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Elizabeth: Passage of a Queen, The


Stevens, Leonard A.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages. Hardcover. Features black & white photographs, drawings and one fold-out map. Previous owner has pasted in 2 related newspaper clippings on front endpaper and on page 143. Brief note in pencil on first page of Appendix. Price clipped dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges.

Record # 613682


Price: $15.00 

 

Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850 (Critical Histories)


Halpern, Rick (Editor)

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor sun fading to spine. Price sticker on rear wrapper.

Record # 471167


Price: $19.00 

 

Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia


de Custine, Marquis

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 631 pages. Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. Introduction by George F. Kennan. Minor creasing on inner flaps of dust jacket. Otherwise very tight and clean copy.

Record # 809220


Price: $18.00 

 

Empire on Wheels


Settle, Raymond W. & Mary Lund Settle

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 153 pages. Handwritten notations by the granddaughter of William Bradford Waddell covers the half title page and dedication page. Heavy edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small chunks missing from edges of darkened spine. Protected by mylar cover. Light soil to end paper. Neat reading copy.

Record # 856852


Price: $75.00 

 

English Lakes, The: Their Topographical, Historical and Literary Landmarks


Palmer, W. T.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 281 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, rubbing and chipping to dust jacket with previous owner's signature on front cover. Previous owner's signature of front end paper.

Record # 857067


Price: $13.00 

 

Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume VII: Human Spaceflight, Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (Nasa History)


Administration, National Aeronautics and Space

Hardcover. US, Scientific and Technical Information Off, 1st, 2008-12-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 857 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463374


Price: $38.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America


Jobe, Joseph

Hardcover. Loussanne, Edita, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Accounts of 19th Century travel in North America by foreigners, tipped in color plts, illust by watercolor drawings & engravings of the period. Slipcased

Record # 11049


Price: $21.00 

 

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 

 

Far Encounter: The Neptune System


Burgess, Eric

Hardcover. New York, Columbia Univ Pr, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Black cloth cover, faint smudges, otherwise very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. Inside is nice and clean, b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 455857


Price: $12.00 

 

Far-Farers, The: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem


Clark, Victoria

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 459 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Engaging blend of journalism and history. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Bumping to spine. Price-clipped. Age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A bright copy.

Record # 952438


Price: $15.00 

 

First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.


Farmer, Gene

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 434 pages, b&w photos. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Remainder marks on all three edges. Internally very good.

Record # 856901


Price: $25.00 

 

Flavor of San Francisco - A Guide to "The City"


Delkin, James Ladd

Paperback. Stanford, CA, James Ladd Delkin, 1st Wraps, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A travel guide to San Francisco pub. during WW II. Black & white illust, maps

Record # 57274


Price: $20.00 

 

Floodtides of Fortune: The Story of Stratford


Leitch, Adelaide

Hardcover. Stratford, Ontario, Canada, The Corporation of the City of Stratford, 1st, 1980, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, endpapers decorated with illustrated map of Stratford. Green cloth cover, gilt pictorial to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dust jacket. Book in great condition.

Record # 803267


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Food of Italy, The


Root, Waverley/Samuel Chamberlain & Warren Chappell

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 749 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with graphic design of Italy printed in green & gold to cover. Gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning, tears to edges, soiling to spine edge. Green top edge. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 751179


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Forty Years Travels: At Sea and in Foreign Countries with an Account of His Shipwrecks


Lefavor, Captain William

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Wagenseller, 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages, frontispiece portrait of author, 2 page facsimile letter. Bound in green cloth covers with gilt ship on front, gilt lettering on spine: Mother Carey's Chickens.(?) Hinges tender but holding, internally very good, covers with light rubbing.

Record # 402733


Price: $150.00 

Fourth Part of the World, The: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its NameLester, Toby

Fourth Part of the World, The: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name


Lester, Toby

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471668


Price: $19.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

Gastronomy of Spain and Portugal, The


Manjon, Maite

Hardcover. New York, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color plates. Internally near fine. Color illustrated title page, color frontispiece. Orange endpapers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 803596


Price: $13.00 

 

Ghost Towns of British Columbia


Ramsey, Bruce

Hardcover. Vancouver, Canada, Mitchell Press Limited, 4th printing, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 226 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light edge- and shelf-wear on dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856651


Price: $13.00 

 

Golden Antilles, The: The Story of the Travelers, Adventurers, and Soldiers of Fortune who Searched for a Promised Land in the Caribbean


Severin, Timothy

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.

Record # 32171


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 

 

Great Trade Route


Ford Ford Madox, Illust. by: Biala

Hardcover. NY , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages. Color frontis. 24 B&W illust. by Biala. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, small piece gone from top of spine. Covered in brodart.

Record # 300529


Price: $60.00 


  
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