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

[Back Creek Books]

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Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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     7197    . Barrie, Robert and George Barrie, Jr. CRUISES, MAINLY IN 
THE BAY OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
Philadelphia: Franklin Press, 1909. First Edition, Full cloth, Octavo, 
[x], 276 pages, 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. This copy has been nicely rebound in maroon 
cloth over boards some time ago. Gilt spine title, top edge gilt. Slight 
rubs to extremities, mild browning to spine. Fold-out map has a short 
tissue-repaired tear at lower attachment. All in all a very nice copy of 
this uncommon source on early Chesapeake pleasure boating.......    $250.00
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