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Cotlow, Lewis

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, wrinkling to back cover. Small area of fading to cloth at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612672


Price: $25.00 

Croisiere Noire - Expedition Citroen - Centre-Afrique, LaHaardt, Georges-Marie/Louis Audouin-Dubreuil
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Croisiere Noire - Expedition Citroen - Centre-Afrique, La


Haardt, Georges-Marie/Louis Audouin-Dubreuil

Softcover. Paris, Plon, Reprint, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Softcover. French text only. Illustrated with 3 black & white drawings, 42 pages of black & white photographs, and 2 maps - one fold-out in rear of book. Some surface stains to covers, Darkened spine with chipping at top and bottom. Pages are age darkened. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614124


Price: $38.00 

 

MacDonald's Tourists' Guide to Scotland


William MacDonald & Company

Softcover. Edinburgh, William MacDonald & Company, Limited, new and revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages plus advertisements, b&w illustrations. Binding slightly cracked at covers. Small stamps on right edge. Light edge wear to covers. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 808938


Price: $30.00 

 

Travels in West Africa


Kingsley, Mary H.

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, with black & white photographs throughout, printed cloth cover and brown slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854470


Price: $20.00 

 

Olivia's African Diary: Cape Town to Cairo: 1932


Hatch, Olivia Stokes

Hardcover. Washington DC, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Notes and pictures of an African adventure of two young Americans in 1932. Photographs by Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. Mild fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chip to upper fore edge corner. Mild age toning to top text block. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951724


Price: $19.00 

 

Fabled Shore from the Pyrenees to Portugal


Macaulay, Rose

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 3rd, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket faded and chipped and foxed.

Record # 2233344


Price: $15.00 

 

Working North From Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Jourey, Earned on the Way, Through


Franck, Harry A.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co.,, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 650 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (including frontispiece) throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth. Two color decoration on front cover board and spine. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Cover boards have some agewear. Gutters split in a couple places, but binding still tight, and no pages detached. Spine straight. "Illustrated with 176 unusual photographs by the author, with a map showing the route." South America travel book with photographs, circa. 1922.

Record # 32216


Price: $25.00 

Handbook to India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, A by: Lothian, Ed., Sir Arthur C.
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Handbook to India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, A by: Lothian, Ed., Sir Arthur C.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 18th ed, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 632 pages. Map in slip in back. Contains many fold-out maps. Previous owner's label pasted in front end paper. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Record # 214329
Price: $12.00 

 

Nile Boat, The: Or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt


Bartlett, W.H.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages including index, illustrated with engravings and woodcuts (2 fold-out), including frontispiece and decorated title page. Red cloth covers with embossed design with gilt design on front panel and spine, all edges gilt. No date but title page states fifth edition. Spine a little darkened, internally clean.

Record # 407063


Price: $100.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - August 1908  Vol. XIX No. 8National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Magazine - August 1908 Vol. XIX No. 8


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Covers loose. Includes "The Pacific: the Most Explored and Least Known Region of the Globe" by Leopold G. Blackman, Further Notes on Dutch New Guinea by Thomas Barbour, Biskra, The Ziban Queen by Mrs. George Bosson.

Record # 415520


Price: $38.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. L July - December 1926 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1926, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out color map of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415579


Price: $38.00 

Route 66: The Mother RoadWallis, Michael
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Route 66: The Mother Road


Wallis, Michael

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453207


Price: $25.00 

 

Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture


Waterman, Jonathan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, photographs in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457076


Price: $15.00 

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by: Erdman, Sarah
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by: Erdman, Sarah

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2003-09-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462318
Price: $12.00 

 

Vanishing Map, The : A Journey from L.A. to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe


Barber, Stephen

Hardcover. US, Bloomsbury Academic, 1st, 2006-10-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463707


Price: $15.00 

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by: Erdrich, Louise
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by: Erdrich, Louise

