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174. (PALM BEACH)...Sheeran, James Jennings. PALM BEACH: FACTS & FANCIES, WIT
& WISDOM. Palm Beach, Palm Beach Publishing Group, 1997. 5th edition. Qlty
paperback, octavo. Very Good condition+. Black & white photographs. SIGNED BY
AUTHOR. Insider's guide to the passions, possessions & pleasures of the
world's richest society. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 413 pages......$15.00
175. (PARIS)...Clunn, Harold P. THE FACE OF PARIS. London, Spring Books, not
dated (1960?). 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photos. Paris - "most comprehensive collection of
facts about the magic that is Paris ever to appear in a single volume". With
64 pages of finely reproduced plates. Extensive index. Tight, well-bound
volume. 310 pages......$25.00
176. (PARIS)...Osborne, Lawrence. PARIS DREAMBOOK: AN UNCONVENTIONAL GUIDE TO
THE SPLENDOR AND SQUALOR OF THE CITY. New York, Pantheon Books, 1990. 1st
American. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in
lightly rubbed dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. "Eschewing the
cliches of tourism...Paris Dreambook is a kinky, iconoclastic guide to the
side streets & underbelly of Paris". "Impressions of Paris's rituals of food
& sex, the corrupted landscapes of the industrial suburbs, the inadvertnat
exoticism of the Metro, the seediness of Saint-Denis...the brutally hygienic
turkish baths & much more. Good tight copy. 210 pages......$12.50
177. (PARIS)...Skinner, Cornelia Otis. ELEGANT WITS AND GRAND HORIZONS.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition. Black & white photos. "A sparkling panorama of 'La Belle
Epoque': its gilded society, irrepresible wits and splendid courtesans." With
Bibliography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 262 pages......$12.00
178. (PEKING)...Cameron, Nigel and Brake, Brian. PEKING: A TALE OF THREE
CITIES. New York, Harper & Row, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, Quarto. Very good+ in tattered dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Owner signature front endpaper. Color & Black & white photographs.
Lavishly illustrated with 135 photographs (including 40 in full color) and
over 70 text illustrations, maps, and decorations. Remarkable biography and
portrait of Peking as it was and is - of its art, poetry, opera, dynastic
splendor, squalor, emperors, concubines, eunuchs, the Great Wall, Ming Tombs,
modern government, industry, athletics, citizenry everyday life - and much
more. With Chronology of Peking before the Mongol conquest. Decorated
endpapers. Indexed. Large, elegant, well-bound volume. 263 pages......$35.00
179. (PHILLIPINES)...Keith, Agnes Newton. BARE FEET IN THE PALACE. Boston,
Little, Brown & Co, 1955. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo.
Very good condition. Black & white sketches. Life & travel in the Phillipines
- a living portrait of the people. Illustrated by the Author. Tight,
well-bound volume. 370 pages......$20.00
180. (POCKET ATLAS)...(Interarts Ltd. in cooperation with the Associated
Press). WORLD MAP BOOK: POLITICAL ATLAS. Cambridge MA, Interarts Ltd, 1982.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good+ in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color illustrated endpapers. Color photos, maps,
drawings. Compact, concise, comprehensive World Pocket Atlas (5" x 6") -
Presenting the countries of the world..cities..boundaries... lakes..
coastlines.. railroads.. major roads. Special section provides detailed
statistical information on each nation. With political maps of the world,
national flags, information on wildlife, population, life-expectancy,
literacy, language, religion, currency - and much more. Beautifully
illustrated with extensive Index. Good tight copy. 184 pages......$10.00
181. (POMPEII/HERCULANEUM)...de Franciscis, Alfonso. POMPEII & HERCULANEUM:
THE BURIED CITIES. New York, Crescent Books, 1978. 1st Orbis edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Color photographs. Magnificent full-color,
photo-illustrated tour - with text - of the once buried Roman cities of
Pompeii & Herculaneum. Over 190 photographs - many full-page. With detailed
history, schematics. Tight well-bound volume. 193 pages......$30.00
182. (PORTLAND)...Abbott, Carl (Pictorial Research by Van Arsdol, Ted).
PORTLAND: GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST. Northridge CA, Windsor Publications,
1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Gift inscription front endpaper.
