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Accidental Agent


Goldsmith, John

Hardcover. London, Leo Cooper, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Adventures of an SOE agent in France during WWII. Pencil inscription on front flyleaf. Label sticker affixed to front endpapers. Mild age toning to top text block edge. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951725


Price: $15.00 

 

Adventures ashore and afloat


Keyes, Roger

Hardcover. London ; New York, White Lion Publishers, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages, b&w plates and frontispiece. Edgewear, chipping to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454781


Price: $40.00 

 

Adventures of John Wetherell, The


Forester (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, sepia illustrations by Wetherell. Clean tight copy.

Record # 403535


Price: $12.00 

 

Adventures of John Wetherell, The


Forester (Ed.), C.S.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, sepia illustrations by Wetherell. Clean tight copy.

Record # 403534


Price: $12.00 

 

Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green: An Oxford Freshman, Two Volume Set.


Bede, Cuthbert, Illust. by: Cuthbert Bede

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First Volume is 254 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt design. Some fraying to bumped corners and edges of spine. Top edge gilt. Contains b&w frontispiece and 100 b&w illustrations by author throughout. Inside is bright and clean. Second Volume is 500 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt design. Cloth is frayed on edges and corners. Corners and edges are bumped. Top edge gilt. Contains b&w frontispiece and 80 b&w illustrations by author throughout. Inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852725


Price: $50.00 

 

Afoot in England


Hudson, W.H.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate wear to edges by spine. Dark red covers with green embossed lettering on front and spine. Previous owner's bookplate and sticker on front end paper.

Record # 2233699


Price: $38.00 

 

Amazing Adventure: A Thrilling Naval Biography


Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Biography of Commander Godfrey Herbert of the Royal Navy, illustrated. Minor spine edge wear. Spotting on book edges and minor foxing on some pages. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852423


Price: $12.00 

 

CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT: The Last of the New England Highwaymen


Waldo, Frederick W.

Hardcover. Topsfield, MA, Wayside Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 162 pages. A narrative of his life and adventures, with some account of the notorious captain thunderbolt. First book published by The Wayside Press. Illustrated with 13 b/w plates, including frontisportrait. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front flyleaf. 8vo. Red and black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing on back. Minor edgewear. Red/black pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear, water marks along left front edge, chips at top and bottom of spine, spine and top edge toned.

Record # 220608


Price: $19.00 

 

Children's Crusade, The


Christian, J.E., Antonio Jocson, Jorge Vasquez (Illustrator), Illust. by: Jorge Vasquez

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Liberty Bell Production, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt decoration on front cover. Binding tight, spine straight. Based on a true story where thousands of children board ships bound for Jerusalem to liberate the Holy Land.

Record # 32134


Price: $19.00 

 

Coast of Coral, The


Clarke, Arthur C.

Hardcover. London, England, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover. "With Sixty-four Photographs in Colour and Black-and-White by Mike Wilson and Arthur Clarke." Cover boards bound in light blue, agewear to covers (see image). Tanning to edges, pages lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.

Record # 32248


Price: $25.00 

 

Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures


Lofting, Hugh , Illust. by: Hugh Lofting

Hardcover. J. B. Lippincot Co , 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Black decoration to cover and spine. Small stain to rear cover. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857379


Price: $25.00 

 

English Years


Whitall, James

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorations by George Plank. A Philadelphians adventures in London's theatrical & literary circles.

Record # 106456


Price: $40.00 

 

Fearful Void, The


Moorhouse, Geoffrey

Hardcover. London, England, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1974, 288 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Edges have some slight tanning from age. Other than some very light foxing on preliminary pages, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In very good shape. In 1972, Moorhouse traveled the Sahara Desert from the Atlantic ocean to the Nile by camel and by himself. This moving story of his battle with fear and loneliness and his conquest of the spiritual as well as the physical hazards of the desert.

Record # 32343


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Great Adventuress - Lady hamilton and the Revolution in Naples, A


Turquan, Joseph/Jules D'Auriac

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers and some pages. Some fraying at top and bottom of spine cloth, with a degree of fading to cloth.

Record # 608679


Price: $25.00 

 

Harry In England - Being the Partly True Adventures of H.R. in the Year 1859


Richards, Laura E., Illust. by: Reginald Birch

hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white illust. by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket worn, large chunk gone from front panel. Previous owner's bookplate.

Record # 64474


Price: $19.00 

 

Kitchener's Mob - The Adventures of an American in The British Army


Hall, James Norman

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Light wear to red cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611079


Price: $38.00 

Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier, TheRosner, Lisa
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Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier, The


Rosner, Lisa

Hardcover. US, University of Pennsylvania Press, Reprint, 1999-05-06, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated frontispiece. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466453


Price: $31.00 

 

N by E


Kent, Rockwell, Illust. by: Rockwell Kent

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.

Record # 806806


Price: $18.00 

 

Napoleon's Last Island


Keneally, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with minimal wear. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750014


Price: $15.00 

 

Pipeline to Battle: Adventures of an Officer of Engineers with the British Eighth Army


Rainier, Major Peter W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (maps) throughout. Dust jacket has some age wear, but still intact (see image). Cover boards bound in gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges and pages have some tanning from age, edges have a touch of foxing. In great shape for its age. Written and published before WW-II was over, eyewitness accounts. Perfect for the WW-II enthusiast.

Record # 31907


Price: $19.00 

 

Return to Malaya


Lockhart, R.H. Bruce

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, red title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to spine and edges from age. Deckled edges. Top edge dyed to match cover bindings. Light age-tanning to edges. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age. The "British Agent" goes back to the scene of this youthful romance and adventure, and emerges with a shrewd appraisal of a changing world.

Record # 32246


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and TragedyCrane, David
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy


Crane, David

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st (USA), 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 572 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In good shape. From the back cover: "The first biography to take equal measure of all parts of its subject's life... Renders Scott's ultimate, legendary fate yet more heartbreakingly tragic."

Record # 30409


Price: $23.00 


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