Description:
New York: Macmillan, 1945. Reprint originally published in 1928. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.75"), XXI & 786 pp., with illustrations from photographs plus drawings by Harry Parker. Publisher's green cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, lightly rubbed, modest foxing/ offsetting mostly at endpapers, pastedowns, & edges of the textblock, gift inscription in ink at front pastedown, otherwise very good in worn dust jacket, rubbed, creased, soiled, with edge wear including tears & losses, good or so.
"One of the most authoritative and complete books on sailing and racing ever published." ~From the dust jacket.