Color & Black & white photos. Decorated endpapers. Hundreds of illustrations,
including 32 pages of color photographs. Entertaining & historically precise
narrative of Portland, Oregon - from its inception to the present. With
special sections on major industries. Indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 270
pages......$25.00
183. (PROVENCE)...Walden, Sara (Text) Dos Santos, Solvi (Photographs).
PROVENCE: THE ART OF LIVING. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small oblong quarto. Very good+ in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Color photographs. Illustrated full-color
tour of the region in the south of France. Insider's view of 31 private homes
and gardens... belonging to some of the world's most well-known designers,
artists and collectors. With over 200 lavish high-gloss photographs. Includes
Guide to Provence, Index. Elegant, well-bound volume. 207 pages......$30.00
184. (PSKOV)...Morozkina, Yelena (Translated from the Russian by Bradbury,
Doris). PSKOV: A GUIDE. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1984. 1st English edition.
Pictorial boards, Small octavo. Very Good condition+. Color & Black & white
photographs. Color pictorial endpapers. Beautifully illustrated travel guide
to Pskov. With information on architecture.. museums... rivers.. natural
history.. the city itself.. Education.. sport.. industry.. the caves..
Pushkin museum.. Places associated with Lenin - and much more. With enclosed
folding map. Good tight copy. 192 pages......$17.50
185. (RIO)...Gibson, Hugh. RIO. New York, Doubleday, 1938. Hardcover - cloth,
Large octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Plate removed endpaper.
Hinge starting. Black & white photos. Evocative tour of the Rio of the 1930s.
Over 30 wonderful full-page Black & white photos. 263 pages......$14.00
186. (RUSSIA)...(Collins Publishers). A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE SOVIET UNION.
New York, Collins Publishers, 1987. 1st/4th printing. Hardcover - cloth,
Folio. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Hundreds of color photos. 100 top photographers stationed throughout Russia
capture the world's largest nation on film in the course of a single day.
Magnificent mammoth production. 100's of photographs, each well captioned &
identifying the Photographer, plus where & when each photo was taken.
Coincident with the 70th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Extraordinary
pictures of extraordinary events. Tight well-bound volume. 240
pages......$35.00
187. (RUSSIA)...Hindus, Maurice. MOTHER RUSSIA. New York, Doubleday, 1944.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Light cover crease.
Black & white photographs. Encyclopedic portrait, tour & analysis of Russia.
Contents include: Russia's Flaming Young.. Russia's Coming of Age.. Russian
Cities.. Russia's New Society.. Russian Women.. Russian Children.. On the
Trail of the Enemy.. Russian Quests. Tight well-bound volume. 395
pages......$15.00
188. (RUSSIA)...Kalb, Marvin L. EASTERN EXPOSURE. New York, Farrar, Straus &
Cudahy, 1958. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Russian Journal of a young American
in Moscow during "The Year of the Thaw." INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Good
tight copy. 332 pages......$25.00
189. (RUSSIA)...Tschebotarioff, Gregory P. RUSSIA MY NATIVE LAND. N.Y, McGraw
Hill, 1964. 1st edition. Boards, octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Slight cover & edgewear. Signature,
title page. Black & white photos. Good tight copy. 384 pages......$12.00
190. (RUSSIA)...Wells, Charles A and Boykin, Elizabeth (With illustrations by
the Author). PINK: THE TRAVELS OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY IN RUSSIA. New
York, McArthur Prints, 1935. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition
in worn/chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Covers faded.
Black & white drawings. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. With presentation
plate front endpaper. Good tight copy. 208 pages......$25.00
191. (RUSSIA/JAPAN)...Little, Francis. THE LADY OF THE DECORATION. New York,
The Century Co, 1907. Repr. 1906 edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo.
Very good condition. Spine letters faded. 1907 inscription endpaper. Letters
written - 1901-1905 - from a woman to her cousin as she shipped out to travel
thru Russia & Japan to a missionary school. Well-bound tight volume.
....$14.00
192. (RUSSIAN - NATURE GUIDE)...Knystautas, Algirdas (Foreword by Flint,
Vladimir). THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE USSR. New York, McGraw Hill, 1987.
Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in very lightly chipped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. First & only
modern guide in English to the natural history of the USSR... covering the
whole panorama of wildlife. Beautifully illustrated - many full page color
photographs. Includes sections on physical geography, climate, nature
reserves, national parks & more. With clear maps allowing instant pinpointing
of unfamiliar features. With tables classifying wildlife. Indexed. Tight
well-bound volume. 224 pages......$20.00
193. (RUSSIAN PICTORIAL)...(Mockba Publishers). WHERE SCIENCE BLOSSOMS.
Russia, Mockba Publishers, 1988. Stamped cloth, Small Quarto. Color & Black &
white photographs. Large scale photo pictorial (with text)" about the Soviet
Far East and the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences". Lavish
illustrated with full-color photographs. Text in both Russian and English.
Tight well-bound volume. 280 pages......$35.00
194. (SACRED SITES)...Wilson, Colin. THE ATLAS OF HOLY PLACES & SACRED SITES.
New York, DK Publishing, 1996. 1st American. Pictorial boards, Quarto. As
new. Color photographs. An illustrated guide to the location and history of
the world's most revered holy sites. With hand-drawn maps... magnificent
color photos, including aerial photography of the sites & close-up views of
ancient treasures. Includes historical information & significance. Plus
comprehensive Gazeteer, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound
volume. 192 pages......$25.00
195. (SAFARIS)...Stelzner, Burk H. GUIDE TO SAFARIS. New York, Corinthian,
1969. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in worn/clipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Lt cover/edge wear. Black & white
photographs. How to plan, outfit & participate in an African safari in the
most economical, time-saving & effortless way. Illustrated. Contents include:
Regions, Planning, Equipment, Companionship, Types of Safari, A Typical Day
on Safari, The Outfitter, The Professional Hunter, Camping, Hunting Tactic,
Dangers in the Bush, Photograaphic Safar, Taxidermy Tips. With info in
licensing, registration - and much more. Indexed. Good tight copy. 178
pages......$12.50
196. (SAFARIS/JOURNEYS)...Bangs, Richard and Kallen, Christian (Editors).
PATHS LESS TRAVELLED: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF EXPLORATION. New
York, Atheneum, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Small
Quarto. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Full color
photographs. Twelve famous writers on the dream trips of their lifetimes,
sponsored by Sobek, premiere travel adventure firm in America. Locales
include: New Zealand rain forest, Yemen, Caves in Malaysia, India river raft
trip, Japanese bike tour, the Zambezi, Madagascar, Africa, Tazmanian river
cruise, Peruvian Odyssey, Amazon adventure, mountaineering in the Andes.
Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs. Good tight copy. 168
pages......$16.50
197. (SAN FRANCISCO)...Caen, Herb (Illustrated by Brodie, Howard). BAGHDAD BY
THE BAY: A COLORFUL ENTERTAINING PROFILE OF LIFE, PEOPLE, AND PLACES IN
MODERN SAN FRANCISCO. New York, Doubleday, 1954. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Tiny owner tag endpaper. Tinted drawings. Decorated
endpapers. Delightful portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the
U.S. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 276 pages......$12.00
198. (SAN FRANCISCO)...Cameron, Robert (With Commentary by Alistair Cooke).
ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO: A NEW COLLECTION OF NOSTALGIC AND CONTEMPORARY AERIAL
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BAY AREA. San Francisco, Cameron and Company, 1978.
1st/5th printing. Hardcover - cloth, Oblong quarto. Very good condition in
worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Several page edges lightly
rippled front & rear. Color photos. Spectacular large format, full-page,
full-color aerial photos of the Bay Area. Divided into six areas of
coverage... San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, High Above San Francisco, South
Bay, Alameda-Contra Csota, Napa-Marin-Sonoma. Tight well-bound volume. 159
pages......$22.50
199. (SAN FRANCISCO)...Conrad, Barnaby. SAN FRANCISCO: A PROFILE WITH
PICTURES. New York, Bramhall House, 1959. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very
good condition. Light edgewear. Covers very lightly soiled. Black & white
photos. Evocative photo/text homage to San Francisco. Sections include: The
Past, The Fog, Architecture, Chinatown, The Hills, Opera. Also: Golden Gate
Park, Fisherman's Wharf, Cable Cars, Telegraph Hill, The Water, The People
and much more. With a section of Street Names (their significance & origins).
