Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 273 pages. B&w photographs. Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth. Cover has gilt drawing of a windmill and black lettering. Gilt lettering on the spine. Translated from Italian by Caroline Tilton. 408 pages, 18 b&w plates. With chapters on Zealand, Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Broek, Zaandam, Almaar, Helder, Zuyder Zee, Friesland, Groningen. Names on prelim pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Scribners, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black decoration, 147 pages. 30 tipped-in color plates by Penfield. Excellent condition.

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.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. This book features a selection of McPhee's works in and around India's former capital.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 160 pages, illustrated with 110 color images. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her perceptive vision to picturing layers of history, culture, religion, and class as they appear in private heritage homes and public markets, in lively street festivals, and in the faces of city dwellers in Calcutta (also known as Kolkata). This exquisitely produced book features a selection of McPhee's works made in and around India's former capital.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. From the time they emerged in American cities in the 1820s, commercial luxury hotels were far more than places where a traveler could eat and sleep-they were icons of style, opulence, and technological sophistication. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complex-and often contentious-relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. From New York to San Francisco and points in between, Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, which served as a model for luxury hotel design; San Francisco's world famous Palace, completed in 1875; and Chicago's enormous Stevens, built two years before the great crash of 1929. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape. Clean copy.

New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 375 pages including index, color and b&w illustrations. When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789?-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate. But within a decade, Americans had built the first hotels?, large and elegant structures that boasted private bedchambers and grand public ballrooms. This book recounts the enthralling history of the hotel in America?a saga in which politicians and prostitutes, tourists and tramps, conventioneers and confidence men, celebrities and salesmen all rub elbows. Hotel explores why the hotel was invented, how its architecture developed, and the many ways it influenced the course of United States history. The volume also presents a beautiful collection of more than 120 illustrations, many in full color, of hotel life in every era. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Shulevitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Shulevitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Macullar Parker & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages with 250 photographs and maps, including a color fold-out map in rear. Blue cloth with bright gilt on front cover. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. George Rodger began his photographic career with the BBC as a stills photographer. His baptism as a photo reporter came with his appointment as a 'stringer' for Life magazine during the Blitz on London in the most threatening days of 1940. Many of his images from that time are still in constant use, because his instinct has always been to concentrate on the humanity of his subjects, even in the face of terrible adversity.It was for Life that George Rodger embarked on a series of adventures that were to take him to almost every theatre of the Second World War in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.The fulcrum of his career came with the liberation of Belsen. As for the first few days he was the only photographer present, the images he captured became crucially important in making known the depravity of the camps.1948 he embarked on a campaign of photography rediscovering humanity, starting with an expedition from Cape Town to Cairo by road. He found in Africa tribes almost untouched by European influence and was able to create images of enormous power that quickly became world-famous.This book presents the pictures that define George Rodger's long career and a commentary on his extraordinary journey. With a Foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson and over 260 powerful images, it represents a fitting tribute to George Rodger and a celebration of his life's work.

Hardcover. Portfolio, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. A great book by the bestseller author Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson. In this breathtaking new book about Icelandic landscape Sigurgeir entwines nature and culture in a dramatic, vivid and unforgettable moments. You can really feel the energy and flow of all that Iceland has to offer while going through the pages. This is the large edition 25x25 cm. The book comes in a beautiful bag.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, 686 pages. Maps on endpapers, frontis. portrait of author. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. The social attitudes of the author are typical of his time, still, an interesting picture of Africa in the 1920s. Bookplate on first blank page, small tear to top of cloth spine, otherwise very good, clean.

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. London, Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 604 pages, 3 fold-out color maps in rear of book. Red coth covers, hinges tender, spine with fading. An account of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa precedes an historical survey of the non-European inhabitants and the arrival and spread of the European settlers.

Hardcover. Melbourne, Melbourne Pub. Co., 1st , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Many black & white photos throughout. Previous owner's name on front end paper.Staining on front cover, spine faded and light rubbing and edge wear. Tight copy.

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. Boston, Richard B. Badger, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Octavo in original gilt lettered red cloth and gilt top edge with b&w plates (including frontispiece) from photos and maps on endpaper. "The author spent several seasons in (the) .Labrador interior, 1903-10, and records here his knowledge of the country, the trails, hunting & fishing among the Montagnais Indians." Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

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.

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.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The history, description, and the writings of four very different Fair visitors, each of whom had made multiple visits to the Fair. Their diaries, memoirs, and letters reveal the wealth of sensation and emotion that overwhelmed visitors to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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, McGraw-Hill, 1st , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. 136 beautifully reproduced color plates by Beny (tipped-in). Large format. A detailed portrait of India based on Roloff Beny's 20,000 mile travels through the various terrain. His photographs include monuments and temples, diverse population, various cultures, religious sites and statues, palaces and fortresses, landscape, etc.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Michael von Graffenried, an award-winning Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state.Graffenried makes his pictures secretly, using an antique Widelux panoramic camera with a hidden lens. He would risk his picture and his life were he to raise a camera to his eyes. Instead, he shoots from the hip, with his hands clasped over what looks like a pair of binoculars. In learning to frame his photographs without a viewfinder, he opens himself to a rich array of surprise and irony in his pictures, and reveals a society that has been concealed from the international community for nearly seven years.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, photos in color. Minor shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. This book documents the two most recent works by the critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien, both of which continue his investigation of issues of race and global politics. True North, shot in the spectacular landscapes of Iceland and Northern Sweden, is conceived around the expedition writings of the African-American explorer Matthew Henson, one of the key members of Robert E. Peary's 1909 Arctic expedition, and arguably the first person to reach the North Pole. True North's diametric counterpart, Fantome Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, Africa's cinematic center, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso. The film is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.

