362 risultati
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: 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
1975Features: 1,046 boats plu 90 classes plus 14 yacht clubs equals one mega-regatta - the 46th Annual Southern California Yachting Association Regatta; The thriving Thunderbird - 26 foot sloop; Memories of Georgian Bay and the splendor of north country; Norway - land of sailors; A Sailing Legacy, by Taylor Walsh; Foul Weather Dinghy Sailing across the Atlantic - an invigorating view about the buoys by English photographer Alistair Black; A Look at Speed under Sail; 470s and a Tempest meet on Buzzards Bay; Marauder - innovations for the Canada's Cup; Newport 28 has good ideas from worlds of racing and cruising; Modern Maxi 95 - novel 32-footer by upcoming Swedish designer Pelle Petterson; Beautiful, distinctive 34-foot pinky is Jay Benford's own; Hinckley Sou'wester 48 - modern cruiser of conventional lines; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: Landfall at Diamond Head - ONDINE surts to the Transpac finish line; The Widgeon - class close-up of a big 12.5-foot pocket sailboat, ready for abuse, designed to give a good ride; Footing up the (Puget) Sound - 26-footers on the Gold Cup course off Shilshole Bay Marina; The Tumlaren - she gets into your blood; On Shore, by Paul Darling; Where mountains loom over quite beaches and bowls of coconut chips grace the bar - the Windward Islands in the Caribbean; Hail Skipjacks! - last of a breed; Nicholson 33 - 3/4 tonner by Holland; Ericson Cruising 36 - Rakish cutter by Bruce King; Sea Sprite - 22'6" sloop by Carl Alberg; Shannon 38 - Modern Ocean Cruising Yacht; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: The Mackinacs - racing a 36-footer 134-plus hours and 627-plus miles; Their first ocean cruise covered 14,000 miles - John Carson and Jim Grizzard and PEGASUS; Cowes, August, 1975 - the Admiral's Cup and a galaxy of ocean racing stars; Burgess' Atlantic - an aging but still romantic one-design; Over we go! - the fine art of capsizing; Want to Race? - The Boston-Toms Regatta; Albin 79 - Swedish Quarter Tonner; West Indies 36 - Family Cruiser-Racer; Southern Cross - Cruising cutter by Gillmer; Seair 27 - Comfortable Cruiser; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1975Features: Renaissance of a Herreshoff classic - fiberglass has given the Herreshoff 12.5' designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff, new life; Ms. Overboard - the Lake Lanier Sailing club holds a Lightning Championship on Lake Lanier; Crotch Island Pinky returns; MOONSHADOW - an unabashed racer designed by graduates of the School of Hard Knocks; The Geary 18 - challenging 18-footer that's easy to build for little money; Gathering of the Clan at Block Island; Heavy weather test for Cal 29s - off Victoria, British Columbia; Canadian has a first in production aluminum 25-footer by Tom Timmerman of Vancouver, BC; New Kirby Quarter Tonner is advanced racing design - by Bruce Kirby; Pearson 365 - refreshing ideas in a cruising ketch; High performance predicted for Mirage 27 by Peter Schmitt; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1945Stories: Mutiny in Camp; The Gun Runner; The Water Diviner; The Yellow Streak; The Waxworks Affair; Indian Wild Dogs; Tradewind Cay; Hali Yamui; Off the Target; The Taking of Gavuto; Timber Cruising in New Zealand; Dead Men's Gold; Lone Valley Mine; The Syndicate. Average wear. Book
197948 pages. Features: Great cover photo of a fully occupied Royal Albert Dock in 1958; Photo inside front cover of HMS Jersey (P275) in 1977; Full-page pre-war photo of a spritsail barge in the West India Dock, Port of London; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Big Ships; News From Portsmouth - a photo report; HMS 'Ganges' - a last look; Bosphorus Shipping; Vintage Thames Shipping Photos - part 1; Guide to Ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy; New Ship News; European Commentary; Freak Ships (2) - The 'Ross Winans'; "Invincible" goes to Sea Trials; Readers' Album - Atlantic Liners; Ship Sales; Letters; Ship Societies - The Coastal Cruising Association; Nice photo of the HMS 'Cornwall' in 1936 inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
19378vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
1933rif. es227Editions Berger-Levrault Sélection Le Seanachi Album cartonné 1933 "Cartonnage papier de l'éditeur in-4 (32 x 25 cm.), dos toile brique, plats illustrés en couleurs, 47 pages illustrées en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte, écrit et illustré par André Hellé, amusante aventure que cette Equipée du ""Sartrouville"", bateau à roue voguant mieux sur terre que sur mer, qui emmène des enfants en croisière de santé, exemplaire du premier tirage ; piqûres sur les gardes et la couverture-sans gravité- bel état de conservation. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
rif. 11998De Mayence à Cologne. Nouvelle édition ornée de paysages dessinés d’après nature et des statues, tant anciennes que modernes, des hommes de lettres, célèbres de ce fleuve. In 8 format 30x17cm en accordéon, couverture cartonnée avec titre, lithographiée. Format déplié 247cm déplié, complet de l’apport de 20 pages. Mayence chez l’éditeur D. KAPP sans date (1869 ?)
