Manfred Curry (148 results)

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

Condition: Acceptable. Book has considerable wear. No highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Cloth. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. Photographs, Diagrams (illustrator). Revised Edition. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. VG/No Dustjacket. (1973). Revised Edition. Cloth. 8vo., xiv, 347 pp., Some minor staining of cover .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. GOOD SOLID COPY! Has some minimal underlining, otherwise would be VG condition. Most pages clean, binding tight and sound. No jacket. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. C2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Revised edition. 347p., illus.

Hardcover. Revis and Enlarg Fifth ition edition. Good/No Jacket (34814) . Hardcover, good condition, w. ltly rubbed brds, sme lt marks. Sunned spine. Smwht slanted and compressed sp, ltly bumped corners. Smwht tanned p. edges, sme soil/soil foxing. Smwht tanned eps. Sig on fixed fr ep. O/w cln, tight, unmarked. 298.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo (6.75 x 9.5 in.). Green cloth over boards, stamped gilt titles on spine. No stains, still bright, sharp corners. Paper is glossy, art quality, which gives the photos and illustrations extra clarity. Four pages have slight "corner crimps", otherwise clean. Jacket shows wear with some closed separations. Spine section has missing paper at top & bottom but is still doing its job.

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

Condition: Fair. Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nässe; Leichte Risse; Geknickte Ecken; Deutlicher Riss. Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso.

Hardcover. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 118. Illustrated with 100 full page halftones in a variety of colours. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Manfrd Curry was an accomplished yachtsman who represented the US at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games,he sailed more than 1400 regattas, many of which he won. In later life he worked as a doctor specialising in bioclimatics and became the self-proclaimed discoverer of the pseudoscientific phenomenon of "geomagnetic lines" or "Earth radiation" called the Curry Grid. . In 1925, Curry wrote a pioneering book on yacht aerodynamics and racing tactics, published through to the present day and widely translated, describing how he undertook a scientific study on sailboat design, testing various rig configurations in a wind-tunnel at Göttingen. The significance of his book within yachting has been described by stating that he was the first to bring engineering analysis of the design of sailboats to the public eye. In the book, he describes several of his inventions or developments that are in widespread use today, including the fully battened mainsail, developments to Genoa jibsails and spinnakers, the 'Park Avenue' boom and the cam cleat (Called the "Curryklemme" in German). He described two successful racing dinghies as well as innovations used on an America's Cup yacht. Cove a bit whimpled; Text and plates are in Very Good shape.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1949 Revised Edition, grey cloth binding with blue stamped title on front panel and spine cover, binding tight and square no damage, no DJ, text clean and unmarked names on PO on past down fep.

Tela con sobrecubierta. Condition: Buen estado. 311pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with photographic inset on front cover, gilt lettering on front board and along spine. Front hinge split. PO name on FFEP (first page).

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (sailing, boats, racing, instruction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. 1949. 1949 reprint. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning to edges Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning.

Hardback. Reprint. 9 x 12 inches, mostly b&w photos. 120 Good. Some pages are unevenly bound with edges protruding slightly. In a poor dust wrapper.

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

Cloth. Condition: FR/No Dustjacket. Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator). New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. FR/No Dustjacket. 1932. . Cloth. 8vo., 254 pp., cover rubbed, faded, bumped & frayed, hingers cracked, soiling, water damage in binding .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Later Printing. No dustjacket, bound in green cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Reading copy only, due to water damage to top edge of cover spine that bleeds slightly into interior pages, heavy fading to cover spine, some foxing to edges of interior pages, slight bowing to covers. Otherwise, tight, sound, unmarked copy except for name crossed out on inside front cover, minimal page wear. No Signature.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. (Revised by Edward J. Cox and Edward D. Muhlfeld, including 1973 Revision of NAYRU Rules) Large, heavy book, shiny dark blue cloth with light blue diagram of boat moves at top front right, blue and white lettering on spine very fine, ink name at top of first front end paper, browned at left of first front end paper, 347 pages. DJ glossy with color photo of sail boats on front and spine, b/w photo of Curry on back. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Reprint. Illustrated profusely in black and white. 253 pages. Tall 8vo, tan cloth with blue lettering. New York: Scribner, 1949. Corners worn, outer edges of text block spotted. Internally clean and tight. Very good.

Cloth. Condition: G-G+. No Jacket. None Stated. 75 pp + approximately 125 p of b/w photos and sketches ( 205 sketches, 50 photos and 100 questions total ), the book and contents are clean and tight, there is light extremity foxing, former owner name inked on front endpaper, the covers are solid and tight, the front cover has a 4.75" x 6.25" photo pasted on of a racing sailboat, there is some extremity wear and soil on tcovers, a very solid and usable book on yacht racing.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Yacht Racing - The Aerodynamics of Sails and Racing Tactics. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Panels soiled. Folds, edges and spine worn. Mylar cover. Clipped. Age-toned. Otherwise clean and unmarked copy in very good condition. 100 Pages.

Hardcover. 8vo, blue pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine and cover. 253 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Some wear at extremities, spine slightly sunned, otherwise good.

Condition: New.