Search Results: Exploration & Adventure from Nooks Of Books

New Zealand: Moa Beckett, 1993. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Crown Quarto. Gray endpapers. 208pps., with numerous photographs. There is mild rubbing to the extremities and a slight lean to the spine, otherwise clean, tight, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The gold foil dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is faintly rubbed and has a few edge-crinkles; no chips or tears. SIGNED by Ed Hillary -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A very nice, collectible copy: scarce signed. "...When the 20th century lists its achievers, the name of Sir Edmund Hillary will be among them, ranked with the greatest adventurers of this and many other centuries. Like astronauts who have looked back on their world from space, or walked the surface of the moon, Ed Hillary, after levering himself to the top of the world's highest mountain, was all at once the same and yet never the same again.… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1945. [1945]. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full beige cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in red and black. Octavo. Brown topstain and beige endpapers. 324pps., with numerous photos and illustrations and a fold-out map. There is a modest amount of dustspotting to the cloth, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound; the pages are unaffected by said spotting. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light touches of rubbing and soiling and a small (1/4") tear at the top of the front panel; the original price (3.75) is intact. Nicely SIGNED and inscribed by the noted geologist, geographer, and educator, in his florid script, to the original owner on the title-page. ".This is more than a book. It is a memorable, exciting adventure -- an adventure for the amateur naturalist, for the armchair traveler, and for every lover of our mountain ranges and the great American West. In this… Read More

Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Navy blue boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Marbled tan endpapers. 174pps., with numerous photographs -- most of them in full-color. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the great explorer, 'E. P. Hillary' -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. Includes a Foreword by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. "...When 33-year-old New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa climbing partner Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953, they congratulated each other with a handshake and a hearty embrace. It was the beginning of a lifelong relationship between Hillary and the Sherpa people -- a people whose courage, skill, and… Read More

New York: Bantam, 1995. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Tan boards quarterbound in ivory cloth. The spine is stamped in metallic red. Octavo. Map-endpapers. [lxvii] + 810pps. There is a brief, one-line gift inscription atop the ffep-map, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy. "...To the banks of the Ohio came men and women willing to face any hazard or hardship to stake their claim, from cultured enterpreneurs such as George Washington to trailblazers like Daniel Boone, as rough and ready as the land itself. Here too was grizzled John Wetzel and his wife, determined to carve a farm out of the forest...young Betty Zane, who showed uncommon valor and quick thinking under Indian attack...bold and visionary Ebenezer Zane, who sought to bring some rule of law to the lawless wild...and Samuel Brady, a soldier of fierce intelligence… Read More

New York: Viking, 1959. In Near Fine condition. Green cloth quarterbound in tan buckram. The spine is stamped in green and gilt; the decorative front board in gray. Quarto. 'Totems of The Plains Indians' endpapers (by George Catlin). 304pps., with numerous line drawings plus 8 pages of color plates and 16 pages of monochrome plates. No dustjacket. There is a tidy gift inscription on the ffep and a smudge, small and quite faint, on the fore-edge, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. A very nice copy, sans jacket, of the author's third book. "...To the large body of literature dealing with the natural life of North America this book is a unique contribution. It is the first comprehensive history of American wildlife, from the time of the white man's arrival in the New World to the present. To fashion this valuable and fascinating chronicle, Peter Matthiessen has studied the accounts of explorers, settlers, and naturalists from the time of the first records. He tells of the great auk… Read More

New York: Viking, 1959. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Green cloth quarterbound in tan buckram. The spine is stamped in green and gilt; the decorative front board in gray. 'Totems of The Plains Indians' endpapers (by George Catlin). 304pps., with numerous line drawings plus 8 pages of color plates and 16 pages of monochrome plates. The topstain is unevenly faded. A couple of tips are mildly bumped. Also, a previous owner's very small and unobtrusive blind-stamp is impressed near the bottom of both the ffep and the half-title page. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed and has light wear at the tips and spine-ends; the original price is intact. A very nice copy of the author's third book. "...To the large body of literature dealing with the natural life of North America this book is a unique contribution. It is the first comprehensive history of American wildlife, from the time… Read More