Travel

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. London, The Colonizer, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY HARRIS under his frontispiece photography in blue ink. Green covers with wear, spotting. Internally good.

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.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 496 pages. SIGNED BY THEROUX on title page. In 1975 a young and ambitious writer named Paul Theroux made his literary mark by taking the 28,000-mile intercontinental journey via rail from London to Tokyo and back home again. Thirty years later, an older and wiser Theroux decided to retrace his steps. The result is Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, a fascinating account of the places you vaguely knew existed, yet definitely should know something about. Get on board Theroux's fast-moving travelogue, which features some of the most astute commentary on our distorted notions of time, space, and each other in the age of jet speed, broadband connections, and cultural extinction. A railway journey through Eastern Europe, India, and Asia. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. A comprehensive survey of the geological and natural histories of the Arctic and Antarctic, their importance in myth, legend, and human history.

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.

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, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title and design on spine. 242 pages, frontis, 15 b&w plates from photos, including one of orchids. An important contribution to rain forest botany and ecology, based on the author's 24 years of collecting and study in the area. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Omaha NE, Union Pacific System , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 48 pages, stapled mauve paper covers with embossed design stamped in gilt, pink and black. A travel guide for passengers on the Union Pacific, b&w illustrations throughout. Excellent condition, bright, unmarked.

Softcover. Xlibris, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. The author describes his three year around-the-world journey on a motor scooter in the 1960s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1st, 1843-46, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes bound into one, 537 total pages. Half leather with marbled boards, edgeworn. All first American editions. The final book's full title: The Military Operations at Cabul, Which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a Journal of Imprisonment in Afghanistan. Condition good with some browning and foxing to paper. Front inner hinge repaired with tape.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - July 1923, 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. Also includes a fold-out panorama of The Great Wall of China. 680 pages. Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a 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 , Charles Scribner's sons, rep, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 726 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with fold-out map in rear. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to blue, gilt decorated boards. Small stain to lower corner of frontis piece portrait. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes, 464 pages and 467 pages. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Volume 1 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map and 11 other plates; Volume 2 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map, 1 full-page map (plate), and 7 other plates. Both volumes are also illustrated with appromimately 300 in-text wood-engravings. Both volumes with mild chipping to cloth at top of spine otherwise a clean, bright set.

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, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with 56 reproductions of etchings, aquatints, and drawings by John Taylor Arms, each with a captioned tissue-guard.. A delightful travelogue with exquisite artwork of John Taylor Arms. He specialized in portraying the gothic architecture of France and Italy. Traveling the back roads and visiting the then out-of-the-way towns of northern Italy by car, he visually captures the look and feel as his wife provides a charming travelog. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, Sridevi Printers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages plus 10 b&w plates. Extracts from the journal of Spilberger (1568-1620), one of the first outsiders to set foot in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1602. Translated fom the Dutch by K.D. Paranavitana. Clean 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. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 175 pages, b&w illustrations. Vermont-native Twitchell sets out from his current home in Florida on the inauguration day of America's first black president to find the "real" South and to try to understand the truth about his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp across Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives through the heart of Dixie, Twitchell sorts through the prejudices he learned from his northern rearing. In searching for the culture he had held at arm's length for so long, he tours small-town southern life -- in campgrounds, cotton gins, churches, country fairs, and squirrel dog kennels -- and uncovers some fundamental truths along the way. Notably, he discovers that prejudices of race, class, and ideology are not limited by geography. As one man from Georgia mockingly summed up North versus South stereotypes, "Y'all are rude and we're stupid." Unexpectedly, Twitchell also uncovers facts about his great-grandfather and sheds new light on his family's past. An enlightening, humorous, and refreshingly honest search, Look Away, Dixieland reveals some of the differences and similarities that ultimately define us as a nation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co, , 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, (orig. $7.50 price to front flap), 285 pages. Illustrated by Yee with 12 color plates, 4 monochrome plates and 117 line drawings in the text. Another (#9) in the author's popular series of early-mid-20th-century travel guides from an Asian perspective, this one recounting his forays through Paris, where he "transforms the outwardly familiar into something new." Probable 2nd Ed. as the first had a $5.95 flap price. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black spine labels with gilt lettering. Six issues from the first half of 1924, 696 pages devoid of ads or inserts. Clean, bright pages, some color, mostly b&w. Include:s 1, Lost Tribes of Islam, Eastern Darfur; 2, Carthage Acheology; 3, Sahara by Automobile; 4, Hawaiian Islands; 5, Sakurajima, Japan volcanic eruption; 6, Norway; and 7, Tunisia. Clean, no markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with illustrated pastedown and gilt stamping. 227 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. Endpapers map. Clean, bright copy.

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: Our State Flowers (16 color pages), Our First Alliance, Madonnas of Many Lands.

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. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, b&w photographs. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design; spine slightly faded. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Foxing to edges. Light soiling to first few pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to covers.

Hardcover. Canberra AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w frontis portrait, 302 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Rapid City SD, Black Hills & Western Railroad, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, folding automotive road map, printed in red and black on beige paper stock. Dated 3-31-27 at bottom. Open size appox. 9 X 16". Ads on reverse side.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 350 pages illustrated with photographs taken by H. A. Chase and the author. Endpapers map detailing the author's travels. Previous owner's inscription on verso of frontis., otherwise clean.

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, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 358 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, notes, map, appendices. Introduction by Edward Garnett. Frontispiece of the author on a horse as Sheikh Mohammed El Fasi. Mild fade to spine lettering, otherwise a tight, 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. Rutland, VT , Tuttle Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Light green cloth covers with photo and gilt lettering. Light foxing throughout, all edges. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Black & white photographs. Tight binding. Author was Dorothy Canfield Fisher's mother.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original magazines January - June 1928, in a maroon pebbled hardcover binding. Magazines are dated and paged, with photographs and maps, but do not have covers, advertisements, etc. Includes: Fold-out illustration by N.C, Wyeth: "The Discoverer". 742 Clean, bright volume.

Hardcover. Salem, Peabody Essex Museum & Mystic Seaport Museum, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 371 pages. Clean, bright copy. Between 1932 and 1934, in the depths of the Depression, Donald Starr and six friends sailed the 85' Alden schooner Pilgrim around the world from Boston by way of the Panama and Suez Canals. Their adventure is recounted with wit and detail in this illustrated book -- a look at bluewater cruising, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean before war and tourism altered them forever.