Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 tipped-in color plates, 32 small black & white illustrations by Jungman. Intro. by Gordon Hume. Light spotting to covers.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 169 pages. B&w decorations by Reynolds Stone. Musings on travel by intrepid explorer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993). Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations including map. Clean, tight copy in a worn dust jacket. The story of Russian and British agents and the so-called Great Game between the two nations in Turkestan. "Maclean tells the dramatic stories of some of these agents and of some other travellers, official and unofficial, military and civilian, who in the course of a hundred years, on one errand or another, penetrated the Khanates of Central Asia".

NY, Harper & Brothers , reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs. Original decorated publisher's cloth, with gilt titles. First published in 1897. Account of Sicily at the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the art, history, and landscape of the Island, from the largest of cities to its hamlets and villages. Contemporary color postcard laid in. Original pale green cloth fafed, previous owners name, embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 2nd, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages. Color fold-out map opposite title-page. Mild soiling to covers. Faded gilt on spine.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 333 pages, b&w illustrations. This book covers the first contacts between the United States and the Middle East from the earliest times (1800s) to the mid-nineteenth century. The author describes exotic people and places in the Middle East and how American interests there were far from marginal although centered around the American Protestant missionary activity during that period. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 181 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Immigrant writer Novakovich records his journeys to find his roots, some to his native Croatia, some no farther than Cleveland, where he searches for the grave of his grandmother, who refused to return to Croatia with the rest of her family. This moving collection reflects the joys and the difficulties in returning to a homeland left behind. Clean copy.

Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Posters of the Canadian Pacific is a treasury of three hundred of the finest posters published by the company. They were displayed in Canadian Pacific offices and independent travel agencies worldwide from the 1880s until the 1970s. These posters enticed millions to visit and even settle in Canada. The posters span the years 1883-1973 with special focus on the Art Deco style posters of the 1920s and '30s. They focus on travel and leisure -- activities on ski slopes, golf courses, beaches, and luxury resorts. Other posters feature Canadian Pacific ocean liners in exotic locations around the globe such as the West Indies, Rio, Hawaii and the Orient.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped 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. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.

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. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth covers, 186 pages. Oblong folio, Numerous maps and illustrations, 5 in color. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

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. 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, Haus Publishing Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Xavier Roy's breathtaking photographs of Egypt offer us a haunting vision of a country and its people.

Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, Reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Alexander Key. Pages 15-51 with shallow bump to top right corner of pages. Front cover with 2 quarter size stains, standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lannoo Publishers , 1st, 2010-06-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 144 pages, color photography of the USSR. Text in Dutch and English.

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, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 227 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a clean, tight copy. Naipaul presents here four essays about the "half-made" societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption." He examines the role of Eva Peron as the catalyst for violence in Argentina, with its yearning for a European culture and the physical, historical, cultural reality of the land in which the native Indians were wiped out and the colonialists took over. He writes of the infamous Michael X in Trinidad whose pretensions to power and destiny led to the man's insanity and execution following two pointless murders. Shorter essays address nihilism in the Congo and Naipaul's take on Joseph Conrad and the Heart of Darkness.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The painter, writer, and political activist returns to his native South Africa, where he was once imprisoned for working for the African National Congress, and reflects on the decline of apartheid and his own attachment to the Boer state. He describes the travail of his country riven by racial conflict. He recounts his seven-year imprisonment for treason and shares the passionate love of an exile--he resides in Paris--for his native land. In the recent period of "stability laced with blood" as De Klerk and Mandela's forces struggle to maintain a precarious political equilibrium, Breytenbach has been allowed to return for visits with his Vietnamese wife. Part travelogue and part memoir, this account offers frequent political discussions about the rivalry between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party. A careful observer of people, their surroundings, fauna and flora, Breytenbach weaves richly colored narrative history, local lore and personal allusions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty color cloth stamped in red and blue, 277 pages. To write this, his third book, the author lived in Sicily itself for several months on a Guggenheim Fellowship. There he found the humor and romance, the places and the people that figured in the legends of his childhood. During his extensive travel on the island, he also discovered some of the realities of post-war and post-fascism reconstruction. Mild shelf wear, dust jacket flaps laid in.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 382 pages, 24 b&w plates, fold-out map in rear, short tear at crease. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLARD on a tipped-in prlim page. The Rosetta Stone--discovered by French soldiers in 1799, seized by a British envoy, and deciphered 23 years later--set off an obsessive interest in Egypt, including by the newly established Royal Geographical Society, to find the headwaters of the Nile. Bestselling author Millard, a former writer and editor for National Geographic, offers a tense, vibrant history of several dramatic expeditions across East Africa that finally resulted in a successful discovery. Drawing on archival sources and her own multiple trips to Africa following the explorers' paths, Millard creates a palpable sense of the daunting task undertaken by three ambitious men: the magnetic, impulsive, and often combative Richard Burton; John Hanning Speke, an aristocratic infantry lieutenant and passionate hunter whose initial interest in East Africa was largely for the animals he could kill; and their devoted and resourceful native guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay a former enslaved person whose intimate knowledge of tribes and terrain proved to be indispensable.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. A young English novelist's journey through the Soviet Union in the early sixties (author also wrote "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner', "The General", and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise 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. 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.

