Search Results: Travel from Nigel Sustins Books

UK: Church Missionary Society, 1914. First popular edition, marvellously evocative photographs, decorated cloth boards with only moderate wear and marking, top edge gilt (some rubbing), other edges rough-cut with foxing and rubbing/crinkling to page edges, spots of foxing throughout without affecting text, a very good solid-looking copy.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good.

Australia: The Author, 1986. Signed by author to title page, dated 1986. Almost very good, some wear/marks to lamination of card covers. Black and white photographs.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

USA: Bobbs-Merrill, 1918. Red cloth with black lettering/illustration, wear/pushing to spine ends and corners, dust and foxing to edges, front hinge cracked opposite half-title, but binding holds; owner name and date (1920) to front free endpaper, along with 'printed in Canada' stamp; internally generally good with some marks and foxing to early pages.. Hardcover. Good.

U K: Weidenfeld, 2001. First edition, signed by author to title page, virtually fine copy; dust-wrapper rubbed to the top edge, but otherwise very good.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

UK: Cassell, 1905. 4th edition 1905, red cloth with tea leaves illustration in gilt, bevelled edges, fading to spine and board edges, wear/rubbing to spine ends and corners with slight fraying, gilt edges are dulled, inscription (difficult to read) on dark green front endpapers, splitting to front hinge, straining within but binding still secure, internally generally good. Extra postage required on this heavy book.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

UK: Hurst and Blackett, 1908. Hardback in good used condition, spine has rubbing, fraying and browning, gilt titles to spine faded, those on front cover brighter; dust and foxing to edges, some foxing within but text sound.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

UK: Cresset, 1931. First edition in worn boards (titles faded from spine), contents sound, small section of the index detached and loosely laid in, black and white plates, fold-out map to rear; inscribed and signed ('GBS') by author to front free endpaper.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Bangkok: Siam Society, 1926 Good in brown card covers, browning/foxing to edges. Articles mainly in English (one in French). Errata page inserted. . Soft Cover. Good.

UK: Nelson, 1888. An attractive one-volume edition in brown cloth with bevelled edges, black and gilt tooled decorations, spine ends and corners pushed/worn with a little fraying, one corner beginning to split, internally generally good plus with numerous black and white illustrations, plates with tissue guards and two fold-out maps. Extra postage required.. Reprint. Hardcover. Good.

London: London Magazine, 1979. Ex-library, but only signs are library stamp, 'withdrawn' stamp and inked price to first (advertisement) page. Includes Stephen Spender on Rilke and Eliot, and Leigh Fermor's piece 'Paradox in the Himalayas'. Crease to spine, but internally very good.. Paperback. Good.

UK: Abacus, 1999. Signed first printing of the paperback edition, a fascinating account of travels in the deserts of China in search of the wild Bactrian Camel, now an endangered species; colour photographs, slight rubbing to card covers, neat red remainder dot on top edge, otherwise a very good copy, signed by author to title page.. Signed by Author. First Paperback. Paperback. Very Good.

Singapore: The Shell Company of the Federation of Malaya, 1963. Boards are worn and marked in places, with some bowing, browning to endpapers, internally the colour portraits are superb, text in English and Malay.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Inche Mohamed Hoessein bin Enas.

Shrewsbury: The Author, 2000. Compendium about Cornwall. Some rubbing/creasing to card covers, internally very good.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Jaipur, India: Holiday Publications Very good copy of this rare publication, a record of the Ranthambhor Park in India, with the famous Tiger Project of 1973, as well as documentation of flora and fauna. 10 pages of black and white photos. No date. Slight rubbing/marking to covers. Pencilled owner name to title page.. Paperback. Very Good.

Korea: National Academy of Arts, 1973. Foreward by Park Chong-Hwa, Chairman of National Academy of Arts, book in good used condition, wear to corners and spine ends, damp-stains and crinkling to rear pastedown; d/w fair only with tears and rubbing, small losses, damp-stains to verso. Text mainly English, some Korean.. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable.

UK: Hutchinson, 1934. Signed and inscribed by Clifford Collinson to front endpaper, blue cloth with moderate wear and rubbing, small split to top of spine, browning to edges, a little foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally good.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Toronto, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1935. Good used condition, some wear and marking, pencilled inscription to half-title, no d/w.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

UK: Blackwood, 1882. 27 engraved plates with tissue guard, and fold-out map at rear, brown cloth with black decorations of urn and frieze, title on spine has lost its colour, cloth is worn and marked, spine ends rubbed and frayed, corners pushed and worn, rough cut edges foxed and dusty, pastedowns and endpapers severely browned, only a little browning to frontispiece, other plates and tissue guards in very good condition, some stains to page edges throughout, but generally very good, some straining to stitching, but binding secure, map at rear is foxed and browned (affecting final page), with a repaired tear, but is predominantly still legible.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Lord Windsor.

Bombay: Amita Banerjee, Vaitalik A rare 20-page stapled booklet, undated, many illustrations, for 'private distribution only', inserted is a leaflet for the 'Vaitalik Dance Programme for Tourists' held at the Taj Intercontinental Hotel, Bombay, and a colour postcard showing a single dancer ('Folk Dance of India').. Paperback. Very Good.

Tehran: Imperial Organization for Social Services, 1976. SPECIAL PRICE REDUCTION. WAS £250. Facsimile of the 1819 limited edition, Vols. 1-2 combined in first volume, text in French, with separate 'Atlas' of illustrations, reprinted under the patronage of Her Imperial Highness Princess Ashraf Pahlavi on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Coronation of Reza Shah the Great, first volume in brown boards with gilt decoration, red title strip to spine with gilt lettering, some rubbing to boards, foxing to top edge, vertical external creasing and rubbing to hinges, title and contents in Persian reading from the back with two photographic plates, internally fine; the folio-size 'Atlas' has beautiful coloured reproductions of the original lithographs, and is internally fine, the boards (similarly decorated to vol. 1) have the remains of white labels (?) in small patches, with some rubbing, top of spine is broken with two tears to the top. A sumptuous production. Extra… Read More