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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 

 

Coming Home to the Pond (SIGNED BY AUTHOR, INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR)


Garred, David, Illust. by: Daphne Dain

Softcover. Canada, Branta Books, Reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 30828


Price: $25.00 

Two Travelers in Europe by: Hall, Herman J.

Two Travelers in Europe by: Hall, Herman J.

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
Price: $20.00 

 

Crest of the Continent, The: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond


Ingersoll, Ernest

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.

Record # 402366


Price: $40.00 

Equator: A JourneyClarke, Thurston
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Equator: A Journey


Clarke, Thurston

Hardcover. New York , William Morrow, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 463 pages, bright unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408171


Price: $13.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXVII July-December 1915 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

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.

Record # 415539


Price: $44.00 

The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia by: Montgomery, Charles
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The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia by: Montgomery, Charles

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
Price: $12.00 

 

Gran Canaria


Aldai, Angel Luis

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.

Record # 454492


Price: $20.00 

Traveler's Companion to Montana HistoryWest, Carroll Van
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Traveler's Companion to Montana History


West, Carroll Van

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.

Record # 458565


Price: $13.00 

City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings by: Lewis, R. W. B.
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City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings by: Lewis, R. W. B.

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
Price: $12.00 

 

In the Shadow of Mount McKinley


Beach, William N.

Softcover. US, Derrydale Press, 1st, 2000-04-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464104


Price: $13.00 

WHAT AM I DOING HERE by: Chatwin, Bruce
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WHAT AM I DOING HERE by: Chatwin, Bruce

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
Price: $12.00 

 

Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A


Sterne, Laurence, Illust. by: Maurice Leloir

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.

Record # 508978


Price: $45.00 

 

New Guide to Pompeii


Engelmann, Wilhelm

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.

Record # 608284


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Trekking to Mustang, 1964 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Rosenberg, David

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"

Record # 30577


Price: $31.00 

 

Along the Andes and Down the Amazon (Following the Conquistadores)


Mozans, H.J., Theodore Roosevelt (Introduction)

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.

Record # 32254


Price: $50.00 

 

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
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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
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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
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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 

 

Mexico of Today


Griffin, Solomon Bulkley

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.

Record # 32172


Price: $31.00 

 

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
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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 

 

Introduction to Historic Resources in Washington County, N.Y. 1976, An


Washington County Planning Department for the Washington County Planning Board

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.

Record # 30844


Price: $15.00 

Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback by: Bull, Bartle, Illust. by: Boit, JohnYalman, Kerim
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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback by: Bull, Bartle, Illust. by: Boit, JohnYalman, KerimAround the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback by: Bull, Bartle, Illust. by: Boit, JohnYalman, Kerim

Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback by: Bull, Bartle, Illust. by: Boit, John Yalman, Kerim

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
Price: $15.00 

 

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
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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
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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 

 

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 

 

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.
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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
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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 

 

'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 

 

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
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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
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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
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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
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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 

 

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 

 

Little Tour in America, A


Hole, S. Reynolds

Hardcover. London/New York, Edward Arnold, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages, red cloth covers with gilt design.

Record # 405178


Price: $38.00 

Over the Ocean. Guild, Curtis
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Over the Ocean.


Guild, Curtis

Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, reprint, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Binding cracked at front hinge.

Record # 408261


Price: $25.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXX July - December 1916 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1916, 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 color fold-out Map of Mexico, color fold-out painting of the Alaskan Brown Bear. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415543


Price: $44.00 

End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and Antarctica by: Matthiessen, Peter
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End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and Antarctica by: Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and scratching to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight, clean copy. Record # 452939
Price: $12.00 

 

Bon Voyage: An Oblique Glance at the World of Tourism


Yapp, Nick

Softcover. Te Neues Publishing Company, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Never opened, still in shrink wrap. Nice and clean. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 455745


Price: $18.00 

 

Heart of the Sky: Travel Among the Maya


Canby, Peter

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harpercollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, illustrated with maps in b&w. Light edgewear, scuffing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458694


Price: $13.00 

Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley
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Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by: Christian, Shirley

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2004-04-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462933
Price: $12.00 

 

China: Empire of Living Symbols


Lindqvist, Cecilia

Hardcover. US, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1991-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 423 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light sunning to dust jacket with slight tear to rear cover and tape-repair top spine.