Indexed. Good tight copy. 228 pages......$12.50
200. (SCOTLAND)...Blake, George, Murray, W.H., Grant, J.S., Gordon, Seton,
Weir, Tom, Allan, John R., McLaren, Morey. SCOTLAND'S SPLENDOUR. Glascow,
Collins Publishers, 1965. Repr. 1961 edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
Small Quarto. Very good condition. Gift inscription front endpaper. Color &
Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers. The charm & splendour of
Scotland captured in photograph & text. Magnificent illustrations. With
Pictorial Map, Map of Southern Scotland, Map of Northern Scotland, Key Maps
to Illustrations. Main sections: Glasgow and the South-West, The West, The
Hebrides, The North, The North-East, The Central Highlands, Edinburgh, Fife
and the Borders. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 230 pages......$30.00
201. (SEA VOYAGES)...Gee, Marjory. CAPTAIN FRASER'S VOYAGES 1865 - 1892. New
York, W. W. Norton, 1979. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black &
white photos. The career & sea voyages of Thomas Garry Fraser, from the time
of his apprenticeship on the Corea, at the age of fifteen. Fascinating
account of 19th Century seafaring life, dangers, hardships and exotic ports
of call throughout the world. Tight well-bound volume. 217 pages......$16.00
202. (SEVILLE)...Gallichan, Walter & Hartley, Gasquoine. Illustrated by
Elizabeth Hartley. THE STORY OF SEVILLE. Covent Garden, J.M. Dent & Co, 1925.
Repr. 1903 edition.. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small 12mo. Very good
condition. Slight foxing endpapers. Black & white frontis & plates. With
fold-out map of Seville. Good tight copy. 320 pages......$12.00
203. (SIERRA NEVADAS)...Webster, Paul (Foreword by Farquhar, Francis P.). THE
MIGHTY SIERRA: PORTRAIT OF A MOUNTAIN WORLD. Palo Alto CA, American West
Publishing, 1972. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black &
white photographs. Well researched & detailed history & photo-illustrated
tour of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Hundreds of illustrations. With
Guide to the Sierra, Bibliography, Extensive Glossary & Index. Good tight
copy. 287 pages......$30.00
204. (SKELETON COAST)...Schoeman, Amy. SKELETON COAST. Johannesburg,
Macmillan South Africa, 1984. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black &
white photos. Magnificent photo-illustrated history & tour of The Skeleton
Coast of Manibia in Africa. Bibliography/Index. Good tight copy. 192
pages......$22.50
205. (SOUTH POLE)...Byrd, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn, U.S.N.. Ret. LITTLE
AMERICA: AERIAL EXPLORATION IN THE ANTARCTIC: THE FLIGHT TO THE SOUTH POLE.
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 2nd impression. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good condition. Slight cover/edge wear. Tiny cover stain.
Foredge bumped. Black & white photographs & maps. Hinge starting.
Photographic endpapers. 74 illustrations & maps Dramatic story of the famous
polar expedition. 422 pages......$25.00
206. (SOUTH SEAS)...Traprock, Walter E., F.R.S.S.E.U. THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA:
WANDERING IN THE SOUTH SEAS. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. 1st
edition. Engraved cloth, Large octavo. Good condition. Covers worn/ltly
soiled. Corners bumped. Spine ends frayed. Black & white photos & 1 map.
Hinge starting. Decorated endpapers. Traprock's apocryphal, definitely
tongue-in-cheek excursion to the South Seas. Entertaining, if not
informative, travel adventure. Hard to find. 146 pages......$12.00
207. (SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA)...Matschat, Cecile Hulse. SEVEN GRASS HUTS: AN
ENGINEER'S WIFE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. New York, Literary Guild of
America, 1939. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light cover
wear. Spine faded. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white photographs.
Contents include: Camilla of the Pampa.. The First Grass Hut.. Home in the
Wilderness.. My Country House.. The Monkey Bridge.. Voodoo Fires in Rio..
Jaguar Hunt in the Chaco.. The Death God.. Grass Hut Cookery - and much more.
Good tight copy. 281 pages......$12.00
208. (SPACE EXPLORATION)...Lewis, Richard (Principal Author) Foreword by
Beggs, James M., Administrator of NASA. THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE
UNIVERSE: EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE COSMOS. New York, Harmony Books,
1983. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover/edge wear. Color &
Black & white photos. Encyclopedia of space exploration. Detailed look at
what probes & spacecraft have taught us about the solar system & universe.
