Search Results: Travel from Great Northern Books

London: Bodley Head, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First printing. Illustrated with a frontis map, title page, and twelve full page woodcuts, by Edward Lear. Also includes a bibliography and index. A clean, unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good. "Dark Star Safari takes us the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, forgotten train, and rusting steamer." [from publisher] Includes two full page maps. Slight crease to rear cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1963:June. First publication. Stapled Periodical. Very Good +. First appearance of the article, "Hong Kong : Bargain Town by the China Sea." Color illustrations by John Groth. A complete, intact copy.

New York: Macmillan, 1909:Nov.. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First printing. Bright pictorial cover, top edge gilt. Includes numerous black and white photographs and drawings as well as appendixes, bibliography, and index. Front hinge weak, former owner's name on free front endpaper, else a bright, clean, unmarked copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1875. Revised edition. Hardcover. Fair. Two engraved plates with tissue guards, including a portrait frontispiece. Ex-library with label on front pastedown and small library stamp on front free endpaper. No other library markings. Spine cover is in pieces and front cover is almost detached. Textblock is tight and unmarked.

New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1950. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. First printing. "Ó Faoláin was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture and outspoken in his attacks on censorship and the conservative aspects of Irish nationalism and Catholicism." [from Wikipedia] This is his Italian travel book illustrated with eight black & white photographs. Dustjacket has a wrap around etching of Venice. Dustjacket is rubbed along edges with a small chip from front panel. Book itself is clean and unmarked.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. First printing. "The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959." [from Wikipedia]. Includes 19 black & white photographs and map endpapers. Waugh was best knnown for his novels, "Brideshead Revisited" and "Ask the Dust." Dustjacket spine and part of front cover panel sunned, slight rubbing to edges, else a clean, unmarked copy.

McLean, Va.: EPM Publications, 1989. First edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. Illustrated with block prints by Barbara S. Bockman. McCarthy was the Minn. senator whose antiwar primary challenge resulted in Pres. Johnson's withdrawal frrom the 1968 presidential race.

Paris: Gallimard, 1948. Trade Paperback. Good. Number 1094 of 1250 numbered copies printed from type reset in1948. Includes a map frontis. Gide won he Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Some small tears to cover spine, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.