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 about Yachts, Boats and Canoes: with special chapters on model yachts and single-handed sailing

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 about Canoeing and Camping Adventures: being an account of three cruises in northern waters

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 about The Canoe and Small Boat, incorporating The Outboard: 1939 Annual

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 about Project Cheers. A new concept in boat design

[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 about Cat in the Family