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A Traveller in Romance: Uncollected Writings 1901 - 1964


Maugham, W. Somerset

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456764


Price: $18.00 

African SilencesMatthiessen, Peter
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African Silences


Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456235


Price: $40.00 

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic TravelsHiestand, Emily

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels


Hiestand, Emily

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469738


Price: $15.00 

 

Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts - A Book of Essays and Excursions


Van Dyke, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Cover features beautiful gilt stamped design with color highlights. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609060


Price: $40.00 

 

Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia


Smith, Roff

Hardcover. Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809076


Price: $12.00 

 

Dialogue with Nature: Landscape and Literature in Nineteenth Century America


Asleson, Robyn and Barbara Moore

Softcover. Washington. D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of 19th century American landscape painting; color plate front cover, white back, minor marking and rubbing. Paper wrappers. 19 plates, 13 in color. Three essays relating to landscape painting in addition to textual commentary on the plates. 48 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808504


Price: $15.00 

 

EIMI: The Journal of a Trip to Russia


Cummings, E. E.

Hardcover. New York, William Sloan Associates, Inc., 2nd, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 432 pages. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to dust jacket with tears and chinks missing along spine, and minor soil to rear flap. Slight separation of cloth along spine. Binding cracked along half-title page. Otherwise, good, unmarked copy, protected by mylar cover.

Record # 856392


Price: $50.00 

 

English Travels of Sir John Percival and William Byrd II, The: The Percival Diary of 1701


Wenger (Ed), Mark R.

Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 197 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 503312


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

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

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of One WorldSwift, 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 

 

Horses of the Conquest, The


Graham, R.B. CUNNINGHAM, Illust. by: J. Craig Sheppard

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st US, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers, red stamped horse and conquistador on front. Red lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Light page chipping. Illustrations throughout by J. Craig Sheppard.

Record # 2233360


Price: $19.00 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE Volume X Spring 1977 No. 4Brown (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 

 

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth - Volume 1 and 2


De Selincourt (Editor), E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. , Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Hardcovers. Volume 1 - 443 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 444 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612531


Price: $44.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Which contain, among other curious relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks - Drawn from Sources that hav

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Aurora Book Stores, 1st Thus, 1801, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 only. 147 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Brown leather covers. Red spine label with title in gilt - chip missing from bottom third of label. Pages tanned. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Missing half of rear endpaper. 2 1/4" X 1/2" piece missing at top of title page. Narrow separation at very top of rear cover hinge - approximately 3/4". Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610542


Price: $100.00 

 

Making of the Modern Greek Family, The: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)


Cassia, Paul Sant, Constantina Bada

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travelers' accounts memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century.

Record # 32241


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 


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