On the Wind's Highway: Ranger, Rainbow and Racing
PUBLISHER
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York and London.
BINDING
Illustrated cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITION
Protected by it's slipcase, this book remains in good condition for age. Some wear, slight discolouration and a mark on spine. Binding secure. A little browning / foxing to block edges and outer leaves. Otherwise printed pages and images are largely clear and little marked. Tissue guard to frontispiece portrait is intact but yellowed and a little creased.
DUST JACKET
Within a blue card slipcase with title patches. Intact, but generally rather scuffed and worn.
EDITION
1939.
DESCRIPTION
Vanderbilt's own account of the development of his J-Class yachts and the defence of the 1937 America's Cup. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece portrait, many beautiful monochrome photographic plates plus some plans and tables of technical details. 259 pp. 22 x 29.5cm in slipcase.
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