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Reynolds, Henry.
Coastwise--Cross-Seas: The Tribulations and Triumphs of a Casual
Cruiser.
London: Potter, 1921. 304 pages. Portrait.
Relates various cruises between 1881-1910. Cloth-covered hardcover binding.
Good, edges slightly worn, spine sunned. #12883. $60
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Reynolds, Henry.
Spanish Waters.
Boston: Lauriat Coy, 1924? 304 pages. Maps. Photographs. Frontispiece portrait.
Good hardcover, foxing on verso of half-title page and on title page; date
(1924) written in ballpoint on bottom of title page; name in ink on blank front
flyleaf; some foxing. #12081. $17.50
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Ridgway, John, and Andy Briggs.
Round the World Non-Stop.
Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens, 1985. Reprinted. 236 pages. Illustrations.
Plans. Photographs.
Yacht voyage around the world. Very good hardcover binding.
ISBN 0850597579. #12174. $15
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Rigg, J. Linton.
Bahama Islands. Illustrated by the author.
New York: Van Nostrand, 1959. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book).
xviii, 168 pages. Photographs. Maps, including folding map. Frontispiece.
Yachtsman's guide to the Bahamas. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and
rubbed dust jacket. Some foxing in both book and dust jacket. #23061.
$12.50
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Riggs, Doug.
Keelhauled: Unsportsmanlike Conduct and the America's Cup.
Newport, Rhode Island: Seven Seas Press, 1986. 1st printing. x, 308 pages.
Diagrams. Photographs. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket.
ISBN 067161293X. #16984. $7.50
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Robertson, Dougal.
Survive the Savage Sea.
Drawings by Pam Littlewood. New York: Praeger, 1973. 1st printing. 269 pages.
Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper color maps. Laid in are two 3 x 4-inch
undated color photographs taken at South Street Seaport, one showing the author
and the dingy, the other showing the author and his wife in front of the dingy.
A family's 37-day survival in the Pacific in 1972 after sinking of their
43-foot schooner by killer whales. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and
frayed dust jacket. #26488. $20
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Robinson, Bill.
A Berth to Bermuda.
Foreword by Alfred F. Loomis. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1961. 1st edition. Small
4to. xv, 120 pages. Photographs. Endpaper plans. A Van Nostrand Sporting Book.
'Here is the famous Bermuda Race in words and pictures, as seen by Bill
Robinson. He has combined his talents as a writer, a photographer and a blue
water sailor to give you an intimate and exciting view of sailing in this
classic ocean race.' - Front cover. Very good hardcover in worn and slightly
torn dust jacket. #28497. $7.50
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Robinson, Bill.
Over the Horizon: The Best of Cruising.
Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1966. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 180 pages. Index.
Photographs.
A selection of articles that first appeared in Cruising magazine. Very good
hardcover. #21014. $8
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Robinson, William A.
Voyage to Galapagos.
Illustrated by Daniel T. West. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. 1st edition.
viii, 279 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Photographs.
Good hardcover, spine slightly sunned; former owner's name in ink on blank front flyleaf. #11349. $20
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Rose, Alec.
My Lively Lady.
New York: McKay, 1969. 1st American edition. x, 187 pages. Photographs. Maps. Plan.
Front endpaper illustration and rear endpaper map. Heaton, 204.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #11362. $12.50
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Rosenow, Frank.
Sailing Craft.
Boston: Sail Books, 1983. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). [xii], 128 pages. Illustrations.
Diagrams. Plans.
Boats, design, designers, and sailors. Very good hardcover in chipped and worn
dust jacket. ISBN 0914814338. #11363. $7.50
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Roth, Hal.
Two against Cape Horn.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. 1st edition. 288 pages. Color and black-and-white
photographs. Maps.
Circumnavigating Cape Horn from San Francisco to the East Coast in the 35-foot
sloop Whisper. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket, with slight page
burn on front and rear end pages. ISBN 039303223X. #27484. $7.50
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Roth, Hal.
Two on a Big Ocean: The Story of the First Circumnavigation of
the Pacific Basin in a Small Sailing Ship.
New York: Macmillan, 1972. 1st printing. 288 pages. Bibliographical notes.
Photographs. Maps. Endpaper Maps.
The 19-months voyage spent circumnavigating the Pacific Ocean, from San
Francisco to Tahiti and the South Seas, then to Japan, the sub-Arctic
Aleutians, and the mountainous Alaskan and Canadian coasts in their 35-foot
sail Whisper. Good hardcover in fair (worn, slightly torn, and frayed ) dust
jacket. #12953. $7.50
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Roth, Hal.
We Followed Odysseus. Photographs by Hal Roth.
Port Washington, Wisconsin: Seaworthy Publications, 1999. 1st printing. xii,
225 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. Signed by both authors.
The veteran sailor-authors retrace the voyages of Odysseus along the Turkish
coast and the isles of Greece in their 35-foot sailboat. They sail to a desert
island in Tunisia, visit Sicily and Corsica, and continue to Italy and Malta
before returning to Greece. - Front dust jacket panel. Very good hardcover in
very good dust jacket. ISBN 1892399032. #28499. $27.50
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