travel

Hardcover. Boston, A.J. Wright, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, illustrated with 6 b&w engravings from sketches done by the author. Interesting sailing, whaling adventures by a 14-year veteran seaman. Embossed brown cloth with gilt design on cover, gilt lettering and design on spine. Spine cloth chipped, worn at top and bottom. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Corners show wear, internally very good with only minor foxing.

Softcover. NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. The story of westering Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily by male photographers, which depicted American Indians as either vanishing or domesticated, the lesser-known images by the women featured in Trading Gazes provide new ways of seeing the intersecting histories of colonial expansion and indigenous resistance. Four unconventional women-Jane Gay, who documented land allotment to the Nez Perces; Kate Cory, an artist who lived for years in a Hopi community; Grace Nicholson, who purchased cultural items from the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada-used cameras to document their cross-cultural encounters. Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West. Their photographs not only record the unprecedented opportunities available for Euro-American women eager to shed gender restrictions, but also reveal how women's newfound mobility depended on the increasing restrictions placed on Native Americans in this era.

Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Trailer Travel showcases the rich visual history of America's enduring fascination with life on the road. Beautifully reproduced color and black-and-white images culled from public archives and the private collections of passionate trailerites vividly document the travel trailer?s storied past. This engaging volume offers a look at motor-camping trips in the early 1900s, the unparalleled innovations in trailer design during the thirties, rare and unique trailer models and interiors, and an extensive array of bold and graphic promotional material, literature, and postcards that illustrate the undeniable attraction of living on wheels.

Softcover. Richmond, VA, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In an evocative blending of words and images, painter-photographer Carol Burch-Brown and poet David Rigsbee offer a depiction of trailers and their inhabitants. The understated imagery of Burch-Brown's 48 photos implies rather than proclaims the living conditions of these mobile-home dwellers, while Rigsbee's meditative, autobiographical essay parallels and illuminates the subjects and chronicles family histories with trailers.

Hardcover. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very handsome edition of The Marble Faun, otherwise known as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni. The work was written on the eve of the American Civil War and is set in Italy. The work combines gothic literature, travel guides and fables. Two matching volumes, 292 + 280 pages. Title page states 1860. Bound in full vellum with leather ties, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered parchment. Copyright Edition stated on title page of each volume and Printing Office of the Publisher on page 292 of volume one. twenty-six albumen photographic plates of contemporary Rome to 'Volume One' and twenty three to 'Volume Two'. Covers splayed as is common with this edition. Clean copies.

Hardcover. Fort Collins, Colo., University of Colorado, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and clean copy.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Pacific Lines, Book: Good, Softcover, 20-page brochure promoting the Missouri Pacific routes through Mexico. Two-color cover wraps, b&w illustrations and a map. Light wear, spine separating at bottom, clean. No date, appears to be late 1940s. 6 3/4 X 9 1/2".

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, New Mexico State Tourist Bureau, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32-page brochure promoting New Mexico. Illustrated with color and b&w photos. 8 X 9". No date but features message from Gov. Thomas Mabry who served 1947-51. Mild wear.

Hardcover. St. Paul, MN, MBI Pub., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and rubbing to cover boards, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Gabriel Sons & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 page stapled booklet. Softcover with light soil to paper wrapper edges. Bright illustrations (not credited).

