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Features: Renaissance of a Herreshoff classic - fiberglass has given the Herreshoff 12.5' designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff, new life; Ms. Overboard - the Lake Lanier Sailing club holds a Lightning Championship on Lake Lanier; Crotch Island Pinky returns; MOONSHADOW - an unabashed racer designed by graduates of the School of Hard Knocks; The Geary 18 - challenging 18-footer that's easy to build for little money; Gathering of the Clan at Block Island; Heavy weather test for Cal 29s - off Victoria, British Columbia; Canadian has a first in production aluminum 25-footer by Tom Timmerman of Vancouver, BC; New Kirby Quarter Tonner is advanced racing design - by Bruce Kirby; Pearson 365 - refreshing ideas in a cruising ketch; High performance predicted for Mirage 27 by Peter Schmitt; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Stories: Mutiny in Camp; The Gun Runner; The Water Diviner; The Yellow Streak; The Waxworks Affair; Indian Wild Dogs; Tradewind Cay; Hali Yamui; Off the Target; The Taking of Gavuto; Timber Cruising in New Zealand; Dead Men's Gold; Lone Valley Mine; The Syndicate. Average wear. Book
48 pages. Features: Great cover photo of a fully occupied Royal Albert Dock in 1958; Photo inside front cover of HMS Jersey (P275) in 1977; Full-page pre-war photo of a spritsail barge in the West India Dock, Port of London; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Big Ships; News From Portsmouth - a photo report; HMS 'Ganges' - a last look; Bosphorus Shipping; Vintage Thames Shipping Photos - part 1; Guide to Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy; New Ship News; European Commentary; Freak Ships (2) - The 'Ross Winans'; "Invincible" goes to Sea Trials; Readers' Album - Atlantic Liners; Ship Sales; Letters; Ship Societies - The Coastal Cruising Association; Nice photo of the HMS 'Cornwall' in 1936 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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.
Features: Cruising across the Arctic Ocean; Mapping the North - Who Was Really Where When?; The Last Resort - Cannibalism in the Arctic; Plying the Northwest Passage - The First Single-Season Traverse by Yacht; Plants of the Arctic Tundra; Capturing the North - The Work of Claire Fejes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
191 pages. Index. "...Offers charts, tips and data that will enhance any boater's enjoyment." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Minimal library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Cover photo of Bridal Lake; B.C.'s Natural History; To Pack River for Grayling - Harry Lomax; Outdoorsman's Observations - W.P. Keller; B.C. Wildlife Park; Don't Fear the Tick - J.D. Gregson; Around B.C. - Yukon with Rod and Gun; C.F.A. News and Views; Landmarks of HIstory - Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine; Coastal Cruising; Frank Rothenfluh - Pioneer of the Foothills; Adventure in Rocks - Ron Purvis; Upper Fraser Sternwheel Days - Part Six; and more. Interesting ads include: Lucky Lager Beer (inside front cover); McCulloch boat motors; Dueck Truck Sales; C-I-L Ammunition; Pil'Can Brewing Ltd. of Prince George; Psychadelic full-page ad for CJOR 600 radio; Vanguard Trailers of Richmond, B.C.; Fogg Motors Ltd.; Brno Guns; Lindquist Bros. Bait Co.; International Pickup Trucks (inside back cover); Colour ad for Carling Black Label beer on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. The List of Officers, Members, Yachts and Club Trophies 1939 [with] Sailing Programme Tide Table 1939 are printed as separate wire-stitched booklets and included with the main volume. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., Third Edition, with portrait frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 11 plates and plans, 3 maps and several smaller illustrations in the text, 3 folding maps (2 coloured in outline) and 2 folding plans; original purple cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. Elegant copy of a yachting classic first published in 1891. Includes details of voyages in LEO, SIRIUS, ORION, PROCYON and PERSEUS. