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Rediscovery of Greece, The: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic EraTsigakou, Fani-Maria

Rediscovery of Greece, The: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era


Tsigakou, Fani-Maria

Hardcover. New York, Aristide D Caratzas Pub, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy with color images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470842


Price: $31.00 

 

Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia


Ishwaran, K.

Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1st, 1976, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages, edited by Bardwell L. Smith, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Light wear to dust jacket; overall, book in great condition.

Record # 803271


Price: $19.00 

 

Richard Hakluyt and The English Voyages


Parks, George Bruner

Hardcover. New York, American Geographical Society, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. American Geographical Society - Special Publication No. 10. Black & white illustrations with 3 fold-out maps. Light wear overall. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609513


Price: $15.00 

 

Ride to Niagara in 1809, A


T. C. (Thomas Cooper)

Hardcover. New York , Privately Printed, reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages, fold-out map in front. A reprint of a 1810 pamphlet, limited to 200 copies. Gray boards with cover label, gray cloth spine. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 900123


Price: $26.00 

 

River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson (New York State Series)


Lourie, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 327 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor sun fading to dust jacket front and some foxing to textblock top edge. Otherwise very clean, unmarked, tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471153


Price: $15.00 

River Unvexed, A: A History and Tour Guide of the Campaign for the Mississippi RiverMiles, Jim
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River Unvexed, A: A History and Tour Guide of the Campaign for the Mississippi River


Miles, Jim

Softcover. Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 596 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out. In great shape. The Civil War Campaign Series. from the back cover: "A River Unvexed is the first comprehensive account of the campaign for the entire Mississippi River. Included are: 61 original maps; 247 photographs and line drawings; A lively history of the campaign; Human-interest articles on people, places, and events; Sources for additional travel information; Index and bibliography"

Record # 30542


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Rivers of America - The Ohio


Banta, R. E./Edward Shenton, Illust. by: Edward Shenton

Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 592 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Edward Shenton. Creasing to top right corner of pages 3 through 8. Minor staining to front of cloth cover. Dust jacket with chipping along edges and corners - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613469


Price: $35.00 

 

Road West, The: Saga of the 35th Parallel


Dodge, Bertha S.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages, b&w illustrations. Light tanning to dust jacket with small chip missing from lower edge of spine. Internally clean and tight.

Record # 810055


Price: $15.00 

 

Romance of Labrador, The


Grenfell, Sir Wilfred

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850959


Price: $30.00 

 

Romance of Nice, The


Loveland, J.D.E.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth & Co., 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages. B&W photographs. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Red cloth covers with gilt title to spine and title and decoration to front. Raised line along front right corner and slightly soiled on bottom left corner. Prior owner inscription on front flyleaf. Small sticker on front end paper. Pencil marking throughout. Top edge gilt. Light foxing throughout.

Record # 850150


Price: $20.00 

 

Romance of the Rivers, The


Faris, John T.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w photographs of America's rivers. Red cloth with black decoration. Light edgewear.

Record # 402330


Price: $18.00 

 

Roughing It in the Bush


Moodie, Susanna, Illust. by: R.A. Stewart

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.

Record # 32142


Price: $23.00 

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 

 

Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets


Oliphant, Mrs., Illust. by: George Morrow

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 2nd Ed., 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt type and design. 520 pages, many fine b&w engraved drawings by George Reid. Top edge gilt. Very attractive copy. Clean.

Record # 412070


Price: $19.00 

 

Russia - Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams


Shipler, David K.

Hardcover. NY, Times, Revised ed., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The author's 1983 bestseller is here revised and updated. 462 pages.

Record # 58653


Price: $18.00 

 

Russia: a portrait


Poliakov, Lev

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Foxing to dust jacket cover, faint foxing to top edge. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469121


Price: $44.00 

 

Saguenay: The River of Deep Waters


Davies, Blodwen

Hardcover. Montreal, Canada, Canada Steamship Lines Publishers, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 204 pages, b&w and color illustrations by Paul Caron & G. A. Cuthbertson. Wear, rubbing and light chipping to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, Reading copy.

Record # 857051


Price: $25.00 

 

Sahara: Desert of Destiny


Gerster, Georg

Hardcover. New York, NY, Coward-McCann Inc., First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Original dust jacket with small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers. Pages are clean & unmarked throughout, two pages to rear have strong crease marks to corners. Tight binding.

Record # 6670128


Price: $23.00 

 

Scandinavia Beckons


Oakley, Amy, Illust. by: Thornton Oakley

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton Century Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 540 pages w/ index. Dj very chipped, in mylar cover. Blue cloth, gilt. Map end papers.

Record # 803822


Price: $8.00 

 

Sea in Ships, The: The Story of a Sailing Ship's Voyage Round Cape Horn


Villiers, Alan J.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1932, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages of text, followed by 112 b&w photographs taken by the author, and a fold out diagram of the ship. Fading along spine and cover edges. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852505


Price: $30.00 

 

Search for a Vanishing Beijing, The: A Guide to China's Capital Through the Ages


Aldrich, M.A.

Hardcover. Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong University Press, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Very clean copy, looks nearly new. Weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China.

Record # 399


Price: $50.00 

 

Secrets at Sea (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Peck, Richard, Illust. by: Kelly Murphy

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, 1ST, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust cover and tops of cover boards show just a little bumping, but otherwise in great shape. Clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30599


Price: $25.00 

 

Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to The Jazz Age


Levenstein, Harvey

Hardcover. Chicago IL, University of Chicago, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 805726


Price: $13.00 


  
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