Boats

Hardcover. International Marine/McGraw Hill, 4th Ed., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 352 page, illustrated throughout. A comprehensive guide covering all aspects of designing and creating your dream yacht, from hull geometry to sail rigging and performance evaluation. Principles of Yacht Design has established itself as the standard book on the subject for practicing designers, naval architecture students, discerning boat owners as well as the boatbuilding industry as a whole. The fourth edition is completely revised and expanded and follows the design from scratch of a completely new yacht including all new computer-generated explanatory illustrations. As such, it examines every aspect of the process of yacht and powerboat design. The authors have used a newly designed 41 foot performance cruiser to demonstrate the practical application of yacht design theory. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. Briston RI, Herreshoff Marine Museum Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 126 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by one of the great American yacht & marine designers & builders. "This book is an insider's account of many years of work at the core of America's Cup contests". SIGNED BY HERRESHOFF on title page. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Burchard. Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping at edges, price-clipped. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 506 pages. The author recounts his voyage on American waters from sea to sea -- as he offers fascinating shipboard perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes, brimming with history, drama, humor, and wisdom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press/Adirondack Museum, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lighty worn and chipped dust jacket with a sticker on the spine. 203 pages, tan cloth, illustrated. The canoes of Canton's J. Henry Rushton carried sportsmen through the Adirondacks and elsewhere, and this fine volume, prepared with the assistance of Paul F. Jamieson, tells the story of the man, his times, and his boats.

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. As twelve-year-old Sarah prepares for the town's annual sailboat race, working on the boat her grandfather has given her and learning the secrets of navigation, readers are schooled in tacking, coming about, compass reading, and other maneuvers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd., reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 270 pages. Minor spine, edge and corner wear. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt top edge. Clean and tight copy. The Seaman's Vade-Mecum was an 18th century English naval textbook. First printed in 1744; a revision of R. Park's Defensive War by Sea. Containing the Proportions of Rigging, Masts and Yards, Weight of Anchors, Sizes and Weights of Cables and Cordage, List of the Navy.

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated technological narrative. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white decoration and color label on front, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations with fold-out diagrams in back of book. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related bulletin from the California Historical Quarterly laid-in. Front endpaper and top edge stamped by 'American Seamen's Friend Society'.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 99 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Full color and black & white illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Cloth covers rubbed along spine edges and corners. Pages clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Cambridge MD, Cornell Maritime Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's "Old Bay Line"that maintained faithful and uninterrupted service on the Chesapeake Bay from its founding in 1840 until operations suspended in 1962. The line line offered transportation of passengers and frieght between Norfolk and Baltimore. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 436 pages. A history of American steamboats from its earliest days to the twentieth century. Covers the steamboat vessels on all of America's major waterways and regions with a focus on the eastern seaboard. Many illustrations.

Hardcover. Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 575 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some numbered Stickers on front endpaper. Foxing along edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas.Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors going about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Light wear to cover edges, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 130 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cloth cover boards, gold gilt title on spine. Some tanning to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. "Humor, drama and beauty woven out of memories of a fantastic boyhood by Hugh Falkus..."

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a black cloth spine. 252 pages, b&w photographs, map end paper. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 246 pages, b&w illustrations. "Lionel Casson, the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring, has done what no other author has: he has put in a single volume the story of all that the ancients accomplished on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages plus 2 w/ads. Hardcover. "Helping Hand Series". Red cloth boards of inlaid design, gilt lettering. Pen & ink etched frontispiece w/tissue guard, & decorated half-title. In remarkable shape considering age, still a tight book. Edges and pages yellowed a bit with age.

Hardcover. London, Conway Maritime Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, many b&w illustrations. The editor of this volume has created a fascinating and coherent narrative which describes the development of the sailing ship in both northern and southern Europe from mediaeval times through to the renaissance. Amongst the contributors are R Morton Nance, H H Brindley and Geoffrey Callender who might be viewed as the very fathers of modern maritime research. Beautifully written and clearly illustrated with the original line drawings, these extracts will come as a revelation to modern-day enthusiasts and historians, and represent a valuable reference tool for all those with an interest in the age of sail. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Yacht Club, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, red cloth stamped in gilt with round gold New York Yacht Club ["NYYC"] insignia on the front covers. Matching red slipcase. 622 pages total. with additional material, by Robert W. Carrick. Frontis. in color. many b/w illustrations. Clean, bright set.

Hardcover. Salem, Peabody Essex Museum & Mystic Seaport Museum, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 371 pages. Clean, bright copy. Between 1932 and 1934, in the depths of the Depression, Donald Starr and six friends sailed the 85' Alden schooner Pilgrim around the world from Boston by way of the Panama and Suez Canals. Their adventure is recounted with wit and detail in this illustrated book -- a look at bluewater cruising, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean before war and tourism altered them forever.

Hardcover. Paris, Jean Boudriot, revised ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 1 only. 166 pages Hardcover. B&w illustrations, fold-out b&w plates. Minor wear to dust jacket; in brodart. Light stain to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. British Columbia, Sono Nis Press, 1st, 1995, Softcover, 72 pages illustrated in b&w and color, clean, crisp copy.