London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vi, 356 pp + [9] (illustrations), with map, notes, index. Edited with an introduction by Mona Wilson. Boards toned and lightly soiled at edges; binding sound, text clean. No dust jacket. An English novelist and playwright best known for..... Item #15008
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Undated; owner's signature dated 1959 on front endpaper. 264 pp + illustrations, with map, index. Light wear to edges, top corners and spine lightly bumped; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear..... Item #1793
London: John Murray, 1954. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. Second printing. xi, 191 pp + illustrations, with frontispiece, map, index. Light offsetting to endpapers; slight spine lean; else sound and clean. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with a few tape repairs and small chip missing at head..... Item #375
New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at..... Item #14049
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine, is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners, and..... Item #20666
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, 368 pp, with two maps (one folding) and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant, slight sunning to upper board, previous owner's name on front..... Item #13051
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1924. 303 pp, indexed, with 57 photographs and 2 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth shows light general wear; bookplate on front pastedown, one plate and one map loose and laid in. Travel narrative of several months' journey on foot through..... Item #13110
New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. xiv, 433 pp, illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp on 4 pages; otherwise unmarked, binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer, a doctor, arrived in San Francisco in..... Item #13797
Philadelphia: Reading and Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv, 278 pp, illustrated with portraits (many of Africans), maps, and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped, spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose..... Item #11320
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 298 pp, with 25 photographic illustrations and a folding map. Original blue cloth, sunned at the spine. Binding sound, text unmarked. No dust jacket. Account of the author's travels in West Africa, with detailed and colorful (if not always enthusiastic)..... Item #13666
New York: Boni and Liveright, [1923]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Original red cloth boards. Spine darkened and chipped at head. Binding sound, text clean. No dust jacket. Clare Consuelo Sheridan (1885-1970), was an English sculptor, journalist, and writer known primarily for creating busts of famous sitters and writing diaries..... Item #21010
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 272 pp, illustrated with maps and photographs by the author. Slight wear to boards, tight binding, no markings. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has some chipping and short tears. Skolle traveled extensively in..... Item #12602
London: David Bogue, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xi, 236 pp + publisher's catalogue, with hand colored frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's cloth, gilt spine; endpapers replaced. Edgeworn, with chips and head and tail of spine, tear to cloth along rear hinge, binding slightly pulled at..... Item #2673
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Very good. Volume II only. ix, 425 pp + catalogue of other works by Stanley. Mild rubbing to extremities, spine somewhat faded. previous owner's name on front endpaper and title page. Contents clean and sound. Item #14877
London: John Murray, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, 341 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, with index. Light wear and pale spotting to boards; internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Second volume of Stark's autobiography, told through her self-edited correspondence including letters from her first journey, Canada..... Item #1781
London: John Murray, 1947. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Fourth printing. 218 pp, indexed, with many illustrations from photographs. Bookplate of collector Theodora Duncan on front pastedown, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a small chip at the foot of the spine..... Item #20956
London: John Murray, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. xi, 204 pp, indexed, illustrated with photographs, drawings in the text by the author; title page wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. Corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has very..... Item #14611
London: John Murray, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Reprint. 282 pp, with photographic frontispiece, map, appendix, bibliography. Bookplate on front pastedown, light wear to edges; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows moderate shelf wear and has several tape reinforcements. Stark lived and travelled with..... Item #778
London: John Murray, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii, 346 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, with index. Boards show pale staining and minor insect damage, store stamp on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Item #1470
London: Printed by J.C. King, Ltd. Softcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1937. Alternate title (on first page of text): Around the World by Motorcycle, Experiences of Two Hungarians. 9.5 x 6 inches, 26 pp, in original color-printed wrappers, with half-tone photographic illustrations. Wrappers creased and detached from text block, chip missing..... Item #21316
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. ix, 393; 402. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, top edges gilt, spines in six compartments. Bookplates, joints rubbed, leather chipped at head of Vol. I, archival tape repair to ffep of Vol. II. Very good. A...... Item #14907
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition, re-drawn, first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches, oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett (1837-1872) was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett (1834-1913), who regularly gathered a party of friends..... Item #14703
New York: New York Historical Society, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 12 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Octavo, 121 pp, with appendix and index, frontis portrait of the author, and a facsimile page of the manuscript. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, NYHS..... Item #19319
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Good+ dust jacket. 351 pp + illustrations from photographs, map endpapers. Very light shelf wear to boards, gift nscription on dedication page; text clean, binding sound. Dust jacket is rubbed along the folds, has tape reinforcement to inside..... Item #2585
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in..... Item #20650
