American Ship Models and How to Build Them by Grimwood, V R - 1942

New York: Bonanza Books, 1942. Foreword by Howard I Chapelle. 187 pages, illustrated throughout with working plans, details, glossary, index. Decorative blue cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket which has insect damage at the rear flap fold. The book contains 12 complete working plans for models of ships which actually existed. The builder is guided from a very simple model through all phases of the building and rigging of a complicated full-rigged ship. Attention is given to local types such as a gundalow, anchor hoy, bugeye, and whaling schooner, plans of which had not previously been published in a form suitable for the model builder. The models: Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, Carrie Price; Piscataqua Gondalow, Fannie M; Anchor Hoy; Colonial Fishing Schooner; Whaling schooner, Agate; Scow Schooner, Regenia S; Chesapeake Bay Bugeye, Edith F Todd; Brig of War, Boxer; Ship Sloop, Wasp; Ship, Merchantman, Republican; Ship, privateer, Oliver Cromwell; and Sailing model yacht 50-800.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to.