New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition. Derrydale Yachting Log, "Extremely Rare"--Frazier. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to... Read More about Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone
Price: $1,500
Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...
Price: $6,000
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Philadelphia: Privately Printed 1940, 1940 & 1967. First editions. Read More about Early Days of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia. [With:] Later Days of the Corinthian...
Price: $400
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Read More about Winning The King's Cup. An Account of the "Elena's" Race to Spain 1928
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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 about Dead Calm
Price: $1,250
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 about The Log of Cleopatra's Barge II, 1928-1942
Price: $150
Boston: Privately Printed [by the Merrymount Press], 1913. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition, one of 500 copies. ONE OF TEN. Laid in is an ALS Crowninshield (on Winterthur letterhead) Francis tells his cousin George that he will send him one of the deluxe colored copies of which this is one of..... Read More about The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the...
Price: $750
[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 about Cunard Line Handbook To the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and The Continent of Europe
Price: $250
New York: Privately printed at the Plantin Press, Christmas, 1938. First edition, no limitation, but rare and probably the last of these Xmas book. Davis was a famous sportsman and author of "The Southside Sportsmen's Club of Long Island" [N.Y. l909] See: Bruns D26. He mentions in the preface that..... Read More about How I went to Europe in 1938
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London: Arrowsmith, nd. An account of the cruise of the schooner Chance, 1928-1929 from New London through the South Seas to Sydney. Read More about The Great Dipper to the Southern Cross
Price: $150
Toronto: Adam, Stevenson & Co, 1872. First Canadian Edition. Read More about A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Altitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the...
Price: $200
[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 about Album of Gorham Silver Plates, Trophies, etc., most made for Black, Starr & Frost
Price: $500
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 about Off Soundings [And:] The Weather Mark
Price: $2,500
New York: William Farquhar Payson, [1931]. First edition. Read More about Sail Ho! Windjammer Sketches Alow and Aloft
Price: $150
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 about Sail Ho! Windjammer Sketches Alow and Aloft
Price: $450
New York: Farrar, Rinehart, [1937]. Read More about Sailing In. The Stereo-Book of Ships
Price: $150
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..... Read More about Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures
Price: $600
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 394C of 450 copies for Canada (total edition of 1400 copies). 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. Read More about Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures
Price: $500
London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Second Edition. Read More about The Voyage Alone in the Yawl “Rob Roy”
Price: $75
New York: The National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers 430 Lexington Ave, [1930]. With photos of existin and proposed marinas. Read More about National Marina Survey of Motor Boat Harbors 1930. Submitted by H.A. Bruno-R.R. Blythe and...
Price: $150
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 about The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida
Price: $500
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 about Coasting to Cape Smoky. A Summer Cruise in 1937 from Padanaram to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton in...
Price: $500
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 about The Cruise of the Forest Home; or, Chronicle of a Pleasure Trip to Mount Desert
Price: $750
