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St. Lawrence Reservation - Recreation Circular 5


Strough, Arthur B.

Softcover. Albany, State of New York, 1st Thus, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. Paper covers. Guide book to New York's St. Lawrence Reservation circa 1932. Features black & white photographs, and fold-out map. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 612803


Price: $38.00 

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway - Great National Route - Schedule - June 1st, 1879Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway - Great National Route - Schedule - June 1st, 1879


Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway

Softcover. Chicago, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folding schedule and map for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway circa 1879. Some short closed tears along edges. Standard darkening to paper.

Record # 614159


Price: $75.00 

 

London


Henrey, Robert, Illust. by: Phyllis Ginger

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton Co. Ink, reprint, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 290 pages. Water colors by Phyllis Ginger. Dust jacket worn, chipped, price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809812


Price: $12.00 

 

Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide


Omrani, Bijan & Matthew Leeming

Softcover. New York , Odyssey Books & Guides, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 772 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855137


Price: $31.00 

 

Long Walk, The: A Gamble for Life


Rawicz, Slavomir

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, hardcover. Tales of trekking. Fading and bumping to spine. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to top and bottom board edges. Bumping to corners, fraying. Light pencil marking to half title page. Rough-cut fore edge. A tight copy.

Record # 952193


Price: $19.00 

 

Cevennes Journal, The: Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands


Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket and covers.

Record # 2233499


Price: $15.00 

 

Farthing Candle, The


Farquharson, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Black fabric covers. Author photo glued to page opposite title page and original cover from dust jacket partially glued to title page. Spine slightly cocked. Mostly clean inside with a touch of foxing to endpapers and edges. Original owner inscription on front endpaper dated 1955, and personalized ink stamp on top edge. In very good shape considering age.

Record # 30650


Price: $19.00 

 

Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells


Iyer, Pico

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Mustard cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover board. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Decorated endpapers. In beautiful, like-new condition. Lyrical, rooted and intimate, Autumn Light gives us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.

Record # 32321


Price: $19.00 

 

PILGRIMAGE TO PALESTINE, A


Fosdick, Henry E.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color map frontispiece. 332 pages. Uncut. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt. VG.

Record # 220579


Price: $10.00 

 

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes


Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, na, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages, maroon cloth, fading to spine. top edge gilt. B&w frontispiece by Walter Crane with tissue guard. Clean.

Record # 407384


Price: $19.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLII July - December 1922


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.

Record # 415527


Price: $50.00 

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and GreedVaillant, John
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed


Vaillant, John

Softcover. 1st edition, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, tight and clean.

Record # 450795


Price: $12.00 

Wilderness and the American Mind, Third Edition by: Nash, Roderick

Wilderness and the American Mind, Third Edition by: Nash, Roderick

Softcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 3rd, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, slight scratch to for-edge. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453613
Price: $12.00 

 

Hard Way Home, The : Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt


Kahn, Steve

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 457746


Price: $15.00 

 

Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake


Brown, Monty

Hardcover. US, Quiller Pr, 1st, 1992-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462334


Price: $31.00 

 

Leaf in The Wind, A


Hudson, Peter

Hardcover. US, Flamingo / Fontana Paperbacks, 1st, 1988-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463817


Price: $13.00 

BRISTOL: PROFILE OF A CITYSHIPSIDES, HELENA and Frank Eason

BRISTOL: PROFILE OF A CITY


SHIPSIDES, HELENA and Frank Eason

Hardcover. US, REDCLIFFE PRESS LTD, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages. Light foxing on front end paper, minor wear to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.

Record # 466519


Price: $13.00 

Other Side of the Tiber, The: Reflections on Time in ItalyWilde-Menozzi, Wallis
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Other Side of the Tiber, The: Reflections on Time in Italy


Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471484


Price: $15.00 

 

Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure


Graves, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription on reverse of front endpaper. Rubbing to cloth on upper half of back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606955


Price: $20.00 

 

Everest - The West Ridge


Hornbein, Thomas F./Norman G. Dyhrenfurth

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1st UK, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Dust jacket price clipped, shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611548


Price: $63.00 

Map Showing Railroad Connections with the Works of The New England Gas & Coke Co.New England Gas & Coke Co.
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Map Showing Railroad Connections with the Works of The New England Gas & Coke Co.


New England Gas & Coke Co.

