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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.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous charts (a number folding; a few with with frayed edges); red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked with burgee in colours, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, covers moderately marked and faded, a well-used but firm, clean copy.
8vo., Third Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. The Addenda for Jan-June 1954, and Jan 1988-Jan 1989 are loosely inserted. A valuable resource for maritime literature, though this third edition is abbreviated to authors, titles and dates.
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.
206 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped
206 p., illus.w Hardcover Good condition tattered
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
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark blue cloth boards. 208 pages. Black and white photos.
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
254p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
254p., illus. w/ drawings by the author. Hardcover Very good condition
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
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, fading to spine, no tears. 313 pages with b&w photos, many mechanical drawings/ illustrations. Sections include: Free the galley slave, Spars, Build your own bulwarks, Tools and spares, Cruising drag free, Sailor's emergency abandon ship kit, Rudders for cruising, Plumbing ideas, Reef, don't buy, Mechanical pumps for bilge or fire, Truth about windvanes, A near-fatal bit of carelessness, Guns, pirates, and theives, etc.
1st edition. Near fine pbk. 94 pages, illustrated. Intrusion by Sir Alan Herbert.23663. eng
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
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
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
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
'In order to test a wooden boat's soundness, you stab it with a bradawl. Forty stabs later, Magdalen looked like a colander. It was possible to read a paperback under her upturned hull without artificial light.' Sam Llewellyn is attempting to make his way from the depths of Wales to far-off London. In a rowing boat. Courageously facing the perils of the British canals, Sam and his recently repaired craft venture forth into the wettest October on record. This hilarious account of problematic weirs, eccentric anglers, and Sam's mysterious blue skin condition contains surprises and laughs aplenty as man and boat try to complete their epic month-long rowing odyssey. Book
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.
155pp. Hardcover Very good condition
206 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
159 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition in pictorial boards
PARIS, Ed. Cercle d'Art - 1999 - In-4 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Très nombreuses illustrations NB et en couleurs dans le texte et HT, certaines PP et double page - 203 pages - Très bel exemplaire ex-libris
