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1995362088Carlton: Allan T Condie 1995. First edition. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.56 Allan T Condie paperback
2001068066Long Beach CA: Safari Press 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red polished paper-covered boards lettered in black. Former owner's signature/date inked on verso of front flyleaf otherwise as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued now in mylar. 2nd ed. 1st ptg. xx262 pp. illus. Safari Press Hardcover
199941418New York London Toronto Sydney And Auckland: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385486650 . A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with minor wear to edges in dust-jacket; Fred Cuny was a brilliant scientist and inventor who was also one of the most daring and adventurous men of his time. In the early 1950s he was one of the first people to suggest that the world was in danger of a major environmental disaster. Cuny was also one of the first people to propose that we could save the world by using thermonuclear weapons to stop the spread of communism.In the autumn of 1954 Cuny disappeared after travelling to Mexico to meet with a powerful politician who was interested in his ideas. His family and friends have never been able to find out what happened to him.Scott Anderson's gripping new book tells the story of Cuny's life and mysterious disappearance revealing the forces that opposed him and the dangers he faced as he tried to save the world.; 8vo; 374 pages; FSA . Doubleday hardcover
1994162205Yellowknife 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 4to. pp. iv 344 plus 4 full page B&W plates project directors Angela Schiwy 1989-1990 and Ian Moir 1991-1994. paperback
2003299116Camden Maine: McGraw-Hill 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Signed by the author. pp. 350 SIGNED by the author. ""He died in 1995 but his nautical adventure books continue to bring entertainment and escape to legions of fans worldwide. He was larger than life perhaps the most successful sailing writer of the twentieth century. But as Anthony Dalton's meticulously researched biography reveals Tristan Jones was not who he… McGraw-Hill hardcover
20021033-32Cumberland Rhode Island U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr 2002. Hardcover. As New/As New. New with minor shelfwear to dust jacket. Book for an exhibition held for the first time in the United States 2002 featuring a select collection of works from the Pushkin Museum Moscow. Size: 10 x 12 <br/> <br/> Yale Univ Pr hardcover
48923Chicago IL: Art Crafts Guild Travel Bureau 1928. 4to.; illustrated stiff wraps softcover; 40 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; wraps are edgeworn and rubbed with a 2†split on bottom spine end else good. Chicago IL: Art Crafts Guild Travel Bureau, 1928 unknown
1933039754Chicago: Rand McNally & Co 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Map in color opens to 21" x 28". Few small archival repairs on verso of folds. Folded into gray stiff wrappers 9.25" x 4.25" WorldCat locates five library holdings: Syracuse U Chicago Florida State U Arizona UCLA. Rand, McNally & Co unknown
2002USD_9781566915632AV 2002. 1st. Paperback. UsedLikeNew/UsedLikeNew. AV paperback
065883Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1964. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Tan cloth lettered and with front cover device in gilt. Minor foxing to text block edges a bit soiled at bottom text block corner otherwise about as issued. 1st edition thus revised and enlarged. 312 pp. illus. Color illus. dust jacket VG foxed with tanned spine panel price-clipped front flap now in mylar. Harvard University Press Hardcover
192620869New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Front hinge has a bit of play. ; 12 color illustrations. The detailed history of Mexico. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 435 pages . Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
189116411NY: James Pott & Co. Good. 1891. First US Edition. Hardcover. The spine is darkened and the book is rubbed at the corners and spine ends. Rear inner hinge is starting to crack. Covers are soiled. Still an attractive book bound in red cloth with gilt decorations. Contents are very good with foxing only to the end papers. A good reading copy of the scarce first United States edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 339 pages . James Pott & Co. hardcover
190549956London: A. and C. Black Ltd. 1905. first edition. Hardcover. Good . 7 x 9 in. Green cloth boards. Color frontis and plates with tissue guards. Condition is GOOD ; covers clean corners moderately worn. Spine sunned and toned little cocked. Front inner joint is started with muslin visible but unbroken. Binding of text is quite solid. One plate is loose. Text unmarked plates all very clean. Trav. RGR A. and C. Black Ltd. hardcover
192341485NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Owner signature on front free endpaper . boards worn pages toned jacket soiled and tattered. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated boards with red cloth spine. A collection of illustrated poems about Belloc's travels with a very colonial perspective in text and illustration. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1977294509Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan 1977. First edition. Paperback. Good/No dustjacket. 4to. pp. 395 book canting slightly internally very good fold-out map in rear pocket translated and edited by L. H. Neatby. University of Saskatchewan paperback
1982312264Ottawa: Archaeogical Survey of CanadaNational Museums of Canada 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 4to. pp. xi 198 xvii 372 with tables sketch illustrations photos musical scores lyrics in English and Inuit languages in B&W. This includes a two sided 33 1/3 rpm phono soundsheet. This is a Diamond Jenness Memorial publication Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 82. Archaeogical Survey of Canada,National Museums of Canada paperback
2019362822Canada: Tibbitt to Conwoyto Winter Road Joint Venture 2019. Third. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo oblong. pp.96.Signed and inscribed by the author on title page Tibbitt to Conwoyto Winter Road Joint Venture hardcover
1993320280Vancouver: Whitecap Books 1993. First edition. paperback. good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.208. previous owners details blacked out on verso of front cover Whitecap Books paperback
1983019202Wheaton Illinois U.S.A.: Theosophical Pub House 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Printing. Very faint stain to bottom exterior page edge and rear fly contents otherwise clean and bright. 719pp. Oversized will require additional charges for international and airmail options. Theosophical Pub House Hardcover
189336239Tours France: 12 October 1893. 1893. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling half a sheet of publisher Alfred Mame & Fils letterhead which is folded once to form 4 sides each approximately 8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide with the company's name & location printed at the top. Signed "Gaston Bonnefont". Folded once for mailing. Very good. <p>Bonnefont writes to Paul Barlatier director of the Semaphore newspaper in Marseille saying that he has asked M. Mame to send Barlatier a copy of Lady Brassey's "Aux Indes et en Australie" which he has translated. In view of the great success of the book in England in the orignal English text Bonnefont hopes that Balatier might write a few words about the French translation in Semaphore.<p>"Aux Indes et en Astralie dans le yacht le 'Sunbeam'" the French version of Baroness Annie Allnutt Brassey's account of her travels in Australia and India in her yacht was published by Alfred Mame in Tours in 1893. The original title was "Voyage in the Sunbeam: Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months". Lord and Lady Brassey made several tips around the world in their yacht. This 1886-7 voyage was Lady Brassey's last. She died before the cruise was completed and her grieving husband completed the work for publication<p>Gaston Bonnefont 1851-1911 was the pseudonym of Pierre Bonnefont. He was a journalist playwright travel writer and essayist. He was the editor-in-chief of "Calvados". He was the author of numerous works notably "Nos belles mondaines: Marion Delorme Liane de Pougy 1895 and "Jacquard histoire d'un ouvrier" 1890. Tours, France: 12 October, 1893. unknown
192515564Cedar Rapids IA: Friends of Luther Albertus & Elinore Taylor Brewer. Very Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies. Would grade fine but the silverfish have been at the spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 60 pages . Friends of Luther Albertus & Elinore Taylor Brewer hardcover
15-10918Vancouver BC: British Columbia Government Travel Bureau 1952. 8vo. 38 pp. Stapled Wraps Good with pages missing and loose. Illustrated. Also present: The Story of Ben-My-Chree published by White Pass and Yukon Route ca. 1950 15 pp. pamphlet stapled wraps VG b&w photographs. Vancouver, BC: British Columbia Government Travel Bureau, 1952. paperback
1904038840Lincoln Nebraska: Woodruff-Collins Printing Co 1904. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. 397pp; frontispiece photograph of the author with his son and Count Leo Tolstoy. Bound in red cloth white lettering; spine lettering flaked prior owner's name on front endpaper. 8.75" x 5.75 Woodruff-Collins Printing Co unknown
18-0509St. Louis MO: Burkett Tour & Travel Service 1948. . Travel memorabilia. 8vo. 6 pp. Single sheet folded. Good with marginal staining and edgewear around folds. Cover of pamphlet includes blue ink photograph. Also includes additional blue and white photographs and maps. Vintage travel pamphlet. [St. Louis, MO:] Burkett Tour & Travel Service, [1948]. unknown
198951123London: W H Allen. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0245547304 . A lovely first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with some soiling and edgewear in a Near Fine dust-jacket with little soiling; This book tells the story of the people and culture of the Americas before Christopher Columbus arrived. It covers the period from the first civilizations in the Americas to the arrival of the Europeans.; 8vo ; 227 pages; TBC . W H Allen hardcover
