1938. Read More about Etching: Depicting a yacht passing a buoy

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

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 about Captain & Ms. Crapo's Feat of Crossing the Atlantic in the tiny boat the "New...

[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

[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 about Chiefly the Orient. An Undigested Journal Kept … 27 July, 1910 — 10 June, 1911

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

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

New York: Farrar, Rinehart, [1937]. Read More about Sailing In. The Stereo-Book of Ships

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

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

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

[New York: 1937]. Published in Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design, 1937, at pp. 121, 127, 131. Poor was professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics at Columbia University, and author of works on astronomy and yachting. These three drawing are the only original illustrations for... Read More about Original drawings for "Men Against the Rule": three comparative diagrams illustrating...