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


Niven, Jennifer

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

Record # 30734


Price: $15.00 

 

Fearful Void, The


Moorhouse, Geoffrey

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

Record # 32343


Price: $15.00 

 

LLAMA LAND: EAST AND WEST OF THE ANDES IN PERU


Dell, Anthony

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

Record # 220595


Price: $26.00 

 

Beside Galilee: A Diary in Palestine


Bolitho, Hector

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

Price: $19.00 

 

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


National Geographic Society

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

Record # 415529


Price: $44.00 

 

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan


Hoagland, Edward

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

Record # 451718


Price: $80.00 

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

 

Gringa: An American Woman in Mexico


Squier, Emma-Lindsay, John Bransby (Photography)

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

Record # 32215


Price: $25.00 

 

South Sea Foam


Safroni-Middleton, A.

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

Record # 61436


Price: $12.00 

 

English Inn, The


Burke, Thomas

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

Record # 406830


Price: $23.00 

Thames PortraitRobertson, E. Arnot
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Thames Portrait


Robertson, E. Arnot

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

Record # 412473


Price: $19.00 

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


National Geographic Society

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

Record # 415563


Price: $25.00 

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


Trant, Kate (Editor)

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

Record # 453038


Price: $20.00 

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

 

Lake of Geneva, The


Treves, Sir Frederick

Hardcover. London, England, Cassell and Company, LTD, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. Hardcover. With a Map and 100 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, blue quarter cloth, gilt title and design on spine and front cover boards. Foxing throughout, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Front cover board slightly warped. "Sir Frederick Treves, Bart. G.C.V.O., C.B., LL.D., Sergeant-Surgeon to His Magesty the King".

Record # 31908


Price: $23.00 

Terry's Guide To Mexico: The New Standard Guidebook To The Mexican Republic With Chapters On The Railways, Airways, Automobile Roads And The Ocean Routes To Mexico by: Terry, T. Philip
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Terry's Guide To Mexico: The New Standard Guidebook To The Mexican Republic With Chapters On The Railways, Airways, Automobile Roads And The Ocean Routes To Mexico by: Terry, T. Philip

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, Revised, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 625 pages, hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a travel guide to Mexico, presenting attractions, advertisements, and historical context. Contains fold-out maps and plans throughout, some of which have closed tears. Clean copy. Record # 34361
Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Ada Blackjack: A true Story of Survival in the Arctic


Niven, Jennifer

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Dust jacket unclipped. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Record # 30737


Price: $15.00 

Not Faster Than a Walk: A Vermont Notebook (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)White, Viola C.
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Not Faster Than a Walk: A Vermont Notebook (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


White, Viola C.

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Middleburuy College Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 144 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Dated). B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, paste-down illustrations on front cover board. Some tanning/light soil to edges of boards. Dust jacket unclipped, has some significant edgewear (see image). Pages and edges have a touch of tanning, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding tight. Spine straight. Author portrays in diary form a year of walking through Vermont.

Record # 32828


Price: $50.00 

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 

Journal of Charles B. Crockett, TheCrockett, Charles B.
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Journal of Charles B. Crockett, The


Crockett, Charles B.

Softcover. NA, NA, 1st?, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. No date or publication information. Library stamp at bottom left corner of front cover. Number stamped on reverse of title page. Text is clean, unmarked. Some light chipping to cover edges.

Record # 612180


Price: $100.00 

Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four ContinentsCanadian Pacific Railway
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Bridging Two Oceans & Linking Four Continents


Canadian Pacific Railway

Softcover. Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Softcover booklet. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings and fold-out illustration of the "Quadruple Screw Turbine Steamship Empress of France" in rear of booklet. Center 2 pages loose from booklet. Heavy foxing to covers, and to edges of front and rear preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613943


Price: $235.00 

 

N by E


Kent, Rockwell, Illust. by: Rockwell Kent

Softcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, reprint, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Foreword by Edward Hoagland. Originally published in 1930. The author, en route to Greenland from New York by ship, tells the tale of the sinking of the ship in a storm and the subsequent rescue. B&w illustrations throughout by author. Book very clean and well bound. Spine in white with blue lettering, the reverse on front cover.

Record # 806806


Price: $18.00 

 

Restless Spirit, The: Profiles in Adventure


Green, Timothy

Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 231 pages, with photographs. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853833


Price: $15.00 

 

Last of Steam, The


Collias, Joe G.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Howell-North, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Black-and-white photographed document of the waning years of steam railroading in the United States. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Bumping to boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951464


Price: $24.00 

 

Leaf in the Wind, A: Travels in Africa


Hudson, Peter, Illust. by: Veronica Hudson

Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket edges, light chipping at top spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233312


Price: $15.00 

 

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


Franck, Harry A.

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

Record # 32216


Price: $25.00 

 

Shadow Hunters - The Nest Gatherers of Tiger Cave


Valli, Eric and Diane Summers

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, Thomason Grant, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color photography.

Record # 207890


Price: $21.00 

 

My Devon Year


Phillpotts, Eden

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, green cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated with b&w plates by T.L. Pethybridge. Clean.

Record # 406831


Price: $15.00 

 

Hunting, Fishing and Canoe Trips in Canada


Canadian National Railways

Softcover. Montreal, Canadian National Railways, n/a, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Staple-bound card wraps, 4 3/4 by 8 3/16-inches, 128 pages plus a 29 by 8-inches folding map inside the back cover of train routes in Canada. Black and white photos showing fishermen and their catches along with hunters and their trophies in each province plus the Yukon Territories. A thorough listing of fishing and hunting locations and lodges plus descriptions of the fish and game species available. Clean, very good.

Record # 412474


Price: $48.00 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIII  No. 6 June 1918National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIII No. 6 June 1918


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1918, 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: Cooties and Courage, A Battle Ground of Nature, Prussianism, Germany's Dream of World Domination, Aces Among Aces.

Record # 415569


Price: $25.00 

Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia by: Pickering, Sam
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Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia by: Pickering, Sam

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453093
Price: $12.00 

 

Sailing Around the World: A Family Retraces Joshua Slocum's Voyage


Bernardin, Guy

Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry, NY, Sheridan House, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457075


Price: $12.00 

Over the Top & Back Again: Hiking X the AlpsWilson, Brandon
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Over the Top & Back Again: Hiking X the Alps


Wilson, Brandon

Softcover. US, Pilgrim's Tales, Inc., 1st, 2010-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462051


Price: $13.00 

 

Pillars of Hercules


Theroux, Paul

Hardcover. US, Penguin Putnam~trade, 1st UK, 1995-10-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463672


Price: $19.00 

Road to Ubar, The : Finding the Atlantis of the Sands by: Clapp, Nicholas
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Road to Ubar, The : Finding the Atlantis of the Sands by: Clapp, Nicholas

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1998-02-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 466422
Price: $12.00 

Oregon Trail, The: A New American JourneyBuck, Rinker, Illust. by: Michael Gellatly
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Oregon Trail, The: A New American Journey


Buck, Rinker, Illust. by: Michael Gellatly

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Michael Gellately. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light staining to dust jacket.

Record # 469608


Price: $13.00 

 

Voices of Marrakesh, The: A Record of a Visit


Canetti, Elias

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, else a very neat, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606463


Price: $40.00 

 

North-Eastern France


Hare, Augustus J. C.

Hardcover. London, George Allen, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Brown cloth covers with title and decoration in gilt. Some loss of cloth (approx. 1/8th inch) at top and bottom of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Rear hinge paper with some very narrow cracks. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610659


Price: $31.00 

 

Polynesian Triangle, The


Berry, Erick/Herbert Best

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription opposite half title page. 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipping. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 613570


Price: $15.00 

 

Historic Hotels of the World


Ludy, Robert B.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1927, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. B/W photographs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Pages faded, very solid. Purple covers with gold lettering on front and spine. Excellent condition for age.

Record # 802850


Price: $26.00 

 

Summer in Alaska, A


Schwatka, Frederick

Hardcover. St. Louis, J. W. Henry, 1st , 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages. B&w frontispiece with b&w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Blue cloth cover with gilt titles. Some edgewear and soiling to cover. Front hinge cracked. Foxing to edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf.

