Deserts
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is a literary nonfiction work by Edward Abbey (1927–89), published originally in 1968. His fourth book and his first book length non-fiction work, it followed three fictional books, Jonathan Troy, The Brave Cowboy, and Fire on the Mountain. It was his biggest success to date and brought him critical acclaim and popularity as a nature writer.
Deserts Books & Ephemera
The Desert My Dwelling Place. A Study of Charles de Foucauld 1858-1916
by Hamilton, Elizabeth
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1968. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some quite light wear [rubbing at edges] & is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 271 pages. A study of the one-time cavalry officer, explorer and Trappist monk, then priest and saint who was killed in the Sahara in 1916. He inspired the foundation of a number of religious...
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$16.55
Remarkable Californians
by Roddy, W. Lee
Ceres: Self-published by the author, 1970. 32p., 6x9.25 inches, epilogue, author bio, illustrated with drawings by Darlene Davi, very good booklet in original stapled pictorial wraps. Short biographies of "remarkable Californians" published on the 201st anniversary of California's founding.
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$20.00
Australia's Living Deserts
by Morcombe, Michael
Sydney: Summit Books. 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 80 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$9.93
THE GREAT SAHARA
by James Wellard
New York: E. P. Dutton. 1967. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly soiled. .
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$54.95
The Negev. Sodom. Beer-sheva. Drawings; With an Introduction by Waldemar Georges, Paris; English translation by I. M. Lask
by Schreter, Zygmunt
Tel Aviv: The Dvir Publishing Co, 1958. Portfolio. Eight numbered & titled drawings done in broad pen and pencil, enclosed in a 13.5x10 inch decorated cardstock portfolio that is fastened with staples. Plates are looseleaf (complete; as called for) with drawings shown on 11x7.5 inch sepia print-blocks. Prints are very good pace a touch of dust-soil to the wide margins, while the portfolio is abraded with scuffing, offset dust- and color-smudges and an odd puncture to graphic; luckily the same image...
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$30.00
A RIDE WITH KIT CARSON; Across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
by BREWERTON, George D
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling. Brewerton's narrative originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853. It presents an accurate portrait of Kit Carson and describes their journey from...
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$25.00
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
by Childs, Craig (signed)
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed on the title page by Childs. His third book, first in hardcover, and his most iconic, uncommon signed. Childs is one of our premiere and most adventurous environmental writers, known above all for his explorations of American desert. He's twice the winner of the Sigurd Olson Award Nature Writing Award. A book with just one crease to top corner of title page, still fine; in a near fine jacket with trace rubbing to rear...
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$200.00
Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments, A Contribution to Global Debates
by Sporton, Deborah and David S.G. Thomas, editors
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xix, 231p., illustrated with figures, "boxes" and tables, hardbound in black boards gilt (the classic Oxford production) and dust jacket. The book itself is immaculate; the dj should have been equally lovely but careless storage has caused a 3-inch accordioned tear in back panel, which we have tacked with clear tape to verso, so.. a very good copy even as is. Oxford geographical and environmental studies series.
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$12.00
Life and loyalty; a study in the socio-religious culture of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Graeco-Roman period based on epigraphical evidence
by Dijkstra, Klaas
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xii, 375p., first edition bright green buckram boards gilt-titled and -ruled in the usual impressive Brill manner; a fine unblemished copy just out of publisher's original shrinkwrap. Epigraphical wisdom incised in the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert during first three centuries CE. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 128.
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$100.00
El Paisano. Autumn 1967, Number 48
by Henderson, Randall, editor
Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1967. 8p., staplebound newsletter, bears a mailing-convenient transverse foldline else very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Coyoite Canyon dam; directors meet; Salton Sea; bighorn sheep; fossils in badlands; noise pollution; desalinization; game hunting. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the Trailfinders Organization, and Jane Pinheiro,...
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$10.00
China - a Geographical Sketch
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974. paperback. 130p., illus. 1 plate, spine slightly toned, else in very good condition. "The present booklet of 17 articles is based on the briefer one which we published in 1972 under the title 'Geography of China.' " - publisher's note.
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$12.00
El Paisano. Summer 1962, Number 27
by Henderson, Randall, editor
Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1962. 8p., staplebound newsletter, very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Lloyd Parrett to speak on avians; appointments and promotions; bighorn sheep; wilderness bill; Udall policy for Colorado River (reprinted from Smoke Signals, newsletter of the Colorado Tribes); poison bad; coyotes good. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the...
