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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. 1st, December 30, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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".
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A deeply informed personal chronicle of a remarkable journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, as are interior pages. Blue paper covers have one significant bump to the top edge, but are still in very good condition overall. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book explores the rivers and the coastal culture of Eastern North Carolina. Clean copy. Record # 34512
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, 136 b&w photographs by Werner Forman, 12 in color. Clean, bright copy. Short closed tear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 226 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth with an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. The book is a very good, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes fold-out of a square-rigged sailing ship in tinted color: The Argosy of Geography, a color folding map of The New Asia (28 x 36"), and a Map of Europe with the new boundaries post-WW1. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.
Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, illustrated in color. Light edgewear to price clipped dust jacket . Nice, tight, clean copy. Record # 452942
Hardcover. Guilford, Conn., The Lyons Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slight crease to rear flap. Minor soil to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, Reaktion Books, 1st US, 1999-06-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Slight crease to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Hartford, A.D. Worthington & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 641 pages. Cloth boards. Spine and cover illustrated in gilt. Cover quite worn and hanging by a thread. Interior solid. Illustrated with black & white etchings. 1 fold out map.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edgewood Publishing, 1st thus, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 687 pages. Black & white illustrations. Approximately 2" narrow section of paper missing from front endpaper and inner spine hinge. Cloth covers show some spots of rubbing. Gilt title and illustrations on cover and spine still bright and intact. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Armstrong, & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Part of the 'Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure' series. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to preliminary pages. Titles and decorations with gilt highlights. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, B&w plates. Very light tanning to spine, otherwise very good condition.
Softcover. Broomall, PA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. 50 B&W figures. Blue pictorial stiff wrapper with fading, wear, and soiling. Bottom right corners of first 40 pages bent. Soiling and some folding of edges.
Hardcover. Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout by the author. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on illustrated front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with small cut trough middle of front cover.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An Englishman's travels with the nomads of the Sahara during a catastrophic drought-a remarkable story of friendship and courage. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine, light rubbing and edgewear to rear dust jacket panel. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Faded spine. Light soil on rear and light foxing to top page block. Signed copy with signatures on title page of both artist, Ray Ellis and writer, Ralph Graves. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 2nd, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 812 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in green fabric, gilt title on spine and front cover. Voyage maps included in envelope attached to inside of back cover. Some edgewear to covers with a touch of fraying, but mostly to spine. In good condition considering its age. Edges yellow with age, but still clean inside.
Hardcover. NY, Fleming H. Revell , 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, hardcover. Exterior pictorial board shows some wear and tear, particularly with respect to scuffed and fading text. Interior pages and binding are in very good condition. B&W photographs throughout. In this fascinating account of John Muir's travels in Alaska from 1879 to 1880, we are brought into an intimate acquaintance with this great interpreter of Nature by one who was his companion on many expeditions. Clean copy. Record # 33622
Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel by automobile in Europe. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. In a cardboard slipcase.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Clean, bright volume.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. Macon, Ga., Mercer University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. US, Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2010-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Random House, 2nd printing, 1991-07-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463930
Hardcover. London, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt title on front and spine. Light edgewear to cover corners and top and bottom spine. Spine faded and slightly cocked. Small round spot on front cover. Cover page darkened, otherwise internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ernest Peixotto. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, wrinkling to back cover. Small area of fading to cloth at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, Plon, Reprint, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Softcover. French text only. Illustrated with 3 black & white drawings, 42 pages of black & white photographs, and 2 maps - one fold-out in rear of book. Some surface stains to covers, Darkened spine with chipping at top and bottom. Pages are age darkened. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Edinburgh, William MacDonald & Company, Limited, new and revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages plus advertisements, b&w illustrations. Binding slightly cracked at covers. Small stamps on right edge. Light edge wear to covers. Else pages clean and crisp.
Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, with black & white photographs throughout, printed cloth cover and brown slipcase. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Notes and pictures of an African adventure of two young Americans in 1932. Photographs by Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. Mild fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chip to upper fore edge corner. Mild age toning to top text block. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in yellow cloth, black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Binding tight, spines straight. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. The earliest and best-known of Cela's travel-sketch books, this is an unrivaled account of the land and people of Spain
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 18th ed, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 632 pages. Map in slip in back. Contains many fold-out maps. Previous owner's label pasted in front end paper. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Record # 214329
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages including index, illustrated with engravings and woodcuts (2 fold-out), including frontispiece and decorated title page. Red cloth covers with embossed design with gilt design on front panel and spine, all edges gilt. No date but title page states fifth edition. Spine a little darkened, internally clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Covers loose. Includes "The Pacific: the Most Explored and Least Known Region of the Globe" by Leopold G. Blackman, Further Notes on Dutch New Guinea by Thomas Barbour, Biskra, The Ziban Queen by Mrs. George Bosson.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1926, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out color map of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Clean, bright volume.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, photographs in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2003-09-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462318
Hardcover. US, National Geographic, reprint , 2003-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466481
Hardcover. Washington, DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dent on Bottom edge of back cover. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1891, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages, 111 b&w illustrations by F. H. Townsend, gilt lettering to cover and spine, duotone illustration on cover. Wear to front cover, water stains to rear half of copy block and rear endpapers.
