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Sorus, Poznan, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 392pp. Original publisher's glossy boards. Illustrated with maps, and with photographs by the author. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for. Nowak's diaries covering his 40,000km solo bicycle tour of Africa from Libya to Cape Agulhas, South Africa and back to Algeria (the author died from pneumonia a year after his tour was complete, the illness a result of emaciation from travel, malaria, and leg surgery). His photographs of the trip were published in Poland 1962 but his full diary was not issued until 2000 with this English-language finally edition appearing 17 years later. Uncommon. "An utterly exceptional book. Its content and the personality of the writer account for its compelling nature. As such, it should command greater attention and wider recognition . I ardently hope that it will take place among the classics of Polish reportage" - Ryszard Kapuściński..

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 152pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with scores of photographs, a fair few in colour. Cloth lightly faded at the backstrip and with a little additional uneven fading to the rear board. Very good, albeit lacking the dust wrapper. An account of Australia's efforts in scientific research and exploration in the South Polar region..

John Murray, London, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 248pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped vignette to the upper board. With a double-spread map printed on green paper. Some light off-set browning to the front free endpaper where a newspaper clipping was once stored, but otherwise a fine copy in the delightful non-price-clipped John Craxton dust wrapper with just the tiniest hint of wear to the head of the spine panel. The second part of Fermor's celebrated trilogy, following 'A Time of Gifts' (1977) and preceding the posthumously published 'The Broken Road' (2013)..

Little Brown, London, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint - this copy inscribed by the author at the head of the title page and dated the year of publication. 4to. 223pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs, including many presented full-page and double-spread. In fine state with fractionally lifting dust wrapper. One-page Ranulph Fiennes 'Fact File' laid-in. A clear-eyed account of Fiennes many explorations beginning with his army days in Omar in the late 1960s and including trips to British Columbia, Egypt and Norway, plus his Transglobe voyage and numerous polar expeditions..

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, complete in two volumes. Rebound into green smooth-weave cloth with new plain green endpapers replacing the original map-illustrated examples. The first volume bound without the half-title. Times Book Club inkstamps to the base of both rear pastedowns, suggesting that this binding, which is slightly cheaper than the original, may have been produced for the Club. 8vo. xi, 653pp and vii, 586pp. With 32 plates over both volumes, presented on slightly thicker paperstock. Some bruising to the backstrip ends. Tips of several corners knocked. Brief former owner gift inscriptions dated 1945 to both front free endpapers. A nice crisp set. No dust wrappers..

Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Blue cloth with a paper spine label. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and a little spotting and dust soiling to the top edge. Free endpapers browned and lightly spotted, and with a little further browning to the half-title and to the final text leaf. Very good. No dust wrapper. The author's seventh book, and first non-verse publication; an account of his 1921 voyage to South America ("I am sorry myself that there are no adventures of the blood-curdling sort in it; but I could not go out of my way, nor do tramps find time, it seems, for propitiating cannibals" - from the author's note)..

Home & Van Thal, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 274pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Cloth lifting a fraction in places. A very good copy in good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little tanned, marked and rubbed, with several tiny closed tears and a single tiny sliver of loss. O'Brian's third book, and the first he edited: a selection of nineteen extracts from various seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel books "that are no longer easily to be found". Cunningham C1a..

John Murray, London, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through, and with her affectionate contemporary presentation inscription to her great friend Brendan [Lehane] inked to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 282pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a double-spread map and fourteen black and white photographs. Top edge lightly spotted and the tips of two corners very gently bumped. Very good indeed in price-clipped dust wrapper with a tiny hint of creasing to the upper edge..

