Pillow Sham for the "U.S.S. Potomac Presidential Yacht"...
N.p. [United States]: n.d. [1930s]. Built in 1934, the 165-foot former Coast Guard cutter 'Electra' was converted to... Read More
Price: $1,500
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Early Days of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia. WITH: Later Days of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia by...
Philadelphia: Privately Printed 1940, 1940 & 1967. First editions. Read More
Price: $400
Cruising the Aegean Abroad Lowell Weicker's "North Star" September 9-28, 1969. Guests: Betty & Bill Beinecke, Bee & Don Kipp...
[1970]. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Winning The King's Cup. An Account of the "Elena's" Race to Spain 1928.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
Album commemorating Captain Howard Blackburn.
np: 1933. This album was compiled and presented as a gift from father to son. The inscription on the first leaf reads: "Dear Bill - Courage is a fine quality, find it for yourself. This man had it and modesty also - Dad. 2/9/33" Born in Nova Scotia in 1859... Read More
Price: $250
Dead Calm.
Fine sailing scene, two moored sailboats in the foreground with other moored boats visible against the shoreline behind. By Eugene V. Connett, Jr, father of the founder of the Derrydale Press, who was himself a keen sportsman and sailor. A pleasing image with choice American sporting provenance. Read More
Price: $1,250
![Captain & Ms. Crapo's Feat of Crossing the Atlantic in the tiny boat the "New Bedford" from New Bedford Massachusetts to Penzance. The Captain's Yarn Telling the Chief Events of the Voyage. [With] A cabinet photograph "Capt. & Mrs. Crapo of the New Bedford" measuring 4 x 2-1/2 in. New York, Cratt & Ferry, c.1877. Thomas Crapo.](/pictures/thumb/301990.jpg?v=1534807217)
Captain & Ms. Crapo's Feat of Crossing the Atlantic in the tiny boat the "New Bedford" from New Bedford Massachusetts...
Boston: M.H. Keenan, 1885. First edition thus. After serving on whalers for the better part of twenty years, Crapo found life ashore difficult. His fish market went out of business and with little to do, he turned his attention back to the sea, thinking that if he could cross the... Read More
Price: $400
The Log of Cleopatra's Barge II, 1928-1942.
Boston: Privately printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1948. First Edition. Cleopatra's Barge II was a two-masted gaff-rigged auxiliary schooner that carried a crew of 13. The log here records a series of cruises along the north-east coast of America in the interwar years. Untouched by the Great Depression... Read More
Price: $150
Cunard Line Handbook To the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and The Continent of Europe.
[Liverpool: Turner and Dunnett], December, 1905. From the Introduction: "the information comprised in the following pages has been prepared for the use of Passengers traveling by the Cunard Hungarian-American Line from New York to the Mediterranean and Adriatic." Read More
Price: $250
A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Altitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the Schooner Yacht "Foam"...
Toronto: Adam, Stevenson & Co, 1872. First Canadian Edition. Read More
Price: $200
Presentation Copy
Chiefly the Orient. An Undigested Journal Kept … 27 July, 1910 — 10 June, 1911.
[Norwood, Mass: Plimpton Press] Privately Printed, Christmas, 1912. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, dated 21 December 1912. Memoir of travel in east Asia by Gardner, whose family owned Roque Island, Maine, and who wrote a number of accounts of his yachting adventures in American and foreign waters. Read More
Price: $125
Album of Gorham Silver Plates, Trophies, etc., most made for Black, Starr & Frost.
[New York: c. 1913]. Includes photographers of these Trophies: 8 Photos of Silver plates for the Winner Joyant for Larchmont Race Weeks Series 1911 ; Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Race 1911; Manhasset Bay Cup Races; Interstate Races Marblehead; Larchmont Yacht Club Series 1912; New York Yacht Club Cruise 1912 Won by... Read More
Price: $500
Derrydale Yachting Prints
Off Soundings [And:] The Weather Mark.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1941. Edition of 250. Derrydale Yachting Prints. Gordon Grant’s fine yachting prints depict a sloop under sail (“The Weather Mark”) and a ketch under full sail (“Off Soundings”). Grant (1875-1962) “was considered America’s foremost marine artist when Eugene Connett commissioned him in 1941 to paint... Read More
Price: $2,500
Sail Ho! Windjammer Sketches Alow and Aloft.
New York: William Farquhar Payson, [1931]. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Sail Ho! Windjammer Sketches Alow and Aloft.
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Limited edition, #31 of 47 copies on Crane's Old Book Paper, signed by the Author. Lively illustrations of life at sea toward the end of the era of full-masted schooners. Read More
Price: $450
The Steam Yacht. An Era of Elegance.
Tuckahoe, New York: John de Graff, Inc, 1970. First edition. Read More
Price: $100
Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 90 of 950 copies of the first state. A splendid collection of captioned sailing and nautical photographs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, by the Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Halifax. A beautiful copy in the pictorial box (now uncommon) and glassine (very uncommon). Read More
Price: $600
Log of the "Ariel"
New York: The Photo-gravure Company & Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co, 1885. Uncommon. A lavishly illustrated account of the cruise through the gulf of Maine. The Ariel stopped at Scaco Pool, Biddeford, Booth Bay, North Haven, Mount Desert, Somerville, Penobscot Bay, the Kennebec, Portland and Portsmouth. The log was written... Read More
Price: $750
National Marina Survey of Motor Boat Harbors 1930. Submitted by H.A. Bruno-R.R. Blythe and Associates...to The National Association of Engine...
New York: The National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers 430 Lexington Ave, [1930]. With photos of existin and proposed marinas. Read More
Price: $150
The New York Yacht Club Centennial 1844-1944.
[New York: 1944]. Centennial history of the New York Yacht Club, with much material on the America’s Cup. Read More
Price: $175
The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida.
New York: Thomas R. Knox & Co, 1885. First edition. "An ornately wordy account, filled with ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase. Gives very detailed descriptions of soial conditions in the places visited" (Toy). Mcquade's account of the Montauk's cruise from New York to the Caribbean, which included... Read More
Price: $500
Coasting to Cape Smoky. A Summer Cruise in 1937 from Padanaram to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton in the Ketch "Sirius"
Boston: Planograph Printing by Spaulding-Moss Company, nd [but 1938]. Rare and possibly unrecorded. It's not known how many copies of this book were printed but it can't have been more than a handful. Alas the attention paid to the quality of the illustrations was not directed towards the font, which... Read More
Price: $500
Privately printed
The Cruise of the Forest Home; or, Chronicle of a Pleasure Trip to Mount Desert.
New York: Francis Hart and Company, Printers, 1866. First edition. Privately printed. Scarce privately printed account of a cruise from New York up the east coast to Mount Desert, Maine. The party numbered 19 passengers (six of whom were women) and a crew of seven. Commencing on July 19, 1865... Read More
Price: $750
AN EARLY REPORT ON KIWI HERMIT TOM NEALE
Yarns for Davy Jones.
np: Privately printed for the author, 1966. First edition. AN EARLY REPORT ON KIWI HERMIT TOM NEALE. Inscribed to Percy Chubb by the author, Parkinson has also signed his name to the title-page. The TLS dated, March 29, 1970 concerns sailing matters relating to his crossing of the Atlantic. Parkinson spent... Read More
Price: $750