Travel

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Rowman & Littlefield , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 173 pages, b&w illustrations. In roughly one hundred years - from the 1870s to the 1970s - dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth. The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pick up at a brief station stop. It was hardly fine dining. Seeing the business possibilities in offering long-distance passengers comforts such as beds, toilets, and meals, George Pullman and other pioneering railroaders like Georges Nagelmackers of Orient Express fame, transformed rail travel. Fine dining and wines became the norm for elite railroad travelers by the turn of the twentieth century. The foods served on railroads - from consomme to turbot to souffle, always accompanied by champagne - equaled that of the finest restaurants, hotels, and steamships. Bright, clean copy.

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'."

Softcover. NY, American Youth Hostels, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, stapled binding. An illustrated guide to great bicycle touring in the 1960s. Maps, diagrams of routes throughout the states. Small name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, 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 Shattered Capitals of Central America, The Isle of Capri, Shantung-China's Holy Land, America's South Sea Sailors.

Hardcover. Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 651 pages plus publisher's ads. Hardcover. Front and back hinges cracked, binding tight otherwise. Frontispieces with tissue guard. Tanning to edges. Pages clean with just a touch of tanning. Spine straight. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Borders and decoration blind-stamped to front and back cover boards. Some agewear to boards: fraying/chipping at top and bottom of spine and corners, rubbing. "Being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author." Perfect for any collector's bookshelf.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, 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 Rise of the New Arab Nation, The Land of the Stalking Death, Where Slav and Mongol Meet, Syria- The Land Link of History's Chain. Small chip to front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Melville House, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Award-winning historian Jeff Biggers opens a new window into the hidden treasures of Sardinia in a groundbreaking travel narrative that crisscrosses one of the most enigmatic places in ItalyAfter three decades of living and traveling in Italy, Jeff Biggers finally crossed over to Sardinia, uncovering a treasury of stories amid major archaeological discoveries rewriting the history of the Mediterranean.Based in the bewitching port of Alghero, guided through the island's rich and largely untranslated literature, he embarked on a rare journey around the island to experience its famed cuisine, wine, traditional rituals and thriving cultural movements. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Pages 403-492 plus ads. Original brown printed beige wrappers, spine with light wear, very good. This issue includes articles on The Call of the West by C. J. Blanchard (with 21 illustrations) [taken from an Address to the National Geographic Society, April 2, 1909], Camps and cruises of an Ornithologist by George Shiras (with 30 illustrations, In Beautiful Delecarlia by Lillian Gore 9with 13 illustrations), 3 other articles.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 184 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards with a black cloth spine. 252 pages, b&w photographs, map end paper. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, illustrated in color. Celebrating the culture and design of the railroad from its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution through its 20th-century heyday, Railroad is a loving tribute to the unique aesthetic of trains. With hundreds of archival and contemporary photographs, it examines the glamorous early days, when train travel meant sumptuous, luxurious interiors with formal black-tie dining cars and private sleeping-suite cabins, up to the present with the sleek, streamlined design and record-breaking speeds of modern trains around the globe. Touching on every aspect of railroad design, from the interiors and exteriors of the trains, to railroad stations, signage, and trestles and tunnels, Railroad also abounds in such train ephemera as tickets, conductor uniforms, timetables, and advertisements, and is sprinkled with trivia and anecdotes illuminating railroading's colorful history. As both harbinger of modern engineering and nostalgic symbol of an earlier age, the railroad continues to exert a fascination over all those interested in travel, engineering, and design. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Sullivan, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, in green cloth covers with black and gilt design. A brief first-hand account of a seven week trip to Europe, principally England, Ireland and Scotland. Uncommon. A bit worn with cracked hinges.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 320 pages, b&w photo illustrations. The Chapters are: Gambia; Sierra Leone; The Gold Coast; Nigeria: The West; The North; The Southern Cameroons; and The East; followed by an index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Carlton & Porter, 1st, 1859, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, 268 pages with 8 b&w plates. A fictional travel account aimed at young people. Worn copy, light stains, tanning.

