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Bergen: Bergen Line et al., 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Published jointly by five steamship companies and the Norway Travel Association. Translated into English by Christopher Norman. Perfect-bound in mostly white card covers with black, blue & brown decorations & titles, 63 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, chapter headpieces & other illustrations by Reidar Johan Berle, folding map. Slight shelf wear. Describes the route, ports of call, and on-shore excursions offered to tourists by the Norwegian coastal steamer companies. Shipping weight 8 oz.. 10th ptg. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 18½ X 12 cm.

New York: Dutton (Penguin Group), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Green boards, white cloth spine with gilt titles, speckled beige endpapers, xvii, 295, [1] pp, glossary. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Paying homage to Hokusai's famous series of woodblock prints, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: Trident Press, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, frontispiece, [xiii,], 464 pp. DJ has a 2 cm tear to top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. After a year of study, Drury travelled to South Africa in 1966 to interview people of all races and walks of life, reporting on it in this book. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Part of a matched set; search our inventory by author to view the others. Blue cloth, gilt title on burnt orange panel & fairly elaborate gilt decorations on spine, xi, 219 pp, 29 b & w drawings. Tail of spine just beginning to fray, else very good, gilt titles bright and attractive, fake gilt tops corroded to the color of an old penny. An entertaining look at Paris in the 1890s. Appropriately illustrated by Gibson. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Reprint. . G+/No dj. Illus. by Charles Dana Gibson. 20 X 13½ cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc./Sweet Springs Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Peach cloth, foil titles on spine, beige endpapers, 351 pp incl. numerous b & w photos, 8 ff color plates, bibliography. Jenkins, author of A Walk Across America, was invited to join the 1984 Mt. Everest expedition, which included a trip across China. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc./Sweet Springs Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Peach cloth, foil titles on spine, beige endpapers, 351 pp incl. numerous b & w photos, 8 ff color plates, bibliography. Boards spotted, extremities rubbed & soiled. DJ spine heavily sunned; in Brodart archival cover. Jenkins, author of A Walk Across America, was invited to join the 1984 Mt. Everest expedition, which included a trip across China. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Good/VG-. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, maroon titles & dec. on front board, xi, 258 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates. Corners bumped, cloth worn through on tips of corners, spine ends torn (3 mm), small edge tears to rfep and an internal leaf. Account of a journey through northwestern Russia (especially St. Petersburg and Moscow), Poland, and Hungary. Arranged topically within the major regions covered. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Doubleday, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light brown boards, gilt titles on brown spine, [ix], 229 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "A breakneck autobiography, The Adventurist blasts across six continents and spans four decades of hard-core living with its dispatches of mayhem, adventure in exotic locales, survival against formidable odds.... Be shelled with the Talibs on the front lines of Afghanistan; hang out with hit men and rebels in the Philippines; survive a plane crash in Borneo; narrowly escape a terrorist bombing in Africa; dance with headhunters in Sarawac; crew with pirates in the Sulu Sea...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 212 pp. Slight shelf wear, impression of a paper clip on first few leaves. DJ extremities rubbed & slightly chipped; in Brodart archival cover. Light-hearted letters home from the wife of an American mining engineer stationed in West Africa. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG/VG-. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Salmon cloth, gold ink titles on spine, blue endpapers, vi, 276 pp, 20 full-page b & w drawings. DJ has faint damp stains along top edge, tears to 3 cm, a small chip to bottom of front fore-edge; in Brodart archival cover. Warmly inscribed and dated in Dec. 1979 by author & signed by illustrator on half-title. Caldwell travels through & comments on places on the "afternoon side" of the Mississippi River. From the DJ: "Punctuated by a running commentary in letters to a friend in France, his own observations and impressions are enriched by vividly reported conversations with local inhabitants: teacher, farmer, student, storekeeper, gas station owner, restaurant hostess, oilman....These give insight into varied ways of life--from an abandoned village to a thriving oil-rich metropolis, from the dustbowl area to fertile… Read More

