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SNOWBALL ORANGES: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle.
by Kerr, Peter
Guilford, CT:: Lyons Press,, (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. The author's first book - "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many...
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$21.50
FALLING OFF THE MAP: Some Lonely Places of the World.
by Iyer, Pico
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1993.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. His third book, a collection of entertaining essays on visiting some offbeat places (although not all are as far off the beaten track now as they were back in 1993) - including North Korea, Paraguay, Argentina, Vietnam, Bhutan, Australia and Iceland. SIGNED on the title page. 190 pp.
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$45.00
DERBYSHIRE: The County Books.
by Porteous, Crichton
London:: Robert Hale, , (1950). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages and spine of dj, price-clipped with a new publisher's price-sticker attached) . First printing. A very personal view of Derbyshire by a man who lived there - and loved it - for more than 25 years, but also had childhood memories going back much further. A title in The County Books series. Illustrated with 49 black and white photographs. Folding map tipped in at rear. Index....
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$34.50
The Last Man on the Moon.
by CERNAN, Eugene with Don Davis. [Eugene Cernan 1934-2017]
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Signed in blue ink on the title page by Gene Cernan (Live signature). Second printing. With a printed letter about his Omega watch bound in. To my knowledge, no copies of this Omega edition were first printings. Black paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of only twelve men to walk on the Moon, commander of Apollo XVII, the last Lunar mission. Cernan is also one of only three men to circle the Moon on more than one flight (Apollo X and XVII), and only two...
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$150.00
ONE DRY SEASON: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley.
by Alexander, Caroline
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1990.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. First book by this Florida born author, one in which she tells of her journey into Gabon in West Africa, almost a century after Mary Kingsley, then 30, who ventured into this area in 1893 - "a region notorious for its deadly climate and diseases, its alarming wildlife, and its cannibals" - a trip which led to her classic book 'Travels in West Africa.'. . "Armed with...
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$24.50
THE FIRE NEVER DIES: One Man's Raucous Romp Down the Road of Food, Passion and Adventure.
by Sterling, Richard
Berkeley, CA:: Traveler's Tales,, (2001). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A "poignant and hilarious worldwide tour of culinary and romantic adventures" that "exhibits Lowell Thomas Award winner Richard Sterling at his tough and tender best." SIGNED on the dedication page. Prologue, epilogue. x, 286 pp.
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$21.50
HASHISH: The Autobiography of a Red Sea Smuggler.
by De Monfried, Henry (1879 - 1974), Helen Buchanan Bell, translator
New York:: Stonehill Publishing,, (1973.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good dust jacket (small chips at top of spine, and at folds). First printing. Attractive new edition of a book set in the 1920's and originally published in 1930 - a classic tale of "man and the sea" - a mixture of adventure story set in Egypt and Somalia and other places in the Arab world, and of mysticism and self-discovery and closeness with nature. Includes a new afterword by the author in which he...
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$75.00
THE QUESTION OF HU.
by Spence, Jonathan D
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A meticulously researched book, which still leaves an enigma at its center: "To French Jesuit Jean-Francois Foucquet, John Hu, a Chinese widower from Canton and a convert to Catholicism seemed like the perfect choice to serve as the missionary's translator and assistant. So Foucquet took Hu back to Paris with him in 1722, but Hu acted bizarrely on the overseas crossing and was...
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$27.50
GERMAN HOME LIFE, From Fraser's Magazine
by MARIE VON BOTHMER
NEW YORK: D. Appleton and Company, 1876 DARK GREEN COVER, WORN ON EDGES AND TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE. WORN INSIDE AT BINDING IN FRONT AND BACK BUT STILL SEWN TOGETHER AND ALL PAGES TIGHT. NAME INSIDE FRONT, 6 PENCIL LINES DRAWN INSIDE BACK COVER, 5 OTHER PENCIL MARKS IN BACK. NO MARKINGS THROUGHOUT PAGES. NICE CORRESPONDENCE IN FRONT TO FRASERS FROM AUTHOR, PRESS NOTICES ABOUT THE FIRST EDITION OF GERMAN HOME LIFE. 6 PAGE PREFACE WRITTEN IN LONDON. CHAPTERS ARE SERVANTS, FURNITURE, FOOD, MANNERS- CUSTOMS,...
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$45.50
IMPRESSIONS EN ROUTE.
by McCarthy, E. Avery
Los Angeles:: Saturday Night Publishing Company, , 1928.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good- in quarter green cloth over grey boards, decorated in gilt. Paper label on spine is no longer legible and the title was written in ink underneath it. Sunning to the spine and tidemark along outer edges of the boards. . First edition. First publication in book form of the author's letters from a Mediterranean trip - a journey which took him to Madeira, Granada, Seville, Tunis, Carthage, Athens,...
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$28.50
Memoirs of Monsieur Claude, Chief of Police Under the Second Empire
by Claude, Antoine Francois
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1907. First US Edition. Hardcover. 321pp. Original red decorated cloth stamped in gold on the front panel, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and eleven inserted plates with illustrations. Condenses five of the original ten volumes in one, dropping parts that were long out of date. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Light wear to extremities. A bright, near fine copy.; Octavo.
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$54.00
From Vinland to Mars a Thousand Years of Exploration
by Lewis Richard S
436 pages. A thousand years of exporation. Condition: previous owner bookplate inside front cover, in price clipped dust jacket. See photos k4
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$12.99
Let the chips fall
by Vallee, Rudy
Signature on front end page with date autographed and gift inscription above it. Dust jacket is very worn along top and bottom edges with small tears.
