Travel

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1893, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, frontispiece, dozens of b&w illustrations, bound in green cloth, gilt lettering and design embossed on front cover and spine. Name plate on front endpaper, spine slightly cocked, light wear to cover, previous owner's signature to blank preview page; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, just a bit age-yellowed. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine, bound in red cloth. Other than a slight age-yellow, pages clean and unmarked inside. Touch of foxing to top edge and back of dust jacket. In great shape.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. This book celebrates, in words and 44 full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city. The author's Venice is at eye level, a labyrinth of impressions, a museum of delights for that vanishing man, the walker. "The mind-boggling gift of Venice," he assures us, "is that it has escaped the tyranny of wheels." Man walks, strolls and dawdles; he does not run for his life. Although only the experience of living in Venice will fully accustom the visitor to a fact so unique, Wright Morris combines words and photographs to recapture the essence of this experience, sharing with the reader impressions of a particular moment in a fabulous place.

Hardcover. Washington D. C, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1930, in a green hardcover cloth binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. 784 pages, 2 color maps. Numerous articles including: 'Seeking the Mountains of Mystery' by Joseph F. Rock; 'Among the Hill Tribes of Sumatra by W. Robert Moore; 'Hunting for Plants in the Canary Islands' by David Fairchild; and 'New Light on Ancient Ur' by M.E. L. Mallowan. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 462 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers and edges. A modern classic of travel literature: "Ostensibly a quest for Mokele-mbembe, the Congo dinosaur , this story of travel through the jungles and swamp forests of the northern Congo is Tolstoyan in its depth, scope and range of characters, and as vivid as Nabokov in its image and detail. A portrait of a country, it is alive with natural history: eagles and parrots, hornbills and sunbirds, forest cobras and crocodiles, gorillas and elephants. A search for the meaning of sorcery, the purpose of religion (and a celebration of the comfort and mysteries of science), it is also an adventure told with great narrative force. Of course there is a darker side to the Congo, and that too is recorded here." Kazuo Ishiguro called this a "unique messy masterpiece."

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1ST, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 318 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Author White journeys back to Wales after twenty years away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Fowlerville MI, Wilderness Adventure Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 277 pages, b&w illustrations, index. INSCRIBED BY KLEIN on the front fly leaf. Adventures canoeing in the wilds of Canada's Northwest Territories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, A & C Black, reprint, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. One of many popular travel guide books published by Adam and Charles Black from 1839 to the 1910s, this series was the leading competitor to Baedeker's iconic guide books. Illustrated with maps and tables throughout, including three folding maps. Includes 112 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original dark green cloth binding with a gilt design on front cover. One map has been neatly repaired with paper and paste due to a small closed tear. Front hinge with mild crack, signature opposite half-title page.

Hardcover. San Francisco, H.S. Crocker Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, original dark mustard paper covered boards with dark brown web-lined patterns and tan cloth back strip with brown lettering on spine; numerous photographs including some by well renowned photographer Ansel Adams (4 photos by Adams). 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. The book "being a collection of favorite Yosemite views, together with a brief account of its history and legends, for those who want to know and enjoy Yosemite more". Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, softcover with wire spiral binding. Scarce early proof. The author boarded this Orkney trawler whilst the weather was at its worst. An old trawler , converted for Deep-Sea Fishing , by a young skipper who now has a huge overdraft. The Nortantean is the only boat leaving. O'Hanlon sets off, with the crew of five , on a gut-wrenching, leg-jellying voyage.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1921, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Includes two folding color maps: South America and the Islands of the Pacific. Also illustrated WWI insignia, 16 pages of Japanese scenes in color. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Covers the rise of travel thanks to the development of roadways, railways, luxury ocean liners and trains, and eventually the airliner. Wonderfully illustrated with photos, travel posters, luggage tags, and more.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages, color, b&w illustrations by H. Hudson Rodmell. SIGNED BY BONE on front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy.

Book: Very Good, Three folding brochures. 1) Guided Tour of Rockefeller Center, 2-colors, b&w photos/3 panels 2) Rockefeller Center, full-color, 4 panels with a fold-out. 3) Welcome to the City of Times Square, 2-color, 5-panels with one side being an illustrated map. None dated but all appear to be late 1940s, early 50s. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1919, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates Bright, clean volume.

