Vintage Sailing Books Bundle: Sailing Boats of the World + The Racing Sailor’s Bible
$34.99
A practical vintage sailing book bundle for anyone who likes boats, racing strategy, yacht classes, and old-school nautical reference.
This set pairs a hefty hardcover sailboat class guide with a softcover racing manual full of tactics, rules, drawings, and photographs.
Not perfect, but definitely useful. These are the kind of books that look right at home near a lake house shelf, workshop table, or sailor’s reading chair.
Quick Specs
- Genre: Vintage Nautical Reference, Sailing, Boating, Yacht Racing
- Authors/Editors: Rhonda Budd, editor; Hervey Garrett Smith
- Publishers: Prentice-Hall; Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Year: Sailing Boats of the World: 1974; The Racing Sailor’s Bible: 1972
- Edition: The Racing Sailor’s Bible: First Edition stated
- Format: One hardcover with dust jacket + one softcover paperback
- Dust Jacket: Yes, present on Sailing Boats of the World; no dust jacket issued for softcover
- Pages: Sailing Boats of the World: 1,237 pages; The Racing Sailor’s Bible: 168 pages
- Dimensions: Hardcover: 9 x 6 x 3 in.; Softcover: 10 x 8 x .25 in.
- Cover: Hardcover has a bright blue cloth cover under a color pictorial dust jacket; softcover has a blue sailing cover with colorful racing sails and original $2.50 price circle
- Special Features: Over 1,800 sailboat classes listed in the hardcover; line drawings, specifications, supplier information, indexed reference format, color yachting photograph section, racing tactics, glossary, rules, and black-and-white sailing photographs
- ISBN: Sailing Boats of the World: 013786129X; The Racing Sailor’s Bible: 0385053185
Condition Grade: Good
Notes: Two-book vintage sailing bundle with solid reference value and visible age/use. Sailing Boats of the World has a bright blue hardcover beneath the dust jacket, with illustrated pages clean enough for practical use. The dust jacket shows wear, rubbing, edge wear, creasing, and age toning. The binding is split, but all pages are firmly attached. There is pencil writing on the contents page. Page edges show age toning. The Racing Sailor’s Bible softcover shows cover wear, rubbing, corner/edge wear, surface marks, and small creases. Interior pages appear readable with typical age toning. Both books are sold together as a usable vintage nautical reference bundle.
See all photos for detail. Sold as pictured.
This pair joins the 1974 Sailing Boats of the World, with over 1,800 sailboat classes, and a stated first edition of the 1972 Racing Sailor’s Bible, and it suits a sailor’s reference shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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