Hardcover. US, National Geographic, reprint , 2003-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466481
Price: $12.00 

Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage From Andalusia to the HebridesMitchell, John Hanson
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Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage From Andalusia to the Hebrides


Mitchell, John Hanson

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470068


Price: $15.00 

 

Eric Shipton - Everest & Beyond


Steele, Peter

Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dent on Bottom edge of back cover. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606814


Price: $12.00 

 

Patagonia Revisited


Chatwin, Bruce/Paul Theroux

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kyffin Williams. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610829


Price: $25.00 

 

Plaza - Its Life and Times, The


Brown, Eve

Hardcover. New York, Meredith Press, 2nd printing, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with stickers on dust jacket spine, envelope removed from rear endpaper. Black & white photographs. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text. Good reading copy.

Record # 613636


Price: $23.00 

 

A Social Departure, A: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves


Duncan, Sara Jeannette, Illust. by: F. H. Townsend

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages, 111 b&w illustrations by F. H. Townsend, gilt lettering to cover and spine, duotone illustration on cover. Wear to front cover, water stains to rear half of copy block and rear endpapers.

Record # 803001


Price: $51.00 

 

Men and Times of Revolution; or Memoirs of Elkanah Watson


Watson, Winslow C. (Ed.)

Softcover. Elizabethtown, NY, Crown Point Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor wear to wrappers. Light smudges to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851980


Price: $25.00 

 

Abbey's Road


Abbey , Edward

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton , reprint , 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Light shelf wear to back cover, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857342


Price: $13.00 

Road to Paris, The: Being the Chronicle of a Three-Month Holiday in France and ItalyMonahan, Michael
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Road to Paris, The: Being the Chronicle of a Three-Month Holiday in France and Italy


Monahan, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Frank-Maurice, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 379 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some chipping and wear to edges of jacket and fading to spine. Residue from sticker on bottom front of jacket. Previous owner's name in front end papers, and old catalogue number.

Record # 2230688


Price: $25.00 

 

River's Tale, The: A Year on the Mekong


Gargan, Edward A.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A deeply informed personal chronicle of a remarkable journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China.

Record # 32046


Price: $19.00 

Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian's Eastern Streams by: Simpson, Bland, Illust. by: Simpson, Ann Cary

Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian's Eastern Streams by: Simpson, Bland, Illust. by: Simpson, Ann Cary

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, as are interior pages. Blue paper covers have one significant bump to the top edge, but are still in very good condition overall. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book explores the rivers and the coastal culture of Eastern North Carolina. Clean copy. Record # 34512
Price: $20.00 

Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the GodsShaw, Christopher
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Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods


Shaw, Christopher

Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, bright copy in like-new dust jacket. Endpapers map.

Record # 405788


Price: $19.00 

 

Ricordo di Roma. 32 vedute. Parte seconda


N/A

Hardcover. Rome, no publisher, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early 20th century accordion fold out book of photographs of Roman scenes. Color illustrations in relief on the cover. Blue cloth lightly edge worn. Interior clean and tight text on the back of the photos in English, French, German and Italian. 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. No date but early 20th century.

Record # 410655


Price: $19.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol.XXV January - June 1914 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1914, 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. Includes a fold-out map of Alaska and another of Mexico. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415547


Price: $50.00 

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by: Fleming, Fergus
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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by: Fleming, Fergus

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear/-rubbing, soiling to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452945
Price: $12.00 

 

Bells in Their Silence, The : Travels through Germany


Gorra, Michael

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456413


Price: $30.00 

Drifting: Two Weeks on the HudsonFreeman, Mike
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Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson


Freeman, Mike

Hardcover. Albany, State Univ of New York Pr, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459011


Price: $16.00 

 

Companion Guide to The Coast of Southwest England, The


Seymour, John; John Seynour

Hardcover. US, William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., rep, 1975-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages, photos in b&w. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket with old price sticker to front flap.

Record # 462999


Price: $23.00 

First on Everest: The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine by: Holzel, Tom
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First on Everest: The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine by: Holzel, Tom

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Company, 1st US, 1986-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Light shelf-wear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465786
Price: $12.00 

Freya Stark in the Levant (The St Antony's College Middle East Archives)Ruthven, Malise
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Freya Stark in the Levant (The St Antony's College Middle East Archives)


Ruthven, Malise

Hardcover. Reading, UK, Garnet Pub Ltd, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes chronology of Freya Stark's life. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468923


Price: $31.00 

 

Bibliotheca Curiosa: Chancellor's Voyage to Muscovy; being Clement Adams Anglorum Navigatio Ad Muscovitas, taken from Respublica Muscoviae(1630),...edited with notes by Edmund Goldsmid


McCrindle, J.

Edinburgh, privately printed, reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, an additional 7 pages on Coins of Russia. An early (1630) account of England's contact with Russia. One of 350 copies. Paper cover with small tears otherwise very good.

Record # 512073


Price: $60.00 

 

Alaska - Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity


Burr, Agnes Rush

Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Features fold-out map and fifty-four plates of which six are in color. Minor foxing to some plate edges. Top edge gilt. Light wear overall. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609491


Price: $80.00 

 

Italian Days


Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Hardcover. Section of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613144


Price: $13.00 

A Hell of a Place To Lose A Cow by: Tim, Brookes
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A Hell of a Place To Lose A Cow by: Tim, Brookes

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Adventure Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 308 pages. Slight crease on bottom of dust jacket. Record # 801848
Price: $12.00 

 

Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850: Being a Personal Record Kept by Chester S. Lyman


Teggart, Frederick J. (Ed.)

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages, b&w plates, map end papers. Dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Edge wear, rubbing to covers. Previous owner's bookplate, sticker residue on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851336


Price: $35.00 

 

Voyages and Discoveries


Dampier, William & Clennell Wilkinson (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York , Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, fold-out maps. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857033


Price: $38.00 

 

Year in the Widerness, A: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters (SIGNED)


Freeman, Amy and Dave

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHORS on half title page. Compelling tale about the beauty as well as the brutal challenges of living a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Mild bumping to spine and corners. Color photographs throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952493


Price: $31.00 

Friendly Arctic, The (New Edition)Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
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Friendly Arctic, The (New Edition)


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 2nd, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 812 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in green fabric, gilt title on spine and front cover. Voyage maps included in envelope attached to inside of back cover. Some edgewear to covers with a touch of fraying, but mostly to spine. In good condition considering its age. Edges yellow with age, but still clean inside.

Record # 30747


Price: $50.00 

Alaska Days With John Muir by: Young, S. Hall

Alaska Days With John Muir by: Young, S. Hall

Hardcover. NY, Fleming H. Revell , 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, hardcover. Exterior pictorial board shows some wear and tear, particularly with respect to scuffed and fading text. Interior pages and binding are in very good condition. B&W photographs throughout. In this fascinating account of John Muir's travels in Alaska from 1879 to 1880, we are brought into an intimate acquaintance with this great interpreter of Nature by one who was his companion on many expeditions. Clean copy. Record # 33622
Price: $18.00 

 

Fabled Shore from the Pyrenees to Portugal


Macaulay, Rose

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 3rd, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket faded and chipped and foxed.

Record # 224439


Price: $15.00 

 

Alla ricerca degli itinerari perduti / In Search of Lost Itineraries


Brilli, Attilio

Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel in Italy. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. Travel in Italy over routes traveled long ago. A beautiful book. Mild wear to covers.

Record # 408097


Price: $38.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXI January - June 1917 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 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. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.

Record # 415532


Price: $44.00 

Heart of America, The : Our Landscape, Our FuturePalmer, Tim
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Heart of America, The : Our Landscape, Our Future


Palmer, Tim

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and shelf rubbing to dust jacket. A clean tight copy.

Record # 452805


Price: $12.00 

June Keith's Key West & the Florida Keys: Food Hotels Beaches Diving Fishing History Writers Festivals Attractions Museums Wildlife by: Keith, June
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June Keith's Key West & the Florida Keys: Food Hotels Beaches Diving Fishing History Writers Festivals Attractions Museums Wildlife by: Keith, June

Softcover. Palm Island Press, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages. Minor wear to wrappers. Else clean and tight. Record # 454491
Price: $12.00 

 

We Called This Creek Traveller's Rest


Writers, The Discovery

Softcover. Stevensville, MT, Stoneydale Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458562


Price: $15.00 

On the Missionary Trail: A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa With the London Missionary Society by: Hiney, Tom
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On the Missionary Trail: A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa With the London Missionary Society by: Hiney, Tom

Hardcover. US, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 2000-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462700
Price: $12.00 

 

Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha


Smith, Jedwin

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2003-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463933


Price: $19.00 

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of ProvenceChristensen, Paul
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Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence


Christensen, Paul

Hardcover. US, Wings Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Slight wrinkling to front cover and first few pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466922


Price: $13.00 

 

Fireside Travels


Lowell, James Russell

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 4th ed, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 324 pages. Gilt top edge. Green covers with gold lettering. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light soiling to covers. Rubbing to extremities.

Record # 508764


Price: $25.00 

 

Florence and Tuscany


Whelpton, Eric

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket price clipped. Spine slightly cocked.

Record # 608138


Price: $12.00 

Railroad Never Sleeps - 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading, TheSolomon (Editor), Brian
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Railroad Never Sleeps - 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading, The


Solomon (Editor), Brian

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Voyageur Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light surface rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612677


Price: $19.00 

Labrador - The Country and the PeopleGrenfell, Wilfred T.
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Labrador - The Country and the People


Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 497 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Green cloth with illustrated spine and cover. Titles in gilt. Previous owners name on inside front cover - dated 1909. One full color map and many black & white drawings and photographs. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614153


Price: $50.00 

 

The Blue Guides: London and it's Environs


Muirhead, Findlay (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Fold-out maps in color. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Rubbing to spine, light edgewear to pages.

Record # 808939


Price: $30.00 

 

Portage into the Past: By Canoe Along the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters


Bolz, J. Arnold

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2nd Printing, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages, with black & white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854865


Price: $15.00 

 

Talking to Angels: A Life Spent in High Altitudes (SIGNED)


Perkins, Robert

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 106 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. An illness and travel narrative. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951731


Price: $19.00 

 

Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia


Greene, David

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos in center. Front cover slightly bowed.

Record # 2233427


Price: $15.00 

 

Along the Andes & Down the Amazon


Mozans, H.J.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton , 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Gilt-decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt, previous owner's bookplate

Record # 16130


Price: $65.00 

 

Journey to the Alcarria: Travels On Foot Through the Spanish Countryside


Cela, Camilo Jos

Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in yellow cloth, black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Binding tight, spines straight. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. The earliest and best-known of Cela's travel-sketch books, this is an unrivaled account of the land and people of Spain

Record # 32249


Price: $15.00 

 

Mission to Bokhara, A


Wolff, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Previous owner's signature and labels on front end papers. Dust jacket with fading, light soiling, edgewear.

Record # 214345


Price: $13.00 

 

The Thousand Islands and the River St. Lawrence


James Bayne Co.

Softcover. Grand Rapids MI, James Bayne Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, oblong softcover with pictorial covers, string-tie binding. Color foldout map of the area covered in front, many b&w plates, mostly photographs throughout. No date, appears to be early 1900s. Clean, very good.

Record # 407181


Price: $19.00 

National Geographic Magazine  - June 1908  Vol. XIX  No. 6National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Magazine - June 1908 Vol. XIX No. 6


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Features "One Season's Game-Bag with the Camera" by the Hon. George Shiras, 3rd.

