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190725628Bodley Head 1907. 8vo. Second Editionon laid paper title very lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers uncut ribbon marker custom-made-slip-case with patterned lining an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 28pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. An elegant copy of the second edition of this classic work first published in 1900. BOTH FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bodley Head, hardcover
198930477New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0312034725 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Near Fine seemingly unread condition top corners bumped; in Very Good dust-jacket; Dean Ing's newest novel tells the story of a young girl who must team up with a mercenary to save her family from a deadly curse.Born into a cursed family thirteen-year-old Nia must team up with a mercenary Cade to save her family from a deadly curse. When Nia discovers Cade is the son of the man who killed her father she must choose between betraying her trust and risking everything to save him. With enemies on all sides can Nia and Cade succeed in rescuing her loved ones before it's too late; FSA . St. Martin's Press hardcover
193260560Dallas TX: Cosette Faust-Newton 1932. Tall 8vo. xxiii 1 310 2 pp. Photo frontisp. w/ original textured tissue guard colour-tinted photo plate w/ tissue guard numerous photo plates photo & text illustrations throughout hand-illuminated limitation page. Black silk moire cover art w/ colour rainbow arching over a steam ship decorative gilt lettering front cover & spine pictorial illustrated map endpapers by Scruggs minor rubbing very minor shelfwear still a VG bright copy inscribed by both author & artist from the library of Dallas socialite and intrepid traveler Annette “Nettie†Hawkins Jones 1870-1936. First edition signed & numbered 465 of this lavishly illustrated memoir by the eccentric author through Hawaii Japan China the Philippines Indonesia India relating historical anecdotes travel tips cultural mores and snippets of poetry by the author. She includes a prospective travel reading list bibliography at the end for the aspiring traveler along with detailed index. Faust-Newton 1889-1975 was an avid traveler earned several degrees gave lectures on her excursions and amassed a sizable collection of antiquities and Asian artifacts later used to fill their museum. She is perhaps best remembered in her former Highland Park neighborhood of Dallas for the decades-long legal fights with the city over her mock 3-story yacht S.S. Miramar scene of parties and tourist attraction the 1938 kidnapping of an African-American employee accused of stealing a “priceless†jade ring never found and the sustained pranking and vandalism campaign contributing to her deepening sense of paranoia. Scruggs 1892-1988 was a noted Dallas TX etcher illustrator writer author designer and artist descendant of noted Kentucky Portrait Painter Sam Woodson Price and taught at SMU. See: China Galland The Prisoner of Highland Park: Coming Home in Search of a Vanished Childhood D magazine Nov. 1 1977; Elizabeth Ygartua Backyard-Boat Couple Made Plenty of Waves in Their Day People Newspapers Sept. 11 2023. Cosette Faust-Newton, unknown
1926031986London: Edward Arnold & Co. 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Third Impression. Large 8vo 15 x 22cm. pp xi 383. Photographic plates and a fold out map. Original dust jacket in very good condition with a little loss to the top and bottom of the spine and corners that have been expertly repaired using Japanese tissue and coloured paper to the reverse. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering very good with some light general wear only. Contents clean and tight no foxing no inscriptions. A near fine copy with a very good rare dust jacket. Edward Arnold & Co. Hardcover
1888e7379London: H Sweet & Sons. G : in good condition. 1888. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 170mm 10" x 7". xii 319pp. Includes cases involving the Midland Highland Great Western Caledonian London & North Western Tal-y-llin and Limerick & Kerry Railways. . H Sweet & Sons hardcover
1990307943Denver: Sundance Publications 1990. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.416. heavy book additional postage will apply Sundance Publications hardcover
1993307946Denver: Sundance Books 1993. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. Signed by Author. pp.496. heavy book additional postage will apply Signed by all three authors on half title page Sundance Books hardcover
1994307945Denver: Sundance Pubns 1994. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.496. heavy book additional postage will apply Sundance Pubns hardcover
1991319181Denver: Sundance Books 1991. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to. pp.496. heavy book additional postage will apply Sundance Books hardcover
