Search Results: Travel from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: The Century Co., 1923. First edition. Octavo. 250 pp; drawings by W. Emerton Heitland. Pictorial green cloth. VG+, bright, clean covers & spine with no visible wear. Only defect is occasional faint spotting on covers; no markings inside the book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Routledge, 2001. Octavo. 225 pp; maps and b/w photographs. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. First paperback edition. Octavo. ix, 212 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; notes; bibliographical guide; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minimal edgewear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Circle Line-Sightseeing Yachts, Inc., 1962. 7.75" x 5.25". 80 pp; full of b/w photographs. Color illustrated paper wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show light soil.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Zurich: Artemis Publishing & Zurich Tourist Office, 1954. First English edition. Square octavo. 71 pp text plus 2 color & 68 b/w illustrations, several inserts. Blue flexible cloth with silver-stamped lettering with dustjacket. VG/VG, inscription on ffep, dated 1956, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket spine & flap folds lightly toned, a few tiny edge chips. A most attractive history of Zurich with high-quality b/w photos & drawings. Wonderful 50's jacket design by Kurt Wirth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Chicago: Judy Publishing Co., 1953. First edition. Octavo. 175 pp; b/w photos & drawings by the author; index to illustrations; subject index. Cloth with black-stamped lettering on cover & spine, map endpapers, in dustjacket. VG/VG, no ownership marks, jacket lightly soiled, minor chipping at head of spine. Pseudonym of Will Judy (1891-1973), non-fiction writer, publisher, diarist, poet, and dog lover. The author depicts Chicago as"'a pagan woman with a come hither look.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Niagara Falls, NY: Official City Information Bureau, 1950. Octavo. 48 pp; b/w & duotone illustrations & b/w photographs. Color pictorial wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine shows light wear & one small nick. The cover title is "Immortal Niagara. Official Guide Book".. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Athens: C. Cacoulides Twelvemo. 46 pp text, 32 b/w photographs, all with captioned tissue guards. Pale blue boards with red lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy, rear hinge split but holding; jacket lightly chipped at spine ends & one corner, spine soiled. Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY / London: G.P. Putnam's Sons / J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Second edition. Octavo. xix, 234 pp; 9 photogravure plates & 17 b/w drawings by James Kerr Lawson. Gilt-lettered vellum spine with brown paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; rear hinge cracked, spine evenly soiled.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by James Kerr Lawson.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1970. First American edition. Octavo. 77 pp plus 4 color & 171 b/w photographs. Cream cloth with red lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket price clipped, minor wear at top of jacket spine; date written in ink at top of title page has been "whited out.". The author, an art historian, has written a guide to the hills and streets of Rome, the piazzas and people; the churches and the ruins; the sculptures and the paintings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Square quarto. 208 pp; 200 coilor illustrations; notes on the postcards. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of antique postcard images from the non-Western world features representations from the 19th and early 20th centuries.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First American edition. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; profuse color photographs; bibliography; index. Publisher's blue cloth with unclipped dustjacket. VG{/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; edges of jacket flaps yellowed, else VG. An interesting photographic tour of England's Lake District and its range of landscapes. The book features Ambleside & the Central Lakes, Keswick & the Northern Lakes, Kendal & the Eastern Lakes, Windermere & the Southern Lakes, Ravenglass & the Western Lakes, and Buttermere & the North-Western Lakes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 319 pp; drawings by the author. Cloth with dustjacket, colorful illustrated endpapers. VG/VG-, chip missing at top of jacket spine, light edgewear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Allan Wingate, 1952. First edition. Octavo; 118 pp; numerous b&w illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dj designed by Paul Hogarth. VG/VG- moderate sized chip to top of spine and closed tear to face of jacket, other minor dings and chips to top edge, still very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Paudex, Switzerland: Bonvent & Fontainemore, 1973. Quarto. 336 pp; illustrated in color and b/w; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG to near fine in VG to near fine unclipped jacket. Nicely presented survey of public fountains in Switzerland, that were, in the past, a source of water and the social hub of town life.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: A.M. Philpot First UK edition. n.d. (c.1925). Octavo. 229 pp; 90 b/w illustrations by Pecoud. Cloth-backed boards with checkerboard design and gilt rules, top edge gilt. VG, former owner simple script bookplate on front free endpaper. Collected articles by the author of Paris Waits.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First edition (stated). Octavo. 230 pp; 24 pp of b/w photos by Norton Brown, author's husband; map on endpapers. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with large chip at head of spine & small loss at tail, numerous tiny edge tears. Travel adventures in the Balkans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Albany, NY: Delaware and Hudson Railroad Co n.d., ca. 1916. Octavo. [16] pp; full of b/w photos & pastel drawings. Cream embossed card covers with red embossed lettering & color coat of arms. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show light soil.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Wiesbaden: V. Pallmann . ca. 1920s. Twelvemo. 10 accordion-fold photographic postcards in paper wraps. VG.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Burns & Oates, 1913. Fourth edition. Octavo. xix, 353 pp; b/w illustrations; 2 maps. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine and gilt decoration on cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, endpapers toned; spine gilt dull, minor wear to extremities. A personal account of life in Tuscany by an Englishman. He focuses on the little known towns of Leghorn, Volterra, Lucca, Pisa, and Portoferraio. First published in 1901.. Hard Cover. Very Good.