Record # 464214


Price: $25.00 

Taste of Conquest, The: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of SpiceKrondl, Michael
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Taste of Conquest, The: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice


Krondl, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468083


Price: $13.00 

Royal Tour 1901, The by: Price, Harry, Illust. by: Harry Price
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Royal Tour 1901, The by: Price, Harry, Illust. by: Harry Price

New York, William Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white by Petty Officer Harry Price. Clean, tight copy. Record # 511399
Price: $12.00 

 

Le Sud-Ouest de La France


Baedeker, Karl

Softcover. Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages. Features fold-out maps. Notes in ink on rear endpaper. Rubbing to cloth cover along spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608602


Price: $30.00 

 

Public Use of the Forest Preserve - Recreation Circular 2


Pettis, F. E., C. R.

Softcover. Albany, State of New York, 1st Thus, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Paper covers. Guide to "Public Use of the Forest Preserve" of New York State. Guidelines, rules, etc. circa 1932. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Record # 612807


Price: $38.00 

 

Travels in New England and New York (Volume IV Only)


Dwight, Timothy

Hardcover. New York, NY, William Baynes and Son, First Edition, 1823, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 514 pages. Brown leather with gilt titles to text block along spine & raised compartment lines. Binding rubbed & worn to edges. Trace line of gilt to margins front & back covers. Tight binding with toning throughout & previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Some soiling. In great shape for its age.

Record # 751374


Price: $50.00 

 

Connecticut Guide, The


Heermance, Edgar L. (Comp.)

Softcover. Connecticut, Emergency Relief Commission, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Some B&W illustrations. Green raised decorative stiff wrapper with soiling to front and back covers and spine. Slightly folded corner on bottom right of front cover and bottom left hand corner of back cover. Top of spine frayed. Slightly soiled all edges. Previous owner inscription before title page. Spine cracked at title page, 162, 194, and 258.

Record # 850139


Price: $20.00 

 

American Expedition, The


Waxell, Sven

Hardcover. London, William Hodge and Company Ltd., 1st trans, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages, map end papers and fold-out maps. Faint paper clip mark to title page and frontis. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856970


Price: $38.00 

 

Spice Islands Voyage, The: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution


Severin, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A journey to the tropical wilderness of Indonesia; a quest to rediscover Darwin's forgotten partner, Alfred Wallace. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Mild age spotting to top text block edge. Color photographs and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952431


Price: $15.00 

 

Afoot in England


Hudson, W.H.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate wear to edges by spine. Dark red covers with green embossed lettering on front and spine. Previous owner's bookplate and sticker on front end paper.

Record # 2233699


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

Tahiti: Voyage Through Paradise by: Eggleston, George T.
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Tahiti: Voyage Through Paradise by: Eggleston, George T.

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Red floral decorative boards and map end papers. Over 100 black and white captioned photographs chronicling the voyage round and about the Tahitian islands. Record # 220784
Price: $12.00 

 

The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan


Mountfort, Guy

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 286 pages, end paper maps, b&w and color illustrations. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Book is very good, tight, clean.

Record # 407819


Price: $15.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXVII January-June 1915 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 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 2 color fold-out panoramas Washington DC and The Washington Mall. Clean, bright volume. Cover spine with light soil, chipping to labels.

Record # 415530


Price: $44.00 

From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National GeographicCanby, Thomas
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From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic


Canby, Thomas

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., 1st, May 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451807


Price: $15.00 

Walking the Line by: Fraser, Marian Botsford
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Walking the Line by: Fraser, Marian Botsford

Hardcover. Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 218 pages. slightly slanted spine. Creases down center rear and front cover on dust jacket. Internally a very nice, tight and clean copy. Record # 454360
Price: $12.00 

 

Southwest Circle Quest - A Walkabout in the American Outback


Lecompte, Brett A.

Softcover. Canyon Country Publications, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458553


Price: $13.00 

Demon River Apurimac: The First Navigation of Upper Amazon Canyons by: Giddings, J. Calvin
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Demon River Apurimac: The First Navigation of Upper Amazon Canyons by: Giddings, J. Calvin

Softcover. US, Univ of Utah Pr (T), 1st, 1996-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462452
Price: $12.00 

 

India: A Million Mutinies Now


Naipaul, V. S.

Hardcover. US, Viking, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. Remainder line to bottom edge. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463917


Price: $13.00 

 

Markets of Provence: A Culinary Tour of Southern France


Long, Dixon

Hardcover. US, William Morrow Cookbooks, reprint, 1996-04-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466546


Price: $15.00 

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the CaucasusKaplan, Robert D.
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus


Kaplan, Robert D.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd printing, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471808


Price: $15.00 

 

Sicilian Carousel


Durrell, Lawrence

Hardcover. London, UK, Farber & Farber, Reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, b&w illustrations. Red cloth, silver lettering to spine. Light edgewear to dust jacket with slight bump to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607710


Price: $18.00 


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