Color decorated endpapers. over 500 color & Black & white illustrations,
including photographs, diagrams, charts & graphs. With 32 full-color
double-page spreads of the finest space photographs. Plus special 10 page
diary of all the major launches to date. Extensive index. Tight well-bound
volume. 320 pages......$30.00
209. (SPAIN)...Fodor Travel Publications. EXPLORING SPAIN. New York/Toronto,
Fodor's Travel Publications, 1996. 3rd edition. Trade paperbck, Small octavo.
Very Good condition+. Color photos, maps, plates. Hundreds of full-color
color photographs. Fold-out cover maps. Everything you need for a complete
visit to Spain... Organized Region by Region. With photos & drawings, Travel
Facts, Hotel Restaurants, History, Food & Drink - much more. Well-indexed.
Good tight copy. 288 pages......$10.00
210. (SPAIN - CATHEDRAL CITIES)...Collins, W. W., R. I. CATHEDRAL CITIES OF
SPAIN: ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. New York, Dodd Mead, 1912. Repr. 1909
edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very
light corner wear. Color frontis and plates. With 59 full color portraits.
Decorated red cloth binding with elaborate stamped cover design of a pillared
alter... or cathedral door. With gilt title lettering. Evocative descriptions
(chapters) on the author's travels visits to the Spanish cathedral cities of
Cadiz, Seville, Cordova, Granada, Malaga, Valencia, Tortosa, Tarragona,
Barcelona, Gerona, Toledo, Salamanca, Avila, Segovia, Saragossa, Santiago,
Tuy, Orense, Astorga, Zamora, leon, Oviedo, Valladolid, Burgos. Indexed.
Elegant, tight well-bound volume. 358 pages......$50.00
211. (TEXAS)...Pirtle III, Caleb (With Introductory letter by Governor Ann
Richards - with photograph). TEXAS: LEGACY OF A PROUD LAND. Dallas TX, Docker
House Publishing, Inc, 1992. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto.
Very good condition in price/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Color photographs. Lavishly illustrated, color-photo illustrated
story of Texas as it was and is today. Sections include: Eastern Woodlands...
Coastal Valley.. North Texas.. Texas Heartland.. Prairies West.. High Plains.
With "Guide to Texas Cities". Tight well-bound volume. 184 pages......$25.00
212. (TEXAS)...(Woodbury Press). TEXAS. Minneapolis, Woodbury Press, 1985.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. Lavishly illustrated color
pictorial of modern Texas - cities, countryside & historical landmarks. Good
tight copy. 62 pages......$12.00
213. (THAILAND)...Sieben, Hubert (Photographer) Introductoin by Basche,
James. THAILAND: LAND OF COLOR. New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1969. 1st
U.S. edition. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in edgetorn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. 2 paperclip marks endpaper.. Color
photographs. Corners slightly bumped. Decorated endpapers. Magnificent
full-color photographic exploration of modern Thailand. Tight well-bound
volume. 155 pages......$20.00
214. (TIBET)...Buckley, Michael and Strauss Robert. TIBET: A TRAVEL SURVIVAL
KIT. Berkeley CA, Lonely Plante Publications, 1986. 1st edition. Paperback.
