Adventure from Tannery Books

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1951. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Nevil Shute, Round the Bend: A Novel, New York, William Morrow & Co., 1951, Book of the Month Club Edition. "Tom Cutter was in love with airplanes from his boyhood. He might have lived happily and successfully in England all his life, working… Read more

Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Nancy Gahan. Charles Darwin, edited by Leonard Engel, The Voyage of the Beagle, Garden City. N.Y., Anchor Books/Doubleday, with The American Museum of Natural History, The Natural History Library Edition (first thus), 1962. Illustrations redrawn by Nancy Gahan, maps by Stephen Kraft. Charles Darwin's journey, at age 23, originally published… Read more

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Randall Brink, Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart, W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Good/no DJ: spine skewed, lightly bumped, pages crisp, unmarked.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. [Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson] Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, October, 1914, First Printing. Red cloth hc with gold tiltling, 8vo (21 cm), xii, 190 pp,… Read more

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from Sketches by the Author. Volumes I and II. Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson, 1856. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards, 8vo (21 cm), mottled edges, marbled endpapers,… Read more

New York: Ferrar, Strauss and Co., 1963. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/fair. H. Montgomery Hyde, with foreward by Ian Fleming, Room 3603 : The story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II, New York, Ferrar, Strauss and Co., 1963, First Edition, Second Printing. Brown paper boards and tan cloth spine with gold lettering, 8vo,… Read more