Minneapolis: Control Data Publishing, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards with gilt decoration, blue cloth spine with gilt titles, endpaper maps, color frontispiece, 224 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, appendix, glossary. Gift inscription on ffep. DJ has a 2-cm chip to rop of rear panel, rubbed corners; in Brodart archival cover. Minnesota school teacher Gerry Spiess, following a life-long dream, designed and built his 10-foot wood & fiberglass sailboat Yankee Girt and sailed it across the Atlantic Ocean from Norfolk to Falmouth. This is the story of the boat and the voyage. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Hastings House, 1941 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Aqua cloth, white titles on front board & spine, map on front endpapers, 122 pp incl 32 pp b & w illustrations, bibliography, index. Extremities rubbed, soiled, & browning. DJ soiled, extremities worn, edges torn & chipped but substantially complete; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "This American Guide Series book tells you everything about this island of romantic legend; where to go, what to see, why and how. Thirty-two pages of gravure illustrations and a thorough text prepared from all available sources recount its picturesque history, describe its life and culture, its industry and commerce, and tell you what to look for in the winding lanes and sudden narrow alleys throughout the island." Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. . VG-/G. 21 X 14 cm.

Chicago, New York & San Francisco: Rand, McNally & Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, endpaper maps, xxiii, 245, [1] pp. Corners bumped and beginning to fray, spine ends rubbed. Eide spent two years following the path of Lewis & Clark, photographing the landscape they traveled through during their expedition of 1804 to 1806. The photographs are arranged with excerpts from their journals. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 30½ X 24 cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black spine with gilt titles in blue compartment, xi, 465 pp, 8 ff color photo plates. Bottom corners lightly bumped. DJ has small tears & creasing at spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Collection of articles describing the twenty-six states east of the Mississippi and the District of Columbia originally published in Holiday Magazine from 1947 through 1960. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/Very Good. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, endpaper maps, xviii, 364 pp, 4 maps, about 30 b & w photos in text, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Bonner, a New York Times reporter with previous experience reporting from Laos in the 1950s and the Belgian Congo (Zaire) in the 1960s, traveled among the Afghan resistance during the Soviet occupation. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, tan paper-covered boards, copper titles on spine & monogram on front board, viii, 430, [1] pp. Boards slightly faded near edges, small spot on top edge, front endpapers browned by clipping no longer present. DJ spine slightly faded, some edge wear, 2 small (1 cm) tears at head of spine, stains on reverse do not show through; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the current ferment inside the nations of Islam--in a book that combines the fascinations of the great works of travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original, and idiosyncratic political mind." Naipaul travels through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Trade Edition. . VG/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Random House, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, gilt titles on spine, xii, 304, [1] pp, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "In a blend of personal memoir and biographical portraits of European Anglophiles and Anglophobes, Ian Buruma examines what it is that continues to divide Britain from the European Continent, and Europe from the United States." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, pale blue titles on spine, [v], 328 pp. Owner's name on fpd, else fine. DJ rubbed, especially spine & joints, with edge tears under 2 cm; in Brodart archival cover. Jones was a staff writer for the Observer who traveled by plane, train, bus, and car across large portions of the United States and Russia in 1961 and recorded his impressions of both countries. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG-. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, mustard-colored paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine & initials on front board, maps on endpapers, 344 pp. A few small spots on edges, gift inscription on preliminary blank, else fine. Price-clipped DJ has slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Raban brings his keen powers of observation to the Arabian peninsula, Jordan, and Egypt. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter blue cloth, blue paper-covered boards, white & gilt titles on spine and decoration on front board, xvi, 326 pp, 24 ff b&w photo plates, 9 maps, index. Boards sunned near top edge, top corner of rear board bumped, folding map of The Empty Quarter on rear board is in fine condition. From another copy's DJ: "Wilfred Thesiger came to Arabia in 1945 when the head of the Locust Control for the Middle East asked him to survey and collect information on locust movements in the mysterious Empty Quarter of the Arabian desert. First traveling by camel inland through the coastal mountains, Thesiger then carried out a long journey of exploration westward along the southern edge of the great desert.... By dressing, eating, almost thinking like a native, Thesiger came as close to living the life of a Bedu Arab as a Westerner ever will. His descriptions of the… Read More