[Rarebooks] FS: Robinson/GREAT AMERICAN YACHT DESIGNERS

[Gerard Gormley]

For your kind consideration ---


Robinson, Bill~.  THE GREAT AMERICAN YACHT DESIGNERS~.  NY NY,
USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974(1970).  Keywords: Development of yacht
design in America, told through lives of 8 designers pre-eminent
in international world of yachting over last 100 years --
Nathaniel Herreshoff, Clinton Crane, John Alden, Philip Rhodes,
Bill Tripp, Ray Hunt, Bill Lapworth & Olin Stephens  -
Illustrated (plans & photos) -  Marine-Nautical -- Non-Fiction --
English language.  First Edition (stated), 4th Printing.
Hardcover.  Dust jacket present, price intact.  195,xii pages:
Index, full-page black & white photographs (96) & yacht plans
(23).  Binding height: 11-1/4".   Publisher's full buckram.  Book
Near Fine: gift message penned on front free end paper, moderate
soiling to top edges (light to bottom).  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  Dust jacket Very Good to Near Fine: light wrinkle
to top fore-corners & spine-top, two 1/4" closed tears either
side of spine-bottom, 1 3-inch score to back, top edges tanned
inside & front.  Dust jacket pluses: absolutely no rubbing,
scratching or other scoring to front, spine or back.
ISBN:0394427211.  [Digital JPEG image (3) available on request].
2421~.  US$100.-

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