Enterprise: The Story of the Defense of the America's Cup in 1930
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates, fold-out charts. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii, 230 pages.
Well illustrated volume devoted to the first of Vanderbilt's two successful defenses of the America's Cup in the J-Class Enterprise. Most of the excellent photographs herein are by Morris Rosenfeld and Edwin Levick.
Covers the challenge from Sir Thomas Lipton, the design of Enterprise by Starling Burgess, her construction by Herreshoff, and many details of crew selection, trials and preliminary races, other prospective defenders, tuning up, and finally the match races themselves. Appendices include the Deed of Gift of the America's Cup to the New York Yacht Club as a perpetual Challenge Cup, the rules governing the 1930 America's Cup races, and a record of the previous races for the America's Cup back to 1851.
Ref. TOY 1626; MORRIS p. 148.
Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped titles to spine and upper board, gilt and white-stamped yacht illustration at center of upper board. Spine slightly faded, minor extremity bumps and light wear, prior ownership stamp at top fore corner of front pastedown, and same name and 1933 date penned to front free endpaper. Some foxing and browning to text and plates, and prior owner made a few notations to race record in Appendix III. Sound in binding. A good copy.
Item #2190
Price: $175