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.

NY, New York Central Lines, 1915, Book: Good, Softcover brochure that folds out to approx. 30 X 27" with a color map on one side. Rand McNally did the map as a promotional piece for the New York Central Railroad Lines. The opposite side features a wealth of tourist information: lists of hotels, boarding houses, camps, steamer lines, rates and fares, train schedules, etc. Clean with little to no paper loss or any repairs.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Some tanning from age to edges, otherwise pages clean. Cover boards bound in blue, marbled cloth, red quarter cloth (some fading at spine, fraying at top and bottom). Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Clarke explores a reef and the people of southern Sri Lanka. No dust jacket.

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. Chicago, Poole Brothers, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover. Title and decoration in silver on cloth cover - darkening to edges. Illustrated with Sepia photographs. All edges gilt. Front hinge tender. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine, ship drawing on front cover. 280 pages. A collection of articles and a manuscript written by Julia Louisa Keyes (1828-1877). She was the daughter of novelist Caroline Lee Hentz and wife of Dr. John W. Keyes of Montgomery, Ala. The collection is a typescript of "Our Life in Brazil," a combination of diary, reminiscences, and letter copies, compiled in 1874 by Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes about her experiences in Brazil, 1867-1870. Keyes and her husband emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. This volume was compiled by Nancy Hamlin Huber on the 100th anniversary of that first voyage. Blank prelim page gone, clean copy. Scarce.

Oxford UK, Penrose and Palmer, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light tan stapled wrappers, 64 pages with 100 b&w photos. Center spread map. Bright, unmarked copy with bookseller's small sticker on front.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Map end papers. 248 pages. Twenty- Four plates including frontispiece from photographs of Andes Mountains area taken by author. Royal 8vo. Red cloth, Gilt titled front cover with large gilt llama under title. Gilt titled and pictorial spine. Minor wear.

Hardcover. NY, Twelve, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Exciting 100 year history of survival of this iconic hotel. 358 pages, color and b/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. St. Louis, J. W. Henry, 1st , 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages. B&w frontispiece with b&w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Blue cloth cover with gilt titles. Some edgewear and soiling to cover. Front hinge cracked. Foxing to edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf.

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. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. "Poet, writer, artist, and naturalist Emily Hiestand takes us to four far-flung corners of the globe - to Orkney in northernmost Scotland, to the Greek Islands, to Belize (formerly British Honduras), and to the Florida Everglades - and gives us some of the most sensual, learned, and witty writing about place to appear in years." Clean copy.

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. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in black, 486 pages, b&w photos by the author. A journal with bits of history of the West Indies in the early 20th century. It also covers some of the older history of the islands. There are some pictures of the ruins of Christophe's palace of Sans Souci, and of Cuba's new presidential palace. Bookplate and name on front endpapers otherwise clean.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Park Service, 1947-49, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three b&w pamphlets promoting travel in the southwest. 1) Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 3-panels, b&w photos, map, 1947. 2) Mesa Verde National Park, 3-panels with map, 1949. 3) Mesa Verde National Park, 16-pages, stapled, b&w photos with map,1948, All very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, 309 pages. In 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to the part of Morocco, known traditionally as 'Barbary'. He set out for the majestic High Atlas and recorded the rich traditional culture of the isolated Berber tribes. Illustrated with 16 photographic plates and a small map. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 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. Fold-out sepa photo of "Babes in the Woods" torn along one fold. Light chipping to spine labels otherwise a bright, clean volume.

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.

San Francisco, West-Lewis Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The author's lyrical tribute to New York City in free verse. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on front fly leaf to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company , 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in black. 138 pages. Shelf-worn but solid. B&w cartoon illustrations by O. Soglow. Humorous memoir of the Inspector-General of Antiquities in Egypt and his camel. Ink name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 20ll, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stone kept a series of journals during his arctic travels from 1896 through 1903 in which he recorded his struggles against raging blizzards, hostile natives, daunting physical risks, and mind-warping loneliness and boredom. B&w illustrations. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 200 plus pages, photo illustrations throughout by Pratt. The story of life on "The Island" in the state of Maine. Although never named, it is thought to be Isle Au Haut, a small island seven miles off the coast of Maine, in Knox County. Rich with both black & white and color photographic illustrations of people, scenery, and town life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, color photos. The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility that he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as family members brave the journey north. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, William Collins, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages, color photos. In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and mass tourism. James immerses himself in the Zangskari way of life, where meditation and week-long mountain festivals go hand in hand, and silence and solitude are the hallmarks of existence. When butter traders invite James on their journey down the frozen river Leh, he soon realises that this way of living, unchanged for centuries, comes with a very human cost. In lyrical prose, James captures a crucial moment in time for this Himalayan community. A moment in which their Buddhist practices and traditions are in flux, and the economic pull of a world beyond their valley is increasingly difficult to ignore.

Softcover. Missoula MT, Mountain Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages, b&w illustrations. In Roadside History of Wyoming readers will learn about Native Americans who struggled to adapt to many sudden changes, mountain men who braved the wilderness, emigrants who suffered untold hardships, cattle and sheep drovers who took advantage of the open range, miners who sought wealth below the ground, and many others whose deeds help define the state's rich history. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1919, 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: Chicago Today and Tomorrow, The League of Nations, Medicine Fakes and Fakers of All Ages.

Softcover. NA, NA, 1st, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. No date or publication information. Library stamp at bottom left corner of front cover. Number stamped on reverse of title page. Text is clean, unmarked. Some light chipping to cover edges. The journal starts in 1848, with a voyage to Glasgow at fifteen years of age, for famine relief. Later voyages took Crockett to Paris, Russia, and Calcutta, Entertaining anecdotes about the passengers, his reading, and his wedding in Boston. The narrative is taken up later at his Golden Wedding. Entertaining and informative. Stapled in green wrappers.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - Dec. 1922, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes two supplemental fold-out maps: Africa and the World. Very good, Clean.

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, 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, E. P. Dutton , 2nd Printing, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, gilt titles on green board cover. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf and minor edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 248 pages. First printing with the publisher's colophon on copyright page. 24 b&w plates, endpapers map. Last 20 pages with loss to paper at bottom of pages, perhaps insect damage. Not affecting text, margin only.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes & Co., reprint, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration to cover, 437 pages, frontis. engraving of author. The first part contains two manuscripts that were sermons or addresses that the Rev. Walter Colton use when preaching in behalf of seamen. The author writes about: The Ocean in its Grandeur and Sublimity; The Sailor's Chivalric Devotion to Woman; Humanity of the Sailor; Navy Chaplains; Genoa and the Genoese; City of Pisa; We are Robbed of our Cigars; etc. The second part contains his writings about travel to France and Italy. Also includes his poetry, editorials, aphorisms, etc. Includes a memoir of the Rev. Walter Colton by Rev. Cheever. Light chip, wear to spine. Circulating library sticker on inside front cover otherwise clean. Covers with minor edgewear. Title page states 1854, copyright page is 1851.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with red lettering, 298 pages. Illustrated with 88 b&w photos. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. Name and address on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with yellow lettering on spin and front cover, 280 pages. Map endpapers, color frontis and 17 b&w illustrations by John Whiting. This is a fictional account of an Antarctic expedition that appears to be based on the Scott, Shackleton and with a little of the Byrd Little America 1928-30 expeditions. Includes a Forward by J. S. O'Brien, an engineer on the first Little America expedition commenting on the writing skills of the fictional "Jack Meredith" for "... the most realistic of any I have every read." Brief inscription on blank prelim page otherwise clean.