Ideal for the active yachtsman or the armchair voyager, this book is an invaluable guide for exploring the marine wonderland of British Columbia." - from dust jacket. The third volume in this series. Provides "Detailed descriptions of important cruising destinations, coastal towns and settlements, marinas, fuel stops and provisioning points, and the mousehole anchorages that give the yachtsman his own little bit of the coast every time he drops the hook." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to clean unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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
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: 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: Profile of a surprise winner - Golden Dazy; Bluenose II sails inside America; Yes, Virginia - we know your sailors love your water; Meet the Tsar - from Performance Sailcraft who brought us the Laser; Four Schooners - COASTER, LEAH, BRIGADOON OF BOOTH BAY, FAIR WEATHER; Don't miss Young Island's voluptuous tropical growth, jump-up nightlife; Vega 8-ton - Crealock ocean traveller; Paquet - 55'6" McCurdy & Rhodes ketch; HELENA - 38-foot cruising sloop; Frers 46 - Alloy 10R sloop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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: European Breezes - photos of sailing in Europe; Frost-biters bite the bullet - and like it; Rainbow; Bolger refines sharpie for cruising and amateur building - BLACKGAUNTLET II; Brawny Quarter tonner has unique cabin layout - the Yankee 26; Small cruiser designed for the home builder - the 30-foot sloop designed by David Fernie of Richmond, British Columbia; Compact Pearson 10M has big boat dimensions - The Pearson 10M; Richards Racer by Cheoy Lee has unique accomodations - the Offshore 39; Photos of competition on San Francisco Bay; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Mac - Chicago to Mackinac Island Race; Blue Horizon; Diavolo; Blitzen; American Eagle; Dora; Comanche; Endurance; Bay Bea; Goblin; Jenny Too; Talisman; Pearson Entry a stand-out in year of the 30-footer; The Compleat Cruiser - Allied's Mistress 39; Nicholson 55 made to varied cruising and racing tastes; Sirensong - an exquisite new fiberglass racer; Two by Tripp; The Ensenada Parade - Beauty on the Water; 5.05 Meters of super planing sailboat - the 5-0-5; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Under sail to Isla Mujeres - an Experience; Regata de los Amigos; Race Around Isla Mujeres; Interlude on Isla Mujeres; Chuting through the Georgia Straits; Thrilling sail to Jamaica; Young Men at Sea; Double-ended Cement Ketch designed for home builder; Handsome Scandinavian Sloop well Equipped - Mistral; Old Favorite Revived - Cruising Quoddy Pilot - the Pinky sloop; Rosa with Six Sails; Albacore - Class Close-up; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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: Florida sailor designs 19-foot coastwise, gaff-rigged cruiser - the Salt 19; Seidelmann designed Palmer 550 enrolls in Quarter Ton Fleet; Traditional cruising design finds speed, responsiveness with new rig - the enlarged version of the SERAFFYN; Aesthetics and comfort remembered in the Norlin 37 Mark II; Great gaffed mains, barn door rudders and plump hulls; Sailing for winter sports enthusiasts; in search of Spain - pictures and story by Dorothy I. Crossley; A ton of heavy racing; One by One - one last old Conway schooner survives to carry a fragment of the sail driven 19th century toward the last quarter of the 20th; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Please note: middle page loose but present. 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: 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: The Mackinacs - racing a 36-footer 134-plus hours and 627-plus miles; Their first ocean cruise covered 14,000 miles - John Carson and Jim Grizzard and PEGASUS; Cowes, August, 1975 - the Admiral's Cup and a galaxy of ocean racing stars; Burgess' Atlantic - an aging but still romantic one-design; Over we go! - the fine art of capsizing; Want to Race? - The Boston-Toms Regatta; Albin 79 - Swedish Quarter Tonner; West Indies 36 - Family Cruiser-Racer; Southern Cross - Cruising cutter by Gillmer; Seair 27 - Comfortable Cruiser; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