16mo. Very good condition. Very light edge wear. Color & Black & white
photos/drawings. Comprehensive guidebook with concise background information,
Facts about the Region, Getting Around, Mountain treks/routes. With Glossary,
Index. Good tight copy. 256 pages......$12.00
215. (TIBET)...Dingle, Edwin John. MY LIFE IN TIBET. Los Angeles, Institute
of Mentalphysics, 1939. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Edges/corners bumped. Light spotting to spine/rear cover. Small
owner stamp endpapers. Story of the author's pilgrimage to Tibet. Detailed
teachings of the Tibetan Masters. Good tight copy. 194 pages......$20.00
216. (TOYKO)...Seidensticker, Edward. LOW CITY, HIGH CITY: TOKYO FROM EDO TO
THE EARTHQUAKE: HOW THE SHOGUN'S ANCIENT CAPITAL BECAME A GREAT MODERN CITY
1867 - 1923. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white plates. Brilliant -
beautifully illustrated - portrait of Tokyo's sudden emergence into the
modern world. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 302 pages......$16.00
217. (TRAVEL)...Dunning, Mary Parker. MRS. MARCO POLO REMEMBERS. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 1st printing. Boards, Small octavo. Very good
condition. Very light cover wear. Travels through Japan, China, Burma, India,
Egypt, Greece, Italy, Australia, Africa - and more. Good tight copy. 203
pages......$10.00
218. (TRAVEL)...Kimbrough, Emily (Drawings by Mircea Vasiliu). WATER, WATER,
EVERYWHERE. New York, Harper & Bros, 1956. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth, Small octavo. Good condition+ in worn/chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edges lightly bumped. Insription endpapr. Black &
white drawings. Mishaps & adventures during journey - mostly on boats - to
Greece, through the Aegean, Dalmation coast, & down the Thames. 308
pages......$12.00
219. (TRAVEL)...Meier-Lemgo, Karl. WANDERFAHRTEN DURCH LIPPE. F.L. Wagener,
Lemgo, 1950. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Quarto. Very good condition. Black &
white engravings. Druck und Verlag von F. L. Wagener, Lemgo. With
heimatgenschichliches Register. Good tight copy. 240 pages......$30.00
220. (TRAVEL CONSULTING)...Dominitz, Ben with Dominitz, Nandy D. TRAVEL FREE:
HOW TO START AND SUCCEED IN YOUR OWN TRAVEL CONSULTANT BUSINESS. Carmichael
CA, Prima Publishing, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo.
Very good+ in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. Good tight copy. 210 pages......$11.00
221. (TRAVEL MEMOIRS)...Hone, Joseph. THE DANCING WAITERS: SOME COLLECTED
TRAVELS. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in clipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Gift inscription endpaper. Novelist Hone's idiosyncratic journeys
around the world - with autobiographical accounts of his early life & career.
With accounts of travels in Singapore, Ethiopia, Africa, Europe, America,
Budapest & more. Good tight copy. 195 pages......$15.00
222. (TRAVEL WRITING)...Higgins, Aidan. RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES:
TRAVEL WRITING 1956-1989. London, Secker & Warburg Publishers, 1989. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Good tight copy. 230 pages......$12.50
223. (TROY)...Wood, Michael. IN SEARCH OF THE TROJAN WAR. New York/Oxford,
Facts on File Publications, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Imperial
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Color & Black & white plates. Based on the BBC series. Modern epic of the
host of adventurere - esp. Schliemann - who searched for Troy. Beautifully &
profusely illustrated. Excellent saga of adventure, plus fascinating
historical search into the world of Bronze-Age Greece & Crete. With
Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 272 pages......$16.00
224. (U.S./EUROPEAN TRAVEL)...Dykeman, Wilma. LOOK TO THIS DAY. New York,
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. A year in the life of the author & her family as they tour
America & Europe. Good tight copy. 342 pages......$15.00
225. (VEHICLES)...Hornung, Clarence P. WHEELS ACROSS AMERICA: A PICTORIAL
CAVALCADE ILLUSTRATING THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF VEHICULAR TRANSPORTATION. New
Jersey, A.S. Barnes & Co, 1959. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very
good condition in worn chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Light cover wear. Spine end clipped. Black & white photos/engravings.
Decorated endpapers. Over 1,100 rare engravings, prints & early photographs.
A rollicking detailed history of America on Wheels. Including railroads,
trolleys, tandems, buses, automobiles, motorcycles & bicycles. Good tight
copy. 341 pages......$25.00
226. (VERSAILLES)...Presente par Gaxotte, Pierre. Legende par Perret,
Jacques. Raconte par Nimier, Roger. Photographie par Descharnes, Robert.
VERSAILLES QUE J'AIMS.... Paris, Aux Editions Sun, 1966. Hardcover - cloth,
Small square quarto. Very good condition in lightly edgetorn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photographs. Lavishly
illustrated historical & contemporary portrait of Versailles. With Les
Grandes Heures de Versailles... Table des Illustrations. Well-bound volume.
