Books - "travel"
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The Heart of Black Papua
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG-) rear board v shaky; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Robert M McBride & Company 1926
KEYWORDS: first editions history culture anthropology travel writing literature Pacific Papua New Guinea png
A Vagabond in Fiji
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: John Lane, The Bodley Head 1927
KEYWORDS: pacific islands pasifika Fiji Fijian culture customs travel writing literature exploration adventure
Among the Celestials (Modern Facsimile Reprint)
FACSIMILE REPRINT, octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: SN Books World ( Originally John Murray 1898)
KEYWORDS: exploration travel literature writings Captain Sir Francis Edward Younghusband Manchuria Gobi desert Himalayas India history
Egypt
Ex-library- reading copy only, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: T Werner Laurie N/D (c.1920s?)
KEYWORDS: travel literature writings Pierre Loti exploration adventure Egypt
Travels in China and Japan
FIRST EDITION, octavo, yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 382pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Bruno Cassirer 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature China Japan Asia oriental history culture Nikos Kazantzakis far east
Russia of To-Day
Octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering & illus to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 296pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1915
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian culture customs travel literature writing
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa, Being an Account of a Visit to Damaraland in 1851
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, xviii + 320pp + 4pp catalogue to rear, VG- (light to moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter- front board shaky, light foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock and Co 1889
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing South Africa exploration adventure customs culture
Isles of the Frigate Bird
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1975
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Cook Islands Rarotonga pacific islands Ronald Syme first editions
Two Vagabonds in Albania
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, coloured illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xii + 304pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to some pages throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light cracking sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1927
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Albania culture customs Jan Cora J Gordon
Through Algeria & Tunisia, on a Motor-bicycle
FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE D/W, super octavo, beige buckram boards, blue lettering & rule to spine & front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 160pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping with some minor loss to edges, moderate to heavy tanning to spine, light tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1922
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Algeria Tunisia exploration adventure Lady Warren motorcycle adventures
Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and Her Daughter Victoria 1849-1855
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 364pp, VG (light bruising & fading to board edges/extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label & ink stamp to rear pastedown, light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1928
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature exploration adventures Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley Victoria 19th nineteenth century history culture America Spain Syria
A Springtide in Palestine
FIRST EDITION, IN SCARCE D/W, super octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, black rule & sm illus to front board, frontispiece, 206pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy tanning to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1924
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Palestine middle east culture history
Peeps into Persia
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt sword-weilding lion illus to front board, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, moderate discolouration & light staining to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters of pgs 112-113)
PUBLISHER: Hurst and Blackett 1913
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Persia culture history Dorothy de Warzee first editions
When We Lived in Jerusalem
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 348pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & scuffing to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light tanning to eps, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1927
KEYWORDS: first editions Jerusalem middle east customs culture travel writing literature
The Balkan Road
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus front eps, frontispiece, viii + 244pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page & rear ep, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light cracking to gutters throghout, occasional light foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges- tidy archival tape repairs & minor loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Balkan road Europe
Portrait of a Dictator: Francisco Solano Lopez (Paraguay 1865-1870)
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 283pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading & scuffing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, minor staining to rear board, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1933
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Paraguay biographies memoir political leaders dictators Francisco Solano Lopez history 19th nineteenth century
Golden Days in Many Lands
FIRST EDITION- COLONIAL, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine & front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xv + 340pp + 31pp publisher's catalogue to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate fading & staining to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, faint ex-libris ink stamp to ffep, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1910
KEYWORDS: first edtions colonial travel writing literature Europe Winifred H Leys
Argentina Past and Present
Containing 96 Illustrations, 64 Being from Photographs & 32 in Colour from Paintings by E.W. Christmas, R.B.A.
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black 1914
KEYWORDS: argentina south america history americas latin w.h. koebel colony new world colonialism industry anthropology travel
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Very tidy ex-library - unread; Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG, fixed to boards with protective plastic adhesive film); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: ex-library j.b. jackson john brinckerhoff landscape history travel writing united states of america u.s.a. essay anthologies collections urbanism industrialism
In the Hills of Breadalbane
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty) frontispiece partially detached; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1954
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish Perthshire travel writing literature history V A Firsoff