adventure england

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FLEISCHMAN on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm--three hundred years in the past! Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone, Buddy washes up in New England, where his plucky ancestor, Abigail, is caught up in the witchcraft mania. In an adventure filled with ghosts, witches, pirates, and razzle-dazzle treasure, Buddy might be able to save his wayward ancestors. But will he find his way back to the thirteenth floor--and home?

Hardcover. London, Gryphon Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. 152 pages, color frontispiece by Marcia Lane Foster. INSCRIBED BY BOLTON on title page. The improbable tale of an American half-Cree Indian soldiering in the highlands of Scotland. Scarce title by this author who was also known as Sister Mercedes. Ivy May Bolton was an Anglican nun and writer. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice, and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. She wrote 10 novels for young adults from 1923 until 1952.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and some tears. Internally clean. Quentin Blake illustrations in black & white & blue. Hardbound. One summer, whilst on holiday in northern France Aristide is given a blue Li-Lo by his Grandmother. Despite being told not to go too far from the shore Aristide manages to float all the way across the channel to England where he is captured and held prisoner by some boys. (Robert Tibber is the nom-de-plume of Rosemary Friedman)

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 180 pages with index. An account of the infamous showman and his adventures after descending on Victorian London in the 1840s. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 319 pages, Introduction by Brian Shaw. The story of the British invasion of Tibet at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Robert Peter Fleming (31 May 1907 - 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket. 361 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, was one of the most fascinating and complex men of his period (1753~1814). Soldier of fortune, spy, womanizer, brilliant scientist, intriguer, autocrat, inventor, adventurer, an American expatriated to England who did his most productive scientific work in Munich and who died in France, a man devoted to relieving the suffering of the poor, Rumford was all this and more, and Sanborn Brown's biography makes clear that all these aspects merge into a whole human being. The man who conducted experiments on the caloric theory of heat and the ladies' man are one and the same. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Continues the adventures of fifteen-year-old Maura, her younger brother Patrick, a young stowaway, and some unusual characters as they sail from England to the New World in 1851.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America. In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and by her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattoed face and otter-skin cloak had caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1857, Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor, along with more than 100 English men, women and children.In 1590, a supply ship arrived at the colony to discover that the settlers had vanished. For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain, Powhatan, father of Pocahontas, who vowed to drive the English out of America. Only when it was too late did the settlers discover the incredible news that Ralegh's colonists had survived in the forests for almost two decades before being slaughtered in cold blood by Powhatan's henchmen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's gift label on front flyleaf. Tan, speckled cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, a touch of tanning from age, a couple of very small tears (barely noticeable--see image) at top along edge of dj. Part New England gothic, part fantasy, and pure rollicking adventure story, this book traces the history of a unique clan of hardy Vermonters who have survived in Kingdom County, near the Canadian border, for several generations.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format in pictorial boards, 392 pages in color. In 1928 commercial artist Hal Foster took a job to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes into a 60-installment black and white newspaper comic. Initially, no American papers wanted it, so it premiered in England, to great acclaim. When U.S. papers picked it up and wanted more, Foster wasn't interested. It was only in 1931, with the Great Depression threatening his family with starvation, that he consented to take it on as a full color, full page Sunday comic, still calling the low-paid job "a bit of pottage." That bit of pottage fed him for the next seven years, as Tarzan became the first adventure comic, and one of the most beloved Sunday strips in America. From 1931 to 1937, 292 full-page Tarzan Sunday comics followed. Foster's ape man defined Tarzan and adventure comics for decades to come. This volume reprints every comic from the original newspapers, in a colorful XXL format. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 166 pages. Black & white illust. by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket worn, large chunk gone from front panel. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 166 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 139 pages. Gilt title on spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Collins, 1st UK Edition, 1962, 352 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Before Columbus, before the Vikings, did Ireland's St. Brendan make a North Atlantic crossing?

Hardcover. Hudson Hills, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, color illustrations. Loring Coleman's voice as a storyteller is full of his humor and sense of wonder as he tells us about his life and then gives us the tales behind the beauty and mystery of over 50 of his paintings, most of which are reflections of a disappearing life in New England. He begins by describing the moment when his eyesight failed, and he learned that after seven decades as an artist, he might never paint again. His creation of this book became his response. With spirited memories of the intriguing characters who affected his life, Loring describes his upbringing in the tough Chicago of the 1930s, his discovery of idyllic rivers in Concord, Massachusetts, and his adventures as a motorcyclist and young student of great art teachers. He tells of marrying his wife Katinka the day before Pearl Harbor, entering the military, and quickly finding himself commanding the U.S. Army's largest World War II art department. He then traces his energetic years as a teacher, traveling art historian, and lover of Bavaria and Austria. In the context of his rich personal life, Loring shows us his paintings, as he reveals the many amusing, exasperating, and provocative experiences surrounding the artistic choices he made as he became one of New England's most revered artists. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMECTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. A mystery/adventure for young adults set in England. Library Ed. (NOT Ex-lib) Nice dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. Color frontis. and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. An adventure story set in Pre-war England. A boy discovers an old classic car which enables him and his impoverished father to set out and enter the London-to-Brighton Run. Their car, named the "Wanderlust", soon attracts the attention of crooks. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Unpaginated. Color and black & white photography. British artist Long ( Walking in Circles ) takes nature treks--in England's Lake District, the Sahara, Japan, Nepal--and creates site-specific works along the way. He fashions a mud circle in the river Avon, traces a line of snow near a temple in Kyoto and erects a circle of stones on a Swiss mountainside. The spare, deeply meditative photographs that he took en route sometimes call to mind prehistoric British megalithic monuments or Native American earthworks, as if he wants to tune in on planetary patterns of energy. At other times Long simply records what he sees, providing dramatic vistas of Iceland's vast rolling hills, Bolivia's high plateau, Washington's forests and Mount Everest's calm majesty. His images, poetic captions and unobstrusive siteworks reflect an artist who is at once traveler, nature-lover and adventurer.

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.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with ornate decoration to covers in gilt and 2-colors, 352 pages. A short Preface by Henty. In this story the author gives an account of the fierce struggle between Saxon and Dane for supremacy in England, and presents a vivid picture of the misery and ruin to which the country was reduced by the ravages of the sea-wolves. The hero, a young Saxon thane, takes part in all the battles fought by King Alfred. He is driven from his home, takes to the sea, and resists the Danes on their own element, and being pursued by them up the Seine, is present at the long and desperate siege of Paris. Eight b&w plates by C.J. Staniland. Worn copy with cracked hinges. Spine slightly cocked. Interior clean.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and strippers, and aspiring writers of all circumstances. Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun. From coast to coast and border to border, this unforgettable adventure of a top-notch American writer demonstrates that, sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we must turn the wheel towards home.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unpriced ($3.50) dust jacket that has chipping and edgewear. The Guard Mouse tells the story of Clyde, a mouse who works as a King's Guard outside Buckingham Palace. Upon stepping down from his position one day, the Guard Mouse hears his name being called - his long-lost cousins from abroad have come to visit him. The story follows the mice on the adventures they get up to in the night, including a detour to Covent Garden Market and a ride on the top of a double-decker tour bus, before duty calls the Guard Mouse back to his sentry box in front of Buckingham Palace the next morning. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.