Travel

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. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 147 pages, 30 tipped in color illustrations, b&w drawings, end paper illustration by Edward Penfield. Tan cloth with yellow cover paste-down that has some soiling. Internally bright, clean.

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.

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: On the Monastir Road, Niagara at the Battle Front, Our Armies of Mercy, Belgium's Plight, Devasted Poland, others.

Hardcover. West Kingston RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth covers. Collection of Lovecraft's nonfiction writings covering: Science, Literature and Esthetics, Philosophy, Travel, and History. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

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, Century Co., 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black design, 240 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A book that covers many aspects of life in China through the eyes of an extraordinary woman: "Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. After WW1, LaMotte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction. These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem, this being the first. Covers show shelf wear, soil.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown And Company, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Travels in Samarkand and Bokhara, the forbidden cities of Turkestan; Central Asia, from the Caspian to the Chinese border. Illustrated with over 100 of the author's own photographs. 144 pages. Illustrated with a two-page map, 16 color photographs, and numerous black and white photographs.Clean copy.

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.

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, George Allen, 4th Ed., 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, flexible black cloth with red and gilt stamping, edges stained red. 268 pages with a 10 page catalogue of Hare's other titles in rear. With 23 illustrations and a double page color map. Detailed information on the history and landmarks of Venice. Clean, bright copy of this vintage travel guide.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a soiled dust jacket, 256 pages, b&w woodcuts by Pauline Winchester Inman. Stories, articles and reminiscences selected from work by Maine writers published in DOWN EAST. Clean internally.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines July - December 1926, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. 776 pages. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out color map of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Eastern Tennessee. Clean, bright volume. Clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Geo. H. Ellis, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with bright gilt lettering, all edges gilt, 209 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's stamp on front endpapers. Bright original 1895 edition.

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. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages. Hardcover. Green Pebbled cloth. Gilt title and decoration on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Toby. Front endpaper has been removed. Previous owners name on inside front cover and preliminary page. Moderate fraying at bottom of spine, light rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Comany, 3rd printing, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Light edgewear, sun-fade and rubbing tom dust jacket. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Publishing, Reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 426 pages, many B&W engravings. Front fly leaf loose, dark blue cloth with gilt design. Hardcover with no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration, 500 pages. Color frontispiece and 246 illustrations, the majority black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps and endpaper maps. Index. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) was an American forester, the first head of the US Forestry Service, the person for whom the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state is named, and a governor of Pennsylvania. In 1929 Pinchot and family took a seven-month cruise to the South Seas during which time he collected specimens for the National Museum. On board were other naturalists and representatives of scientific institutions. Profusely illustrated.

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.

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, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 533 pages. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. Clean, bright copy.

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.

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. Glens Falls NY, Adirondack Mountain Club, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages with index, b&w drawings by Herbert Kates. Originally published in 1927. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 147 pages, 30 tipped in color illustrations, b&w drawings, end paper illustration by Edward Penfield. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, bookplate opposite. Yellow board covers with light wear, soil. Internally bright, clean.

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. New York, Macmillan, reprint , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 344 pages plus black & white photos at rear of book. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on back of front end paper. Foreword by Owen Wister. Small tears, chipping to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, James H. Stark, 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 153 pages plus index and advertisements, b&w plates, fold-out maps and illustrations, color map in rear pocket. Gray-green cloth covers. Light edge wear, rubbing to corners. Rear hinge starting to crack. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Bemrose & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover with heavy wear to paper wrappers. Maps and black and white pictures. Previous owner's markings on rear and throughout. Spine paper removed.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Great George Route and International Railway., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Single folding sheet with text and photographs printed on one side and a single full-color panoramic illustration on the other, circa 1923. Mild wear.

London, Geographia Ltd., Book: Very Good, Softcover. Linen backed folded map. In the paper sleeve. Nice condition. Early 1900s.

Hardcover. London, Charles Knight, 1st, 1844-45, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with red leather spine and corners. Two volumes bound in one, 244 pages & 254 pages. Gilt designs and lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts from the author's drawings. Mild wear to spine, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Waterlow and Sons, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. 56 pages, b&w illustrations. Appears to be the original softcover rebound in cloth. Small holes at gutter where staples removed. Small name stamp in blank prelim page. 3 related postcards laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 6th pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 471 pages. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter--and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places--in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. Clean copy.

Softcover. Glens Falls NY, Adirondack Mountain Club, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages with index, b&w drawings by Herbert Kates. Originally published in 1927. Clean copy.

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. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Newspaper clippings and autographed collectors card of the author laid in. 196 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Rider Press, First Edition, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations throughout. Bright, crisp dust jacket with light, marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Pacific Lines, Book: Good, Softcover, 20-page brochure promoting the Missouri Pacific routes through Mexico. Two-color cover wraps, b&w illustrations and a map. Light wear, spine separating at bottom, clean. No date, appears to be late 1940s. 6 3/4 X 9 1/2".

Softcover. Biella Italy, Ferrara, 2nd pr., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 34 pages, guide to the Alpine area of Italy, b&w photos in gravure, map in back. INSCRIBED BY WILME ROSAZZO on title page. Clean. ITALIAN TEXT.

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, Revised Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 310 pages, b&w illustrations. An abridged edition of the three-volume The Story of My Life, originally published in 1896. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped 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. 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, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A large and lovely appreciation of London, with text by Pritchett and photographs throughout by Evelyn Hofer, which capture the look of London in the early 1960s. The photographs include 18 pages in full color and 111 pages in monochrome gravure. There is a bookplate on the inside cover, a small stamp to the half-title page, and a crease to the dj flap. The interior of the book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 248 pages with index. This text sets out to explore the sexual motives of travel. It argues that the British have inherited from the 19th century three main versions of the tourist - the connoisseur, pilgrim or rebel - these identities having both a sexual as well as a cultural life. Clean copy.