1927160471Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. A first edition first printing in very good condition. The cover and spine are faded and the back boards are loose. There is some tanning to the pages; In 1922 a young girl named Hazel moves to the small town of Winter Sunshine with her mother and younger brother. Hazel is excited to start her new life in a new place but quickly realizes that life in Winter Sunshine is anything but sunny. The only person who seems to be enjoying life is the town's eccentric old lady Mrs. Kipper. Hazel soon learns that Mrs. Kipper is the only person in Winter Sunshine who knows the true meaning of Christmas. When Hazel's mother falls gravely ill Hazel sets out to find Mrs. Kipper to ask her for help. Hazel's search takes her all over Winter Sunshine and eventually she discovers that Mrs. Kipper is the real Christmas spirit. Hazel is able to bring her mother back to life and the two of them spend the holiday season together.; 8vo; 161 pages . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1986000870Omaha: Buttonmaker Press 1986. Hardcover. Fine. DePol John. 48 p.: wood engravings by John DePol; 25 cm. Red cloth with printed paper spine and cover label. Original glassine dust jacket. This is number 126 of a limited edition of 150 copies signed by the artist. In Fine Condition: a crisp clean copy. Glassine dust jacket edges are slightly chipped. Buttonmaker Press hardcover
193615587N. Y.: Modern Library 1936. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Fine but for slightest bumping to spine ends and a small star stamped on centre of rear pastedown. Toledano # 7 binding with Kent endpapers in brown cloth with purple topstain. Jacket has some wear to extremities with some loss to head and heel which also have short closed tears. 236 titles listed on jacket 1935 or 1936 and 95 cents price. Modern Library Hardcover
186159130Saul Solomon & Co Cape Town 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Size: 4to 9 3/4 - 12". xii 180pp. Hinges cracked webbing exposed. Spine cocked and worn with slight loss to ends. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Some crinkling to margins of illustrated pages. Covers badly marked. Corners bumped. "The Progress of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert through The Cape Colony British Kaffraria The Orange Free State and Port Natal in the Year 1860" Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; South Africa; 19th century; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 59130. . Saul Solomon & Co hardcover
19021630New York: Marine Engineering 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good . The actual 1902 edition published as its own book from the pages of Marine Engineering Magazine after many requests from the readership. No dustjacket. A good plus copy with bending at the corners and spine ends minor soiling to the dark blue cloth covers and a pinhole to the rear joint toward the top of the book. Interior is clean and unmarked in a solid binding. Soiling to the text block edges. Very hard to find in it's first hardbound form. 103 pp. a unique biographical look at a round-trip steamship journey from New York. <br/><br/> Marine Engineering hardcover
1927014947London: The Homeland Association 1927. First Edition. . Green Cloth. Very Good. xvii. 479 pages frontis. & 31 plates biographical notes list of subscribers. Some bumping soiling wear to covers soiling to fore edges mild age toning internally. 786 Size: 290mm. x 235mm. <br/> <br/> The Homeland Association hardcover
196962356<p>NY: Augustus M. Kelley. Very Good with no dust jacket; Light rubbing to boards page tops foxed. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Twelve volumes. Reprint of the 1903-05 third edition. Uniformly bound in navy cloth titled in silver on spines. Various maps and other documents bound in rear pockets of each volume. A remarkable collection of voyages made by English adventurers which greatly influenced the colonization of North America and the expansion of the British empire. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Augustus M. Kelley hardcover
1805biblio278<p><em>First edition. Printed for Richard Phillips. London 1805. 4to. xiv 487 1pp. 1 engraved map 20 hand coloured plates. Later half calf marbled boards raised bands to spine in six compartments with gilt motifs and lettering title label with gilt lettering. Some variable foxing and offsetting. Small spot between lines on p 61. </em></p><p><em>The beautiful hand coloured plates in slightly smaller format on heavier paper depict the costume of various segments of Peruvian society. </em></p><p> Signature "<strong>Westmorland</strong>" in pencil to ffep. </p><p><strong> Note: The Earl of Westmorland Fane family of Wormsley Park now owned by Sir Paul Getty.</strong></p><p><strong> Abbey Travel 723. Sabin 81615. Colas 2751.</strong></p> Printed for Richard Phillips hardcover
