Results for: Sailing

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First edition. viii, 156pp, 4 (adverts). With a folding map in black and red, and a tissue-guarded frontis and 10 other illustrations. Prelims partially unopened. 1854 ownership name on title page. Soiling at p.iv and p.1, occasional very minor foxing, contents otherwise generally clean. In the original green grained cloth, decorated in blind and spine lettered in gilt: clean and firm, with minor knocks to extremities, but marred by a two-inch scar towards the bottom of the spine, where part of the cloth has been damaged and repaired. Otherwise a very nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1907. First edition. (xiv), 251pp, xxvi [appendix]. Map endpapers. Many photographs and some text illustrations. Photo plates clean, but heavy foxing to most of the text pages. In the original pictorial binding, of hessian stamped in blue and brown. Front very good, spine faded, with short repaired split to head of lower joint. Good+.

Price: £50.00

London: Chapman & Hall, 1919. First edition. viii, (ii), 241pp, (ii) adverts; with 12 illustrations by C.Fleming Williams. Slight browning to endpapers, neat 1920 ownership name on half-title, same name pencilled on title page. Pages cockled but otherwise clean. In the original binding of blue cloth lettered in gilt, firm, but faded, slightly knocked and soiled, edges slightly scuffed, and with a small nick at head of spine. Useful copy of a scarce title. VG.

Price: £40.00

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1931. First edition. (viii), 319pp. Some foxing to the first and last few pages, and some pale foxing to the closed edges: very little otherwise. In the original binding of blue cloth, spine lettered in black, extremities slightly blunted, very clean, bright and firm. In protected pictorial dust jacket with red '7/6' price stickers over the original price on front and spine, and a rectangle of plain paper stuck on the plain spine. Slightly soiled, with some fraying at the edges, but still attractive. VG+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

London: John Murray, 1939. First edition. xxii, 254pp, plus a frontis, 7 pages of photographs, a facsimile of 2 charts, and a map on turquoise paper. Ownership name and address on front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean. Firm, in the original binding of light green cloth, faded at the spine. An engagingly rebellious tale. Very Good.

Price: £35.00

London: Harrap, 1963. First edition. Unpaginated. Printed variously on glossy and toned paper, with photographs and many plans, and followed by several pages of advertisements. Text and captions printed in four languages. Contents clean and unmarked. Large landscape quarto 26.5 x 34cms, in the original binding of navy cloth, with gilt yacht on front and lettering on spine: bright and firm, slightly knocked. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket complete, but creased and worn, with several repaired tears. Very Good in G- dust-jacket.

Price: £28.00

Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1977. First edition. 140pp, illustrated. Map endpapers. Rather large gift inscription on verso of half-title. Contents otherwise fresh, clean, and unmarked. In the original binding of white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends very slightly compressed, otherwise firm, clean, bright and sharp. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket has a short closed tear to the back panel with some adjacent creasing: otherwise clean with some minor scuffs to edges and head of spine. 'A first hand account of life in the Essex maritime village of Rowhedge during its late Victorian and early twentieth century heyday...'. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00