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The United States with an Excursion into Mexico: Handbook for Travellers
First Edition
Leipsic (i.e. Leipsig): Karl Baedeker, Publishers, 1893. xc, 516 pages. The first Baedeker guide to the United States and the first to be written in English. Hinrichsen E259. ISBN: 281AIB1025197.
First edition (first printing). An exceptional copy, seemingly never opened for reading. Collated complete will all maps, with most, including the large map of the Unites States, never unfolded. There is a very slight bit of fraying to the cloth in three or four places. The spine is slightly dimmed. There is a small previous owner's name on the front free endaper. To top it off, this copy is in the original unprinted dust jacket with the title label affixed to the spine, as was Baedeker's custom in the 1890s. The jacket has some chips and wear at the corners and spine ends, and several folds (it may have been folded and inserted in the book, which is why it survives). A great copy, almost never found this nice, let alone in the jacket. [JSP01; JHG2019]
Book ID: 110960More details Price: $750.00 -
200 and Other Stories
First Edition
Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1932. 151 pages. Apparently the Wisconson author's only book. Four travel essays, including Hearts and a China Tour, A Flash of Destiny, and Expediency or Ethics. ISBN: B007T1Z4PY.
First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear, else near fine in a dust jacket with chipped corners and snag to rear bottom edge, thus very good. Most pages unopened. Scarce.
Book ID: 168315More details Price: $125.00 -
Cartes Escriptas da India e da China nos Annos de 1815 a 1835
Lisboa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1847. 2 volumes bound in one. Volume I, xx, 283, ii; Volume II, vi, 269, xxii. Engraved frontispiece of author in Volume I, of his wife in Volume II. 8 engraved plates in text. Text in Portuguese. Letters are addressed to his wife. A collection of letters written by the Portuguese merchant and functionary José Ignacio de Andrade (1779-1862) during twenty years spent in the Far East. Andrade provides historical notes on the Portuguese presence in China and the imperial Chinese dynasties, as well as letters dealing with literature, law, and commerce. ISBN: 281AIB1048014.
Second edition. A very good copy in a marbled paper over boards and leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Edge and corner wear. Boards showing at corners.
Book ID: 262928More details Price: $125.00 -
Raymond & Whitcomb Company Tours [Six Volumes]
First Edition
New York: Raymond & Whitcomb Co, 1902-1905. Small format brochures for tours in the US and Canada.
1) Raymond & Whitcomb's Tours and Tickets, General Announcements Season of 1902-3
2) Raymond & Whitcomb's 32 Summer and Autumn Tours, June, July, August and September 1903
3) Raymond & Whitcomb's Tours and Tickets General Announcments for the Season of 1903-4;
4) Raymond & Whitcomb's 18 Summer and Autumn Tours, 1904;
5) Raymond & Whitcomb's 27 Summer and Autumn Tours, 1905;
6)Raymond & Whitcomb's Tours and Tickets General Announcements for the Season of 1905-6. ISBN: 281AIB1032104.
Very good in wrappers (paperback). All volumes are very good, most have some edge wear.
Book ID: 144801More details Price: $100.00 -
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
First Edition
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831. 350 pages plus two pages of ads. Irving narrates "the enterprises of certain of the companions and disciples of [Columbus], who, enkindled with his zeal, and instructed by his example, sallied forth separately in hte vast region of adventure." Irving covers Alonzo de Ojeda, Vasco Nunes de Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, and others. ISBN: 281AIB1038156.
First US edition (the London edition was published first). A very good copy in the original drab boards and textured cloth binding. Lacking the paper spine label. Small leather bookplate and large paper bookplate inside. Wear to corners and small areas of dampstaining along the bottom edge. Housed in a custom cloth folding case.
Book ID: 190978More details Price: $100.00 -
The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins Edited from the text of 1622 with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by James A. Williamson
London: 1933. 190 pages. Four maps, two folding. Argonaut Press volume 13. A reprint of an 1593-94 voyage around South America (first published in 1622). Limited to -475 numbered copies. ISBN: B000ONNOWO.
Previous owner's bookplate inside, minor wear to spine ends, else a near fine copy. An out of series copy, not numbered on the colophon.
Book ID: 33635More details Price: $100.00 -
Cleared For Strange Ports.
. ISBN: 281AIB0027629.
