Advanced Racing Tactics
by Walker, Stuart H
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393031845
- ISBN 13
- 9780393031843
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Thomas Price. Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition in a Good Jacket. Dr. Stuart Walker, one of America's leading racing sailors in his day, has written this book taking off where is earlier books left off, with his focus on racing in large fleets, at major championship events, in open water - national regattas, Olympic trials and the like. Clean blue cloth binding with white sailing vessels and spine and gilt lettering. Tight and solid. A touch of wear to corner tips and spine edges. Internals as new. White jacket is clean, with blue and red print, blue sailing vessels; upper edge wear, chipping to upper spine, wrinkling on lower edge, a chip out of the flap edge. Archival protective jacket cover. 399 pages with Glossary and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1976, W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008513
- Title
- Advanced Racing Tactics
- Author
- Walker, Stuart H
- Illustrator
- Thomas Price
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0393031845
- ISBN 13
- 9780393031843
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- YACHT RACING SPORTS RECREATION BOATING
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...