Hardcover. East Sussex, UK, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Over 180 black & white photographs. Isabella Bird was one of the 19th century's most remarkable women explorers. Her global travels and subsequent books made her famous, and led to her becoming one of the first female members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1891. This book celebrates her achievements of Isabella Bird with a beautiful pictorial record of her last great journey through China in the closing years of the 19th century, with supporting text by travel photography expert Debbie Ireland. The highlight of her visit was journeying by boat and sedan chair to make a major tour of the valley of the Yangtze River and much beyond, right up to the border with Tibet.

Hardcover. NY, Gourmet , 1st, 1958, Hardcover, cream colored buckram with Italian crest to front and spine; gilt title to spine. 593 pages with b&w photographs and illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Recipes translated from the Italian and adapted by Narcissa Chamberlain. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1895-1975) was an author, illustrator, photographer and artist who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Phineas Beck. His works include books on historical architecture, interiors, fashion illustration, and cookbooks. White cloth covers soiled, Interior clean.

Hardcover. London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Insightful train travel portrait of Italy. Rough cut fore edge. Minor shelf wear/rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

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. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, First Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with photographs, illustrations of woodcuts, engravings in bw. Brown cloth boards & black titles to spine. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with toning to spine & light wear to edges. Clean & tight copy.

Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase, 248 pages. Many illustrations from manuscript charts and drawings by Ingraham, introduction by Mark D. Kaplanoff, one of 1950 copies. Binding is decorated gray paper over boards, with yellow cloth spine and pasted on label. A record of a voyage for the sea otter trade, with a route that took the ship to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, the Marquesas, and China as well as to the northwest coast of North America.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with gray cloth spine, 333 pages plus index. Endpapers map. Janet Schaw, a supporter of the Crown, illustrates the extent to which the American Revolution had, by 1775, become a close, personal insurgency, pitting neighbor against neighbor. Schaw was a young, well-educated Scottish woman who traveled to North Carolina to visit her older brother Robert, the owner of a plantation on the Cape Fear River near Wilmington. She arrived in March of 1775 and while in North Carolina witnessed, among other things, land clearing through controlled burning and the killing of an alligator. More important, she observed a society that was splitting asunder under the stress of revolutionary politics. The decisions of the Wilmington Committee forced men and women along the Cape Fear to take sides. Worn covers with spine cloth coming loose. Binding is solid.

Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blind stamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering on spine. 479 pages with mild foxing to a few pages. Very good plus, no markings.

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.

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. 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. London, Sampson Low Son & Co, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 492 pages. Hardcover with 3/4 leather spine and marbled surfaces on all sides. First English edition published same year as first American edition. A clean, tight copy. moderate chipping to cover edges. and some rips to dry leather. Gilt title paste-down gone from spine.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured beige cloth, moderately soiled. No edition or printing stated on copyright page. Illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photographs, as well as endpaper maps, red and black frontispiece illustration. The story of the trip Auden and Isherwood made to China during its war with Japan, prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes 32 pages of photographs, as well as several sonnets and one long poem by Auden. Narrative written by Isherwood. There is a tan stain that goes across pages 68-69, that looks like a rorschach test. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha International Ltd. , 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a few lamination issues, otherwise very good--no rips or tears. Textured gray cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, blind-stamped design on front cover board. A touch of tanning to edges, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In excellent condition. Naito traces the historical story of Katsura, while photographer, Nishikawa worked for five years to put together this visual portrait.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photographs throughout. Showcases work by American photographer Robert Bergman (b. 1944), who took these photographs with "a simple 35mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting." The pictures are a result of months of car travel throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, presenting "everyday people who moved him profoundly." With an introduction by Toni Morrison and an afterword by Meyer Schapiro.

Softcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1st Edition, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover pamphlet with string binding. Buff, textured endpapers, some tanning throughout from age. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has some moisture staining and other soil, but otherwise very good and intact (see image).

Hardcover. London, Seeley & Co, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover bound in brown gilt decorated cloth, 355 pages, many b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white photos. 347 pages. Super bright copy with gilt design, lettering on cover. Top edge gilt.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. 441 and 474 pages. 235 black & white illustrations. Volume One has a map in rear pocket. Previous owner's bookplate on front end papers in both volumes. Rubbing to corners, spine, and covers. Corners a little bumped otherwise a bright, collectible set.

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. 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. Geneva, De Vente Naville & Co., Deluxe Edition, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Deluxe Edition, limited to 400. 576 pages crammed with 1001 detailed photogravure views of Switzerland. Introduction by B. Motta. 3/4 brown morocco with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. top edge gilt , previous owner's signature on front fly leaf (Children's book author, Edith Hurd Thacher)