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19501470London: John Murray 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii 346 pp illustrations from photographs map with index. Boards show pale staining and minor insect damage store stamp on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. John Murray hardcover books
2001S8167Kansas City:: Linda Hall Library 2001. 2001. 4to. 20 pp. Numerous illus. many color index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE. Linda Hall Library, 2001. unknown books
195411237London: Robert Hale Ltd 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 155 pp. Spine and edges lightly sunned. Binding is tight and square text is unmarked. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has several sizeable chips missing from the top edge. Recounts the ordeal and rescue of members of the British North Greenland Expedition and the crew of the airplane that was sent to resupply them but crashed on the way in. Robert Hale Ltd hardcover books
WELLER9781101879948New. New book. unknown books
2003215564n.p.: AAA Travel 2003. 28p. includes covers 10.75x8.5 inches landscape layout color photos breakdowns and prices of travel packages very good trade catalog booklet in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. California State Automobile Association guide and catalog. AAA Travel unknown books
194611159New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American edition. 464 pp plus index xiv; folding map. Orange cloth boards. Lower corners lightly bumped previous owner's signature on title page; else fine. Dust jacket lightly toned but still quite attractive. A self-described "racily written swashbuckling book" covering the history of the Caribbean from the early European explorers to the pirates to the age of revolution. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
607821not signed from the 1974 film "The Golden Age of Sinbad." 1. Full length shot of John Phillip Law as Sinbad studying a map with Caroline Munro in the background. 2. Full length fantasy shot with John Phillip Law as Sinbad having a sword fight. Photographs are on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; short tear right margin photo #1; 1974. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1936253323Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed and inscribed by Parkhurst on the half title. Publisher's blue cloth binding; sunned and a bit stained at the spine; contents are quite clean; digital images can be made available upon request. Good binding. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
19871221College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xiv 160 pp. Signed by author with short inscription on half-title. Minimal wear to edges book store label affixed to rear pastedown; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear. "When artist Everett Jackson and his young wife Eileen crossed the border from Mexico in 1927 after he had painted there for four years they realized that Mexico had bewitched them. Never again would they see life quite the same way as the Americans around them and never would they be able to stay out of Mexico for more than a few months at a time" dust jacket. Texas A&M University Press hardcover books
199230168University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0271007265 . Edited by John Auchard. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover books
194074708Mexico City 1940. Paperback. Very Good. A few city plans and 37 maps 112p. Wrapper. 21cm. A travel guide. <br/><br/> paperback books
194612280Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 148 pp illustrated with small woodcuts. Mild rubbing to edges some evidence of erasure on the dedication page. Tight binding unmarked text. Dust jacket has some chipping and small tears. Yong adult fiction based on "the perilous expedition of the fore-and-aft schooner United States to the arctic in 1860. Westminster Press hardcover books
1946778London: John Murray 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 282 pp with photographic frontispiece map appendix bibliography. Bookplate on front pastedown light wear to edges; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows moderate shelf wear and has several tape reinforcements. Stark lived and travelled with the Hadhramaut people producing a unique and pioneering account of South Arabia modern-day Yemen. John Murray hardcover books
198815023Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp with color illustrations from photographs in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. Coleccion Distrito Federal paperback books
1957761London: John Murray 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. xii 209 pp illustrations with map pronunciation of names index. Fine copy in a shelf worn dust jacket with spome chipping and short tears. The author spent 24 years in Sudan as part of the Sudan Political Service during which time he covered more than 20000 miles by camel. John Murray hardcover books
19511781London: John Murray 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii 341 pp illustrations from photographs map with index. Light wear and pale spotting to boards; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Second volume of Stark's autobiography told through her self-edited correspondence including letters from her first journey Canada to Baghdad into Persia the Persian Summer Journalism in Baghdad and the last of Baghdad from 1928-1933. John Murray hardcover books
WELLER9781640970205New. New book. unknown books
196739680n. p. 1967. 1st printing presumed. Modest edgewear and age-toning to paper. An About VG copy. Broadside. Large color photographic image of Libertador San Martin Square Glory Hill and the Monument to the Army of the Andies monument to the General San Martin. 17-1/2" x 16-1/2" <br/><br/>1967 was designated the International Year of Tourism by the World Tourism Organization with the slogan “Passport to Peace” dating this poster circa 1967. unknown books
41418Newton Massachusetts: Bureau of University Travel n. d. Ca. 1930s. Grey printed paper. Modest wear rubbing to edges a couple small pen markings. Previous owner's stamp to rear panel. Withal a VG example. Brochure style single sheet folded twice. Map illustration to front panel. 6" x 4" <br/><br/> Bureau of University Travel unknown books
1928344Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 309 pp 4 full color illustrations with frontispiece. Spine significantly sunned and fraying at head and foot; book store label on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
197013921Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos 1970. Softcover. Very good. 214 pp. Rubbing to extremities pages tanned. Binding sound no markings. Some pages unopened. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos paperback books
1919228863New York; Chicago; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Co 1919. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text but rubbing to front pastedown where paper has been removed. Front hinge a little weak but holding well. Brown cloth binding. Closed tear at top of front board at spine. Moderate edgewear to boards; Not Ex-Library. near Very Good binding. Fleming H. Revell Co unknown books
1954375London: John Murray 1954. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Second printing. xi 191 pp illustrations with frontispiece map index. Light offsetting to endpapers; slight spine lean; else sound and clean. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with a few tape repairs and small chip missing at head of spine; price clipped. This book is the story of a journey though Asia Minor in 1951 after strict travel restrictions began to lift to Westerners. It focuses on the new Turkey that emerged at the end of World War II. "It aspires to pick up if only in superficial fashion a few of those threads which the nineteenth-century travellers so assiduously gathered and which were then so abruptly dropped" Introduction. John Murray hardcover books
196120666New York: The Viking Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners and has one internal repair. In a mylar cover. An account of Matthiessen's 20000 mile expedition through vast areas of South American wilderness filled with insightful observations of both the people and the landscape. The Viking Press hardcover books
19161841822J.B. Lippincott Company 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine toned binding slightly shaken pencil gift note on separate scrap of paper laid in along with a 1938 school picture. 1916 Hard Cover. 313 pp. Original blue cloth gilt titles top edge gilt. Includes 16 beautiful illustrations taken from original paintings etchings etc. - most notable are contributions from Auguste Rodin Aubrey Beardsley and Toulouse-Lautrec. The Rome and Venice portions of this volume originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books