Softcover. Boston, New England Gas & Coke Co., 1st, na, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Fold-out color map in softcover wraps of the Greater Boston, Massachusetts region as related to The New England Gas & Coke Company circa 1899. Booklet measures: 6.75" L X 4.25" W. Small tear in very center of map folds. Ex-museum library copy with "Gift of..." sticker at bottom of inside cover. Light wear.

Record # 613918


Price: $125.00 

Over the Range to the Golden Gate by: Wood, Stanley

Over the Range to the Golden Gate by: Wood, Stanley

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1st, 1905, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, b&w photographs, gilt lettering to cover and spine, embossed black illustration to front. Light wear to cover; overall a tight and clean copy. Record # 803220
Price: $12.00 

 

China Safari: An American Explorer in the Forbidden Pamirs


Lee, Robert M.

Hardcover. New York , Sporting World Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated with a special section of color photographs by the author. 269 pages. Red cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, no noticeable wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853034


Price: $50.00 

 

Seven Spanish Cities


Hale , Edward E.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers , 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Gilt titles on front cover and spine. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to top edge. Mild shelf wear and soiling, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857399


Price: $38.00 

Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier
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Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien GuerrierLouis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier

Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier

Softcover. Paris, Louis Vuitton Malletier, 11th, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Approximately 200-250 pages per book. Nine soft cover books in the set. Clean and tight copies. Box has very light edgewear to corners. English text. Maps and illustrations scattered throughout. A still referenced travel guide to the major capital cities of Europe. Record # 2232211
Price: $100.00 

 

'Allo Good-By


Humphrey, Zephine

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1940, 284 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, has a touch of fading, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket price-clipped, has little tanning from age, as well as other agewear (see image). Dj wrapped in protective clear plastic cover. Deckled foreedge. Some tanning to edges, pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. The Author and her husband travel south to Mexico and instead of hitting the most popular tourist sites, they take an altogether different approach.

Record # 32209


Price: $25.00 

 

Guide Book of the Ameriocan Baptist Foreign Mission Society 1918-19


N/A

Paperback. Boston, Amer. Baptist Soc., wraps, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Maps, black & white photos

Record # 55873


Price: $12.00 

 

From the North Foreland to Penzance


Holland, Clive and Maurice Randall

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design and lettering. Illustrated with 30 color plates by Maurice Randall. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 406829


Price: $50.00 

Charleston: Historic City of GardensStevens, William Oliver
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Charleston: Historic City of Gardens


Stevens, William Oliver

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt, 331 pages. Color frontispiece, many b&w drawings by the author. Endpaper map of the city. Spine, top edge of cover faded.

Record # 412094


Price: $29.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - Vol. XXII No. 8 August 1911National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXII No. 8 August 1911


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, ads. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Notes on the Sea Dyaks of Borneo, Tunis of Today, A Journey in Morocco, The Two Great Moorish Religions. Light soil to rear cover.

Record # 415561


Price: $25.00 

Booked on the Morning Train: A Journey Through America by: Scheer, George

Booked on the Morning Train: A Journey Through America by: Scheer, George

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1st pr, April 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 452978
Price: $12.00 

 

Tamrart: 13 days in the Sahara


Clark, Eleanor

Hardcover. S. Wright, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456446


Price: $30.00 

City of Florence, The : Historical Vistas and Personal SightingsLewis, R. W. B.
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City of Florence, The : Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings


Lewis, R. W. B.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460648


Price: $13.00 

 

Portrait of the Isles of Scilly


Mumford, Clive

Hardcover. US, Robert Hale Ltd, rep, 1970-07-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket with faint foxing to inside flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463030


Price: $10.00 

 

Women on High: Pioneers of Mountaineering


Brown, Rebecca A.

Hardcover. US, Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 2st, 2002-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465805


Price: $19.00 

Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaarTheroux, Paul
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Ghost train to the Eastern star: on the tracks of the great railway bazaar


Theroux, Paul

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469033


Price: $15.00 

 

Life Along the Connecticut River


Hooper, Marion

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, b & w photographs, fading on front cover and spine, end papers tanned, gutter cracked at half title page, previous owner's inscription, internally clean.