1994322891Cambridge 1994. Reprint. Hardcover rebound in blue library cloth. Very Good/No dustjacket. Larger 8vo. pp. 240 rebound in blue library cloth gilt titles on spine. ""The exploration and colonization of the Pacific is a remarkable episode in human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no knowledge of Pacific geography no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology experimental voyages in rafts and computer simulations… hardcover
1818674<p>T. and J. Allman 1818. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 2nd Edition; iii-xxiv lacks half-title 258 pp Folding map vignette on title page. Ex libris rebound with gilt titling and library number on spine edges cut foldout map now bound in at front. This new edition of Barrington's "Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed" is accompanied by a new map of the north polar region and presents facts compiled from records of early navigators as well as information received from the present-day whaling and fishing captains on ice conditions in the northern Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay. The appendix reviews the probability of reaching the North Pole from the Island of Spitzbergen by means of reindeer during the winter months. The rare British edition of this series of pamplets that were republished as interest in reaching the North Pole was at its height. Published simultaneously in London and New York in 1818. Embossed library stamps. Library bookplate tipped in and library numbers on fep. Contemporary signatures on title page partly missing due to pages being cut down. Pages spotted age toned but overall Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 674. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> T. and J. Allman hardcover
1967266448Toronto 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Worn and Chipped. 4to. Signed by Author. pp. 302 two-toned illustrations throughout. The story of the 1000-year quest for the polar regions: explorers and adventurers tell their stories. Heavy book additional postage may apply. signed by the author on half title page previous owners embossed stamp on FEP hardcover
1927SB2426London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1927. Previous owner's stamped name on fep moisture stain along edges and gutter of front/back end pages. Otherwise clean and tight. Shelf wear light to moderate fraying of edges corners and spine extremities; 245p. including index. First UK Edition. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Maps/Diagrams. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Methuen & Co. Ltd Hardcover
18922290<p>LongmansGreen and Co. London 1892. Early Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. New Edition 1892: xviii 548 pages. Illustrated 8 plates 2 maps numerous woodcuts. Green cloth covers with embossed decoration and gilt titling brown end papers. Describing the Polar World at that time including principal natural features influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of flora and fauna and how man survives the climate as the inhabitant or as the explorer. SIGNED: Gift inscription "Thomas Mageure With the best wishes of G H Xmas 1911 A slight mark of great appreciation of valued help in matters financial". End papers toned contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; 19th century; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2290. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.</p> Longmans,Green, and Co., hardcover
18742287LongmansGreen and Co. 1874. Cloth. Good. 2nd Edition: xviii 548pp. Illustrated 8 chromoxylographic plates 3 maps numerous woodcuts. Maroon half covers with five raised bands gilt paneling and gilt lettering to spine marbled eps page edges gilt. Describing the Polar World at that time including principal natural features influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of flora and fauna and how man survives the climate as the inhabitant or as the explorer. Covers bumped edges frayed fep splitting age toning some minor foxing. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2287. . Longmans,Green, and Co., hardcover
18692286LongmansGreen and Co. 1869. Cloth. Good. 1st UK Edition: 2 publishers advertisements xviii 548pp. Illustrated 8 chromoxylographic plates 3 maps numerous woodcuts. Brown cloth covers with gilt vignette of sldge to front cover and titling to spine black eps with contemporary booksellers stamp to fep. Describing the Polar World at that time including principal natural features influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of flora and fauna and how man survives the climate as the inhabitant or as the explorer. Covers bumped and beginning to fray pages slightly warped and some beginning to loosen age toning some spotting foxing pencil annotations. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2286. . Longmans,Green, and Co., hardcover
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;. Good binding. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown
