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ROBINSON, Bill, comp. and ed 80 Years of Yachting. 1st in dj.
Dodd, Mead, 1987, ISBN:0396089585
ROBINSON, Bill, comp. and ed. 80 Years of Yachting. NY: Dodd, Mead, (1987).Pp 291. 8vo, blue spine with blue boards. Contents include: "How Resolute Kept the Cup" by Herbert L. Stone; "The Kaiser's Ocean Race" by Edmund Randolph; "The Fastnet Disaster" by Guy Gurney; "Cup Goes Down Under" by Guy Gurney and Jack Somer; "Croesus and His Steam Yacht" by Arthur F. Aldridge; "The Last of the New Bedford Whalers and the End of the Wanderer" by WilliamH. Taylor; "First Airplane to Bermuda" by Zeh Bouck; "The President Goes C ruising" by Paul D. Rust Jr. and James Roosevelt; "The Boat that Came Back"by Joseph Chase Allen; "The 'Mystery' of the Mary Celeste" by Oliver W. Co bb; "End of a Bootlegger" by Vincent Gilpin; "The Snatch and the Sunbeam" by Arthur W. Bull; "Five Flashes East" by Harold Waters; "Captain America Rides Again" by Jeff Hammond; "In Their Hour of Triumph" by John Hersey; "Wanted: Wholesome Boats for the America's Cup" by Sir Thomas Lipton; "On Shipyards and Drawbridges" by Catherine Drinker Bowen; "Designing America's Cup Defender" by W. Starling Burgess; "Tank Tests in Yacht Designing" by Olin J. Stephens II; "From 'Golwobblers' to 'Mae Wests'" by C. Sherman Hoyt; "'DoYou Anchor at Night?'" by Ann Davison; "Racing Starts & Rounding Buoys" by Bus Mosbacher; "Single-Handed Passages" by Francis Chichester; ""A Western Ocean Cruise in Wartime" by George H. Dillenback; "San Pedro to Key West i n Wartime" by Charles Peterson; "Squadron 'X'" by Hugh B. Cave; "In the Path of the Hurricane" by R.F. Hainge; "Skippers We Can Live Without" by William H. Taylor; "The Crew I Can Do Without" by Alfred F. Loomis; "100 Tons ofBronze, Son" by Cleveland Amory; "The Cruise of the Yakaboo" by F.W. Fenge r; "Discovering Islands" by Irving Johnson; "Icebound in the Far North" by Donald MacMillan; "Into the Solomons" by Harold La Borde; "Deep Sea Passage" by Frank W. Hamilton, Jr.; "A Dream Comes True, the Hard Way" by Jack A. Somer. Vg in price-clipped dj. 20.00
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ROBINSON, Bill America's Sailing Book. 1st US in dj
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1976,
ROBINSON, Bill. America's Sailing Book. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976). First Printing. Pp 277. Illustrated. Lg 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 2206. PartI - Introduction to Sailing; Part II - Racing; Part III - Cruising and Day Sailing. Vg in dj. 25.00
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ROBINSON, Jackie DEXTER, Charles. AARON, Hank. YANCEY, Bill. Baseball Has Done It. 1st in dj.
Lippincott, 1964,
ROBINSON, Jackie. Baseball Has Done It. Edited by Charles Dexter. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1964). First edition. Pp 216. 8vo, tan cloth. Cloth slightly discoloured, top edge dusty, else vg in rubbed, nicked dj. 75.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Best Sailing Spots Worldwide. 1st US in dj
Hearst Marine, 1991,
ROBINSON, Bill. Best Sailing Spots Worldwide. N.Y.: Hearst Marine, (1991). First Printing. Pp 304. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth spine, white boards. 23 chapters arranged in 4 parts: Summer 1. Splendid Desolation: The Best of the Pacific Northwest; 2. Balmy Newfoundland: Easy Cruising on its East Coast; 3. A Good "invention": Southern New England Waters; 4. The West Coast of New England: What Vermonters Call Their Lake Champlain Shore; 5. The Skagerrak's Shores of Norway and Sweden; 6. A Dutch Treat: Canal Barging in Holland; Spring and Fall 7. Not Really Wine Dark: The Aegean of Many Legends; 8. Never in Summer, But Otherwise "Yes" for the Chesapeake; 9. A Civilized Cruise: Florida's West Coast; 10. Making the Most of the Coast: Northern and Southern California; 11. One-City Cruise: Sydney, Australia Has the Makings; Winter 12. Hub of the Bahamas: Fanning Out from Nassau's Central Location; 13. Learning from Children: A New Look at the British Virgins; 14. Three-Nation Cruise: In the St.Martin Area; 15. The High Islands: The Mountainous Lesser Antilles; 16. The Low Islands: The Well-Situated Grenadines; 17. Tall Ship in the Trades: From Easter Island to the Galapagos; 18. To Leeward of tahiti: The Raiatea - Bora-Bora Area; 19. In Captain Cook's Wake: New Zealand's Bay of Islands; 20. The Mysterious () East: Cruising Out of Phuket, Thailand; Afterthoughts 21. Long Voyage Routes; 22. How to Arrange Charters; 23. Personal Opinions: Boats and Rigs. With bibliography and index. Vgin dj. 22.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Destruction at Noonday. in dj.
Sheridan House, 1992, ISBN:0-924486-21-X
ROBINSON, Bill. Destruction at Noonday. (Dobbs Ferry, NY): Sheridan House, (1992). Pp 211. 8vo, red cloth. "A Novel of Nautical Peril and Adventure." -from the dust jacket. Based on the experiences of his uncle on the Empressof Australia during the 1923 Yokohama earthquake, former Yachting editor R obinson offers a tale of disaster, entrapment, and doomed love set on boarda transpacific liner of the golden age. Vg in dj. 15.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Islands. 1st US in dj
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1985, ISBN:0396084974
ROBINSON, Bill. Islands. N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1985). First Edition. Pp 228. Illustrated. 8vo, brown cloth spine. Toy 2974 : "An evocation of islands and the island state of mind". Contents : The Greek Islands; The Mediterranean; Northern Europe; East of New York; Nantucket; The Great Lakes; Offshore in the Atlantic; Into the Caribbean; Down the Antilles; The "Other" Caribbean; The Pacific Coast; Hawaii and the South Pacific; The Southwest andFar Pacific; Moorea. Vg in nicked dj. 25.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Legendary Yachts. 1st US in clipped dj
Macmillan, New York, 1971,
ROBINSON, Bill. Legendary Yachts. N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (1971). First Printing. Pp (10),1-293,(1). Illustrated. Lg 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 0093. Asurvey of American luxury yachts. Contents : It Started with Royalty; Cleo patra's Barge; America; The Vanderbilts; The Morgans; The Height of Luxury;Aloha; Sea Cloud; Atlantic; Savarona; Ranger; After World War II; Nina; Ti conderoga; Finisterre; Chanticleer; Intrepid. With index. Vg in price-clipped dj. 30.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Legendary Yachts. 1st US in dj
Macmillan, New York, 1971,
ROBINSON, Bill. Legendary Yachts. N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (1971). First Printing. Pp (10),1-293,(1). Illustrated. Lg 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 0093. Asurvey of American luxury yachts. Contents : It Started with Royalty; Cleo patra's Barge; America; The Vanderbilts; The Morgans; The Height of Luxury;Aloha; Sea Cloud; Atlantic; Savarona; Ranger; After World War II; Nina; Ti conderoga; Finisterre; Chanticleer; Intrepid. With index. Vg in dj. 35.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Legendary Yachts. 1st US no dj
Macmillan, New York, 1971,
ROBINSON, Bill. Legendary Yachts. N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (1971). First Printing. Pp (10),1-293,(1). Illustrated. Lg 8vo, blue cloth. Toy 0093. Asurvey of American luxury yachts. Contents : It Started with Royalty; Cleo patra's Barge; America; The Vanderbilts; The Morgans; The Height of Luxury;Aloha; Sea Cloud; Atlantic; Savarona; Ranger; After World War II; Nina; Ti conderoga; Finisterre; Chanticleer; Intrepid. Vg. 25.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Right Boat for You. in dj.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1974, ISBN:0030122465
ROBINSON, Bill. The Right Boat for You. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1974). Pp 214. 8vo, red cloth. Toy 4477. "A complete illustrated guide to selecting and buying a boat: sail or power, used or new, for racing, cruising,or daysailing." -from the dj. Vg in price-clipped dj. 20.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Sailing Life and How to Enjoy It. 1st pr in dj.
Scribner's, 1974,
ROBINSON, Bill. The Sailing Life and How to Enjoy It. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). First printing. Pp 316. Large 8vo, blue cloth. The editor of Yachting magazine offers both practical advice on cruising and racing, and reflections on a lifetime of sailing experience. Gift inscription, else vg in dj. 27.50
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ROBINSON, Bill Sailing Life and How to Enjoy It.. 1st pr in dj.
Scribner's, 1974,
ROBINSON, Bill. The Sailing Life and How to Enjoy It. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). First Printing. Pp 316. Large 8vo, blue cloth. The editor of Yachting magazine offers both practical advice on cruising and racing, and reflections on a lifetime of sailing experience. Vg in rubbed, torn dj. 25.00
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ROBINSON, Bill Sailor's Tales. 1st pr. in dj.
Norton, 1978,
ROBINSON, Bill. A Sailor's Tales. NY: Norton, (1978). First Printing. Pp 347. 8vo, blue cl. sp. with blue paper-covered boards. Toy 0236. The long-time editor of Yachting magazine offers reflections on a life of nautical experience: from youthful follies in sailing dinghies to the ordeal of wartime naval service; from Mediterranean cruises to the challenge of organizing Operation Sail. Name, else vg in rubbed dj. 30.00
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ROBINSON, Bill, (ed.) Science of Sailing. rev ed in dj.
Charles Scribners' Sons, New York, 1961,
ROBINSON, Bill, (ed.). The Science of Sailing . Bill Robinson, Editor. [Dj adds: The most advanced new techniques of small boat sailing, revealed by today's top experts in a comprehensive and profusely illustrated guide]. NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961). Revised Edition. Pp. [i]-x,[1]-210, (4). Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth with blank spine. Toy 2220. Slightly cocked, spine sunned with text from jacket spine faded onto the spine, else vg in nicked, price-clipped dj. 17.50
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ROBINSON, Bill Where to Cruise. book club in dj.
Norton, 1984,
ROBINSON, Bill. Where to Cruise. N.Y.: Norton, (1984). Book Club Edition. Pp 310. 8vo, maroon spine with brown boards. Toy 2733. A personal selection of the besting cruising waters in the United States, Caribbean, Europe, andthe Pacific, by the long-serving editor of Yachting magazine. Vg in rubbed , nicked dj. 20.00
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