Softcover. Elizabethtown, NY, Crown Point Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor wear to wrappers. Light smudges to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton , reprint , 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Light shelf wear to back cover, else clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frank-Maurice, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 379 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some chipping and wear to edges of jacket and fading to spine. Residue from sticker on bottom front of jacket. Previous owner's name in front end papers, and old catalogue number.
Softcover. Corvallis, OR, Oregon State University Press, Reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout by Mary Miller Doyle. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In very good condition. "A year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world."
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Ed, 2nd Pr., 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 160 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition due to multiple open tears, significant chipping, and edge wear. It has been repaired to the best of our ability with scotch tape. Orange cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Includes illustrated end papers. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an American boy's story of his summertime mountain climbing experiences among famous alpine peaks. Clean copy. Record # 34538
Hardcover. Rome, no publisher, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early 20th century accordion fold out book of photographs of Roman scenes. Color illustrations in relief on the cover. Blue cloth lightly edge worn. Interior clean and tight text on the back of the photos in English, French, German and Italian. 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. No date but early 20th century.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1914, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes a fold-out map of Alaska and another of Mexico. Bright, clean volume. Light chipping to spine labels.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear/-rubbing, soiling to pictorial dust jacket. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452945
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Albany, State Univ of New York Pr, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., rep, 1975-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages, photos in b&w. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket with old price sticker to front flap.
Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Company, 1st US, 1986-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Light shelf-wear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465786
Hardcover. Reading, UK, Garnet Pub Ltd, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Includes chronology of Freya Stark's life. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Edinburgh, privately printed, reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, an additional 7 pages on Coins of Russia. An early (1630) account of England's contact with Russia. One of 350 copies. Paper cover with small tears otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Page Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Features fold-out map and fifty-four plates of which six are in color. Minor foxing to some plate edges. Top edge gilt. Light wear overall. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Hardcover. Section of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages, b&w plates, map end papers. Dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Edge wear, rubbing to covers. Previous owner's bookplate, sticker residue on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, fold-out maps. Light shelf-wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHORS on half title page. Compelling tale about the beauty as well as the brutal challenges of living a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Mild bumping to spine and corners. Color photographs throughout. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Hampden Publishing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are in fair condition, with some minor dings, fading near the spine, and a few droplets of white paint. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is beginning to separate at the bottom, but is still contiguous. B&W photography throughout. A unique story told by one of the travelers. What they saw and how they lived while traveling among the half-civilized people of Morocco, the Peasants of Italy and France, as well as the educated classes of Spain, Greece, and other countries. Clean copy. Record # 33663
Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel in Italy. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. Travel in Italy over routes traveled long ago. A beautiful book. Mild wear to covers.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and shelf rubbing to dust jacket. A clean tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1st, 2000-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462700
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 4th ed, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 324 pages. Gilt top edge. Green covers with gold lettering. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light soiling to covers. Rubbing to extremities.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 497 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Green cloth with illustrated spine and cover. Titles in gilt. Previous owners name on inside front cover - dated 1909. One full color map and many black & white drawings and photographs. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. London, MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Fold-out maps in color. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Rubbing to spine, light edgewear to pages.
Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2nd Printing, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages, with black & white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 106 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. An illness and travel narrative. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos in center. Front cover slightly bowed.
Softcover. East Middlebury, VT, Wren Song Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out. "Crossing Paths with Mastiffs and Khampas in the Himalayan Kingdom of Lo"
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. "With an Introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt". Cover boards bound in navy blue, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Bump to top of spine. Front cover board blind stamped (see image). Top edge gilt. Decked fore and bottom edge. A travel book looking at South America in the early Twentieth Century.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Previous owner's signature and labels on front end papers. Dust jacket with fading, light soiling, edgewear.
Softcover. Grand Rapids MI, James Bayne Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, oblong softcover with pictorial covers, string-tie binding. Color foldout map of the area covered in front, many b&w plates, mostly photographs throughout. No date, appears to be early 1900s. Clean, very good.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Features "One Season's Game-Bag with the Camera" by the Hon. George Shiras, 3rd.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very good, clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. London, 1st, November 7, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 291 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Record # 462326
Hardcover. US, National Geographic, 1st, 2003-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, color photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463720
Softcover. US, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1992-05-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Includes extensive picture notes. Includes two maps of the area. Light edge wear to corners. Else clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Thick remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 3rd printing, 1854, Book: Good, 437 pages. Pages foxed with some stains on outer margins. Covers worn with stains and spotting. Cloth at top and bottom of spine frayed and curling. Sold as is.