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Pages 1221-1252. Many great black and white photos. Features: Erling Tambs and the "Teddy" (continued); The Queen Mary's Engines - article, photos and nice colour illustration of the vessel at sea; Fifty Years in Sail - Vivid extracts from the log of the late Captain J.W. Holmes; Troops and Trooping - the work of troopships during the war of 1914-18 solved problems that had never before arisen on so large a scale; Yacht Cruising - amateurs may now set about yacht cruising in an economical and seamanlike manner; Battle of the Nile - the engagement in Aboukir Bay between Nelson and Napoleon on August 1, 1798. Moderate wear. Store stamp on front cover otherwise unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages 1381-1412. Many great black and white photos. Features: Captain Fryatt and the "Brussels" in the War of 1914-1918 (continued); Australia's Oldest Steamship - The "Edina"; The United States Navy; Luxury Cruising - The Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line; Sailing Ships in Collision - off Newcastle, New South Wales, April 1902 - photos with captions; By-Passing Niagara - the new Welland Canal; Youth at the Helm - William Albert Robinson sailed round the world from New York between June 1928 and November 1931 in a ketch only 32 feet 6 inches long. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
Articles: Lieutenant William Peel, British Naval Intelligence, and the Oregon Crisis; Emergency Fleet Corporation Ship Construction in World War I in the Pacific Northwest; Cruising the Labrador, or LORAN in 1941-42 - A Memoir; a letter re: George Vancouver; plus several book reviews. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
214 pages. Index. Bibliography. Map endpapers. Many great colour photos of the region. Signed by author upon title page. "Written for everyone who loves the rugged beauty of the coast of Vancouver Island." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop title page. Average wear. Binding sound. Moisture-induced undulations to lower corner of back 50 pages. A sound working copy of this popular guide. Book
209 p. incl. front., illus. 15 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with charts in the text; original series binding of burgundy cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, one backstrip lightly faded else very good, bright, clean copies. With personal bookplate on front paste-downs. 'This Year Book is issued only to Members of the Cruising Association who are requested not to circulate it'. VERY SCARCE AS A SET.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and 3 maps in the text, title very lightly browned; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. Sequel to 'Cruises of the Joan'. Here the author sails a Brixham-built Ramsgate trawler to Africa and South America. SCARCE.
182 pages. Includes many black and white illustrations. A practical study of ocean passage-making, using a cruise across the Atlantic as a case history. Far more than just another cruising story, includes plans, preparations... the nitty gritty details of gear, supplies, preparations, and boat handling. It's also a great cruising yarn. Small tear to top corner of dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with minor lean to spine. Book
152 pages. Features: DYON - the symbol of summer for four generations; Albert Strange and the Canoe Yawl SHEILA; Quick Steps for Spring Painting - Part II; Building the Belles of the Western Rivers - a rare glimpse into the world of steamboat construction; Trout Unlimited - The Compleat Fly Fisherman; PILGRIM'S Progress - Dennis Holland's new Baltimore Clipper; Bagging the GULL - Constant Camber goes Mono - Part I; The Careful Creation of MELE KAI - Part II - the completion of a lovely double-ended cruising boat. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
196 pages. A great reference loaded with beautiful colour photography and maps. Unmarked. Would be graded as 'Good' except that the lower edge of this copy has moisture exposure. Some pages were stuck together but have been separated with no damage to text. No odour. A very worthy reading copy. Book
415p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text, somew faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A bright copy of a scarce Batsford, first published in 1937. The wonderful Brian Cook wrap-around dustwrapper is arguably his finest of a non-topographical subject. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 4to., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 50 monochrome illustrations and a full-page map in the text, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original coarse-grained blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, case a little shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a good, clean copy. The first of two 'Vivette' cruising titles, this work was first issued in 1910.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous folding charts and plans on japon, diagrams in the text and detachable section in pocket at rear; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in worn and repaired dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, free endpapers lightly browned; decorative cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, tight copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted.
