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1974199 pages with beige cloth covers, the front being a little cupped. Covers show light wear, tex/interior is unmarked in any way and is otherwise quite nice and clean. Lots of mechanical drawings of boat plans and b&w photos. 200 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/4"h.
1979Book shows light wear to covers, heavy creasing at spine with some chipping away of the outer layer at the bottom spine. Binding is otherwise solid, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illumstated with a great many b&w photos, a section at back of 58 plans. "Never before has such a comprehensive compilation of watercraft in a museum collection been published. the Mystic Seaport Museum watercraft collection, largest in the United States, is a treasury of Northeastern vessel types. Not simply a collection of boats, it is also tangible evidence of a practical art form: the shaping of wood into useful and aesthetic watercraft." 280 pages. "Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft" features the 220 craft in the collection, with complete descriptions, 434 illustrations, selected plans, and supplementary reading lists. For easy reference, the vessels are arranged in four categories, according to power source. The entire volume is meticulously indexed. For the historian, the boatbuilder, and for those who appreciate fine craftsmanship, this book will provide hours of pleasure and will serve as a continuing reference." Contents include catboats, sailing dinghies, yachts, working craft, ketch rigged, schooner and square rigged, punts, skiffs, dories, pulling boats, tenders , guide boats, peapods, surf boats, shells salmon wherries, sea briight skiff, yankee skiff, waterfowl boats, inboards, outboards, paddling, canoes, dugouts kayaks,
2015Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Barely used; interior is perfect, covers show no wear, maps, b&w illustrations throughout.
1929812p. + Plus frontis. Illustrated with photographs and a map. Scenic endpapers. Top edge decorated yellow. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly torn, spine faded. An account of an expedition to Greenland, on a hundred foot fishing schooner. POLAR 3
1948Stories: Fifty years of the Wide World; when the fire came; trouble at Tonkiu; the runaway schooner; halibut fishing; the magic man; not according to plan; gypsy snake-charmer; the buffalo-shooters; Marriott's grave. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1996Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Bell Island, Newfoundland; Bahamas; Transpac Expedition; To House or not to House; Filming a Salmon's Struggle; Manola - half a shipwreck; Blissful Beqa Lagoon; St. Kitts; Shipwrecks of Bermuda; Batchawana - in Lake Superior; Octopus at Argonaut Warf; Arrow - Nova Scotia Shipwreck; Catalina; Emergency ascent Lines; Wilcox - Lake Erie Schooner; Adventure Diving in Newfoundland; Ice Diving and Asbestos; Joyland - the honeymoon wreck; Canadian Cayman Islands; Cozumel; A Tribute to Brooks Wetsuits; Reel Diving; Wrecked in Nova Scotia; Socorro; Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River; Good Samaritan Laws; Sea Urchins of the Bay of Chaleur; Label Your Tanks; Quebec Overview; Barbados - shipwreck haven; Haida Gwai; Tobermory's shipwrecks; Hard water diving - Banff; Romancing the Providenciales; Island Namesake - Jane McLeod; Lumpfish; Thailand; State of the Oceans; The Coral Reef; Project Aware; Preserving the Marine Environment; They are Eating the Ocean; Race Rocks, B.C.; Record-Breaking Cave Dive; Dive in an Aquarium; Florida Reefs; Columbia Sinking; Great Lakes - Narrow Island's B.B. Buckhout; Mexico Cave Adventure; Nitrox to the Arctic; Photography 101. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
190416 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Russo-Japanese War Coverage; American Schooner PIcks up Survivors on Derelect Sampan at sea - Captain went mad, others starved; B.C. Mines and Mining article (mentions Tyee Copper Company, Ladysmith); The Spaniards of the North West Coast of North America - article by Provincial Historian E.O.S. Scholefield; Lovely photo of croquet on the beach at Foul Bay; The Meteoric Career of John Steele of Pennsylvania - Spent $3,000 a day; List of Victoria Tax Sale Properties, complete with legal description, registered owner and amount owing; large article entitled "Andrew Carnegie on Universal Peace; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "10 Acre Blocks (off Cook St.) For Sale from $140 to $200 in Tolmie Estate" Significant chipping along fold. Top of back page is devoted to 'Costly (Victorian) Garments for Evening Wear' and contains lovely illustrations. Bottom of back page illustrates and describes elaborate Home Wedding breakfasts. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Large clipping from page 3. Small advertisement clipped from page 6. Fatigue cracks to central portion of all pages. Book
