London: Sampson Low & Co., [1888 or earlier]. First UK edition. Hardcover. xii, 384pp, followed by 16 foldout plans, +xii (adverts); with a frontis, 8 plates, a folding displacement sheet, and many drawings in text. Adverts also to endpapers. Defective, lacking both the title page and p.xi/xii in the prelims..... More
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1892?]. Second edition. Hardcover. 406pp, with many illustrations, and with the four coloured folding maps in crisp condition. Contents very clean. Decorative endpapers tanned, with light foxing to their adjacent pages. Firm, in the original binding of navy cloth, with the decorative gilt title to..... More
London: C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. x, (vi), 192pp, with photo frontis portraits, and illustrated with line drawings. 1915 ownership name to front free endpaper. Trim, well-kept copy with no wear or soiling, but endpapers browned, and some heavy foxing to the closed edges, sometimes encroaching on to the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. xii, [4], 149pp; illustrated with drawings, plans, plus a sail plan and 13 foldout plans. Plans not numbered or listed, but appear to be complete. Contents overwhelmingly clean, with one or two minor foxing spots or soil marks. Endpapers very tanned..... More
London: Canoe and Small Boat Ltd, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 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..... More
London: Lutterworth Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 207pp, illustrated with many photographs and drawings. Contents notably fresh, appears unread. In the original pale blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, with a small bump to one corner and slight puckering and fading to the top edge of..... More
London: Adlard Coles, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 158pp, illustrated with photographs, and with plans for the boat as endpapers. Contents very fresh: inner edges of the jacket flaps have left a faint vertical yellow mark to the free endpapers and the adjacent few pages - including affecting the title at..... More
London: Peter Davies, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 237pp, illustrated with photographs and with map endpapers. Gift inscription to half title, contents otherwise very clean. In the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt. Upper board has slight discolouration to lower corner: firm and fairly bright, spine ends blunted..... More
[Self-published, no data], [c.1995?]. Paperback. 91pp, with a few illustrations. The author's account of 20 years with his catamaran Doodlesack, from 1975 to 1993, sailing the Mediterranean, the French Coast, the Channel Islands, and the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts with family and friends. 207x148mm, in glossy pictorial card covers, very..... More
Leicester: Dryad, 1972. First edition. Softcover. 60pp, illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Stapled booklet, c.21x15cms, in yellow pictorial thin card covers. Clean and fresh and square, with a snag (short tear and crease) to the back cover at the head of the spine. Useful and scarce book, very nice copy..... More