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 223 pages. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), one of Germany's most revered poets, is equally well-known for his idiosyncratic prose, the vibrant voice of which feels astonishingly modern in its familiar tone and thematic acrobatics. Travel Pictures comprises the accounts of four journeys taken at different times in his life. The opening "Harz Journey," a quirky chronicle of his walking tour in the Harz Mountains, is the text that first made him famous. But in all four accounts, Heine, seasoned by the skepticism of a born outsider, does more than climb mountains, ford streams and cross borders. In this remarkable book, Heine propels German letters into the Modern mindset. Freud cites a few of Travel Pictures' most humorous passages in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Heine's incomparable lyric vision lifts the book into the transcendent realm of great journey literature. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Central Electric Railfans' Association, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a brigh dust jacket, 256 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Bulletin 143 of the Central Electric Railfans Association. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full number line down to and including 1. In grey boards with blue type to spine. Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate-on identity and what it is that defines us-from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie. Though she is engaged to be married, Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about it. Traveler of the Century is a deeply intellectual novel, chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, literature, love, and translation. It is a book that looks to the past in order to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present. The winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Traveler of the Century marks the English-language debut of Andres Neuman, a writer described by Roberto Bolano as being "touched by grace." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Barse & Hopkins, Reprint, 1915, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth boards wth color label on front showing two bears dressed in top hats and long coats. 60 pages plus ads. Full color frontis with Traveling Bears meeting Buster Brown and Tige. Foxing to borders of front endpapers. Most pages clean and bright. Front hinge cracked top to bottom. Rear hinge paper intact but weak. Covers worn with bumped corners and chipping to paper in spots.

Hardcover. New York, Barse and Hopkins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 color plates and many b&w drawings by uncredited artist (but appears to be Campbell). Appears to be collected material from earlier books so copyright date make be earlier than published date. Bright blue cloth covers with red lettering, color illustration label on front. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly leaf with 1927 date. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. Rumford's simply written adaptation is often surprisingly eloquent. For example, Ibn Battuta comments on his voyage: "Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." "Traveling-it had captured my heart, and now my heart was calling me home." On each page, a portion of the text appears within its own bright white narrow road crossing elegantly bordered illustrations that shine with generous amounts of gold, red, and deep blue. This text also flows into and out of larger frames. The artist adorns many of these illustrations with Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, providing translations for the longer phrases at the end of the book. A few maps are included and they are executed with the same attention to presentation. A glossary of names, places, and important words provides essential information in an accessible format.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 3-color illustrations by Kaethe Zemach. Dust jacket edgeworn, repaired tears, chipped.

Hardcover. New York, VIKING PRESS, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 75 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BRET BRITTON WHO WAS THE BOOK BUYER AT THE STRAND IN NEW YORK. Tight copy, with only light edge wwear to cover and dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dey Street Books/Morrow, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 437 pages. Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer's childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Buffalo, Faxon and Read, 1st, 1841, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Traveller's Own Book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls and Canada, containing Routes, Distances, Conveyances, Expenses, Use of Mineral Waters, Baths, Description of Scenery, etc. A Complete Guide. with Maps and Engravings. Hardcover, 258 pages, 4 X 6 inches. Ribbed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. The map of Niagara Falls is missing, the folding map of Saratoga is present, though heavily foxed. The first printing of this popular guide book. Several b&w illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. Light wear to covers, short tears to spine cloth. Pencil notes on endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages, 78 b&w photos. Text comprised of six chapters within two parts all titled as: PART ONE-THE SAILING SHIP "Living at Sea Before the Nineteenth 19th Century," "The Accommodation in Wooden Sailing Ships," "Iron and Steel Sailing Ships as Passenger Carriers;" PART TWO-THE STEAMSHIP "The Accommodation in Early Steamers," "The Paddle Lines," "The Travelling Palaces". Name and date on front fly leaf, clean internally. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers , 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with brown decoration and lettering. "Selected from The Works of Mark Twain by C.N. Kendall, Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis, and Arranged for Home and Supplementary Reading in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades." - from the title page. Eight b&w plates. Scarce Twain title. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. In a bright dust jacket. Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Cadell and Co., Reprint, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 volume set. REBOUND. Each volume contains original pages, new covers. Age toning throughout with margins discolored to preliminary and end pages. Vol. 1 - 421 pages, fold out map tipped in to front with tape & small tears to edges; Vol. 2 - 432 pages; and Vol. 3 - 436 pages with fold out table tipped in to rear. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper on each volume.