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New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. First printing. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Minor rubs to board extremities, shallow bumps, and a bit of sun fading along extreme bottom edge of upper board. Jacket has chipping at heel of spine and a 1 1/2" triangular chip from head of spine. There is a hole in spine near heel, about the size of corn kernel. Neat prior gift inscription dated 1901 at top fore corner of front free endpaper. Overall clean and sound. Very good in a good plus dust jacket.. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated nearly every page. Printed page backgrounds give alternating pairs of pink and blue borders to the text and images.
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
by Headland, Isaac Taylor
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A Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions
by Marryat, Capt. [Frederick} (1792-1848)
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Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Very good in original bindings of pebbled green cloth over boards with paper spine labels. Shallow chipping at heads of spines, minor wear and toning to spine labels, faint spotting to cloth. Hinges sound, interiors mildly age toned. Overall a very attractive set.. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837, and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an interesting outside view, but his criticisms of American culture and society led some to publicly burn his book and effigy. <br /> <br /> Ref. SABIN 44696; HOWES M300; MCKINSTRY P248.
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The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana
by Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618). Edited by V[incent]. T[odd]. Harlow (1898-1961)
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London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. Bound in tan cloth over boards with vellum spine, integral ribbon bookmark. Ralegh's coat of arms stamped in gilt on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Some spotting at lower fore corners of both boards and at bottom of lower board near spine. Old dampstain at bottom inner corners of rear endpapers. Later owner bookplate on front pastedown below Strachey's. Hinges sound. Very good overall.. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps. A superb edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Guiana expedition in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Appendices A and B contain Spanish official dispatches that had not seen the light of day for 300 years, and which make it possible to compare Ralegh's own account of the 1595 expedition with the narratives of contemporary Spaniards actually on the ground. <br /> <br /> This copy previously owned by Lytton Strachey, noted…
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In the Palaces of the Sultan
by Dodd, Anna Bowman (1858-1929)
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Near fine. Bound in ivory cloth over boards, with upper board and spine in orange, green, and gilt. Top edge of textblock gilt. Some minor edge rubs and faint soil to binding.. Black and white photographs. Observations and impressions by an American woman's who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated with many photographs.
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N by E.
by Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971)
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New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 281 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in coarse off-white cloth over boards with dark blue titles and ornaments to spin and upper board, dark blue topstain. scattered faint brown spotting to boards, rear endpaper browned along gutter, front. Jacket has some minor extremity wear, touch of fading to spine, shallow chips at spine ends and fore corner tips, and some slight surface wear. A beautiful copy overall.. Black & white chapter heads, cuts. Rockwell Kent had just finished illustrating his famous edition of Moby Dick for the Lakeside Press when he set out on a voyage to Greenland with a couple of friends. The were shipwrecked, but that didn't stop the adventure. This is that story, superbly written and stunningly illustrated as only Kent could. Printed by William A. Kittredge at the Lakeside Press. Another lovely piece of book design. Uncommon first edition in jacket, damned scarce in this condition.
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Sailing Alone Around the World
by Slocum, Captain Joshua (1844-1909)
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New York: The Century Co, 1900. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi [xvii-xviii], 294 pages. A few slight extremity rubs and a small prior owner label at top fore corner of front pastedown, some darkening along fore edge of lower board. Slight browning to frontispiece and title page. A remarkably bright and clean copy. Near fine.. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Bright first edition of this landmark sailing narrative. Slocum was the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the earth, doing so in his gaff-rigged sloop, "Spray," between April 1895 and June 1898. <br /> <br /> "Spray" was a wreck of a boat given to Slocum by a fellow sea captain. He rebuilt her and sailed from Boston westward around the world by way of hte Straits of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. <br /> <br /> Slocum's poetic perception of the world and his graceful descriptions of his vision of reality have caused this classic to be compared…
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