Hardcover. NY, Eaton and Means, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 262 pages. An Account of the visitation of Bishop Foss and Dr. Goucher to the Indian and Malaysian Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This book gives the reader new information as to the needs of the different fields which are under discussion, grasps more vividly the magnitude of the modern missionary movement, and gathers fresh confidence in the final triumph of the Messiah throughout the heathen world. B&w illustrations. Old ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 430 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Yee. "Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Yee's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveller's scrutiny -- Tokyo's Ginza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mt. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimos, red-crested cranes -- and much more. Clean copy.

Softcover. Sydney AU/New Caledonia, 1942, Book: Very Good, Two stapled booklets, 32 and 24 pages, 1942. B&w illustrations. Very good condition. No markings.

Hardcover. London, George Allen, 5th Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, flexible black cloth with red and gilt stamping, edges stained red. 343 pages with a 10 page catalogue of Hare's other titles in rear. With 22 illustrations and a double page color map. Detailed information on the history and landmarks of Florence. Clean, bright copy of this vintage travel guide.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white images. Includes two fold-out color maps. The publisher's laud Powell's travel book for its "discussion of historical, religious, racial, and political questions for those contemplating a travel to French North Africa, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco during the 1920s." Rear hinge cracked, spine with small tears/punctures otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with faded black spine labels with gilt lettering flaking, faded. Six issues from the second half of 1913, 597 pages devoid of ads or inserts. Clean, bright pages, some color, mostly b&w. Clean, no markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 2nd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 254 pages, index, b&w illustrations, double-page map. Light beige cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top of spine with fraying, light spotting to front cover otherwise clean. An illuminating record of travel in the Aden Protectorate in 1939 on the eve of World War II by a Dutch scholar of the region and it's people.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: The Food Armies of Liberty, The Geography of Medicines, A Few Glimpses into Russia, Conserving the Nation's Man Power.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. 650 color and black-and-white photographs. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, b&w and color plates. Light blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Co., 5th pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 173 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates. 12mo. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine.

Hardcover. London, Travel Book Club, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 288 pages. Reprint of the Gollancz first edition published the same year. Author's first published work. Dust wrapper is fair to poor with major wear and chipping. Yellow cloth covers with minor wear.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 2nd Ed., 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at edges. 456 pages with color frontispiece map, 139 illustrations of which 27 are full-page and 14 maps of which some are folding. School ex-library copy with spine label, minimal stamping to front endpapers and title page. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Interior clean with no marking, all fold-out maps in great condition. NOTE: The Marchesa a schooner yacht sailed from England in 1881 to the seas of China and Japan the East Indies and New Guinea before returning to England in 1884. First published in 1886 as a two volume set.

Softcover. Baltimore, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1893, Book: Good, Softcover, folding brochure (4 X 8 1/2") which opens up to a large color map on the reverse: "Map of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Its Connections Over Which Through Cars Are Run". Opposite side of map has various schedules, scenic stops, b&w illustrations. Light wear, mild creases, Good+. More pictures upon request.

Hardcover. Boston, Chapple Publishing Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gold lettering and design on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece, 231 pages. Illustrated with etchings and drawings by Levon West. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. Also many b&w photos. An historical travel guide to Spain by Chapple, a well-known editor, publisher, and author, whose 2 Hollywood credits include writer for "Graft"(1915) and producer for" Annabelle Lee"(1921). Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, 246 pages. With Illustrations in color and black and white by Charles Simpson. Small ownership signature on front fly otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, endpaper maps, 60 b&w and color illustrations by Eric Hosking. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Book is very good, tight, clean.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 181 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Immigrant writer Novakovich records his journeys to find his roots, some to his native Croatia, some no farther than Cleveland, where he searches for the grave of his grandmother, who refused to return to Croatia with the rest of her family. This moving collection reflects the joys and the difficulties in returning to a homeland left behind. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with drawing of two riders on horseback. Gilt title on spine. Bookseller's sticker on inside front cover, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1930, in a green pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Mexico's west coast; 3 articles on the conquest of Antarctica; Unmapped areas of China, Unexplored areas of the Philippines; Chateau country of France; Yugoslavia; Virgil's Aeneid and Roman Geography; Strange tribes in the Shan States of Burma; The Yukon trail of 1898; Viking life in the Faeroes; and much more. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 398 pages. Previous owners inscription on dedication page. Light fading to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A Stokes, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Very minor wear to spine. Full illustrated plates by Edwards, some with tissue guard. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrated end papers. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut.

Hardcover. London, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. An early Himalayan travel book by the first English woman to travel so far into the Eastern Himalaya. She and her British Army chaplain husband traversed the Nepal-Sikkim frontier from Darjeeling to Junnoo Mountain, overcoming many obstacles on the way. Although early, it is regarded as a mountaineering classic. 4to, xvi, 612 pages, chromolithograph frontispiece, large folding map, 9 chromolithographs, engraved vignettes, top edge gilt. Original red pictorial cloth with handsome gilt design on cover and spine, as well as elaborate borders.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. "With characteristic wit, compassion and erudition, Bruce Chatwin reveals his view of the world. In Hong Kong he discusses the properties of the 'dragon-lines'; he returns to the theme of The Songlines with his perception of life as 'a journey to be walked on foot', and in a run-down Algerian quarter of Marseilles discovers 'a notion, not lost, of all men equal before God'."

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran Company, 1sr, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt titles and a mounted paper label on the front board. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. A humorous vintage travel guide to the American West. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the author's account of his Chase County, Kansas travels--history, geology, people. All told with his unique style and insight in the significance of things that most people pass over. Contains a number of maps throughout drawn by the author, as well as endpaper maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 382 pages, 24 b&w plates, fold-out map in rear, short tear at crease. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, A & C Black, reprint, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. One of many popular travel guide books published by Adam and Charles Black from 1839 to the 1910s, this series was the leading competitor to Baedeker's iconic guide books. Illustrated with maps and tables throughout including a fold-out map. This guide suggests potential routes and excursions for exploring this picturesque county. 74-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original dark green cloth binding with a gilt decoration on the front cover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, A & C Black, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust Jacket, 81 pages. 4 color, 8 b&w illustrations. One in the "Peeps at Many Lands" series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Travel Book Club, 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, 233 pages, color frontispiece and 8 b&w plates by Mary Gordon West, endpapers map. Light shelfwear. No date but appears to be about 1940.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1917, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Several pages of color plates. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume. The half year dominated by America's entrance into World War I. Articles by Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, America's Duty; Stand by the Soldier, by General John J. Pershing; President Wilson's Proclamation; Bind the Wounds of France, by Herbert Hoover; articles by the ambassadors of Britain and France; Russian Situation and its Significance to America and Russia's Democrats; War, Patriotism, and the Food Supply.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA , Ten Speed Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Extensive color photography throughout. Gilt titles on dust jacket cover. Some soil from previous owners book plate on front end paper. Dust jacket priced clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Mechanicsburg PA, Stackpole, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages, paperback. A definitive guide to New England diners. Mild edgewear to wraps. With color photographs throughout. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, New Mexico State Tourist Bureau, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32-page brochure promoting New Mexico. Illustrated with color and b&w photos. 8 X 9". No date but features message from Gov. Thomas Mabry who served 1947-51. Mild wear.

Softcover. NY, Bryant Literary Union, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stiff card covers with black cloth spine featuring a 107" long by 5.5" high colorful long map tacked in at back, folded up, easily detached and suitable for framing. With ad for St. Denis Hotel on back cover. Astor House ad inside back cover. No names, clean text. A fascinating guide book to the Hudson River and adjacent areas with attractive black and white photos and illustrations of scenic spots in the area on the verso of most of the text pages. Gutter cracked at Highlands page, but not affecting integrity of binding. ALSO: Laid in is a folded flyer advertising The Great Hudson Panorama by Wallace Bruce, a picture ribbon book 80 feet in length depicting the shoreline of the Hudson River.