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19946451NY: Times Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 081291984X . Second printing. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Times Books hardcover books
199031872Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0803238940 . Illustrated. First edition. Near fine in a near fine trace edge wear dust jacket. . University of Nebraska Press hardcover 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
1993250NY: Harmony Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0517588048 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harmony Books hardcover books
1968739Mexico City 1968. Very good. 791pp. Printed self-wrappers. Light tanning very minor wear. A nice example of this bilingual guidebook to Mexico with listings of events for a mid-January week in in 1968 and suggestions and advice on travel restaurants sights hotels markets and other attractions and includes information for many smaller cities and towns beyond Mexico City. The cover art promotes Villahermosa in the state of Tabasco. unknown books
192321010New York: Boni and Liveright 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Original red cloth boards. Spine darkened and chipped at head. Binding sound text clean. No dust jacket. Clare Consuelo Sheridan 1885-1970 was an English sculptor journalist and writer known primarily for creating busts of famous sitters and writing diaries recounting her worldly travels Wiki. This book recounts travel in Ireland France Belgium Germany Switzerland Turkey Greece Bulgaria Rumania and Italy in the early 1920s. Boni and Liveright hardcover books
192521525New York: Nomad Publishing 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 7 pp 53 pp with a map and two tipped-in half tone photographs--one a portrait of Stefansson and one showing him with Robert E. Peary and Adolphus Greely. Wrappers lightly toned some chipping and short tears to the yapp edges; very good. An interesting and uncommon little booklet apparently produced to promote Stefansson as a lecturer. It features a biography of him by Inglis Fletcher who helped to arrange his lecture tours and presents testimonials to his accomplishments as an explorer from Peary Knud Rasmussen Carl Akeley and Sir Robert Borden. There are also tributes to his abilities as a scientist anthropologist writer lecturer and "citizen of the world" from other peers and lists of his expeditions book him with prices scientific articles and lectures. The lectures offered for the 1925-26 season were "Abolishing the Arctic" "The Northward Course of Empire" "The Blond Eskimos" The Norse Discovery of Greenland and North America" and "The Friendly Arctic. Nomad Publishing unknown books
1977962Glorieta NM: Rio Grande Press 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of the 1829 edition. 558 pp foldout map with map illustrations appendix index. Fine copy in decorative cloth. "When author Hardy traveled from the mainland to the Baja and around the Sea of Cortes he was confronted with great empty vistas of terra incognita . Lieut. Hardy an Englishman lately an officer in the Royal Navy described Mexico he visited as it was shortly after throwing off the heavy yoke of Imperial Spain. He traveled literally thousands of miles by boat muleback and shank's mare. There were no luxuries for travelers in Mexico in those days" Publisher's Preface. Rio Grande Press hardcover books
191531418Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1915. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Cloth octavo with tipped on illustrated photograph on the front panel. 326 pp. With photographic frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Preface by William Frederic Bade. All photographic illustrations present with this copy. Prior owner name to the front endpaper else a clean well-bound copy. General light handling wear. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
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
196731038Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Three hardbound octavos in dustwrappers. Sold here together. All are from this publisher's Latin American Travel series of books. 102 174 and 196 pp respectively. All three books were edited and with an introduction by C. Harvey Gardiner. Fine books in dustwrappers save for corner price-clips on all three. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books
1903162Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 397 pp illustrations with frontispiece. This story follows journey of young Harry from Seattle to the arctic. Accompanied by illustrations from photographs from the arctic. Light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
190212369New York: Lewis Scribner and Co 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Published under the auspices of the Arctic Club. 386 pages bound in drab green cloth illustrated. Corners rubbed cloth at spine ends frayed rear hinge wobbly. Binding otherwise solid contents clean and bright. Reminiscences and impressions from 22 Explorers on subjects including eskimo superstitions eskimo music shipwreck and other perils polar photography hunting whaling. Arctic Bibliography 8556. Lewis, Scribner and Co hardcover books
196114387London: The Adventurer's Club 1961. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 186 pp with map photographs. A clean tightly bound copy with no visible wear. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light dust soiling to the rear panel but remains quite attractive; in a new mylar cover. At the age of 17 the author ran away from her school in Rome to join her uncle a member of the White Squadron--a multinational group of men who "battled against the ruthless Arab drug and slave traffickers in the remote areas of the Sahara and Libyan deserts." She remained with the Squaron for 4 years patrolling the desert on camel-back living "the tough life of a trooper" amd experiencing a variety of hardships and adventures which are recounted here. The Adventurer's Club hardcover books
1931LLV2250London:: Macmillan & Co. 1931-32. 1931. 3 issues. Small 4to. pp. 1053-88; 181-216; 413-448. Original self-wraps. Very good. Macmillan & Co.), 1931-32. paperback books
19822297London: AMS Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Undated facsimile reprint of the 1909 edition. xvi 296 pp illustrations with frontispiece index. Fine copy in black cloth spine lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Turks from the capital denizens of the palaces country folk holiday life mosques pilgrimage the harem system family ceremonies and other topics. AMS 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
1929249716London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 158pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; hardcover cloth binding with very light edge wear to extremities; front hinge is loose but board holding; spotting on front and rear boards; spine darkened; digital images can be made available upon request. Good binding. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
19661780New York: George Braziller 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. xv 240 pp illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown some offsetting to endpapers; else fine. Dust jacket has some uneven discoloration from sun exposure an old sticker shadow and chipping to head of spine. "The dramatic story of a talented young American composer in the Paris of the early Fifties." George Braziller hardcover books
193042942n.p. 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 2p. text plus 19 photos of Osaka Castle printed on one side only with captions above and below in English and Japanese. Tied pictorial wrapper. Oblong 13cm. Title in Japanese our English title is just a guess. Brief text and captions in Japanese and English. <br/><br/> paperback books
197629322Boston: Little Brown & Co 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 240 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Stated first American edition. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
19112221585<p>DRINKING AND DRIVING - COGNAC</p><p>First edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece and 15 full page color plates; large folding map at end. Original dark green pictorial cloth with winged auto and two persons in gilt and olive green; t.e.g. No dust jacket. No foxing. Fresh bright tight fine copy. 337 pages six advertisements. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Includes full page ad for Gautier Freres Cognac; "Fine Spirit in the pocket is a desirability."</p> Adam and Charles Black hardcover books
197212074NY: Viking 1972. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Davies on the title page. Faint dampstain on the green topstain few soil spots on the botton edge; dustjacket with a touch of edgewear mostly at spine ends and corners beginning toning on flap top and bottom edges and a shallow crease on the rear flap. Tight bright copy. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Second volume in Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Hardcover books
195614611London: John Murray 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. xi 204 pp indexed illustrated with photographs drawings in the text by the author; title page wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. Corners lightly bumped else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has very mild dampstaining to the upper front panel and small chips at the corners and spine ends. The second of Stark's books recounting her travels in Turkey following Ionia. There is much of historical interest in the book for as Stark writes "In Turkey particularly and in the Levant and the Aegean a journey without history is like the portrait of an old face without its wrinkles." John Murray hardcover books
19687783Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press 1968. 1st edition. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. NF/NF sp panels sltly darkened. 3 volumes illustrated with plates & maps 8vo. <br/><br/>Hakluyt Society Series II Nos CXXXIII CXXXIV & CXXXV. Leichhardt known primarily for his scientific explorations of Australia. Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press hardcover books
