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SHIELDS, CORNELIUS - Cornelius Shields on Sailing

Title: Cornelius Shields on Sailing
Description: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1964. Hardcover. A likely first edition of Cornelius Shields's guide to sailing. Per the jacket flap, this investment banker/yachtsman ".shares his winning secrets and expert advice.[Shields] has probably won more races than any man alive." With black & white photos throughout, most of which by Morris Rosenfeld, and an introduction by Bus Mosbacher. --- In ivory cloth-covered boards with sail numbers in blue and in blind to front cover; titling in blue foil to spine. Dust jacket with color & black & white photos to front & back panels. --- With a few spots of soiling to leaves, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket ($7.95) with considerable rubbing, and with chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (2), 240 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Outdoor Pursuits & Recreation

Price: US$ 14.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87027