Seen in the Hadhramaut. by FREYA STARK - 1938

JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1938 HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS + MAP, NO JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 10 X 8 INCHES WITH 23 + 199 PAGES. SOME LIGHT GENERAL WEAR TO COVER WITH A COUPLE OF MINOR BUMPS TO EDGES & CORNERS, BUT OVERALL AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH NO SERIOUS FAULTS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: John Murray, 1938. Hardcover; 4to; 199 pages. No jacket. Beige cloth hardcovers with teal titles. Gently sunned spine. Lightly bumped corners. Off-white but bright and clean interior. Many full-page gravure plates throughout. VG+/--. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket.

London: John Murray, 1938 8vo. original light bue cloth (a little rubbed & nicked, spine and exposed edges sunned, prev. owner's name (E.C.Fraser) to FFE, small staining and offsetting to endpapers, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xxiv (last blank), 200 (last colophon), with 130 plates. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket.

London, UK: John Murray, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xxiv, 200pp. Beige cloth-covered boards, green titles on front and spine. Bumped spine ends. Lightly bumped corners. Light soiling where there is jacket loss. Top text block edge dusty. Small pink pen date written in top corner of free paste down. Light foxing to prelim pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has significant loss, many tears and internal repairs. Dust jacket will be protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or book in any way post-photographing. 8vo. The explorer and travel writer's photographic account of her travels in 1935 through the Hadhramaut on the Arabian Peninsula where only a handful of Western explorers had previously ventured

London: John Murray, 1938. Hardcover; 4to; 199 pages. No jacket. Beige cloth hardcovers with teal titles. Sunned and spotted. Lightly bumped corners. Prev. owner's name in pen on fep. Off-white but bright and clean interior. Small sharpie marking on fore-edge. VG-/--. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket.

1938. John Murray, London. 1938. First Edition. Large 8vo. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with black and white plates. Boards are slightly bowed, partially faded and a little soiled. Bookplate to front endpaper, the endpapers are slightly browned o/w contents clean and sound. Wrapper is price clipped and lacks portions from head and tail of spine (affecting text) and top corner of front panel, extremities are worn with some small closed tears to margins.

London: John Murray, 1938. 1st edition. Very Good. large octavo. hardback in original cloth 199pp., b/w pls., maps, Stamps & labels of Reference library o/w nice tight, clean copy

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First American edition. Very well illustrated with Stark's black and white photographs throughout, large octavo, title page printed in red and black, large octavo, pp xxiv, 199, a slight suggestion of foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise extremely clean internally, grey cloth very slightly age-toned, corners slightly briosed, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, rather creased and frayed around the edges, lacking a few small pieces at the corners and spine head, and a larger piece from the corner of the rear cover; now nicely protected in a removable clear cover. . First American Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and torn.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Quarto. 199pp. Illustrated from photographs. Gray cloth gilt. Modest wear on the spine ends. Contemporary owner's name, modest wear at the extremities, very good or better in modestly worn, very good or better price-clipped dustwrapper with internal tape repair. Scarce in jacket.

London, John Murray, 1938. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Near fine half leather with marbled boards. Internally fine with numerous black and white ills by the author. Loosely inserted the original dust jacket.

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Walter Scott, London, 1889 revised edition, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 79 pages, 5" x 7.5", waterstain on front board, otherwise clean and tight, inscribed by author on ffep.

lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.

547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.

This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama