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.
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
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, 136 b&w photographs by Werner Forman, 12 in color. Clean, bright copy. Short closed tear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 226 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth with an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. The book is a very good, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1921, 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 fold-out of a square-rigged sailing ship in tinted color: The Argosy of Geography, a color folding map of The New Asia (28 x 36"), and a Map of Europe with the new boundaries post-WW1. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.
Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, illustrated in color. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket . Nice, tight, clean copy. Record # 452942
Hardcover. Guilford, Conn., The Lyons Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slight crease to rear flap. Minor soil to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, Reaktion Books, 1st US, 1999-06-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Slight crease to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Hartford, A.D. Worthington & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 641 pages. Cloth boards. Spine and cover illustrated in gilt. Cover quite worn and hanging by a thread. Interior solid. Illustrated with black & white etchings. 1 fold out map.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edgewood Publishing, 1st thus, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 687 pages. Black & white illustrations. Approximately 2" narrow section of paper missing from front endpaper and inner spine hinge. Cloth covers show some spots of rubbing. Gilt title and illustrations on cover and spine still bright and intact. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Armstrong, & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Part of the 'Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure' series. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to preliminary pages. Titles and decorations with gilt highlights. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, B&w plates. Very light tanning to spine, otherwise very good condition.
Softcover. Broomall, PA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. 50 B&W figures. Blue pictorial stiff wrapper with fading, wear, and soiling. Bottom right corners of first 40 pages bent. Soiling and some folding of edges.
Hardcover. Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout by the author. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on illustrated front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with small cut trough middle of front cover.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An Englishman's travels with the nomads of the Sahara during a catastrophic drought-a remarkable story of friendship and courage. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine, light rubbing and edgewear to rear dust jacket panel. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Faded spine. Light soil on rear and light foxing to top page block. Signed copy with signatures on title page of both artist, Ray Ellis and writer, Ralph Graves. Tight copy.
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.
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
Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel by automobile in Europe. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. In a cardboard slipcase.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, 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 two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Clean, bright volume.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. Macon, Ga., Mercer University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. US, Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2010-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Random House, 2nd printing, 1991-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463930
Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt title on front and spine. Light edgewear to cover corners and top and bottom spine. Spine faded and slightly cocked. Small round spot on front cover. Cover page darkened, otherwise internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ernest Peixotto. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed, 2nd Pr., 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 160 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition due to multiple open tears, significant chipping, and edge wear. It has been repaired to the best of our ability with scotch tape. Orange cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Includes illustrated end papers. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an American boy's story of his summertime mountain climbing experiences among famous alpine peaks. Clean copy. Record # 34538
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Hampden Publishing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are in fair condition, with some minor dings, fading near the spine, and a few droplets of white paint. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is beginning to separate at the bottom, but is still contiguous. B&W photography throughout. A unique story told by one of the travelers. What they saw and how they lived while traveling among the half-civilized people of Morocco, the Peasants of Italy and France, as well as the educated classes of Spain, Greece, and other countries. Clean copy. Record # 33663
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. East Middlebury, VT, Wren Song Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out. "Crossing Paths with Mastiffs and Khampas in the Himalayan Kingdom of Lo"
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. "With an Introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt". Cover boards bound in navy blue, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to top of spine. Front cover board blind stamped (see image). Top edge gilt. Decked fore and bottom edge. A travel book looking at South America in the early Twentieth Century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in brown cloth. Gilt title and design on front cover and spine with black decoration. Two page color map before frontispiece. B/w illustrations throughout. Tanning from age to edges and pages. Deckled foreedge. A charming look at Mexico of the late nineteeth century.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. New York, Washington County Planning Board, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding still quite tight. Covers a bit faded but no rips or tears. Pages still clean inside. A small bit of foxing to edges.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Scotland, Canongate Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has one minor closed tear near the spine, but is still in very good condition overall. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This beautifully written narrative is an account of a remarkable journey made around Russia's Lake Baikal on horseback. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34029
Hardcover. Chicago , R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt design, floral end papers. Front hinge partially cracked, Denver news agent's stamp on blank prelim, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1915, 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 color fold-out map (28 x 30") of Europe and the Surrounding Areas Affected by the War. Clean, bright volume. Cover spine with light soil, chipping to labels.
Softcover. Vancouver, BC, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, small stain to top edge, else a very neat, tight copy. Record # 452934
Hardcover. 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, English, Spanish and German text. 175 pages, color photographs of the Canary Islands throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Helena, Montana Historical Society Press, 2nd printing, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, illustrated throughout on b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 3rd printing, 1994-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462919
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Viking, 1st, 1989, #0. Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, Dust jacket shows discoloration on top edge inside with light edgewear and rubbing. Cloth covers with gilt lettering. Remainder line on bottom edge.. 367 pages. Record #:467123 Record # 467123
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, J. B. Lippincott, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 210 pages. 12 black & white plate illustrations plus 220 text drawings, all by Maurice Leloir. Dark brown covers with red and gold decoration. Gilt top edge. Beveled edges. First few pages loose. Both hinges cracking. Soiling to covers. Wear to corners, spine. Spine faded.
Hardcover. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 2nd Revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out map. Leather spine chipping at top and bottom with tear from above title approx. 2" down right side. Clean, tight copy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.