Record # 415522


Price: $44.00 

A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift ValleyWatzman, Haim
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A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley


Watzman, Haim

Hardcover. 1st, May 29, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Minor shelf-wear to pictorial dusty jacket, else like new.

Record # 450403


Price: $12.00 

 

Where nights are longest: Travels by car through western Russia


Thubron, Colin

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very good, clean and unmarked.

Record # 453503


Price: $18.00 

 

Two Roads to Dodge City


Nicolson, Nigel

Hardcover. London, 1st, November 7, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457598


Price: $50.00 

Python Killer, The : Stories of Nzema Life by: Grottanelli, Vinigi L.
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Python Killer, The : Stories of Nzema Life by: Grottanelli, Vinigi L.

Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Record # 462326
Price: $25.00 

End of the Earth: Voyages To Antarctica by: Matthiessen, Peter
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End of the Earth: Voyages To Antarctica by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. US, National Geographic, 1st, 2003-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, color photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463720
Price: $12.00 

Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake TahoeGoin, Peter
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Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe


Goin, Peter

Softcover. US, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1992-05-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes extensive picture notes. Includes two maps of the area. Light edge wear to corners. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 466505


Price: $38.00 

Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American InteriorDunlop, M. H.
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Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American Interior


Dunlop, M. H.

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Thick remainder mark on bottom edge.

Record # 470268


Price: $23.00 

 

Haps and Mishaps


Greenwood, Grace

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 3rd printing, 1854, Book: Good, 437 pages. Pages foxed with some stains on outer margins. Covers worn with stains and spotting. Cloth at top and bottom of spine frayed and curling. Sold as is.

Record # 606833


Price: $20.00 

Where The Earth EndsHarrison, John
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Where The Earth Ends


Harrison, John

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. illustrated with section of full color photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611151


Price: $25.00 

 

Under the Mountain Wall - A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages of main text plus index. Hardcover. 2 sections of black & white photographs. Text pages have a green/yellow tone. Dust jacket with light chipping along edges, degree of fading along left edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613705


Price: $50.00 

 

In FIelds Afar With "Traveler"


Williams, Robert ("Traveler")

Hardcover. Paterson, NJ, Press of the Morning Call, 1st, n.d., Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Foreword by Albert Payson Terhune. SIGNED PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR on front endpaper, dated 1937. Light brown-gray cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Some smudging and marking to covers. Edgewear and rubbing to corners. Pages age toned. Very Good.

Record # 803041


Price: $32.00 

 

Sea in Ships, The: The Story of a Sailing Ship's Voyage Round Cape Horn


Villiers, Alan J.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1932, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages of text, followed by 112 b&w photographs taken by the author, and a fold out diagram of the ship. Fading along spine and cover edges. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852505


Price: $30.00 

 

English Pub, The- A Unique Social Phenomenon


Jackson , Michael

Hardcover. London , Quarto Publishing , reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Extensive color and b&w images and illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and front fly leaf. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to dust jacket and top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857391


Price: $19.00 

Tai Ki, to the Point of No ReturnKnobl, Kuno
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Tai Ki, to the Point of No Return


Knobl, Kuno

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear, chipping to edges and spine and staining along top edge. Price clipped. Foxing to text block and on some pages. Illustrated plates throughout.

Record # 2230839


Price: $19.00 

 

Grail, The


Doyle, Brian, Illust. by: Mary Miller Doyle

Softcover. Corvallis, OR, Oregon State University Press, Reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout by Mary Miller Doyle. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good condition. "A year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world."

