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. 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. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, b&w and color plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York & 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. London , Quarto Publishing , reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Extensive color and b&w images and illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and front fly leaf. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to dust jacket and top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Routledge, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1037 pages (two volume set). Hardcovers. Books are in beautiful like-new condition. Red cover boards, silver gilt title on spines. Dust jackets unclipped. Pages bright and clean. Spines straight, bindings tight. From Emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Who's Who in the Middle Ages brings together the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500 AD.
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan and Company, New Edition, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, hardcover. Covers of this small form book have some edge wear and chipping. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Top edge gilt. This book is a travelogue, a companion to "Shakespeare's England," and relates to the gray days of an American wanderer in the British islands, and to the gold of thought and fancy that can be found there. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33890
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 color plates, many photo plates. 403 pages. Fold-out map in rear, previous owner's bookplate. Front hinge partially cracked, fraying to cloth on top of spine.
Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Black & white photographs by Katharine Knowles. Sticker on front end paper.
NY, Chanticleer Press/Hastings House, 2nd, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Introduction by Edmund Blunden. 319 pages, 48 color plates, 137 in b&w. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown.
Softcover. Toronto, Canada, Coles Publishing Company, Reprint facsimile copy, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages. Softcover. Facsimile copy of original, published in 1852. Wrapper very good. Light tanning to edges and pages. A moisture stain to top edge. Binding tight. In good shape. A woman takes a trip of exploration with her husband from England to Canada, in the first part of the nineteenth century.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages plus index. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine and author's name in gilt on front cover. Deckled foreedge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket price-clipped. Here is the drama of Sir Walter Raleigh's two daring and deluded expeditions to the banks of the Orinoco.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is significantly worn, with a mix of open and closed tears. Pink cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are the interior pages. Binding is solid. This book chronicles the history and glamour of the iconic Savoy Hotel in London, from its opening in 1889 through the book's publication in 1964. B&W photography throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33735
Hardcover. New York, MacMillan, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Previous owner's 1897 gift inscription on front flyleaf.Top edge gilt. Light green boards with dark green pictorials and gilt lettering on covers and spine. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine, light age soil. Record # 40255
NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second English volume in Nevinson's autobiography. He was a journalist who traveled world-wide. Much in here about Russia, Africa & the Cocoa Islands, India & the coming of WW I. Black & white illust. 127 pages.
Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 color plates by John Fulleylove, all with tissue guards. 265 pages. Blue cloth with gilt & black designs, top edge gilt . Ex-lib with lettering on spine, bookplate light stamping, marking to end papers.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 887 pages. Green cloth covers, embossed gilt titles, yellow top edge stain. Light edgewear, covers faded at spine and edges, clean, unbent pages; overall a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Ed. J. Burrow, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 122 pages, b&w illustrations, with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Introduction is dated 1939 with no other date. Condition suggests this may be a reprint.