135 pages......$20.00
227. (WALDEN)...(Thoreau, Henry David) Edited by Seymour, Peter and Morgan,
James. (With a Biographical Essay by Emerson, Ralph Waldo. REFLECTIONS AT
WALDEN. Kansas City, Hallmark Crown Editions, 1971. Hardcover - cloth, Small
square octavo. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photos. Color photographic endpapers.
Selection of Thoreau's Classic Writings, illustrations. with Photographs of
Walden Pond & New Engand. Good tight copy. 61 pages......$10.00
228. (WALES)...Griffith, Wyn. WALES IN COLOUR: A COLLECTION OF COLOUR
PHOTOGRAPHS (With an introductory text & Notes on the Illustrations). London,
B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1958. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition. Full page color photos. Magnificent full-color photographs of
Wales, including lush countryside, Celtic castle & Druid ceremony. Good tight
copy. 95 pages......$20.00
229. (WHALING EXPEDITION)...Robertson, R. B. OF WHALES AND MEN. New York,
Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
worn/edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner plate/3
signatures front endprs. Black & white photos. First hand account of a modern
Antarctic whaling expedition. Good tight copy. 300 pages......$12.50
230. (WILDERNESS)...Bossi, Robert (Photographs) Bemis, Mary & Recio, Belinda
(Editors). JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS. Peterborough NH, Eastern Mountain
Sports, 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Oblong octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photographs.
Impressionistic color-photo illustrated - with text - examination of
wilderness travel & camping. Good tight copy. 118 pages......$12.00
231. (WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES)...Murphy, Robert (Foreword by Udall, Stewart L.,
Secretary of the Interior). WILD SANCTUARIES: OUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES -
A HERITAGE RESTORED. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1968. Hardcover - cloth, Small
Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Color & Black & white photographs. Illustrated with over 250 photographs in
full color and monochrome, and 32 maps. Magnificent detailed portrait of
America's wildlife sanctuaries. With a wealth of information for travelers &
visitors. Indexed. Good tight copy. 288 pages......$20.00
232. (WITCH DOCTOR)...Dowdy, Homer E. CHRIST'S WITCHDOCTOR: FROM SAVAGE
SORCERER TO JUNGLE MISSIONARY. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in worn,
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photographs. First hand account of the dramatic conversion of a notorious
Amazon witchdoctor. Plus: The ways of jungle witchcraft... how a witchdoctor
can cure by blowing hot pebbles onto the sick person, how he is transported
into a world of eerie spirits by swallowing smoke & changting spirit songs,
how he can kill by blowing on the belongings of another person and "eating
his spirit" - and much more. With decorated endpapers and 45 documentary
photographs. Good tight copy. 241 pages......$18.00
233. (WORLD TRAVEL)...Belfrage, Cedric. AWAY FROM IT ALL: AN ESCAPOLOGIST'S
NOTEBOOK. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1937. 2nd printing. Hardcover - cloth,
Large octavo. Very Good condition. Very light cover wear. Good tight copy.
415 pages......$25.00
234. (WORLD WAR II)...Curie, Eve. JOURNEY AMONG WARRIORS. New York, Doubleday
Doran, 1943. Engraved cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. Front hinge starting. Decorated endpapers. A worldwide
journey among soldiers of WWII - in Africa, Near East, Russia, Asia, America.
Well indexed. 501 pages......$11.00
235. (YUGOSLAVIA)...Adamic, Louis. THE NATIVE'S RETURN: AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT
VISITS YUGOSLAVIA AND DISCOVERS HIS OLD COUNTRY. New York, Harper & Bros,
1934. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light
cover wear. With paste-down cover illustration. Black & white photos.
Author's return to Europe. Magnificent tour of Montenegro, Dalmatia,
Belgrade, Croatia & more. Rare photographs. Scarce volume. Tight, well-bound.
370 pages......$25.00
236. (YUGOSLAVIA)...Vilfan, Joze (Coordinating Editor). YUGOSLAVIA. Sarajevo,
Svjetlost Publishers, 1987. 1st edition. Pictorial boards, Quarto. Very Good
condition+. Color photographs. Lavish full-color pictorial (with English
text) on Yugoslavia. Main sections include: Nature.. Townscapes..
Treasure-Houses... Traditions.. Landmarks.. Tokens of Revolution.. Capitals -
and more. Well-bound volume. 263 pages......$20.00
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