Hardcover. Berlin , Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard.

Hardcover. Rome, Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Italian text. B&w photos throughout by List.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 329 pages, frontispiece, 31 b&w plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light edge wear to corners. Front hinge weak. Light bump to top corner of cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with yellow cloth spine, 344 pages. Undated, circa 1900 with name and 1902 date on front fly leaf. Well kept copy generously illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. Mild edgewear to boards. Clean, tight 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.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Engaging account of the author's camel trek across the untamed South Fezzen region of the Sahara Desert, encountering exotic vegetation and prehistoric cave paintings along the way. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on front flyleaf. 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some slight shelfwear. Corner fold on dust jacket front inside flap.Otherwise tight copy. Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador.

Hardcover. Charta, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, color and b&w photographs. In the introduction to this volume, Chicago-based photographer Sandro Miller writes, "The people of Cuba provided me with faces that told a million stories--stories of war, of love, of heartache and pain, of hard work and determination--faces beaten up by the sun and the heat, but most of all faces that still had pride running deep within the pores of their skin." Miller was granted official permission to photograph Cuban athletes despite the ban, in place since 1959, on photographing sports figures in that country. Imagine Cuba 1999-2007 collects Miller's lush color and black-and-white portraits of athletes, young and old, against the backdrop of Cuba's streets and gyms, along with his sensitive diaristic narrative.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pages. Hardcover with gilt and black lettering on front and spine. Fraying on corners. Heavy soil on top page block. Illustrations and maps. Gutter crack on page 176.

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.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book brings together Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises.

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.

Softcover. Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages. Japanese photographer on the road from Xi'an to Kashi and back again. Color throughout.

Hardcover. John L Caulon, 1st, 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on front. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. North Ferrisburg VT, Heron Dance Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 305 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1943. A northern classic, describing a canoe trip from Reindeer Lake, via the Cochrane, Thlewiaza and then to Windy Lake in the thirties. A story of eight months travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team on the Northern rivers and along the New Quebec coast of Hudson's Bay. This expedition was to investigate mineral deposits on the Nastapoka Islands, especially Clarke Island where Curran's previous expedition (1907) had found valuable iron ore deposits. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Aarons, erstwhile photographer to the rich and famous, has combed his archives to compile a collection of slick, upscale snapshots that vividly capture the lives of the "polo set." After the violence he witnessed as a combat photographer in WWII, Aarons decided that the only beaches he wanted to invade in the future were "decorated with beautiful girls tanning in a tranquil sun"-which are amply presented here. Aarons imparts a nearly tactile quality to these razor-sharp images, and every photograph, from the 1950s through the 1980s, is richly evocative of its era. One 1955 photo captures longtime fashion icon C.Z. Guest poolside in typically modest mid-century swimming attire with her son and dogs. A 1964 spread for Town & Country pictures the deeply tanned "young matrons of Palm Beach" in day-glow floral Lilly Pulitzer dresses. In a 1968 picture, fellow photographer Lord Lichfield is shown on the Italian Riviera wearing groovy yellow pants and flanked by Pucci-clad Italian princesses. Aaron's caption notes that "a photographer's life without a wife" seems to agree with the young cousin to Queen Elizabeth. While much of Aarons' work is focused on "horsey" types, he also turns his lens on creative folks. A dashing Gore Vidal is pictured at his Italian villa, the late Gianni Versace is shown at work in his home on Lake Como and Wanda Horowitz, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, is photographed at her father's podium at La Scala opera house in Milan. Aarons' gossipy captions, which accompany each photograph, help make this striking volume a voyeur's dream. 250 color photographs

Hardcover. NY, Abrams , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, blue cloth with color paste-downs on covers. 430 pages. The ultimate and most comprehensive collection of Slim Aarons photography ever released, featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images. This deluxe edition provides a deep and comprehensive look at the groundbreaking career of Slim Aarons, spanning five decades. The book begins with Slim's field work as an Army photographer and continues through his fledgling days in Hollywood, opening the LIFE bureau in Rome, fashion and travel shoots for Holiday, and finally traveling the world for Harper's Bazaar. With a new and definitive biographical essay, spotlights on key moments in his career, and exclusive insight from former associates, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection gives readers an unprecedented look into Slim's private world. Author Shawn Waldron's text digs into Slim's biography in unprecedented detail and reveals new information, while award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume provides historical context to Slim's career. Additionally, Slim's former assistant and author Laura Hawk reveals the intricacies of her and Slim's friendship, and historian, author, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Nick Foulkes explores Slim's influence on our current cultural moment. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, National Travel Club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, chipping, light yellowing to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.