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: 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
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
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 217, [6] publisher's ads. Illustrated with photographs and maps (all present). Foxing to title and prelims, text generally clean with occasional spotting to margin. Closed edges tanned and spotty. No ownership marks. Front inner joint and spine ends have been professionally..... More
