Corderoy George (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No jacket. Faint circular stain on front board, hinges broken. 1933 Hard Cover. 592 pp. Front endpapers illustrated with the standing running rigging of a cruising yawl. Rear endpapers illustrated with some cruising rigs, the names of sails, and the parts of sails. A collection of ship terminology with over 500 illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some handling wear to spine edges with marks and scuffing to surfaces; rubbed and bumped corners. Mostly clean inside, with tanning and foxing to pages, edges and end papers. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. No jacket. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some marks to cloth surfaces. Clean inside, with tanning to page edges. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. Jacket has some marks and tears to hinges and edges, price clipped. Magazine cutting of a motor boat stuck in on the title page. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. No dustwrapper, some bumping and shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of brown buckram boards, a patch of old water marking to back cover, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a not too bad copy, with gilt titles on spine and gilt monogram on front board all still bright, of this hard-cover book. Number 15 (XV) in the publisher's "The Lonsdale Library" series, this book contains forty-nine chapters by various authors on all aspects of sailing and yachting. No publication date shown, but was first published in 1935, and the list of other titles on page facing half-title goes up to volume 20 which was "ready September 1935". A heavy book, packaged weight is over 1 kilo, so extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. 589pp, 63 full-page b&w illustrations plus smaller b&w diagrams in the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Edición Ilustrada. London, The Lonsdale Library, Volume XV, 1945, 592 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yachts Construction. Yachts Cruising Yachts With Auxiliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road. Accidents and Mishaps. Working Repairs. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Index and Glossary of Sea Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With hundreds of Illustrations. Ilustrado con 415 figuras y 63 planchas. Muy buena encuadernación tela de editor, lomo con decoraciones y letras doradas. Muy buen estado. 4to.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Lonsdale Library. Vol. XV. Cruising. Ocean Racing. Slight foxing to edge. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yacht Construction. Cruising Yauchts With Auxilliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Etc., Etc. Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring, Etc. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road/ Accidents anmd Mishaps. Working Repairs, Etc. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing Club. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Indedx and Glossary of Seas Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With Over Five Hundred Illustrations. 592 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Lonsdale Library. Vol. XV. Cruising. Ocean Racing. Slight foxing to edge. Brown cloth and boards and gilt lettering. Contents: Types of Cruising Yachts. The Design of Cruising Yachts. Yacht Construction. Cruising Yauchts With Auxilliary Power. Some Details of Arrangements For Lighting, Heating, Sanitation, Etc., Etc. Masts and Spars. Sails. Dinchies. Ground Tackle. Botswain's Stores. Boatswain's Work. Painting and Varnishing. Fitting-Out. Preparing For Sea. Getting Under Way. Manoeuvering Under Sail. Passage-Making. Light Weather Gear. Heavy Weather. Anchorage, Bringing Up and Stowing Away. Anchor Work, Mooring, Etc. Coastwise Yacht Navigation. Weather-Lore. Rule of the Road/ Accidents anmd Mishaps. Working Repairs, Etc. Cooking. The Ship's Papers and Registration. The Engagement of Paid Hands. Going Foreign. Through the French Canals to the Mediterranean. Insurance. Laying-Up. Permanent Moorings. Standing Rigging. Running Rigging. Some Legal Aspects of Yachting. Flag Etiquette. The Medicine Chest. Single-Handed Sailing. Trade Wind Sailing. Ocean Racing. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. The Royal Cruising Club. The Cruising Association. The Clyde Crusing Club. The Royal Ocean Racing Club. The Little Ship Club. The Irish Cruising Club. Books For the Yachtsman. General Indedx and Glossary of Seas Terms. Index to Legal Aspects of Yachting. With Over Five Hundred Illustrations. 592 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

1st edition? Narrow 4to. 590pp. 63 bw photos LACKING ONE PLATE.Publisher's plain light brown cloth covers, small gilt cartouche onfront, brown buckram spine, gilt lettering + cartouche on spine. Original green pictorial eps. Covers : faint fade to spine, slight rubstop/bottom of spine + bottom corners, slight 0.2cm shelf knocks top corners, patchy faint light water stains. Contents : front inner hinge tender after frontis else very clean & tight & unfoxed. VG-.…

[Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little rubbed to extremities, bumped to corners, some marks. Very good. This book is a guide for beginners and a reference for the more experienced yachtsman. It considers the design and construction of yachts, as well as navigation, preparation, mooring and etiquette.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 82.