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Our Grandmothers' Drums


Hudson, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Blue cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Has a touch of rubbing to dj. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In very good condition. A "travel book" about the inhabitants of the village Dulaba in Gambia, Africa.

Record # 32160


Price: $15.00 

 

Our New West


Bowles , Samuel

Hardcover. Hartford CT , Hartford Publishing Co , reprint, 1869, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and decoration on front cover and spine. Illustrated frontispiece. Spine cracked and lose. Foxing throughout. All pages legible.

Record # 857401


Price: $25.00 

 

Overland to California with the Pioneer Line


Gordon, Mary McDougall

Stanford, CA., 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations and photos. Map on end papers.

Record # 201316


Price: $15.00 

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 

Painted Voyage, The: Art, Travel and Exploration, 1564 - 1875Jacobs, Michael
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Painted Voyage, The: Art, Travel and Exploration, 1564 - 1875


Jacobs, Michael

Hardcover. London, British Museum Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 64 color and 42 black & white illustrations. A tight copy.

Record # 471564


Price: $31.00 

 

Panama Gateway, The


Bishop, Joseph Bucklin

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1913, Dust Jacket: None, 459 pages + fold out maps. B/W photographs. Previous owner's inscription front and back fly leaf. Gutters are cracking, Red cloth covers with gold lettering on front and spine. Some white marks on covers.

Record # 802822


Price: $16.00 

 

Panama to Patagonia - The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries of South America


Pepper, Charles M.

NY, Young Peoples' Missionary Movement, 2nd, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. 4 folding maps, B&W photos. Ex-lib with bookplates on front end paper. Light residue to rear spine, lettering faded. Otherwise very good.

Record # 300959


Price: $50.00 

 

Panorama of Rural England, A


Turner (Ed.), W. J.

Hardcover. New York , Chanticleer Press, 2nd printing, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to green cloth boards, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857054


Price: $15.00 

 

Paris Through the Ages


Wilhelm, Jacques

Paperback. Paris, Duchene, wraps, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color, B&W. 86 pages, English text

Record # 1112


Price: $30.00 

Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)Gabler, James M.
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Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)


Gabler, James M.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Bacchus Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411303


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon Bondil, Nathalie

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon


Bondil, Nathalie

Hardcover. Milan , 5Continents, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs, maps and illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Gilt to all three edges. Gilt decoration to spine and cover. Clean tight copy.

Record # 468123


Price: $63.00 

Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)

Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872


Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, J. D. Ehlers & Co's Engraving and Printing, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design stamped to front cover, 144 pages. B&w frontispiece of Hotchkiss, 2 folding railroad maps. The first map is of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the second is another, larger map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad a radius map covering 600 miles from Jordan Alum Springs in color, and advertisement for the Jordon Alum Springs in Rockbridge County, Virginia on the back. Probably rebound as it appears the original cloth has been pasted to matching pebbled cloth covers. A few nicks to the edges of the front otherwise tight and clean. Maps in very good condition.

Record # 411957


Price: $235.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Portrait of India


Smith, Bradford

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 53901


Price: $12.00 

 

Portrait of the Isles of Scilly


Mumford, Clive

Hardcover. US, Robert Hale Ltd, rep, 1970-07-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket with faint foxing to inside flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463030


Price: $10.00 

 

Prague in Black and Gold - Scenes from the Life of a European City


Demetz, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages, clean bright copy in a dust jacket.

Record # 53904


Price: $12.00 

 

Prehistoric England


Cavendish, Richard

Hardcover. London, English Tourist Board, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 152 pages. Dj price clipped

Record # 60411


Price: $18.00 

 

Pump and Circumstance: Glory days of the Gas Station


Margolies, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A rich and lively celebration of that icon of American roadside culture: the gas station. Margolies traces the entertaining and significant tradition of gas station design, history, and lore.

Record # 32297


Price: $25.00 

 

Queen Mary, The


Potter, Neil and Jack Frost

Hardcover. New York, The John Day Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 291 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The biography of a beloved ship, the most famous ocean liner of modern times. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Mild age toning to exterior text block edges. Minor fading and age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450040


Price: $13.00 

 

Quest for Eternity, The: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China


Caroselli, Susan L.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover. French flaps, unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition, clean inside and out. Published to accompany traveling exhibition March 22, 1987-April 10, 1988.

Record # 30648


Price: $13.00 

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 

 

Rambles Overland: A Trip Across the Continent


Gunnison, Almon

Hardcover. Boston, Universalist Publishing House, rep , 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Previous owner's signature on title page. Ex-library. Foxing to end papers. Some soiling to covers. Corners bumped. Wear to extremities.

Record # 801707


Price: $21.00 


  
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