Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924.
First edition of Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924; inscribed by William K. Vanderbilt
Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924.
VANDERBILT, William K.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 143551
New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1925.
First edition of Vanderbilt’s account of his 1924 three-month summer cruise aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To C. M. … from W. K. Vanderbilt June 26th 1925.” In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
A member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family, William "Willie" Kissam Vanderbilt II was a skilled sailor and yachtsman. Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the New York Central Railroad Company, on his father's death in 1920, "Willie" inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. In 1925, he traded his luxury yacht Eagle for ownership of Fisher Island, Florida, a place he used as a winter residence. The present volume recounts Vanderbilt's three-month 1924 summer cruise across the Atlantic on the 231-foot diesel yacht Ara.