196163 pages. Features: Nehru - Lonely leader of 500 million; Allen and Sharie Farrell built their vessel Ocean Girl - great photos and text; Carole Reinhart performs in a college orchestra and Salvation Army band in Miami, Florida; I love having my own zoo - Gerald Durrell; Men are Spoiling the Movies - Edmonton-born Dianne Foster; Lord Martin Cecil - Rancher Bishop of the Cariboo - he owns a town and is world leader of a sect that believes illness is caused by 'ill spirits' - 100 Mile House Lodge, British Columbia; Can you judge people?; Room that honour laughter - McGill University establishes a memorial to Stephen Leacock; The Balkheaded Society of Redcliff, Alberta is a highbrow service club that works for the community; Hollywood Boulevard - teenagers take advantage of traffic tangle to scout for dates (photos) - the new 'sport' of cruising; Boxer Tom McNeeley; Ginette Letondal of Montreal makes her mark in Paris; Busman's Holiday for Artists, with paintings by Gabriel Bastien; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
196282 pages. Features: The famous whirlpool of Corrievreckan; Grantown-On-Spey; Climbing the Matterhorn - the first British ascent was made by T.S.G. Carruthers and a companion; The Craig Crannogs; Ballet Rambert; Physicians of Edinburgh; Meet the Stirlin' (Starling); On Being a Child Genius; Edinburgh's James Bond - story and photo of Sean Connery; Victorian Architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson; Angling Company; Photos of weddings of the month, including Mr. J. Usher and Miss R. Houldsworth; and more. Ads include: Saint Joseph, South Africa, Helena Rubinstein, Sunshine Cruising/P&O Orient Lines, Chivas Regal, Pringle at Coplands, Nice colour-photo ad for the Ford Consul Classic (white model shown by beach), Lancome, Brooke Bond, nice one-page Land-Rover ad shows logs being hauled, and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Moderate external soiling. Unmarked. Loss to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
1950Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
196030 pages. Features: Mailbag; Conservation in the Schools - the three 'Rs' and resources; Salt Water License?; proper use of license revenue will cost us less tomorrow; Fishing Seymour Arm - Shuswap Lake; Centrefold map of Lakes & Streams in the Princeton-Merritt District; Clay Chips - with photos of Dick Horby, Bill Jones, Victor Welder, Bill Urquhart, Carl Nishi; Mrs. Sharen Pilkington, Russ Hume, Maxie Lamusse, Clayton Sullivan, Frank Turner, Russ Hume, Jack radford, Dick Hornby, Alton See and Bob Guiliani; Boats; Coastal Cruising; Browning launches new rifle group - high-power bolt action Mausers; The Stone Fly (Hellgrammite); Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1982224 pages. Abundant colour photography. Index. Signed by author upon title page. "Ideal for the active yachtsman or the armchair voyager, this book is an invaluable guide for exploring the marine wonderland of British Columbia." - from dust jacket. The third volume in this series. Provides "Detailed descriptions of important cruising destinations, coastal towns and settlements, marinas, fuel stops and provisioning points, and the mousehole anchorages that give the yachtsman his own little bit of the coast every time he drops the hook." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear to clean unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
rif. 5902The London stereoscopic and photographic compagny, ltd. Non daté +/-1914
rif. 654515331Springer . Papeback. New. pp. 212 Springer unknown
1989rif. 28656Lisbon: Soctip Editora. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue-gray cloth stamped in silver 9 x 11½" a wonderful retrospective of his work in all media with many color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the artist having won the Artist of the Year prize in 1989 the book carries many tributes by António Maria Lisboa Mário Botas Herberto Helder Eurico Gonçalves Natália Correia António Barahona and Lima de Freiras among others. This copy signed and artistcally inscribed to Franklin Rosemont US surrealist. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 223 pp . Soctip Editora hardcover books
1991rif. BN493183Boston Basel Berlin: Birkhäuser 1991. 1991. Stochastic Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of the 1989 Lisbon Conference Stochastic Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of the 1989 Lisbon Conference Cruzeiro A. B. and J. C. Zambrini Boston, Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser unknown
rif. 001740L.S., Paris, 19 octobre 1933. 1p in-4. Belle lettre à en-tête « Mission scientifique et artistique française à travers l'Asie - Expédition Citroën Centre-Asie - 3e Mission G-M Haardt L.Audouin-Dubreuil » avec bordure de deuil (Georges-Marie Haardt est décédé des suites de la maladie contractée pendant la Croisière Jaune). Dans cette lettre signée Goerger, il est fait mention d'un paiement pour les services rendus par l'Argus de la Presse. Rare en-tête.
rif. 001741L.S., Paris, 26 janvier 1933. 1p in-4. Belle lettre à en-tête « Mission scientifique et artistique française à travers l'Asie - Expédition Citroën Centre-Asie - 3e Mission G-M Haardt L.Audouin-Dubreuil » avec bordure de deuil (Georges-Marie Haardt est décédé des suites de la maladie contractée pendant la Croisière Jaune). Dans cette lettre signée par Goerger, il est fait mention d'un paiement pour les services rendus par l'Argus de la Presse. Rare en-tête.
1957112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1901Roy. 4to., Fifth Edition, with many numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original blue buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt top, black endpapers, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Crisp copy of a standard reference, first published in 1854 and severally revised and updated.