[Rarebooks] fs: Pioneer Chesapeake Bay yachting

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7280 )  Barrie, Robert and George Barrie, Jr. (Introduction by Alfred 
L. Loomis). CRUISES, MAINLY IN THE BAY OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
Bryn Mawr: Franklin Press, [1956]. Third edition, Full cloth, Octavo, [xvi], 
276 pages + 2 pages ads., Black & white photographs. Very good.
      A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention 
to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were 
members of the Corinthian Yacht Club in Philadelphia, and made their first 
cruise the Bay in 1897 by way of the C&D Canal. This was just at the 
beginning of the reign of the skipjack among Chesapeake Bay workboats, and 
of course there were numerous other workboats plying the Bay's waters then. 
But George Barrie later recalled that "Yachts in those days were almost as 
scarce as hen's teeth." (in Burgess, "This was Chesapeake Bay.") The book is 
written in a superbly readable style and does not confine itself to scenes 
on the water. Includes many interesting vignettes of Annapolis, Oxford, St. 
Michael's, activity around the boatyards, etc. Illustrated with dozens of 
photographs depicting the native sailing craft as well as scenes in the 
sleepy shore towns and boatyards. One fold-out map of the Bay at rear. See 
HOWES #B-176; TOY #1023; PRATT, EASTERN SHORE #35; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 11, 
etc. Bound in light blue cloth over boards with spine titled in black, black 
upper board vignette. A few shallow bumps to spine ends, a couple of brown 
spots to textblock edges. A handsome copy of an uncommon and important 
Chesapeake item.    $100.00
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