Description

Collins, Published 1975. Hardcover, 96 pp.; 29 cm; First Edition; illustrated throughout with the author's paintings and drawings in color, two-color and black-and-white, including fold-out panorama of Auckland in 1902 and 1907; map endpapers. In Good+ condition with a Good dust jacket. Blue textured paper over boards, gold lettering on spine. Spine ends bumped, mild shelf wear, some color loss along edges of covers and at head and foot of spine. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked, a few small spots to final blank leaf. Illustrated dust jacket with two paintings on front panel, line drawings on blue rear panel. Chip with loss at foot of rear panel, small losses at upper corners of rear panel, tears and creases along head of both panels, small chips at spine ends and upper left corner of front panel, a few small spots on rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Pictorial history of the Waitemata in the artist's own paintings and sketches, with extended captions, from the first European landing through sail, steam, container ships and yachting. Plates include the barque Pamir, the Chilean training ship Esmeralda, the container ship ACT 4, the Sunderland flying boat at Hobsonville, and the Baltic ketch Fri, sketched in 1972 before she sailed to Mururoa in 1973 to protest French atomic tests and was boarded by the French Navy. A color chart illustrates racing yacht classes with their designers. Gainor Wilmott Jackson (1926-1997) grew up in Devonport fifty yards from the harbour entrance. According to the jacket, his grandfather and uncle were professional painters; he attended spare-time classes at Auckland's Elam School of Art and worked as an importer, producing this series at 48. He also co-wrote Concrete Boatbuilding (1969). He thanks his brother Gifford, the industrial designer Gifford Jackson (1922-2015). Author's photograph on rear flap by Marti Friedlander. Contents: Downtown Auckland from the sea; Preface; From Sail to Steam (Auckland wharves 1890; Jane Gifford and Marama; St Marys Bay 1929; St Marys Bay 1972; Fri; Pamir and tug William C. Daldy); The Waterfront Today (The afternoon of the ferries; Aboard a Devonport ferry; Waterfront Workers' Training School; m.v. Sussex at Bledisloe wharf; ACT 4 arriving; Steel barge being built; North Head; Esmeralda; Mariners Cove; Fisherman's Wharf restaurant; Spirit of Adventure); Pleasure Boating (Anniversary Day Regatta; Ariki; Hauraki Gulf scene; Yachts at Narrow Neck; Herald Island; Frostbites in Rangitoto Channel; Stanley Point and Tehani; Lady Gay and Volante; Buccaneer).