Very Good
Book ID: 16932More details Price: $100.00 -
In Spain and A Visit to Portugal
First Edition
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870. vii, 289 pages. A travelogue by the writer best known for his fairy tales. ISBN: B002NVZK54.
First American edition. A near fine copy in green cloth, gilt.
Book ID: 89314More details Price: $85.00 -
Tarry at Home Travels
First Edition
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 429 pages. New England travel narratives originally printed in the weekly magazine The Outlook; by the historian and Unitarian minister. With 200 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN: B004C86RF8.
First edition (first printing). Green cloth with yellow illustration and gold lettering on the cover and spine, and gilt top edge. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Front hinge cracked. Inscribed to a previous owner: "With the love of E. E. Hale & E. B. Hale [Hale's wife, Emily Baldwin] / Nov. 14, 1906." Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 219948More details Price: $75.00 -
One Long Song: Drawing in Morocco and Rome October 4, 1982 (sic) thru March 27, 1982
First Edition
Larkspur, California: Marcia S. Dalva. Printed by Lompa Printing, 1982. First edition, limited to 307 copies. The author recorded her stay with her husband, who was directing a film, in Morocco and Rome with drawings of her surroundings. 13 x 9.5 inches. ISBN: B004VIIBM6.
Typed letter signed by author enclosed. First edition (first printing). Limited edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Book corners bumped. Dust jacket with edge and corner wear with small closed tears on edges.
Book ID: 131723More details Price: $50.00 -
The Time of My Life: A Travelogue Written From September 16, 1938 to February 9, 1939
Oakland, CA: Half Full Press, 2004. About 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. Color reproduction of author's hand-written, illustrated journal during her travels to Europe before the outbreak of World War Two. ISBN: 9780971955202.
Minor wear to edges, else fine. Red leatherette boards stamped in gilt.
Book ID: 157805More details Price: $43.75 -
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
First Edition
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. 421 pages. Travel narrative about a road trip through the United States to small towns along highways and away from interstates. The author's first and most notable book. ISBN: B001D4YURQ.
First edition (first printing). Blue cloth faded at top edge and light spotting to page block, else near fine in an unclipped dust jacket with spine a bit faded and worn at the ends, thus very good.
Book ID: 164191More details Price: $40.00 -
Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Workman Publishing Company, 2019. ISBN: 9781523506484.
NEW
Book ID: 256081More details Price: $37.50 -
Afternoons in Mid-America: Observations and Impressions
First Edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. 276 pages. The novelist's travel writings from the Midwestern United States. Illustrations in black-and-white. ISBN: 9780396073482.
First edition (first printing). Gold lettering on spine toned; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and illustrator on the half-title.
Book ID: 266061More details Price: $35.00 -
In Cuba
First Edition
New York: New Directions, 1974. 340 pages. A look at Cuba in 1970 by the Nicaraguan poet. English edition, translated from the Spanish by Donald D. Walsh. ISBN: 9780811205375.
First English language edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 262169More details Price: $35.00 -
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. ISBN: 9780544866478.
NEW
Book ID: 252020More details Price: $30.00 -
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. ISBN: 9780544866478.
NEW
Book ID: 253939More details Price: $30.00 -
Fodor's Turkey 1969
First Edition
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969. 414 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. Illustrated with black-and-white street maps and color photo reproductions, and a color fold-out map. ISBN: B0029UM3B8.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the spine and a short closed tear to the cover. Short crease to fold-out map.
Book ID: 233205More details Price: $25.00 -
Press Directory and Almanac: Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, 1930 [cover title]
First Edition
"Guernsey Press" Co., Ltd, 1930. 664 pages. Book includes a general island directory and numerous business ads, some with illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1018977.
First edition (first printing). Good in wrappers (paperback). Front cover and first page is beginning to separate. Dent to top page edges. The fold-out "Press" Road Map of Guernsey is present with a split to one fold crease.
Book ID: 84314More details Price: $25.00 -
America's Great Hiking Trails: Appalachian, Pacific Crest, Continental Divide, North Country, Ice Age, Potomac Heritage, Florida, Natchez Trace, Arizona, Pacific Northwest, New England
Rizzoli, 2014. ISBN: 9780789327413.
Very Good
Book ID: 167332More details Price: $25.00