Record # 851654


Price: $100.00 

 

Lure of Vermont's Silent Places, The


Olzendam, Roderic Marble

Softcover. Essex Junction,Vermont , Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non- paginated. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Foxing to front cover and some pages, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 857289


Price: $9.00 

Hiking the Appalachian TrailHare, James R. (ed.)
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Hiking the Appalachian Trail


Hare, James R. (ed.)

Hardcover. Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2010 pages in two volumes. Hardcover without dust jackets. Some fading on spines and foxing on front cover of volume 2, back cover of volume 1 and tops of text blocks. Otherwise clean and tight copies. Domestic shipping only.

Record # 2230563


Price: $150.00 

 

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


Gargan, Edward A.

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

Record # 32046


Price: $19.00 

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

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

 

Vienna, My Vienna


Wechsberg, Joseph

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.

Record # 405500


Price: $25.00 

 

Godstone and the Blackymor, The


White, T. H., Illust. by: Edward Ardizzone

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.

Record # 409693


Price: $25.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XXXIX January - June 1921 (Six issues)


National Geographic Society

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.

Record # 415546


Price: $50.00 

Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador by: Gimlette, John
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador by: Gimlette, John

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
Price: $12.00 

 

Cruising French canals and rivers


McKnight, Hugh

Hardcover. Newport, R.I., Seven Seas Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456280


Price: $15.00 

Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish IsleKerr, Peter
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Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle


Kerr, Peter

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.

Record # 458699


Price: $13.00 

 

Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, 1685-c.1712, The


Fiennes, Celia

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.

Record # 462991


Price: $25.00 

 

Tel Aviv: From Dream to City


Schlor, Joachim

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.

Record # 464310


Price: $13.00 

Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra MadreGallagher, Tim
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Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre


Gallagher, Tim

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.

Record # 468491


Price: $15.00 

 

Journey Around the World, The


Clark, Frances E./Harriet E. Clark

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.

Record # 511572


Price: $15.00 

 

Stanley's Wonderful Adventures in Africa


Headley, J. T./Willis Fletcher Johnson

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.

Record # 609054


Price: $25.00 

 

Wild Men and Wild Beasts; Or, Scenes in Camp and Jungle


Cumming, Lt. Col. Gordon/Bayard Taylor (Editor)

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.

Record # 612985


Price: $63.00 

 

Sky Roaming Above Two Continents


Franck, Harry A.

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.

Record # 800487


Price: $13.00 

 

Handbook for Eastern Timber Harvesting


Simmons, Fred C.

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.

Record # 850565


Price: $18.00 

 

Studio: Asia


Groth, John

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.

Record # 856993


Price: $38.00 

 

Desert Dies, A


Asher, Michael

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.

Record # 952440


Price: $19.00 

 

Martha's Vineyard: An Affectionate Memoir (SIGNED)


Graves, Ralph, Illust. by: Ray Ellis

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.

Record # 2233768


Price: $38.00 

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


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

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

Record # 30747


Price: $50.00 

Alaska Days With John Muir by: Young, S. Hall
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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 # 224438


Price: $15.00 

Grand Tour dell'Europa in AutomobileBrilli, Attilio
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Grand Tour dell'Europa in Automobile


Brilli, Attilio

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.

Record # 408096


Price: $44.00 

 

National Geographic Magazine - Vol. XL July-December 1921 (Six Issues)


National Geographic Society

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.

Record # 415531


Price: $50.00 

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, illustrated throughout in b&w. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 452800


Price: $15.00 

Packing with llamas by: Daugherty, Stanlynn
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Packing with llamas by: Daugherty, Stanlynn

Softcover. Ashland, Or., Juniper Ridge Press, 1st , 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, b&w photographs. Edgewear to wrappers. Small stain on fore-edge. Else clean and tight. Record # 454378
Price: $12.00 

Tramp's Wallet, A Pickering, Samuel F.
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Tramp's Wallet, A


Pickering, Samuel F.

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.

