Exploration. Travel from The Woodward Avenue Bookshelf

VINTAGE BASILICA DE. S. PIETRO CITY OF THE VATICAN ROMA 22 PHOTOS WITH HISTORY IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, LATIN, ENGLISH, GERMAN, AND SPANISH ON MOST IT HAS A MAP IN THE BACK OF THE VATICAN CITY I BELIEVE IT TO BE FROM 1963, AS THE POPE THAT IS PICTURED WAS 1963 THE COVER HAS AN ORNATE FILLAGREED VATICAN WITH VELVET BACKING The binding is solid. The boards show… Read more about this item

1938 HARDCOVER "BAGHDAD SKETCHES" E.P. DUTTON This is a 1938, Stated First Edition, Hardcover, of "Baghdad Sketches" by Freya Stark. In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the… Read more about this item

1958 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET "THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO" WITH 25 ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR FROM A FOURTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IN THE BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, PARIS THE ORIAN PRESS 1958, Hardcover with Dust Jacket of "The Travels of Marco Polo" the ultimate travelogue of distant lands. The boards are clean. The gilt and red flower decoration to the spine is… Read more about this item

1932 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION "THE FLYING CARPET" BY RICHARD HALLIBURTON BOBBS MERRILL 1932, First Edition, Hardcover of "The Flying Carpet" by Richard Halliburton. No writing. It has a former owners book plate on the second free endpaper. No writing. Pages are clean. Binding is solid. True adventure by a young man who liked to live dangerously. In a two-seater plane he and his pilot… Read more about this item

"GHOSTS OF EVEREST THE SEARCH FOR MALLORY AND IRVINE FROM THE EXPEDITION THAT DISCOVERED MALLORY'S BODY JOCHEN HEMMLEB, LARRY A. JOHNSON, ERIC R SIMONSON AS TOLD BY WILLIAM E. NOTHDURFT THE MOUNTAINEERS BOOKSA Stated First Edition, Hardcover of "Ghosts of Everest" On May 1, 1999, the Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition found George Mallory's body - astonishingly well preserved - high on the… Read more about this item

1928 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION (SAME DATE ON TITLE PAGE AS COPYRIGHT WITH NO OTHER PRINTING MENTIONED) "IF YOU GO TO SOUTH AMERICA" BY HARRY L. FOSTER FULL COLOR FOLD OUT MAP IS STILL ATTACHED DODD, MEAD & COMPANYA 1928, Hardcover, First Edition of "If You Go To South America" by Harry L. Foster. Red cloth boards are clean. Lettering is good It is illustrated… Read more about this item

2 Hardcover First Edition set of Boswell book's. They are both stated First Edition. "Boswell's London Journal" This is a First Edition of this first book in what became the series known as the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. This is the first publication of Boswell's own journal and thus a modern 18th century classic. It… Read more about this item