Search Results: Travel from Crooked House Books & Paper

Chicago: Hotel Monthly Press, 1910. Hardcover. Good Plus/No Jacket. No statement of edition; 12mo in maroon cloth, 203 pages plus 8 page publisher's list in rear. Boards scuffed and worn at extremities, bookplate in front paste-down, occasional "x" penciled in margins, mild handling wear, binding a bit tender but sound and intact. Interesting collection history and facts related to hospitality.

New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover, full green cloth boards with gilt design and lettering to front cover and spine, plate illustrations and photographs, initials and top margins decorated, 7-3/4" x 5-1/4", 327 pp. + publisher's ads. Fading to spine, modest fading toward edges of boards, slight wear to extremities. A journey through New York, featuring photos of many of its most famous places (as of 1905).

London: Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Williams, Alexander. 8vo, free end papers beginning to fox a bit, previous owner's name on front free end paper; dust jacket is worn with evidence of foxing on interior, toning to creases. 0

Los Angeles: Fowler Brothers, 1920. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Fourth edition, pictorial paper covers illustrated with palm trees and a Hawaiian beach scene, 12mo, 112 pages, 57 illustrations, inscribed "Sincerely/ M. Leola Crawford/ July 26, 1920" on title page; toned boards are a bit rubbed, beginning to chip in places, front free endpaper has a slight ripple, previous owner's name written in pencil. This sweet little travel journal of an adventurous woman is filled with photos from her journey and a Hawaiian glossary.

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Hardcover, full navy blue cloth cover with light blue design to front cover, gilt lettering to front and spine, 8-1/4" tall, 256 pp., illustrated with photographic plates. Light wear and turning-in to spine ends, one inch scuff to front cover, modest aging to pages. Jerome Alfred Hart was the publisher and associate editor of the San Francisco based magazine The Argonaut. This is a collection of his travel writings on Spain, generally light-hearted and fun. Binding not signed.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Compton, E. Harrison. Gray cloth decorated in red and green with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Some pages remain uncut. Top front corner bumped. Corners rubbed and tiny nick to top rear board. Spine ends rubbed with tiny pull tears at head. Cloth wearing through at tail of front joint with fraying. Gilt to top edge faded. Clean pages with mild toning from age. Color plates remain crisp and vibrant. 208 pages.

Fresno, CA: Fresno Arts Center, 1982. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9. Perfect bound in heavy textured wrappers. Very light bump to bottom corner. Else fine. 43 pages. Catalog of an exhibition of early Yosemite art and artists.

MIT Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 138x15x176. Hardcover, full beige cloth binding in dust jacket, 11-1/4" tall, 645 pp. Art history professor's notes to rear endpaper and a very few pages of text, but otherwise a nice copy in a lightly rubbed & worn dust jacket. "Reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment--a time when artist-scientists [were] seeking to discover and record the nonhuman likeness of the phenomenal world. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.

The Women's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo of author dated 1914, this was probably published 1915-1925. Hardcover, blue paper-covered spine over woodgrain paper covered baords with Japanese painting style decoration, blue endpapers, 7-3/4" tall, 123 pp., tipped-in b/w photos showing some of the converted Japanese, the grounds, and a few missionaries. An outsider's view of Japan, largely concerning the mission and its converts.