Travel

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Dust jacket slightly worn and with short tears. Some foxing on endpages, top edge stained red.

Softcover. Vintage, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Throughout his travels, writer Bruce Chatwin took thousands of photographs. They demonstrate his legendary "eye" at its best, showing a sense of color and surface, an ability to find beauty in the most mundane of objects or prosaic of places.

Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners, small stain on front cover. Front hinge cracked; frontispiece loose. Rear hinge weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else pages clean and tight.

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, George H. Doran , 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Moderate foxing to edges and pages throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hobart Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange and black. Three introductory pages of text; balance of book consists entirely of 77 black and white photographs with descriptive captions. Plates showing temples, traditional Japanese residences and businesses, Japanese people at work and at play, a karuma carriage, Yokohama Bay, etc. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt decoration, 422 pages. SIGNED BY ZWINGER ON TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Limited to 500 copies. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In Yamuna Walk, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river.

Hardcover. London, Phoenix House , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket, 148 pages. Color frontispiece; twenty-four pages of photographs; two maps; and a statistical Appendix. A personal travel journal: "a well-substantiated account of a continent that is now emerging as a major political, economic, and cultural force."

Hardcover. NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. 192 pages, illustrated endpapers. Tarkington's letters written and illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches in 1903 and 1904 from Europe addressed to his three nephews. Clean copy, no dust jacket.