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$10.00
Down Among the Wild Men. The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert
by Greenway, John
Richmond VIC: Hutchinson of Australia, 1973. Hardcover. 361p., illustrated with original b&w photographs and a few line maps, hardbound first edition in 9.5x6 inch raspberry cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the colorphoto dust jacket. Casing is mildly edgeworn with crimps at top and tail of backstrip, quite sound and square, clean and free of any markings, dust jacket about the same with a touch of soil, this a very good copy. Greenway is, per dust jacket flap text, "a controversial anthropologist",...
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$20.00
Outback in Focus
by Carter, Jeff
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 181p., profuse b&w and color photography with captions and nearby text, first edition (it has been reprinted) with presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and, as an appendix, a matte section bearing text and silhouettes only. Hardbound in nice openweave linen, buff-colored, titled in dark brown. This casebinding is enclosed in the colorphoto dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are fine, pace a little sunning to the blank rear dust...
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$25.00
A RIDE WITH KIT CARSON; Across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
by BREWERTON, George D
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map ("Western Territories In The Forties") laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is #903. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling. Brewerton's narrative originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853. It presents an accurate portrait of Kit Carson and...
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$35.00
Les Naufrages de dieu; Aventures d'un protestant et de ses compagnons exiles en deux iles desertes de l'ocean Indien 1690-1698
by Leguat, Francois
Paris: Phebus, 1995. Paperback. 203p., illustrated solely with the color cover facsimile of a very old map showing the islands in question. Softbound, an 8x5.5 inch paperback entirely in the French language. Structurally a sound pleasant copy, but expect holograph comment (in English) and underlines on pp.13, 14 and back cover, pointing up the possibility of an old and continuing fraud (no shipwreck, no marooning, original publisher uncertain), a critical mind at work with ballpoint pen. An attractive...
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$18.00
Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg
by Keenan, Jeremy
John Murray, 2001. 1st ed VG+ in VG dw. Keenan studied the Tuareg and lived with them for a while in the 1960's, in the 1990's he went back to see how civil war in Algeria had changed their lives, includes the Hoggar, Niger and the Sahara
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$15.20
Stephen Long's Great American Desert. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 111, No. 2, April, 1967
by Dillon, Richard H
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967. Pamphlet. Offprint, pp.93-108, the Dillon article solely-- three companion essays are left out of this reproduction of v.111 n.2., none of the three supplementary to Dillon. That said, a very nice copy: softbound in 10.5x8 inch plain printed grey wraps, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock; illustrated with a number of b&w period vignettes and a fullpage line map. The corner-tips of our offering are lightly turned, else fine. American explorers in...
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$18.00
Durch die Sahara.
by Wehrhan, Walter:
Hamm, Artcolor Verlag., 1989. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchs-, Druck- und Kratzspuren. Innen sauber und gut erhalten. . Eine Wüstensafari als Herausforderung für moderne Abenteurer 126 Seiten. Mit vielen farbigen Abbildungen. Illustierter Original-Pappeinband, 24,5 cm x 22,5 cm.
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$7.60
Farewell to Arabia
by Holden, David
New York: Walker and Company, 1966. Hardcover. 268p., illustrated with numerous unfamiliar b&w photos and three handsome line maps, hardbound American first edition in tan cloth boards lettered dark brown, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Dj spine is mildly sunned (red has become orange) and otherwise we see no damage from handling or age. A very good copy: quite sound, clean and unmarked. Author Holden has reported in print for London Times, the Guardian, and live on TV. Thin lips; we can trust him.
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$15.00
Camel Bells in the Windy Desert
by Tu, Andrew
Longman, 1987. 1st ed VG in VG dw. small format 136 pages, an account of growing up in the deserts of Inner Mongolia in the 1920's
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$12.67
Burning Man: Caravansary (cover title: What, where, when)
n.p.: Black Rock City, LLC, 2014. Paperback. 160p. glossy paperback, very good; fold-out map at rear shows layout of the camp. Title on spine is Caravansary. Comprehensive listing of events at the desert gathering.
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$35.00
"Rommel?" "Gunner Who?". A Confrontation in the Desert
by Milligan, Spike
London: Michael Graham-Stewart. 1974. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm].Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 189 pages. War Biography Vol. 2 . 2nd Impression. Hardback.
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$9.93
Sinai : The Great and Terrible Wilderness
by Bernstein, Burton
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1980. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has minor stain to rear panel & is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 268 pages. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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$13.24