John Murray, London, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 224pp. Yellow cloth lettered in white at the spine and with a white-stamped decoration to the upper board. With two-colour script-decorated endpapers, a title page design, eight colour plates, one map, five full-page line drawings and various illustrations in the text. Board margins and text block edges spotted, and the free endpapers lightly toned. Former owner name inked to the half-title. A nice crisp copy in price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, a little rubbed and chafed in places with some internal repair. A book about Greece; the author's first foray into travel writing ("This is not a ramble, nor a travel book, nor yet a guide, but a 'description' in the eighteenth-century meaning of the term")..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's third travelogue; an account of his trip across Congo-Brazzaville in search of a legendary Congo dinosaur. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To David Stewart, a real traveller and scholar and bibliophile, with a big thank you. From Redmond, July 1997". 8vo. 472pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-eight monochrome photographs and three maps. Boards very lightly marked and with a minor slant to the binding. A very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Tamara, to show I haven't forgotten her! Ever affectionately Ethel Mannin Oct. 1952". 8vo. 190pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration to the base of the upper board. With a frontispiece and nine wood-engraved illustrations. Backstrip ends slightly rubbed and discoloured. With some light spotting to the free endpapers, the half-title, and to the margins of two adjacent text leaves. A very good copy in marked and dust soiled dust wrapper, nicked with a little loss to several extremities and with a short jagged tear. The wrapper appears to be price-clipped, but the price (6/- net) remains in situ. "A day-to-day record of the author's three months of solitude in a three-roomed cottage among the bogs and boulders and… Read More

HarperCollins, London, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 214pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with two colour maps, forty-six photographs by the author, many hitherto unpublished, and with several of the author's sketch maps in the text. A touch of tanning to paperstock and a tiny hint of spotting to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel..

Allen & Unwin, London, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 191pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at spine. With a portrait frontispiece, twelve captioned photographs, two maps and various chapter header line drawings. A lovely crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred by a little dust soiling to the white rear panel, and with a touch of chafing and fraying to the spine ends. An account of the author's experiences living amongst the Moslem women of "the most turbulent tribes of the Middle East"..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 317pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece, a multi-panel folding colour map and twenty-seven black and white photographs. A touch of very light chafing to the cloth at several extremities, and some spotting to the endpapers and unprinted flyleaves. A very good copy in quite poor dust wrapper: nicked, chipped, chafed and torn, and clipped and re-priced by the publisher. The first part of the author's informal trilogy of south-east Asian travel books, concluded by 'Golden Earth' (1952) and 'A Goddess in the Stones' (1991)..

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Red smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip faded and with a touch of much lighter uneven fading to the margins of the rear board and a small area of light soiling to the base of the upper board. Top edge dust soiled and with a touch of spotting, also to the fore edge and, very lightly, to half a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The author's first book, a splendid travelogue with the increasingly relevant closing lines: "The world seemed larger now than it had done in 1909. Private school, public school, university; intermittent trips abroad, intermittent Wiltshire; and last of all this tour, had all intervened. Leaning forward to warm my hands over the logs, I experienced a new price of race: the pride of being, as well as English, European"..

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 243pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A tiny strip of narrow browning to the endpapers, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. An authoritative account of the travels of numerous celebrated nineteenth century explorers, with chapters devoted to David Livingstone, Richard Burton, Lewis and Clark, Mungo Park, Jedediah Smith, John Charles Frémont and others, drawn primarily from contemporary sources..

Collins Harvill, London, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 350pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and with a very minor slant to the binding. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A narrative of the author's twenty years as a professional writer, intertwined with a selection of work hitherto unpublished in bookform..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 453pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Leaf margins lightly tanned. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with several tiny closed tears to the head of the spine panel. Over fifty of the author's shorter travel pieces, the majority of which were hitherto unpublished in the UK..

Hutchinson, London, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 297pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and various maps and jack McCarthy illustrations in the text. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Robert Hale, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with twenty photographs and a map. A lovely crisp copy in very lightly chafed, stained and edge worn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just a little spotted at the rear panel and internally. The author's second book, an account of the year and a half he spent as political officer amongst the Bedouin in Arabia's 'Empty Quarter'..