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Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928, First edition. . original gilt decorated cloth, gilt title lettering, dj (lightly rubbed, spine ends slightly chipped, not price clipped), near fine in very good dj. . 8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; x, 298 pp, numerous illustrations including full-page, frontis. . Interesting work including temperance novels, propaganda novels, making the eagle scream, unfortunate lovers, side whiskers and seduction, a yankee Casanova, genteel behaviour, etc. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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Queer Books
by PEARSON, Edmund;
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Quest Beyond the Sahara
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London, Robert Hale, [1965], First edition. . original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean in dj (bit rubbed, not price clipped). . 8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 190 pp, illustrations from photos and paintings on plates, 2 maps, index. . An account of three journeys into the area south of the Sahara made by Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham and Richard Lander, including the areas around Lake Chad, the Northern Cameroon mountains, kingdoms of Bornu and Hausa, cities of Kano and Sakoto. In the third journey, Lander travelled by canoe to Bussa on the Niger, completing Mungo Park's initial attempts and solving the course of the Niger. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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Quest for Sheba
by PEARN, Norman Stone and Vernon Barlow;
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London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937, First edition. . original cloth with title lettering on spine, dj (chipped at foot of spine with loss of one letter, not price clipped), small stain on lower spine but clean and fine in a very good dust jacket. . 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, [13] - 258 pp, frontis, photo plates, index, map endpapers. . Pearn travelled to Yemen, South West Arabia, in search of the lost cities of the Queen of Sheba, and provides a fascinating account of the people, cities, conditions, in many previously unexplored and unmapped areas, being the first non-native to reach some of the locations. The appendix relates his exploration to biblical events and includes a letter from S. John Philby on the difficulties of travelling in this area. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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Quest of the Lost City
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New York, Harper & Brothers, [1951], . . original cloth-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, dj (spine ends with large chips, wear, not price clipped), previous owner's bookplate on endpaper, but a very good+, clean copy in good dj. . 8vo [21 x 15 cm]; x, 340 pp, 16 pages of photo illustrations, map endpapers. . The authors travelled down the west coast of Mexico into the land of the Mayas to explore a lost city in Chiapas, just north of Guatemala. 'It would be difficult to think of any type of danger or daring achievement which is not compassed within the tale'. (New York Times). "An adventure classic" - J. W. Vandercook. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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Quito to Bogota
by VEATCH, A. C., with introduction by Lord Murray of Elibank;
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London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917 [1923], First edition. . original red cloth, gilt lettering, near fine and clean. . 8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xxii, 23 - 338 pp, frontis, full page illustrations from photos, 3 folding maps at end. . Welch 85. Travels in Ecuador and Columbia, with much on geology, geography, nature, etc. This copy has the Publisher's Note tipped in, stating, 'This work was originally planned for publication in 1917, but owing to the War, its publication in Great Britain has been postponed until now, June, 1923', this note is absent in most copies, giving the appearance that the book was published in 1917 as stated on the title page. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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Quito to Bogota
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New York, George H. Doran, [1917], First American Edition. . original cloth, gilt lettering, spine faded, light foxing on a few leaves, else very good sound copy. . 8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; xxii, 23 - 338 pp, frontis, full page illustrations from photos, 3 folding maps at end. . Travels in Ecuador and Columbia, with much on geology, geography, nature, etc. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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