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London: Griffith & Farran, Undated [1883]. First edition. viii, 350pp. Fore-edge foxing to first chapter, contents otherwise very clean. In the original blue cloth with black stamped design, gilt lettering on spine, ends slightly frayed and bent. Slight rubbing to joints, small repair to upper joint. Otherwise clean, bright and firm. Very Good +.

Price: £48.00

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: £35.00

London: Canoe and Small Boat Ltd, 1939. First edition. 104pp. With advertisements, information and articles, illustrated with drawings and photographs. Library stamp on verso of title page and to bottom margin of several pages. Contents otherwise very bright but for a few tiny soil marks. Newly cased in green Victorian cloth, ruled in blind, spine titled in gilt, and with new cream endpapers. Articles on Discovering our Waterways, Coastal Canoeing, Equipping your Canoe, Choosing an Outboard, Small Streams and Rough Water, Doing the Danube, etc. Very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £50.00

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