Enterprise: the story of the defense of the America's Cup in 1930
by Vanderbilt, Harold S
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, 4to, pp. [4], xvii, [1], 230; tipped in color frontispiece, numerous plates from photographs, charts, plans, etc. (some folding); edges and corners a little worn, 3½ x 1 inch stain on front cover, plus two other smaller and less obvious ones, else a very good copy in original quarter blue buckram lettered in gilt, embossed America's Cup ornament on upper cover, t.e.g.; without the scarce publisher's blue folding box. This copy is no. 19 and is inscribed by Vanderbilt on the limitation page to "Edmund Lang with the compliments of Harold S. Vanderbilt." Lang, who died in 1940, was a member of the New York Yacht Club, and was Chairman of the America's Cup Race Committee in 1930, the year Vanderbilt and his J-Boat Enterprise won the America's Cup.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40203
- Title
- Enterprise: the story of the defense of the America's Cup in 1930
- Author
- Vanderbilt, Harold S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- America's Cup Races , Yachting , , Sailing
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