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$19.98
THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 19047-1909.
by Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922)
New York:: Carroll & Graf,, (1999). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (appears unread).. Trade paperback. Shackleton's account of the first expedition he led to the Antarctic in an attempt to reach the South Pole, originally published in 1909. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xviii, 452 pp.
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$18.50
FAMOUS SOUTH COAST PLEASURE RESORTS PAST AND PRESENT: Their Historical Associations, Their Rise to Fame and a Forecast of Their Future Development.
by Clunn, Harold
London:: T. Whitingham & Co, Ltd, , (1929). Hardcover first edition -. Very good overall in blue cloth with black lettering (small bookstore stamp on front pastedown, spine toned and darkened). First edition. A study of the resorts of Brighton, Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Hastings, Torquay, Folkestone and Worthing. Illustrated with many photographs. Index xxiii, 404 pp.
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$34.50
WITH GRACIELA TO THE HEADHUNTERS.
by Boeldeke, Alfred with Louis Hagen
New York:: David McKay Co.,, (1958.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth, lacking the dust jacket. . First US printing. Illustrated by 32 pages of photographs. The story of the author's dangerous journey in South America with his five year old daughter and wife. 166 pp.
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$17.50
AFRICAN DRUMS.
by Puleston, Dr, Fred
New York:: Farrar & Rinehart, , (1930). Hardcover -. Very good in brown cloth with dark brown lettering (some wear to the edges of the boards and the corners, but overall a clean and tight copy), no dust jacket. . Early printing. Fred Puleston ran away from home at 17 and went to Africa as an agent for Hattan & Cookson he stayed there off and on for 14 years: 1882 to 1896. This book - which describes those experiences - includes some surprising statements - For example "All white men...
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$40.00
IN SOUTHERN LIGHT: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon.
by Shoumatoff, Alex,
New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An account of two excursions in tropical rain forests by a journalist who is described as 'part biologist, part linguist, part anthropologist, ...who is fascinated by other ways of living..'. In the first section he describes his ascent of the Nhamunda river, a little-known, but long, tributary of the Amazon; in the second part he explores Zaire in Africa, trekking into the heart...
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$19.50
THE SEVEN SEALS OF SCIENCE; AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNFOLDMENT OF ORDERLY KNOWLEDGE & ITS INFLUENCE ON HUMAN AFFAIRS
by JOSEPH MAYER, PH.D
NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1927 BLUE GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER BOOK OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH NORMAL LIBRARY MARKINGS, MAYER WAS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY IN TUFT'S COLLEGE. LARGE NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND PICTURES. 14 CHAPTERS: BOOK OF NATURE VERSUS BOOK OF MAN, GREKK LEARNING, DARK AGE OF SCIENCE, ASTRONOMY & AUTHORITY, RENAISSANCE, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ADVANCES,...
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$29.50
IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MORNING: Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People.
by Caputo, Philip
Guileford, Connecticut:: Lyons Press,, (2014). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First thus- signed hardcover edition. A collection of essays by this Pulitzer Prize winning author on nature, travel and adventure, from Alaska to Cuba, from the Khyber Pass to Kenya in Africa, originally published in 2004. This is a special reprinted edition, SIGNED by the author on the front free-end paper. 317 pp.
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$34.50
Fritz
by Martin Shepard
First Edition with First Printing Line. Boards are faded along the top edge and have some small bump indents along the bottom edge. A scrape at one spot along the foredge. Somewhat tight binding. Dust jacket is very faded at the spine with some small tears at spine ends and front corners. There are movement marks and a Krochs & Brentano's price sticker on the backside. The first edition hardcover is starting to become scarce. The founder of Gestalt Therapy dealt with the here and now rather than what...
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$15.00
FROM HEAVEN LAKE: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet.
by Seth, Vikram
Norman, OK:: Vintage Books,, (1987).. Very good.. 1st trade paperback printing. In the summer of 1981, Seth, a young Indian graduate student in China, decided to hitchhike back home to Delhi by way of Tibet. This insightful and engaging book is the account of his journey. His first regularly published book(preceded by a poetry chapbook.) 178 pp
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$12.00
THE OHIO.
by Banta, R.E
New York:: Rinehart and Company., (1949). Hardcover first edition -. Good + in light gray cloth (light toning to the pages, minor soiling to covers, name on front endpaper). First edition. A volume in the RIVERS OF AMERICA series edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer. Illustrated with drawings by Edward Shenton. This copy has a page bound in stating that this book is one of a Special Limited Valley Edition - this page is INSCRIBED by the author and dated 10-14-49. Bibliography, index. 592 pp.
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$24.50
A BORDER OF BLUE: ALONG THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM THE KEYS TO THE YUCATAN.
by Turner, Frederick
New York:: Henry Holt,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An exploration of the three and a half thousand miles of coastland that borders the Gulf of Mexico in the southern US and Mexico and a picture of the peope who inhabit these borderlands -from the Florida Keys in the spring to cities like New Orleans and Brownsville to Merida in Mexico. Bibliography. Index. 302 pp.
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$21.50
The Big Swingers
by Fenton, Robert W
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 258pp. Mustard cloth stamped in green on the spine. The first full-scale biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Includes compilations, letters, documents, synopses, lists of characters, plots and themes. Profusely illustrated with b/w pictures. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with tiny scrapes to front panel. ; Octavo.
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$54.00
