The Lawson History of the America's Cup. A Record of Fifty Years

by Winifield M. Thompson, Thomas W. Lawson

$1,850 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Boston, MA: Thomas W. Lawson, 1902. Sailing LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, number 989 of 3000 copies thus, inscribed in black ink to The Hubbardston Library. Quarto 29 x 20cm , pp.xv; 402. With 89 illustrated plates in colour and black and white, with captioned tissue-guards. Elegantly bound by Conway of Halifax in navy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels on the spine, and further gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt, others

• Binding: Leather

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