Record # 603206


Price: $24.00 

 

Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of his American Kin, The


Muirhead, James Fullarton

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal News Company, Limited, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Blue cloth with gilt title on cover and spine. Light wear to corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609838


Price: $30.00 

 

Visit to India, China and Japan, in the Year 1853, A


Taylor, Bayard

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 539 pages. Hardcover. Ex-Library copy with stamp at bottom of half title page; Bookplate on inside front cover. Front endpaper is loose from book. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Card envelope has been gently removed from rear inside cover. Pages 305/306 and 307/308 missing bits of paper at top corner - no lost text. Half leather spine and corners over Marbled boards. Light fade and wear to spine. Spine titles in gilt. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613220


Price: $100.00 

 

Panama Gateway, The


Bishop, Joseph Bucklin

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Dust Jacket: None, 459 pages + fold out maps. B/W photographs. Previous owner's inscription front and back fly leaf. Gutters are cracking, Red cloth covers with gold lettering on front and spine. Some white marks on covers.

Record # 802822


Price: $16.00 

 

Untrodden English Ways


Shelley, Henry C.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, b&w and color plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851348


Price: $25.00 

 

Panorama of Rural England, A


Turner (Ed.), W. J.

Hardcover. New York , Chanticleer Press, 2nd printing, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to green cloth boards, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857054


Price: $15.00 

 

Vanishing Paradise; The Tropical Rain Forest


Dalton, Stephen

Hardcover. Woodstock, New York, Overlook Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on top edge, otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230257


Price: $25.00 

 

Gandhara: The Memory of Afghanistan


Geoffroy-Schneiter, B

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st English, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent condition. Color and b/w illustrations throughout.

Record # 30860


Price: $23.00 

Bhutan: Kingdom in the Himalaya by: Acharya, Sanjay
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Bhutan: Kingdom in the Himalaya by: Acharya, Sanjay

Hardcover. Twickenham, U.K., Tiger Books International PLC., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with light bumping to the top edge. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. Tucked away in the eastern Himalayas, between the riverine plains of India and the cold arid Tibetan plateau is Bhutan, the country of dreams, dragons, legends, and staggering landscapes. This volume aims to bring alive all aspects of this country through color photography and informative text. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34048
Price: $12.00 

 

Remarkable Characters and Places of the Holy Land


Elliott, Charles W.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, J.B. Burr and Co., reprint, 1868, Book: Good, Terra cotta cloth with embossed rules, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. 13 steel engravings, a few with faint water stain that runs throughout book. Copyright page states 1866, so assume this is a reprint.

Record # 404624


Price: $35.00 

 

Trips to Hell and other countries


Thayer, George B.

Hardcover. Hartford, CT , Privately Printed, 1 st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 560 pages. Black & white illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding slightly cracked in several places. The author's travel accounts featuring some unpleasant adventures all over the world. Scarce. Clean. Previous owner

Price: $150.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXI July - December 1917 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Fold-out sepa photo of "Babes in the Woods" torn along one fold. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.

Record # 415541


Price: $44.00 

Prisoners of the North by: Berton, Pierre

Prisoners of the North by: Berton, Pierre

Softcover. 2nd printing thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to pictorial wrappers, page 7 dog-eared, slight stain to for-edge. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452937
Price: $12.00 

Fodor's DenmarkFodor's
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Fodor's Denmark


Fodor's

Softcover. Fodor's Travel Publications, Incorporated, 5th, February 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Very good.

Record # 454893


Price: $20.00 

More TracksCopenhaver, Howard
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More Tracks


Copenhaver, Howard

Softcover. Stoneydale Pr Pub Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458569


Price: $19.00 

 

Adventures of a Bush Pilot, The


LaPorte, Richard H.

Softcover. US, Richard H. LaPorte, 1st, 1997-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462928


Price: $13.00 

 

Guga Stone, The : Lies, Legends and Lunacies from St Kilda


Murray, Donald S.

Hardcover. US, Luath Press Ltd, 1st thus, 2014-11-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Scarce in hard cover.

Record # 464168


Price: $25.00 

African MadnessShoumatoff, Alex
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African Madness


Shoumatoff, Alex

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 202 pages. Record # 467263

Record # 467263


Price: $15.00 

Great Trade Route by: Ford, Ford Madox

Great Trade Route by: Ford, Ford Madox

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soiling, stains to covers. Spine faded. Record # 510992
Price: $12.00 

 

Tamrart - 13 Days in the Sahara


Clark, Eleanor

Hardcover. New York, Stuart Wright, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 106 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Luly Hamlin. Minor spot of adhesive(?) on front of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608505


Price: $40.00 

 

Lake George - Recreation Circular 6


Hopkins, A. S.

Softcover. Albany, State of New York, 1st Thus, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. Paper covers. Guide book to New York's Lake George circa 1932. Features black & white photographs and fold-out map. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 612805


Price: $38.00 

 

Imperial Way, The


Theroux, Paul and Steve McCurry

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Hardcover with light foxing to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout by McCurry. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise, clean tight copy.

