[Rarebooks] fs: 1909-Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer a founding book on pleasure boating of the 
Chesapeake Bay:
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(No. 7197 )  Barrie, Robert and George Barrie, Jr. CRUISES, MAINLY IN THE 
BAY OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
Philadelphia: Franklin Press, 1909. First edition, later issue, Full cloth, 
Octavo, [x], 276 pages + 3 pp. Ads, black & white photographic plates. Very 
good, No dust jacket.
      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, just at the beginning of the 
reign of the skipjack among Chesapeake Bay workboats. There were also 
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 
charmingly readable style and does not confine itself to scenes on the water 
but includes many interesting vignettes of Annapolis, Oxford, St. Michael's, 
activity around the boatyards, etc. Nicely illustrated with dozens of 
photographic plates depicting the native sailing craft as well as scenes in 
the sleepy shore towns and boatyards (note: the illustrations in the later 
Bryn Mawr editions are rather inferior to the original plates herein). 
Fold-out map of the Bay at rear. HOWES #B-176; TOY #1023; PRATT-EASTERN 
SHORE #35; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 11. Bound in original emerald green cloth 
over boards with spine titled in black, vignette in black on upper board. 
First edition sheets from 1909 bound with 3 pages of blurbs for this book 
and for Robert Barrie's 1917 book, "My Log," at rear. Shallow bumps and some 
fraying to cloth at spine ends, corner tips lightly rubbed. Spine and lower 
board have a couple of whitish stains. Endpapers mildly toned. Fold-out map 
has two short edge tears. Hinges not cracked but textblock slightly shaken. 
All in all a very nice copy of this uncommon source on early Chesapeake 
pleasure boating....... $175.00
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Best regards,

Rock
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