Sailing & Marine

PUBLISHERAlfred A. Knopf, New York.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITIONSome general shelf wear to edges of boards. Slight fading to spine and a few marks. Printed pages and images remain clear and little marked.
DUST JACKETIn worn condition, with tearing and creasing...

The official sailing instructions issued to all competitors in the five dinghy sailing classes contested at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. From the collection of late British Olympic Yachtsman Vernon Stratton.

PUBLISHERCharles Scribner's Sons, New York and London.
BINDINGIllustrated cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONProtected 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...

The story of the role the New Zealand Shipping Company's merchant vessels played during the six years of WWII, the largest maritime war the world had ever seen.

PUBLISHERSeeley and Co. Limited, London.
BINDINGRusset cloth boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have general wear and a few marks commensurate with age. Front hinge partially split, but binding feels secure. Some browning and foxing mainly affecting outer leaves. Otherwise printed pages and images remain largely...

PUBLISHERPercival Marshal & Co. Ltd. London.
BINDINGPale blue cloth boards. 
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general shelf wear, fading to edges and spine. Foxing affecting outer leaves and block edges but printed pages and images remain largely clear and little marked.
DUST JACKETIn worn condition with scuffing, creasing...

A comprehensive history of steamships in the Pacific Ocean and their particular challenges operating in remote locations far from the assistance of a dockyard.

A comprehensive listing and description of of vessels and shipping companies operating from Australia and New Zealand.

PUBLISHERMaritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall.
BINDINGVol. 1 pale blue and vol. 2 grey cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, slight shelf wear to very edges of boards. Printed pages and images remain clear and unmarked.
DUST JACKETA little wear to edges, otherwise well preserved. 
EDITION2003.
DESCRIPTIONPart One:...

PUBLISHERThe Blue Peter Publishing Company, Ltd. London.
BINDINGGreen and blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design and embossed border.
BOOK CONDITIONIn good condition for age, with some general wear to edges of boards; a little scuffing, slight fraying and bumping to corners. Some splitting to hinges, but...

"The beauty and mystery of the ships and the magic of the sea." An illustrated history of  British sailing craft.

Part one, "Historical Notes." (Part two contains a list of exhibits with descriptions.) Spanning the earliest Mediterranean ships to the decline of sail in the late 19th century, this history is illustrated by the extensive collection of model ships in the Science Museum.

A lengthy Illustrated history of sailing ships, from ancient Egypt to the most modern racing yachts at the time of publication.

An illustrated history of the vast fleets of sailing trawlers that once fished the North Sea and English Channel, and the men who worked on them.

An illustrated history of the vast fleets of sailing trawlers that once fished the North Sea and English Channel, and the men who worked on them.

A history of the ship modeller's art, with many examples from European and American collections.

Still published to this day, a fascinating bound collection of the monthly magazine devoted to the worldwide shipping industry from 1948.

Introduced and annotated by the novelist John Fowles. An historical collection of photographs of shipwrecks around the Isles of Scilly taken by four generations of the local Gibson family from the 1860's onwards.