Hervey G Smith (8 results)

Condition: Good. Revised. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Revised. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. Revised. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Dust Jacket spine sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; ISBN: 0828600449. ISBN/EAN: 9780828600446. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25302.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. A classic maritime references on traditional sailor arts, including decorative ropework, canvas craft, whippings, splicing, and sennit making. Covers essential knots (such as the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch) alongside instructions for working with both traditional natural fibers and modern synthetic ropes. Step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations for practical and decorative items like rope mats, ladders, fenders, ditty bags, canvas buckets, and sea chests. A clean copy with no issues.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A beautifully illustrated how-to book showing , in intricate detail, the old-time skills of the sailor in rope work and knot work and mats.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1937. First Edition. February, 1937 [Vol XXII, No. 1]. Octavo, original printed wraps, 34 pp. graphic plates, mostly photograpsh, plus 118 pp. Near Fine; signature of the long-lived original subscriber, Ethelinda M. James, at top front and center, and a demure lower corner tweak (scans); otherwise, without flaw, and virtually as new in 1937. Very high grade example. Binding is, of course, sturdy. See scans. Eight outstanding photographs by the great Ansel Adams, and at the rear there is a Cedric Wright trifold spread panorama of the Sierra Nevada from the vicinity of Independence. Besides Adams and Wright, other contributors from the posse of photographic and illustrative talent in this issue were: Roy Curtis, Frank Webb, Lewis F. Clark, Henry E. Timby, Hervey Voge, Hermann F. Ulrichs, Dwight Watson, Ynes Mexia, Richard G. Johnson. Several topical sketches sprinkled throughout, as well. Articles (see scan of contents page) byFrancois E. Matthes, William E.Colby, Hervey Voge, Bestor Robinson, Louise Hewlett, Hermann F. Ulrichs, James N. Smith, Ynes Mexia, and Glen Dawson. And as always a variety of regular and special departments. Please review all scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LSC2. Ansel Adams, Roy Curtis, Frank Webb, Lewis F. Clark, Henry E. Timby, Hervey Voge, Cedric Wright, Hermann F. Ulrichs, Dwight Watson, Ynes Mexia, Richard G. Johnson (illustrator).…