[Rarebooks] FS: Wells/SCIENTIFIC SAILBOAT RACING

[Gerard Gormley]

For your kind consideration ---


Wells, Ted~.  SCIENTIFIC SAILBOAT RACING~.  NY NY, USA: Dodd,
Mead & Company, 1950.  Keywords: Stated first with DJ very, very
hard to find -- A professional aeronautical engineer, a newcomer
to sail, unencumbered by prejudices, superstitions & 'old ways
are best' attitudes, brings a vigorous, sharp-witted, new
approach to small-boat racing, himself one of the most
spectacularly successful skippers the modern sailing world has
seen -- Illustrated with diagrams & b&w photos  -  Illustrated --
Illustrated (photos) -  Marine-Nautical -- Non-Fiction -- English
language.  First Printing (SD + NAP).  Hardcover.  Dust jacket
present, price intact.  170 pages: b&w photographs & diagrams
throughout.  Binding height: 10-1/4".   Publisher's navy blue full
cloth, spine white-stamped.  Book Near Fine: light bumping to
spine-top/bottom, faint spotting (1x2") to lower left front.
Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.  Dust jacket Good to Very
Good: heavy rubbing (with some loss) to top fore-corners & spine-
top (light to bottom same), 4 closed tears (1/4" & «" to top
back, 2" at top front fore-corner, light scoring & rubbing to
front -- still looks pretty good on book.  [Digital JPEG image
(2) available on request].  2424~.  US$57.-

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