[Rarebooks] fs: Kemp's Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, 1900, plates, etc.
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Sat Sep 27 14:03:39 EDT 2008
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9938 ) Kemp, Dixon (1839-1899), revised and partly re-written by
B[rooke]. Heckstall Smith. A MANUAL OF YACHT AND BOAT SAILING. NINTH EDITION
(VOLUME I ONLY).
London: Horace Cox, The Field Office, 1900. Original cloth, Quarto, xii, 667
pages + ads, engraved cuts. Good.
Kemp's classic work on selecting, inspecting, and building a yacht
along with detailed instruction on seamanship and sailing in open yachts,
steam yachts, ice boats, and much more. This edition was published in two
volumes: the first being the main text volume illustrated with engravings
and the second being a volume of 124 folding plates. The present book is the
first volume only. See TOY #2152; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 76. Bound in royal
blue cloth over boards with black endpapers, spine titled in gilt. Rubs to
edges of boards, fraying of .25" along head and heel of spine, some evidence
of old dampstaining at top 1.5" of lower board. Hinges sound. $350.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9938.jpg
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Rock
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