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Cruising In British and Irish Waters. What to Do and See, Afloat and Ashore
by Watney, John
Newton Abbot: David and Charles. 1983. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 256 pages. A guide to sailing the cruising grounds of Britain and Ireland. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£9.40
Yachting - A History
by Peter Heaton
Batsford, London, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Minor wear to jacket edges. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37634. .
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£15.67
SUCCESSFUL YACHT RACING
by C. Stanley Ogilvy
New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1951. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear, covers have some faint spots. Binding tight and text unmarked. Naut. Stax.
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£12.19
Enterprise.
by Vanderbilt, Harold S
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1931. "The story of the defense of the America's Cup in 1930." This is the limited edition, #132 of 250 copies signed by Vanderbilt. Rulon-Miller 14. Toy 1626, Morris & Howland p. 148. An essential America's Cup book. Slight wrinkle to lower corner of tipped-in color frontispiece, else a near-fine copy.. xx. 4to. xvii, 230 pp. Color frontispiece, b/w plates, folding charts, plans.
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£690.96
Ocean Warriors: The Thrilling Story of the 2001/2002 Volvo Ocean Race Round the World
by Mundle, Rob
Sydney, Australia: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Softcover, first edition, 510gms, 223 pages. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear. Front cover shows some curling to bottom corner. There is a small pencil mark on the inside front page, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
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£7.83
This Cruising Life: A Collection of Amusing Stories from the Popular Yachting Monthly Column (World of Cruising) (SIGNED COPY)
by Libby Purves
Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Signed by Author. author's inscription to pre-titles page reads: "Happy Sailing Jule! Libby Purves". Libby Purves, well-known author and broadcaster puts her finger right on the nub of what makes cruising so enjoyable, so amusing and so exasperating in her popular column in Yachtinq Monthly. Here, by popular request, she has gathered together the best of those pieces in a highly entertaining collection. With great gusto and...
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£8.00
Winning : The Boat The Crew and The Race
by Oakeley, John D.A
London: Nautical Publishing Company. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 209 pages. . 2nd Impression. Hardback.
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£10.45
Beken of Cowes: A Century of Tall Ships
by Beken, Kenneth J
Harrap, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. foreword, an introduction by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a list of ships. Endpapers illustrated with line drawings of ships. Black and white frontispiece. Text is illustrated with coloured and black and white photography. Beige cover with gilt writing on spine. Photographic dustwrapper, protected, with black coloured titles to the front panel and a white coloured titles to the back strip. Three generations...
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£26.14
Yachting: A History
by HEATON, Peter
London: B.T. Batsford, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs, line drawings. Corners bumped, near fine in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with short tears on edges,
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£28.45
Yachting
by Stone, Herbert L. editor
Yachting, October 1912, ed. by Herbert L. Stone. 207-270 p. b/w photographs. The Harmsworth Race with Sopworth driving and winning for Maple Leaf IV; the Honolulu ocean race; cruising and design - a Gloucester fishing schooner built for cruising and more. A special rare edition.
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£29.43
Yachting: A History
by Peter Heaton
Batsford, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1955. Firmly bound & has been very carefully read. Some light dust spotting to the pages edges but inside the pages are clean & free from foxing. The original unclipped jacket is also in VG condition with a little sunning to the spine & a few spots of foxing but no tears or loss. Illustrated in b/w with photos, artwork & diagrams.
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£12.50
Wind and Sailing Boats The structure and behavior of the wind as it affects sailing craft
by Watts, Alan
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1973. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm].. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Diagrams and maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.
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£10.45
British Sports and Sportsmen. Yachting and Rowing.
by The Sportsman
Lon. 1916: The Sportsman. A giant compendium of Edwardian yachting and rowing, with articles on the history of British yachting, single-handed cruising, motor racing and cruising, the "America Cup", and even a section on King Edward as a yachtsman. Pages 337-519 contain five articles on British rowing of the day. All of the text is handsomely illustrated with b/w halftone photos and sepia-toned gravures of yachts and boats, yachtsmen and oarsmen, etc. This is #830 in a limited edition of 1000 copies....
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£162.58
Collection of 3 Royal Yachting Association Year Books 1960, 1962 & 1969/70
5-2. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover.
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£19.99
Yachting : A Pictorial
by Peter Heaton
Penguin Publishing Group, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£12.66
Sail Racer
by Knights, Jack
London: Granada Publishing Ltd. 1978. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Small chip to top of DJ spine. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings by John Batchelor. 236 pages. Looks critically at the tuning, tactics, rules and psychology to help the average sailor improve his/her performance. Robust, professional...
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£7.83
ON YACHTS AND YACHT HANDLING
by Day, Thomas Fleming
The Rudder Publishing Company, 1901. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. New York; The Rudder Publishing Company, 1901. First Edition. 191pp + 9pp adverts. Hardcover, no dj. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Good condition. Blue cloth boards very shelfworn with a bit of fraying at extremities. Owner names penned to verso of frontis. Otherwise very clean internally and securely bound. All you needed to know about yachting at the turn of the 20th century. (cfm)
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£40.64
The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Second Edition (Inscribed and signed by Author)
by Ludeke, Michael
Hobart: Ludeke Publishing. 2009. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Inscribed to a previous owner and signed by the author. 270 pages. Uncovers the race's origins with analysis of each race. Includes personal stories of the individual legends and yachts from the event's history. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd Edition. Softcover.
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£47.01
THE YACHT "AMERICA"
by Thompson, Winfield; Stephens, William; Swan, William
Charles E. Lauriat Co, 1925. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2018/06/0_dsc06195.jpg. Signed by authors. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1925. Limited Edition. Signed by all three authors. xxii+335pp. Hardcover in slipcase. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. "This Large Paper issue, on imported Normandy Vellum paper, with extra plates and with frontispiece in colors, is limited to three hundred and seventy-five copies, of which three hundred and...
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£101.61
The Log of the Olivia, by William A. Power, a Victorian Yachtsman
by William A. Power
Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd, Richmond, Surrey, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/original clear plastic cover. Illustrator: William A. Power. introduction by Graham Laird explaining that little is known about the Irish yachtsman William Power other than the information contained in the handwritten & drawing-illustrated logs of his voyages in the 25-ton cutter "Olivia" recounting her cruises from Ireland in 1859 - 1867 to Bergen; Orkney; Shetland; San...
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£10.00
Yachting: A history
by Heaton, Peter
B. T. Batsford, 1955T. hardcover. Very Good. 2.9977 in x 21.9833 in x 15.7880 in. B. T. Batsford LTD 1955 first edition, Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped.
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£9.75
Tom Diaper's Log: Memoirs Of A Racing Skipper
by Captain Tom Diaper
Robert Ross & Co. Ltd, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarterbound blue cloth and marbled paper). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The personal memoirs of Tom Diaper, one of the great yacht skippers who raced for many famous yacht owners in the late 19th and early 20th century; with an introduction by Sir Sidney Wadsworth who describes "being completely carried away reading this unsophisticated but vivid and convincing narrative" of Diaper who spent his whole life at sea,...
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£25.00
Ocean Warriors : The Thrilling Story of the 2001/2002 Volvo Ocean Race Round the World
by Rob Mundle
HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.30
Yachting: A History
by Peter Heaton
B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. First Published. 280 pages. Illustrative jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has...
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£4.15
Deep Sea Sailing
by Erroll Bruce
Hutchinson, UK, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 248 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson, UK, 1973. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and minor chipping. . Edges of pages are moderately soiled. Water stain along bottom edge of dust jacket. Front free end page has been removed. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships...
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£10.97