Record # 750045


Price: $19.00 

 

Handbook to North Wales (Complete Edition)


Ward, Lock and Co., Limited

Softcover. London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out maps. Red covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly faded w/ light edge wear. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850045


Price: $30.00 

 

Diners


Baeder, John

Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. 117 illustrations including 50 plates in full color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855579


Price: $23.00 

Voyages Around the WorldWalter (Editor), Marc
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Voyages Around the World


Walter (Editor), Marc

Hardcover. New York, Friedman Publishing Group, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Selected literary travels with color photographs throughout. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952311


Price: $38.00 

Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River: A Celebration of Rural AmericaRoueche, Berton; Plowden, David
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Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River: A Celebration of Rural America


Roueche, Berton; Plowden, David

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages with black and white photographs by David Plowden in rear. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 2233603


Price: $19.00 

 

Ice Master, The: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk


Niven, Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. In great condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30734


Price: $15.00 

 

Fearful Void, The


Moorhouse, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, England, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1974, 288 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Edges have some slight tanning from age. Other than some very light foxing on preliminary pages, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In very good shape. In 1972, Moorhouse traveled the Sahara Desert from the Atlantic ocean to the Nile by camel and by himself. This moving story of his battle with fear and loneliness and his conquest of the spiritual as well as the physical hazards of the desert.

Record # 32343


Price: $15.00 

 

LLAMA LAND: EAST AND WEST OF THE ANDES IN PERU


Dell, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Map end papers. 248 pages. Twenty- Four plates including frontispiece from photographs of Andes Mountains area taken by author. Royal 8vo. Red cloth, Gilt titled front cover with large gilt llama under title. Gilt titled and pictorial spine. Minor wear.

Record # 220595


Price: $26.00 

 

Beside Galilee: A Diary in Palestine


Bolitho, Hector

Hardcover. London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages, b&w photographs. Green cloth covers, previous owner

Price: $19.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XLIII January-June 1923 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415529


Price: $44.00 

 

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan


Hoagland, Edward

Hardcover. New York, 1st, August 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 239 pages, several b&w maps. Large piece missing from rear of dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451718


Price: $80.00 

Capital Walks : Walking Tours of Ottawa by: Fletcher, K.

Capital Walks : Walking Tours of Ottawa by: Fletcher, K.

Softcover. McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages, b&w photographs. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers. Else clean and tight. Record # 454286
Price: $12.00 

 

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville


Levy, Bernard-Henri

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 458073


Price: $31.00 

Song From The Forest: My Life Among the Ba-Benjelle' Pygmies by: Sarno, Louis

Song From The Forest: My Life Among the Ba-Benjelle' Pygmies by: Sarno, Louis

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1993-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462351
Price: $12.00 

 

Angkor;: An essay on art and imperialism


Myrdal, Jan

Hardcover. US, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1970-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463900


Price: $15.00 

 

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands


Clarke, Thurston

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, reprint, 2001-01-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466537


Price: $23.00 

High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand YearsKanigel, Robert
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High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years


Kanigel, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owners inscription to front flyleaf. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471495


Price: $13.00 

 

Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, A


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Gilt title on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607637


Price: $12.00 

 

Cloud Forest - A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, The


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. Viking Press, Viking, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611588


Price: $31.00 

 

Central American Holiday - A Guide to the Railroads of El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico


Best, Gerald M.

Softcover. Redwood City, Pacific Coast Chapter Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Ex-museum library copy with sticker at bottom left corner of front cover and dry tape residue with some paper loss along spine. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613923


Price: $188.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America


Jobe, Joseph

Hardcover. Lausanne, Switzerland, Edita, 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. "Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed from Accounts by European Visitors." Red leather cover with decorative gilt border and US Department of State's seal of bald eagle to from cover, gilt lettering and decorative border to spine, green and white decorated endpapers, b&w frontispiece, 24 color plates from paintings tipped in on extra stock, illustrated map of America, numerous b&w figures throughout, green slip case. Evidence of rubbing to slipcase, book in excellent condition.