1956Features: "The Sky's No Limit," Continued - The First Fully Authentcated story of the test pilots and the hazards they face - Pilot Baled Out From Under the Sea; Arab Feud at Ahwar; Salt Their Sentence - The Salt Mine of Trapani in Sicily; Dirty Paddy - Croc-Hunter Extraordinary; Sing-Sing in By-and-By Land - Port Moresby; Butter on the Beach; Call of the Dancing Madness - Secret Beliefs of British Columbia Native Peoples; Waste-Land Double Crosser in Australia; All Plaice are Left-Handed; The Game of the Bull at Pemba, off the East African Coast; Isle of the Toiling Bell - onboard the schooner Joie de Vivre; Tiger in the Temple - Central India; Trapped on the Ocean Bed - Pearl Diving in the South Pacific; Heroes in Harness - Sled Dogs of the North; Woman of the African Bush - She Assumed Animal Form; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1957Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1951Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
1971Features: Rugged North American Series put Lighting Sailors to the Test - Bill Shore wins title; Schooner Days relived at Gloucester, Massachusetts; Finn - class close-up; The Columbia 52; Tartan 26; Invictus - a Trimaran; First to the Mark at Little Pidgeon Cay, Bahamas; One-sided duel on San Francisco Bay - Blackfin vs. Windward Passage; Ragtime Sails to La Paz; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1973Features: On a Schooner Gam - off Southern California; The Traveller 32 - a beautiful double-ender; Ericson 37 - from Bruce King; Tornado - first olympic cat; At play on Lake Erie's watery highways; Sailing on the bonnie banks of o'Clyde; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
1974Features: Sea Hawk - profile of a cruising man's yacht - from navy launch to stately schooner; Dutchman in flight; William Crealock designs distant voyager - Westsail 42; Palmer Johnson SF 47, flush deck racer by Frans Maas; On Bonaire (off Venezuela) - like being at sea; 5-0-5 acrobatics; afternoon on the Indian River, Florida; Sally has a knockdown; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
1975Features: North to Alaska, slowly - the junk rigged schooner MIGRANT; Bahamanian Board Dance - the Out Island Regatta; SUMATRA - vintage racer with a new look for the TransPac; Stars shine on Sunapee's sweet water; The Quoddy Pilot - return of a rugged downeaster; Kids on the Coffee Grinders - the WINDANCER; Alden-designed Fuji 35 offers fine sailing with a bit of romance; From France - the Dufour 31 - an appealing cruiser; Down-Easters achieve look, smell, feel of old American craft; Palace Afloat? - not quite, but almost - 35-foot FANTASIA; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: Florida sailor designs 19-foot coastwise, gaff-rigged cruiser - the Salt 19; Seidelmann designed Palmer 550 enrolls in Quarter Ton Fleet; Traditional cruising design finds speed, responsiveness with new rig - the enlarged version of the SERAFFYN; Aesthetics and comfort remembered in the Norlin 37 Mark II; Great gaffed mains, barn door rudders and plump hulls; Sailing for winter sports enthusiasts; in search of Spain - pictures and story by Dorothy I. Crossley; A ton of heavy racing; One by One - one last old Conway schooner survives to carry a fragment of the sail driven 19th century toward the last quarter of the 20th; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Please note: middle page loose but present. Book
196828 pages. Features: Charles Wilson is no Hero - Great Train Robbery participant is responsible for what happened to the train driver Jack Adams who is pictured and quoted in this interesting article; Vintage full-page colour ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) with Colonel Sanders; The Campers are coming - new RVs - article with photos including one of a mini driving into a bus/RV; Canada's Ambassador to Japan, Herbert O. Moran opened the embassy so Japanese kids would have room to play baseball - article with photos; Easter Eggs $1,800 per Dozen - The Paris Glove Collection created by artists Harold Town, Marken Joslin, Bruce Parsons, Tobie Steinhouse, Iain Baxter, Claude Tousignant, Jacques de Tonnancour, Gita Caiserman-Roth, Jori Smith, Greg Curnoe, George Swinton and Alfred Pinsky; Marathon Swimmer Hedy Schmidt - article with nice photos; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Five Roses Flour fan club, junior division (5 kids on photo); Expo's Atlantica (six-sail schooner) goes to sea - article with nice photos. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
