The HISTORY OF NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
This, the official history of the New York Yacht Club, the United States’ oldest and most prestigious boating club--its clubhouse holding for many years the America’s Cup--was written because the NYYC’s official centenary history came out in 1944 during World War II, as a modest paperback. In the mid-1960’s, John Parkinson, Jr., a sailor but not a historian, volunteered to write a major history worthy of the Club’s storied past. For this part of the effort, college student David Alan Richards, (while he lived in the NYYC’s clubhouse of West 44th Street in New York City over two summers), was hired to research the Club’s social history from 1844 onwards, and prepare biographical studies of the Club’s storied Commodores. Parkinson then incorporated this material into a year-by-year treatment of NYYC races and regatta, while acknowledging Richards’s work in his treatment of the year 1966. Mr. Parkinson died before the two volumes were published, necessitating an editor, who put the two-volume project into final form, as privately published by the Club.
Kipling and His First Publisher: Correspondence of Rudyard Kipling with Thacker, Spink and Co. 1886-1890
This edition publishes, for the first time, the letters written by Rudyard Kipling to his Indian publishers, Thacker, Spink and Company of Calcutta. They describe in detail the publishing history of Kipling’s first two books, Departmental Ditties and Plain Tales from the Hills. The letters were bought in 1991 by the late distinguished Kipling collector, Miss Matilda Tyler, and now form part of the Tyler Collection in the Beinecke Library of Yale University.