Record # 32126


Price: $15.00 

Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest by: Rhodes, Jack
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Intercity Bus Lines of the Southwest by: Rhodes, Jack

Hardcover. College Sta., Texas A. & M. Univl, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, A history of 6 U.S. travel & routes with black & white photos of vintages buses. Record # 51494
Price: $12.00 

 

Holland Sketches


Penfield, Edward

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, 30 tipped in color illustrations, b&w drawings, end paper illustration by Edward Penfield. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, bookplate opposite. Yellow board covers with light wear, soil. Internally bright, clean.

Record # 405934


Price: $50.00 

 

Ricordo di Napoli. 32 vedute. N. 1


N/A

Hardcover. Rome, no publisher, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early 20th century accordion fold out book of photographs of Roman scenes. Color illustrations in relief on the cover. Blue cloth lightly edge worn. Interior clean and tight text on the back of the photos in English, French, German and Italian. 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. No date but early 20th century.

Record # 410656


Price: $19.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. LVIII July - December 1930 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.

Record # 415560


Price: $44.00 

Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and ClarkSullivan, Robert
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Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark


Sullivan, Robert

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, June 27, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages, several b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452970


Price: $12.00 

 

Very Rich Hours, The : Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades, and Greece


Hiestand, Emily

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Pr, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456415


Price: $12.00 

 

Mountains of the Gods: The Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia


Cameron, Ian

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Facts on File, 2nd printing, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket. Remainder stamp and slight soil to lower edge. Internally very good.

Record # 460460


Price: $15.00 

 

Companion Guide to The Coast of North East England, The


Seymour, John

Hardcover. US, COLLINS, rep, 1975-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463028


Price: $10.00 

Flame of Adventure, The  by: Yates, Simon
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Flame of Adventure, The by: Yates, Simon

Softcover. US, Mountaineers Books, 1st US, 2002-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465796
Price: $12.00 

Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern WorldViorst, Milton
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Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World


Viorst, Milton

hardcover. New York, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND DATED FEBRUARY 1994 on FRONT FLY LEAF. Untrimmed pages and top of boards lightly scuffed, otherwise clean, tight copy with minor wear to faded dust jacket.

Record # 468954


Price: $19.00 

 

La Bretagne - Trente Planches en Couleur


Mauclair, Camille and J.F. Bouchor, Illust. by: J.F. Bouchor, David Burnand

Softcover. Paris, Henri Laurens, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, French text. 172 pages, 20 tipped-in color illustrations by Bouchor. B&W drawings by David Burnand.

Record # 601926


Price: $19.00 

 

Richard Hakluyt and The English Voyages


Parks, George Bruner

Hardcover. New York, American Geographical Society, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. American Geographical Society - Special Publication No. 10. Black & white illustrations with 3 fold-out maps. Light wear overall. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609513


Price: $15.00 

 

Naples Declared - A Walk Around the Bay


Taylor, Benjamin

Hardcover. New York, Marion Wood Book/Putnam, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations, 8 pages of full color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613181


Price: $13.00 

 

Wanderings


Hamilton, Clayton, Illust. by: Charles Peixotto

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Company, 1st, 1925, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. B/W illustrations by Charles Peixotto. Previous owner's bookplate on front end papers. Green covers with illustrator's drawing on front and dust jacket of same design. Acrylic cover on dust jacket.

Record # 802795


Price: $19.00 

 

Flowing Road, The: Adventuring on the Great Rivers of South America


Whitney, Caspar

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, b&w photographs. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design; spine slightly faded. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Foxing to edges. Light soiling to first few pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851347


Price: $40.00 

 

Saguenay: The River of Deep Waters


Davies, Blodwen

Hardcover. Montreal, Canada, Canada Steamship Lines Publishers, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 204 pages, b&w and color illustrations by Paul Caron & G. A. Cuthbertson. Wear, rubbing and light chipping to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, Reading copy.

Record # 857051


Price: $25.00 

 

Book of Balloons, The


Norgaard, Erik

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st English, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Balloon history and developments. 400 illustrations in color and black-and-white. Fading, as well as rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bumping to fore edges. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952548


Price: $19.00 


  
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