Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Item #017534

First edition. Beige cloth in rice paper jacket, housed in red cardboard box, with an illustration on the top lid. 100 pp., plus 64 black and white plates, including photos and illustrations. A survey and history of various sailing vessels, including privateers, merchant sloops, cargo schooners, sailing vessels of the Great Lakes, yachts and yachtsmen, etc. With short but detailed descriptions of individual ships and their captains, as well as photos and illustrations of many ships. Written by B.B. Crowninshield, a shipbuilder based in Somerset, Massachusetts. Book in GOOD+ condition. Heavy browning to the jacket. Some foxing and minor soiling to the cloth covers. Moderate foxing to the endpapers. Box in FAIR condition, being heavily scuffed and worn, with three of the corner split. Small piece of tape at one corner.

Price: $100.00