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ON THE WIND. The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier.
Boston: David R. Godine. (2007). 1st edition, stated. xxv+ 128pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. In very good clean condition. Dust jacket is slightly soiled with a bit of soiling to page edges, otherwise clean, inside and out.
$37.50
THE SINGLEHANDERS.
New York:Hastings House Publishers. (1976). 208pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear to the edges with some mild soiling. Book itself is lightly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
THE YACHT SAILOR: A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL YACHTSMANSHIP, CRUISING AND RACING
With Notes and Additional Chapters by a Clyde Yachtsman. Fifth edition. London:Hunt & Co. 1876. 165pp. with 2 folding plates. Binding cocked, blue cloth boards worn at edges and gutters. Hinges cracked, but binding is tight and the pages are clean, save for two previous owners bookplates on inside front board. S013.
$50.00
ON YACHTS AND YACHT HANDLING
New York; The Rudder Publishing Company, 1901. First Edition. 191pp + 9pp adverts. Hardcover, no dj. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Good condition. Blue cloth boards very shelfworn with a bit of fraying at extremities. Owner names penned to verso of frontis. Otherwise very clean internally and securely bound. All you needed to know about yachting at the turn of the 20th century. (cfm)
$50.00
STARBOARD AND PORT: THE "NETTIE" ALONG SHORE.
New York:Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1897. 237pp + 2 pp ads. 1st edition. Covers slightly shelf-worn and soiled with some mottling present. Gilt is faded on spine and front cover. The binding is tight and hinges still intact. Previous owners name and date is penned to 2nd free end-page. Paper is age-toned with mild foxing scattered throughout. A good solid copy. *An account of a cruise from Boston, past Portland and Nova Scotia, by Prince Edward Island to Gaspe.
$40.00
THE CRUISE OF DIABLESSE
New York; Yachting Inc., [1926]. First Edition. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Hardcover, no dj. xi+315pp. Ex-library. Good+ condition. Blue cloth boards shelfworn with a bit of fabric fray at extremities; spine darkened, library # inked on spine, gilt decoration to front cover remains bright. Taped library items removed from pastedowns and facing endpapers.A bit of foxing throught the title page, and two penned numbers on contents page. Overall a very satisfactory copy. A chronicle of three and a half years cruising the Florida coast, Bahamas, Lesser Antilles, Tobago, San Juan, etc., "a first-class narrative - human, moving, rollicking in turn". (cfm)
$30.00
THE GOOD LITTLE SHIP.
Introduction by L. Francis Herreshoff. Narberth, Pennslyvania:Livingston Publishing Company. 1952. 1st edition. 60pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with remains of dust jacket. Binding is lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges. Internally, end-pages are lightly soiled and age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. Plates and pages adjacent to them are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is not price clipped, but is soiled and shelfworn and in 2 pieces, missing the rear panel completely.
$35.00
THE NORTHSEAMEN.
The story of the fishermen, yachtsmen and shipbuilders of the colne and Blackwater Rivers. Lavenham:Terence Dalton Limited. (1978). 336pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges with a little soiling to the covers.Some rubbing to the spine but otherwise in very good condition. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings, save for some light foxing to the end-papers. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$30.00
THE YACHT "AMERICA"
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1925. Limited Edition. Signed by all three authors. xxii+335pp. Hardcover in slipcase. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. "This Large Paper issue, on imported Normandy Vellum paper, with extra plates and with frontispiece in colors, is limited to three hundred and seventy-five copies, of which three hundred and fifty are for sale, this being No. 280". Very Good condition. Slipcase lightly shelfworn. The frontis has foxing, also affecting the facing pages including the title page. Otherwise a very handsome copy, clean and tight. The story of the yacht after which the America's Cup is named. (cfm) S123
$125.00