1985160 pages. Features: Arno Day - from Master Builder to Master Teacher; The restoration of a 90-year-old fantail launch; Tom Wylie and hot ideas for cold-molded boats; Building the Kingfisher - Part III; The Hackmatack Schooner Janet May; The lifetime work of August Crabtree; Quick steps to spring painting, Part I; Manhattan's mystery merchant ship - The Ronson ship is unearthed; The careful creation of Mele Kai - Part I. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1983160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part II - The Emergence of Eldredge-McInnis; The Weather Side of Gaff Rig; A New Coaster - the schooner HERITAGE; The theft of RANDOM SCOOT; Building the first Lightning; The Folding Kayak; Folding Boats at Sea; LILY - a cabinetmaker's Whitehall comes to life; ISKRA sails down east; Seven Bends - 7 ways to tie lines together, even in slick synthetics; Building the Beetle Cats, Part III - fitting and bending frames; Damaged Planks - their repair and replacement. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1983160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part III - The Years of Achievement; A Close Look at Wood Screws, Part I; Chris White and his Multihulls; The Schooner AMERICA; Canoe Building in Vermont - Tom Hill, Carl Bausch and Ed Sturges; Just the Right Medium - Ken Bassett chooses plywood for his recreational rowing craft; Keeping a Wooden Hull From Drying Out; Winter Protection for outside-stored boats; Auxiliary Power - experiences with gas and diesel; STAR - the boat of Frederick S. Ford Jr. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1982160 pages. Features: The BOWDOIN Project - Admiral MacMillan's Arctic Schooner; Common Sense and the Energy 48; Boat Plans and the Public Domain; Rowing the Maine Coast in a Matinicus peapod; Building MARTHA's Tender, Part III; Ceilings; On Deck - details that look good and perform well; Old Wooden Thistles provide stiff comptetion for their fiberglass competitors; The Vineyard Haven 15; Keeping a Cutting Edge - Handsaws; The Barnegat Bay Sneakbox; Getting the Old Girl Back in Shape - an ingenious resteaming method for easing the tension in new frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
197325 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Contents touch on: Maple Creek Homesteads, Les Austin Family, the Buss home and family, an early school - with photo of teacher and students, Reed School - photo of barefoot students in coveralls; article on road mending circa 1909; The Mead Brothers - Walton & William; The William McCrea Family; The Charley Stevens Family; Florence Oregon; Schooner photos. Clean and unmarked wiht light wear. Book
1928289 pages including index and bibliography. Black and white illustrations. A history of British Columbia to 1927. Back hinge open. Front hinge tender. Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
194088 pages. Features: Cover photo features Ontario's Deputy Minister of Game and Fish, D.J. Taylor beside a bear he shot; A Wild Goose Chase - Photo-illustrated story of Frank Piscatelli' trip to Knight Inlet for Canada Geese; Old Mission in the Rain - fishing on the 'Dog-Watch', J.(Jack) W.N. Bell's inland schooner, on Lake Temiskaming; Illustrations of 1940 Handguns; The Canadian Grizzly - photo-illustrated article on 'the most dangerous of all Canadian big game' by T.C. Young; Panapitei Watches - photo-illustrated article in Waldie County in Northern Ontario includes photos of Ontario government officials Hon. Gordon C. Conant, Hon. H.C. Nixon and D.J. Taylor; Two pages of Conservation Charts for 1939; Ted Stikeman's day of fishing speckled trout in northern Quebec; Passing of Col. J. Bruce Payne; The Setter (dog) and his food; and much more. Fantastic back cover colour-illustrated ad for O'Keefe's beer and ale features relaxing airmen in wood-panelled room. Above-average wear. Small clipping from page 21. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1919Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
1920Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book