Travel / Exploration (Africa to England)
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THADDEUS Travel / Exploration (Africa to England) March 2, 1997
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Books listed alphabetically in order by Topic
1. (AFRICA)...Gunther, John. INSIDE AFRICA. New York, Harper & Bros, 1955.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light cover wear.
Monumental, detailed portrait of Africa, past & present. With Notes,
Extensive Index. Gunther's most impressive "Inside" book. Tight well-bound
volume. 952 pages......$22.50
2. (AFRICA)...Turner, Kay (With a Foreword by Grzimek, Professor Bernhard).
SERENGETI HOME. New York, Dial Press/James Wade, 1977. 1st printing.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in lightly
worn/chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black &
white photos. Story of the author's life & raising a family in the splendid
isolation of Africa's Serengeti Wilderness. Indexed. Good tight copy. 214
pages......$12.00
3. (AFRICA)...Walker, Eric Sherbrooke. TREETOPS HOTEL. London, Robert Hale
Limited, 1962. Reprint '61 edition. Hardcover - cloth, Very good condition.
Owner inscriptions, stamp front endpapers. Black & white photos. Story of a
British couple who went to Africa in the early 1930s & literally built a
hotel in the treetops. Good tight copy. .....$15.00
4. (AFRICAN PRACTICE)...McCord James B., M.D with Douglas, John Scott. MY
PATIENTS WERE ZULUS. New York, Rinehart & Co, 1951. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition. Black & white photo frontis. Story of a doctor's
unique practice in Africa. Good tight copy. 308 pages......$10.00
5. (ALASKA)...Buhro, Harry. ROUGH-STUFF AND MOONLIGHT: OF DEEPER LOVE HATH
NONE. New York, Dorrance & Co, 1948. 1st. Pebbled cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition. Owner inscription front endpaper. Black & white plates. With
impressionistic illustrations by the author. World travel - the Java Sea,
Tierra del Fuego, Alaska. Good tight copy. 217 pages......$15.00
6. (ALASKA)...Carrighar, Sally. MOONLIGHT AT MIDDAY: ALASKA. New York, Alfred
A. Knopf, 1958. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Very slight cover/edge wear. Black & white photos. "Alaska...as few
outsiders ever see it." Good tight copy. With 48 Black & white photographs &
map.. 389 pages......$13.50
7. (ALASKA)...Spring, Norma. ALASKA: THE COMPLETE TRAVEL BOOK: AN ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE TO THE AMAZING VARIETY OF YEAR-ROUND ADVENTURE & SPECTACULAR SCENERY.
London, Macmillan, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black &
white photos. Decorated endpapers. Good tight copy. 248 pages......$15.00
8. (ALASKA - BY AIR)...Hirschmann, Fred (Photography) Heacox, Kim (Text)
Preface by Thomas, Lowell, Jr. Afterword by Hammond Jay. BUSH PILOTS OF
ALASKA. Portland OR, Graphic Arts Ctr. Publishing, 1989. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Small Folio. Near fine in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Full color photographs. Decorated endpaprs. Spectacular
portrait of the vastness & wild beauty of Alaska. With 192 full color
photographs with text. Many full-page photos & double-page spreads. Preface &
afterword by the former Governor & Lieutenant Governor of the state. Travel
with Alaskan bush pilots in aircraft of all types & sizes from Piper Cubs to
Cessnas, Beavers, Twin Otters & ultra modern helicopters. Includes tales of
the old days when pilots first came to Alaska, as well as stories of today,
of adventure & excitement. Tight wellbound volume. 144 pages......$40.00
9. (ALASKA/ESKIMO LIFE)...de Poncins, Gontran in collaboration with
Galantiere, Lewis (Illustrated by the Author). KABLOONA. New York, Reynal &
Hitchcock, 1941. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Light cover/edge wear. Rear hinge starting. Tinted drawings/Black
& white photos. De Poncins' classic story of his journey to the North with an
unmatched detailed portrait of Eskimo life. Decorated endpapers.
Welll-illustrated with 26 pages of photos, plus color tinted frontis & a
number of color tinted & Black & white illustrations. Well-bound volume. 364
pages......$18.00
10. (AMAZON)...Larson, Mildred & Dodds, Lois. TREASURE IN CLAY POTS: AN
AMAZON PEOPLE ON THE WHEEL OF CHANGE. Palm Desert CA, Person to Person Books,
1985. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Edges
bumped. Black & white photos. Missionaries in the Amazon. Good tight copy.
