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A Hell of a Place To Lose A Cow by: Tim, Brookes

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Adventure Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 308 pages. Slight crease on bottom of dust jacket. Record # 801848
Price: $12.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4 Brown (Ed.), Ray B.
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JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4


Brown (Ed.), Ray B.

Softcover. Bowling Green OH, Journal of Popular Culture, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages 701-909. Articles include: Philip Gordon on Ayn Rand. Louis F. Helbig on Struwwelpeter: an inquiry into the effects of violence in children's literature. French folksongs. D. L. Ashliman on the American Indian in German Travel Narratives and Literature. Clean.

Record # 411779


Price: $13.00 

 

Offensive Traveller, The


Pritchett, V.S.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of travel essays.

Record # 108658


Price: $15.00 

 

Singular Country, A


Donleavy, J.P.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dj price clipped

Record # 52946


Price: $18.00 

Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of One World Swift, Jonathan, Illust. by: Arthur Rackham
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of One World


Swift, Jonathan, Illust. by: Arthur Rackham

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with ornate gilt decoration to front and spine. A revision of Rackham's 1899 Ed. New color plates. Excellent condition. Previous owner's signature on end paper

Record # 59069


Price: $150.00 

 

Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Small remainder dot bottom edge. Poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother and stepfather in a customized mail truck, complete with a wood stove, while her father spent two years in jail for his part in an antiwar protest. Record # 220928
Price: $12.00 

 

Split : A Counterculture Childhood by: Michaels, Lisa

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as a child of political activists during the early seventies. Michaels's upbringing was marked by communes, rallies, and road trips; as a young girl she traveled across the country with her mother and stepfather in a customized mail truck, complete with a wood stove, while her father spent two years in jail for his part in an antiwar protest. Record # 220929
Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands


Clarke, Thurston

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.

Record # 466537


Price: $23.00 

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence Christensen, Paul
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Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence


Christensen, Paul

Hardcover. US, Wings Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Slight wrinkling to front cover and first few pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466922


Price: $13.00 

Oregon Trail, The: A New American Journey Buck, Rinker, Illust. by: Michael Gellatly
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Oregon Trail, The: A New American Journey


Buck, Rinker, Illust. by: Michael Gellatly

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.

Record # 469608


Price: $13.00 

Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage From Andalusia to the Hebrides Mitchell, John Hanson
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Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage From Andalusia to the Hebrides


Mitchell, John Hanson

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.

Record # 470068


Price: $15.00 

 

Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure


Graves, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription on reverse of front endpaper. Rubbing to cloth on upper half of back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606955


Price: $20.00 

 

Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, A


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Gilt title on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607637


Price: $12.00 

 

Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of his American Kin, The


Muirhead, James Fullarton

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal News Company, Limited, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Blue cloth with gilt title on cover and spine. Light wear to corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609838


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Ernst Benkert - Travel Books - Drawings, Notes, and Photographs 1994-2004 - A Selection


Benkert, Ernst

Softcover. Winooski, Photo Lounge, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. INSCRIBED BY BENKERT ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612558


Price: $25.00 

 

From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel: Parts 1 & 2: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Volumes 15 & 16)


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Vol 15 (Part 1): 494 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Vol 16 (Part 2): 553 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Hardcovers. Deckled untrimmed edges. Early editions in the Scribner's series, bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and elephant and swastika sign (Kipling's trademark) on the front cover and title page, top edge gilt. Just a touch of age wear to spine and cover boards, fading, soil, chipping. Bindings tight. Lovely, clean copies from this collection.

Record # 31474


Price: $25.00 

With Shelley In Italy: Being A Selection Of The Poems And Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Which Have To Do With His Life In Italy From 1818 To 1822 by: Shelley, Percy Bysshe McMahan, Anna Benneson
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With Shelley In Italy: Being A Selection Of The Poems And Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Which Have To Do With His Life In Italy From 1818 To 1822 by: Shelley, Percy Bysshe McMahan, Anna Benneson

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, hardcover. Green cloth covers with raised bust and gilt text have minor discoloration, with bumping and rubbing to the corners and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright, with a gilt top edge. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This volume compiles poems and letters from 1818 to 1822, tracing Percy Bysshe Shelley's creative, emotional, and physical journey during his Italian exile. The selection showcases his responses to Italian landscapes and his personal hardships. Clean copy. Record # 34336
Price: $40.00 

 

Great Railway Journeys of the World


Frayn, Michael, et al

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 7 entertaining essays on memorable train journeys by 7 different writers. Black & white photos.

Record # 57275


Price: $18.00 

 

Thread of English Road, A


Brooks, Charles S.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & Co., 2nd, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white drawings by Julia McCune Flory

Record # 59490


Price: $15.00 

 

Swiss Essays


Powys, Llewelyn

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w photos, 165 pgs.

Record # 107591


Price: $15.00 

 

Offensive Traveller, The


Pritchett, V.S.

NY, Knopf , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 200625


Price: $18.00 

 

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