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. Endpapers browned. Pronounced foxing spots to the closed edges, sometimes encroaching on to the page margins..... 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
Glasgow: Brown, Son, and Ferguson, 1964. Fifth Edition (Enlarged). Hardcover. [x], 217pp, illustrated with photographs and drawings, and with flags in colour. Pages very clean and unmarked. Front fly has school library stamp: no other library indications. 18x12cms, in the original cream boards printed red, perfect bound (spine glued to..... More
London: Crosby, Lockwood & Co., 1880. Eleventh Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. viii, 196pp, 32pp adverts, and with advertisement endpapers: illustrated with many drawings and tables. Pages clean and unmarked. 17.8x10.5cms, in the original green cloth decorated in blind, titled to the front in gilt, and the perfect bound (glued down) spine..... More
London: Charles H. Kelly, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 222, +[2] adverts; with a guarded portrait frontis. Contents in good order, with some foxing to margins. Front free endpaper is a replacement, and a few corners have dog-ear creases. Closed edges foxed. Vivid tales. In the original binding of pictorial..... More
London: Published at 'The Yachtsman' Office, 1898. Hardcover. viii, 494; viii, 462. Lavishly produced on coated paper, with articles by many contributors, hundreds of photographs, and a number of folding plans. Covers not bound in. Contents of both volumes are in sparkling bright condition. A previous owner has pencilled that..... More
London: Hunt & Co, printers, 1865. Hardcover. 524pp, with a foldout plan for a Vesper Cutter, a lithographic plate of the Schooner Yacht 'Chance', and a foldout Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1862. Brokering yachty information from all over, with extensive unattributed articles and accounts, discussion of matters..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1879. Early reprint. Hardcover. xix, 492pp. With a frontis, a foldout coloured map, and many illustrations in the text. Bold 1879 ownership signature to the half title, reprised more delicately on the Preface page. Original blue-green endpapers: Buxton armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and some..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, n.d. [1920s?]. Reprint. Hardcover. 351pp, with a few illustrations in the text. Contents clean: stains to back of frontis show through a little. Library labels and ownership name stamp to front and back endpapers. The top edge of the text block bears the same name stamp..... More
![From Tree to Sea: The building of a wooden steam drifter. [Inscribed copy]. Ted Frost](/pictures/thumb/19850080.jpg?v=1597898228)
Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 179pp, illustrated with many drawings and a few photographs. Contents immaculate, with Frost's signed inscription to the title page. Landscape format, 19.5x26cms, in the original light nut-brown cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, firm and bright, corners sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial..... More