309 pages......$15.00
11. (ARCHAEOLOGY)...Ceran, C.W. HANDS ON THE PAST: PIONEER ARCHAEOLOGISTS
TELL THEIR OWN STORY. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 1st American.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Corners lightly worn/bumped.
Black & white photos. Encyclopedic volume. Colorful detailed portrait of
Archaeology, with contributions by & about its major contributors. Among
them: Wooley, Walpole, Schliemann, Winckelmann, Bruce-Mitford, Evans, Petrie,
Budge, Carter, Layard, Glueck, von Humboldt, Cousteau & many more.
Fascinating first person adventures. Well-illustrated. With Sources,
estensive Index. Good tight copy. 434 pages......$15.00
12. (ARCTIC)...Pryde, Duncan M. NUNAGA: TEN YEARS OF ESKIMO LIFE. New York,
Walker and Co, 1972. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Edge mark. Signature half-titl. Color photographs. True Arctic
adventure. Life with the Eskimos of Perry Island. Descriptions of birth,
death & marriage rites. Sacred ceremonies. Seal, polar bear & caribou hunts.
Several near-fatal adventures. Full color photographs. Decorated endpapers.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Good tight copy. 285 pages......$20.00
13. (ARCTIC - ALASKA)...Richards, Eva Albey. ARCTIC MOOD: A NARRATIVE OF
ARCTIC ADVENTURES. Caldwell ID, Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1949. 1st edition.
Engraved cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Very light cover wear. Black &
white photos & drawings. Decorated endpapers. Trip to Alaska. Intimate view
of Alaskan life - some excellent whaling photographs. Well bound volume. 282
pages......$15.00
14. (ATLANTIS)...Mavor, James W., Jr. VOYAGE TO ATLANTIS. New York, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Photos/Maps/Charts/Drawings. A firsthand account of the scientific expedition
to solve the riddle of Atlantis. With 32 pages of
photos/maps/charts/drawings. Decorated endpapers. Atlantis discovered. The
step-by-step story of archaeological & geological evidence uncovered on the
land & under the sea by two expeditions led by James W. Mavor. With extensive
Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 320
pages......$30.00
15. (AUSTRALIA)...Bell, Kathrine & Wigney, Ian. VICTORIA: THE GARDEN STATE.
Sydney, Murray Child, 1979. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Full color
photographs. Decorated endpapers. Beautiful photo-illustrated portrait of
Victoria, the smallest State on the Australian mainland. 64 pages......$16.50
16. (AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK)...Mountford, Charles P. BRAUNE MENSCHEN ROTER SAND:
STREIFZUGE DURCH DIE WILDNIS AUSTRALIENS. Zurich, Orell Fussli Verlag, 1951.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good+ in worn chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Slight bumping. Front hinge starting. Black &
white photos. The Australian Outback. 212 pages......$15.00
17. (BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG)...Dumont, George-Henri (Text) Bruggmann,
Maximillien (Fotos). BELGIEN UND LUXEMBURG. Zurich, Silva-Verlag, 1980. 1st.
Hardcover - Hardcover - decorated cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in
slightly edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners
lightly bumped. Color photos. Decorated endpapers. Beautifully
photo-illustrated portrait of contemporary Belgium & Luxembourg. German Text.
Well-bound. 163 pages......$20.00
18. (BERMUDA TRIANGLE)...Kusche, Lawrence David. THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY
- SOLVED. New York, Harper & Row, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in worn chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Fascinating detailed history of the
Bermuda Triangle Mystery - and its alleged solution. Bibliography, Index.
Good tight copy. 302 pages......$10.00
19. (BIOGRAPHY)...Wasserman, Jacob (Translated from the German by Paul, Eden
& Cedar). BULA MATARI: STANLEY, CONQUERER OF A CONTINENT. New York, Liveright
Inc. Publishers, 1933. 1st. Engraved cloth, octavo. Very good condition.
Light cover/edge wear. Spine bumped/faded. Signature endpapr. Black & white
photo frontis & plates. Definitive biography of famed explorer & adventurer,
Henry M. Stanley. With Bibliography, Extensive Index. Tight well-bound
volume. 351 pages......$16.50
20. (BOSTON)...Lyons, A. C. (Photographs by Chamberlain, Samuel. Maps by
Wilcox, Chadbourne). INVITATION TO BOSTON: A MERRY GUIDE TO HER PAST,
PRESENT, AND FUTURE WHICH DANIEL WEBSTER AMONG OTHERS PLACES AS FOREVER. New
York, M. Barrows and Co, 1947. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Covers lightly soiled. Corners lightly bumped.
Black & white photos. Photographic endpapers. Charming history of Boston past
and travel guide to Boston present & more of Massachusetts. