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Basingstoke, UK: Drive Publications, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First published in 1983 this is the revised edition of 1995. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket; jacket has been taped down leaving marks. Among the authors are Richard Adams and Miss Read. Adams contributed an article on Broughton-In-Furness in Cumbria. Miss Read has written a memoir of her teaching days (naturally) in Peasmore, Berkshire, where she was the sole teacher in a village school for sixteen students, ages five to eleven. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Reprinted with amendments. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. pocket ghost to rear endpaper, tips to book and jacket worn, with jacket tips tape strengthened, previous owner's name to front endpaper; jacket spine darkened, small tear to spine. Not an ex-library book, private owner added pocket. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. W.G. Hoskins, Frontis. jacket chipped, torn at spine. In protective liner. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Festival of Britain / Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. light wear to the book and jacket. Published on the occasion of the Festival of Britain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: St Martins Press, 2001. First Edition. hardcover. VG/VG. wear to tips and corners of book and jacket, remainder mark to top page edges; light rubbing to rear panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover.

Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. wear to tips, corners and edges of book, bookplate removal evidence, lacks first blank page, else clean and unmarked. In original publishers cloth. Map has a tear along the right edge through the states of Iowa and Illinois. First printing, no others noted. An important account of a summer's journey through the American West undertaken by Samuel Bowles, the publisher of the Springfield Republican and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax, Jr., who four years later would become the Vice-President of the U.S. under Ulysses Grant. Little more than a month after the conclusion of the Civil War Bowles and Colfax traveled by rail 1,425 miles from Massachusetts to Missouri "thence a coach ride of two thousand miles before we meet the projecting arm of the California railways at Placerville. They returned to the East via steamship and over land at the isthmus arriving… Read More

Glens Falls: Chapman Museum, 1983. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket, as issued. Stoddard, S.R.. Bit of shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book. A facsimile reprint of the 1874 self-published guide book by the Adirondack photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard. Rare in the first edition, the facsimile edition is uncommon as well. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. shelf wear to book and jacket, stated first edition. 8vo.. Hard Cover. Caryl P. Haskins (1908–2001) was a scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology. He was also Trustee Emeritus of the National Geographic Society. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Secaucus: Castle Books, 1988. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to the book and jacket, stray mark to bottom page edge, top page edge dusty, spine sunned. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1910. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, front and rear hinge cracked--binding sound, previous owner's name to the front endpaper else clean and unmarked; no jacket. Map, foldouts and illustrations. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/good. Marcel Ichac, maps and Photography. Later printing (3) Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, much more to the price clipped jacket, 3 short closed tears; previous owner's initials to the front endpaper clean and unmarked.Jacket states Fourth Printing, third by the copyright page. Map present, one tear at fold. Herzog’s account of the expedition was published first in 1951 in French, then in English in 1952 under the title Annapurna. The book has sold over 11 million copies as of 2000, more than any other mountaineering title. Ending with the stirring line “there are other Annapurnas in the lives of men” (in the context of the book, an exhortation to answer the challenges that life offers), the book gave an account of the expedition that established Herzog’s climbing reputation and inspired a generation of mountaineers. Team members Louis Lachenal, Gaston Rebuffat, Lionel Terray, and… Read More

Philadelphia: J B Lippincott Co, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Later Printing (2). Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket which is rubbed with creasing; previous owner's bookplate to the first blank page, else clean and umarked. Map endpapers. Second printing. Ann and Myron Sutton were respectively a graduate in geology and an Assistan Chief, International Affairs, National Park Service. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Third printing of January, 1954 after the first of November, 1953. Light shelf wear to the book which is cocked; more to the tips, corners, and edges of the jacket which has four closed tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Born in the Himalayan town of Simla in 1910 Hunt took up mountaineering as a youngster in the Alps. Posted back to India at the age of twenty-one he took part in several Himalayan expeditions through the 1930's and during the post war period. Under his leadership Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit. He and Hillary were made knights in one of Queen Elizabeth's first acts on monarch. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An… Read More

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905. Fourteenth edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket, as issued. light wear to the book, previous owner's name to title page. Marbled page edges, silk marker ribbons, 30 plus maps and plans. Now called the Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) these areas were devastated and greatly rebuilt as a result of the two world wars largely fought on their territory. This pre-WW1 guide describes them in their historic glory. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. tips bumped, spine faded, legible. Sportfishing around Florida and in the Gulf Stream. Stated first edition, 59 photographs, map eps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Milwaukee : Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1946. First edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. lightest wear to tips and corners, clean and unmarked in plastic spiral binding. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. shelf wear to the book, corners bumped, top edge dusty, front panel and spine of dust jacket rubbed.8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing / edition stated. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927. First U.S.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. wear to lower corners, faint stain on front cover along gutter, otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing, same date. The account of a French automobile expedition across Central Africa by half track vehicles. The historic expedition demonstrated the possiblities of opening Africa to truck and automobile transportation. The Saharan expedition is recapped here although a full account of that earlier expedition was published previously. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 1966. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light wear to the book; wear to tips, corners and edges of jacket, presentation inscription to the 3rd blank page. Spanish language guide book from the Guias de Espana. 631pp with several folding maps including the regional map tipped to the rear endpaper. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

St. Hilaire, Que: Classic Era Publications, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Light shelf wear to the book; no jacket. Clean and unmarked. Published in co-operation with the Canadian Railroad Historical Association. The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company (M&SCRC) was an interurban streetcar line that ran for 47 miles between Montreal and Granby from 1909 until 1956. A second branch served the city of Longueuil. Operated by the Canadian National Railway, the M&SCRC had the mandate to run trams as well as steam and diesel locomotives on the same track (outside urban areas). Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!