Large 12mo; 200 pages; blue cloth boards, title lettered in dark blue on spine and front cover. The fourth edition, with new chapters on piloting, international code, latitude sight, propeller data, and a formula for quick and simple compass corrections. Illustrated with five plates of photos of wonderful 1930s motor boats, and hundreds of diagrams, small photos, charts etc. This copy with slight soiling to binding, and light foxing to endpapers and a few pages at the beginning and end. Scarce edition of one of the bibles of boating.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Power Boat Hand Book. Piloting, Boat Handling and Seamanship
Publisher: New York: The Rudder Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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I have been an antiquarian book, autograph, mss, book related art and poster dealer for 50 years. I am a graduate of Northwestern University. I was an associate of Hamill & Barker in Chicago, then manager/buyer for Marshall Field's Rare Book, map, print, poster, book related art, autograph and mss dept. for seven years. Sole prop. of Richard Cady Rare Books in NY, Chicago, and for the last 22 years in Prescott, Arizona. My reference library consists of some 1500 volumes, my stock is about the same size. Fine selection of books about books, fine turn-of-the-century publisher's trade bindings, literature, Raj India, southwest Americana, and rare and interesting books in all fields. I will offer rare and interesting books in very nice condition.