Record # 458557


Price: $16.00 

 

Venice: Pure City


Ackroyd, Peter

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.

Record # 462474


Price: $15.00 

African Silences by: Matthiessen, Peter
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African Silences by: Matthiessen, Peter

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
Price: $12.00 

English Country PubsBRABBS, DERRY
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English Country Pubs


BRABBS, DERRY

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.

Record # 466648


Price: $25.00 

 

Columbia and Canada - Notes of the Great Republic and the New Dominion


Rae, W. Fraser

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.

Record # 501841


Price: $36.00 

 

Through Spain and Portugal


Peixotto, Ernest

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.

Record # 607764


Price: $30.00 

 

Search of the Primitive, In


Cotlow, Lewis

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

Record # 612672


Price: $25.00 

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


Haardt, Georges-Marie/Louis Audouin-Dubreuil

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

Record # 614124


Price: $38.00 

 

MacDonald's Tourists' Guide to Scotland


William MacDonald & Company

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

Record # 808938


Price: $30.00 

 

Travels in West Africa


Kingsley, Mary H.

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

Record # 854470


Price: $20.00 

 

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


Hatch, Olivia Stokes

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

Record # 951724


Price: $19.00 

 

Fabled Shore from the Pyrenees to Portugal


Macaulay, Rose

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

Record # 2233344


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

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

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

 

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


Bartlett, W.H.

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

Record # 407063


Price: $100.00 

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


National Geographic Society

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

Record # 415520


Price: $38.00 

 

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


National Geographic Society

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

Record # 415579


Price: $38.00 

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


Wallis, Michael

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

Record # 453207


Price: $25.00 

 

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


Waterman, Jonathan

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

Record # 457076


Price: $15.00 

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

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

 

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


Barber, Stephen

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

Record # 463707


Price: $15.00 

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

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

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


Mitchell, John Hanson

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

Record # 470068


Price: $15.00 

 

Eric Shipton - Everest & Beyond


Steele, Peter

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

Record # 606814


Price: $12.00 

 

Patagonia Revisited


Chatwin, Bruce/Paul Theroux

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

Record # 610829


Price: $25.00 

 

Plaza - Its Life and Times, The


Brown, Eve

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

Record # 613636


Price: $23.00 

 

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


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

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

Record # 803001


Price: $51.00 

 

Men and Times of Revolution; or Memoirs of Elkanah Watson


Watson, Winslow C. (Ed.)

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

Record # 851980


Price: $25.00 

 

Abbey's Road


Abbey , Edward

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

Record # 857342


Price: $13.00 

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


Monahan, Michael

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

Record # 2230688


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Among the Alps with Bradford by: Washburn, Bradford
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Among the Alps with Bradford by: Washburn, Bradford

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
Price: $25.00 

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


Shaw, Christopher

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

Record # 405788


Price: $19.00 

 

Ricordo di Roma. 32 vedute. Parte seconda


N/A

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

Record # 410655


Price: $19.00 

 

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


National Geographic Society

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1914, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes a fold-out map of Alaska and another of Mexico. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.

Record # 415547


Price: $50.00 

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

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

 

Bells in Their Silence, The : Travels through Germany


Gorra, Michael

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

Record # 456413


Price: $30.00 

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


Freeman, Mike

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

Record # 459011


Price: $16.00 

 

Companion Guide to The Coast of Southwest England, The


Seymour, John; John Seynour

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

Record # 462999


Price: $23.00 

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

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

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


Ruthven, Malise

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

Record # 468923


Price: $31.00 

 

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


McCrindle, J.

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

Record # 512073


Price: $60.00 

 

Alaska - Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity


Burr, Agnes Rush

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

Record # 609491


Price: $80.00 

 

Italian Days


Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti

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

Record # 613144


Price: $13.00 

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

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

 

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


Teggart, Frederick J. (Ed.)

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

Record # 851336


Price: $35.00 

 

Voyages and Discoveries


Dampier, William & Clennell Wilkinson (Ed.)

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

Record # 857033


Price: $38.00 

 

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


Freeman, Amy and Dave

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

Record # 952493


Price: $31.00 

 

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.
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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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 


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