1938. Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Read More

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

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

[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

[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

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

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

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

New York: The National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers 430 Lexington Ave, [1930]. With photos of existin and proposed marinas. Read More

London: Edward Stanford, 55, Charing Cross, S.W, 1880. First edition. This was McMullen's second solo effort where he sailed from the Thames to Dover, Deal and Ramsgate. He developed an interest in sailing alone after an inadvertant single-handed voyage in 1877.It appears a second, expanded edition of 189 pp was... Read More

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