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Cassel & Co, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. First Edition. 148 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.

Cassell, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. 148 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Cassell and Company Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. First Edition. 148 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Contains black and white photographic plates. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light foxing. Light rubbing and marking all over.

London: Cassell and Company, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Revised Edition. 8vo. (x) 170 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: When Starting With an Open Boat; Choosing Your Yacht; Buying Your Yacht: Registration and Insurance; Building; Sails; Engines and Mechanical Equipment; Precautions; Yards, Mainenance and Moorings; Crews, Crewing, Clubs and Paid Hands; Chartering; Going Foreign; Salvage; Multihulls; and Selling; followed by a glossary and an index..

London England: Cassel & Co, 1962. Hardback. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear and tear to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Many books have been published on the art and craft of sailing and cruising, but few have dealt entirely with the necessary preliminaries for the guidance of would-be owners. This book fills that need, and takes the reader step by steo through the mysteries of selecting a suitable craft, of ensuring that she will be a sound investment and not a white elephant, of equipping and maintaining her. It takes hin, in fact, right up to the time when the mooring is at last slipped, the helm is put hard over, the sails fill and his own yacht slips eagerly away to the open waters of his choice. In addition, the author unravels the mysteries of the workings of yacht surveyors and brokers, of yards and clubs, of insurance and registration. And for those who find they cannot afford the time for what is now the sport of Everyman, he deals fully with the processes of hiring and… Read More