Record # 805263


Price: $64.00 

 

Know Cape Ann: The Garden Spot of the Atlantic


Ambler, Edward Vassar

Softcover. England, North Shore Press, Inc., 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages, photographs throughout. Corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853415


Price: $28.00 

Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, IncChapter, Pacific Coast
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Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc


Chapter, Pacific Coast

Softcover. Pasadena, CA, Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages, paperback. Photos and history of the Pacific Railway Line. From a museum library, with typical markings/stampings. Labeling to spine. Bumping to corners. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951306


Price: $16.00 

Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier
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Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien GuerrierLouis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier

Louis Vuitton - European Cities - City Guide 2010 (Coffret de 9 volumes) by: Julien Guerrier

Softcover. Paris, Louis Vuitton Malletier, 11th, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Approximately 200-250 pages per book. Nine soft cover books in the set. Clean and tight copies. Box has very light edgewear to corners. English text. Maps and illustrations scattered throughout. A still referenced travel guide to the major capital cities of Europe. Record # 2232212
Price: $100.00 

 

Gringa: An American Woman in Mexico


Squier, Emma-Lindsay, John Bransby (Photography)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages plus plates. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in tan, red title on spine and front cover board. Edges and pages have some tanning. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition for its age. Travel book about Mexico circa. 1934.

Record # 32215


Price: $25.00 

 

South Sea Foam


Safroni-Middleton, A.

Hardcover. NY, G.H. Doran, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Romantic impressions of Samoa as well as legends & folklore of the South Seas. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 61436


Price: $12.00 

 

English Inn, The


Burke, Thomas

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, blue-green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 24 b&w photographs by Will F. Taylor and a pencil sketch by Edmond C. Warre. First time published with these plates. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 406830


Price: $23.00 

Thames PortraitRobertson, E. Arnot
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Thames Portrait


Robertson, E. Arnot

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages, b&w photographs by H.E. Turner. Blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, clean.

Record # 412473


Price: $19.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - Vol. XXXV No. 2 March 1919National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXV No. 2 March 1919


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The North Sea Mine Barrage, Sarawak- The Land of the White Rajahs, American Berries of Hill, Dale, and Wayside with color plates.

Record # 415563


Price: $25.00 

Home Away from Home: The World of Camper Vans And MotorhomesTrant, Kate (Editor)
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Home Away from Home: The World of Camper Vans And Motorhomes


Trant, Kate (Editor)

Softcover. 1st, December 30, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453038


Price: $20.00 

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by: Streever, Bill

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by: Streever, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456565
Price: $12.00 

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by: Clarke, Thurston

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by: Clarke, Thurston

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2001-01-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 461428
Price: $12.00 

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara by: Scigliano, Eric

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara by: Scigliano, Eric

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 2005-08-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463541
Price: $12.00 

 

Sails Full and By


Degnon, Dom

Hardcover. US, Sheridan House, reprint, 1995-01-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 465942


Price: $25.00 

 

Long Island: People and Places, Past and Present


Bookbinder, Bernie

hardcover. New York, Abrams, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Light musty odor. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469464


Price: $19.00 

Trip to England, The by: Winter, William

Trip to England, The by: Winter, William

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 2nd, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Illustrated with Heliotypes from sketches by Joseph Jefferson. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604073
Price: $12.00 

 

South-Eastern France


Hare, Augustus J. C.

Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 598 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Brown cloth covers with title and decoration in gilt. Fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610658


Price: $31.00 

 

Discovery and History of Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, The


White, Jim

Softcover. Carlsbad, Jim White, Reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. SIGNED BY MRS. JIM WHITE, WIFE OF JIM WHITE - THE CAVE'S ORIGINAL DISCOVERER AND EXPLORER AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light edge wear, minor staining on back cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613311


Price: $15.00 

 

Moscow Kremlin, The: Its History, Architecture and Art Treasures


Voyce, Arthur

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1954, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. B/W illustrations and photographs. Pages and covers show some foxing. End papers decorated with B/W map of the Kremlin. Dust jacket faded. Comes with acrylic cover to protect dust jacket. Very good condition.

Record # 802830


Price: $22.00 

 

Longhouse and Jungle: An Expedition to Sarawak


Arnold, Guy

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Ex-library stamp on front and rear flyleaves. MInor rubbing to cover edge and spine slightly faded. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 851624


Price: $20.00 

 

Foot-loose in the British Isles


Franck, Harry A.

Hardcover. New York & London, The Century Co., 3rd printing, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to yellow illustrated cloth boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857061


Price: $15.00 

 

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896


Crocombe, R.G. and Marjorie

Hardcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket. Clean and tight copy. Pacific History Series: No 2

Record # 2230463


Price: $19.00 


  
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