Travel from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1937. First Edition.. Octavo, green cloth, pp. xv, 152; illustrated. Biography. This copy inscribed by the subject's son, Joseph Burr Tyrrell (b. 1858-1957), Canadian geologist, cartographer, and discoverer of dinosaur bones (Albertosaurus) in the Alberta Badlands. Endpapers darkened, covers unevenly faded, spine faded with lettering legible but slightly… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth, (1928). First edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, smooth blue cloth, pp. 292; 33 illustrations (all present). A fine copy in the rare dust jacket; the dust jacket has three small edge tears (1/2"), slight loss at the corners and spine ends; spine faded and dust- soiled, else very good.

London: The Swarthmore Press Ltd., 1927. Second impression. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. 326, (2); illustrated. Various references to plant species marked with pencil throughout the text. Light staining to covers, mostly effecting the glazing on the cloth, else very good; no dust jacket..

London: Edward Arnold, 1926. Third impression. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. vii, 383; illustrations and folding map. With the attractive bookplate of Toronto printer, Arnold Brigden. Various references to plant species are marked with pencil throughout the text. Slightly shaken, lower corners bumped, else very good. No dust jacket..

Boston: The C.M. Clark Publishing Co., 1907. Reprint. Octavo, original red cloth trade binding stamped in black, white and gilt showing a young man carrying luggage, a train meeting a ship in the background, and numerous envelopes cascading downwards from the top of the design; pp. vii, 163, + numerous publisher's ads at rear; illustrated with the author's black and… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, (1913). First edition. 19 cm x 13.5 cm, red cloth stamped in bling and gilt, pp. [244]; "with many illustrations especially drawn by Geo. Desains and Charlotte Schaller". Front endpaper roughly removed, else a fine copy of an attractively produced book..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

London: Century, 1990. First edition. 24 cm x 16 cm, red boards, pp. 210. Remainder mark to bottom page edge, else very good in dust jacket..

[New York]: Edward Burlingame / HarperCollins, (1991). First American edition Inscribed by the author in 1995. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with slight sunning to spine and a faint crease..

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, (1960). First edition. Small quarto, green boards, pp. [96]. A book about Stratford-- upon- Avon. Inscribed to an unspecified recipient, "with best wishes from Joan the Pen / Joan Fleming 1960". I assume this book is by the same Joan Fleming who wrote detective stories, however I have been unable to confirm this beyond conjecture. Slight… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1999). First edition. 24 cm x 16.5 cm, red boards, pp. 290. Middleton is a geographer and the author of three previous travel books. Fine in a near fine dust jacket..

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Gallaudet University Press, 1988. Octavo, red cloth, pp. xv, 25; with illustrations and photographs. "Certainly no deaf woman of her age travelled through China as Parsons did - unaccompanied and third class. Fine in dust jacket..

London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1913. Endpapers browned with a 3cm tear near gutter, ugly ink scribble to obscure inscription on front free endpaper. Front coloured map has been folded a bit awkwardly and has small tears, some wear to covers, else about very good..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Octavo, cinammon coloured cloth, pp. 260. Includes travel essays about Ceylon, Algeria, England, and Canada, including the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland. From a private library with the owner's card pocket tipped to rear pastedown, else a very clean, bright copy. No dust jacket..

London: Adam and Charles Black, (1961). Reprinted, with corrections. Octavo, orange boards, pp. vi, 90; illustrated. Small circular rubber-stamp on endpaper [Ferozsons / Lahore], else very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. Comes with a mylar dust jacket protector..

New York: Pantheon Books, (2000). First American edition. 21.5 cm x 14.5 cm, blue boards, pp. v, 248; illustrated. Originally published in the United Kingdon in 1999. Near fine in dust jacket..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900. Early edition. Name on endpaper, a few pages roughly opened, slight corner bump, else a clean and very good copy..

8vo., black boards, pp. xii, 402; llustrated. With an index. The diaries recount Mountbatten's experiences as Allied Commander in Chief while visting Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassier and his tenure as First Sea Lord touring India, Burma, New Zealand and Australia. Also visits to Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, Moscow and Leningrad. A near fine copy in dust jacket..

Octavo, olive green cloth, pp. [xi], 270. Includes chapters on Monte-Casino; Bergamo; Carmagnola (1390-1432); Bulgaria; Buenos Aires; Corfu; Constantinople; "Botzen to Landro via Cadore"; Tunis; and with material on the music of Hungarian Gipsies and Wagner. Welbore St Clair Baddeley was a world traveler, writer and amateur archaeologist. This copy bears the author's signed presentation inscription to: "W.J. Linton /… Read more about this item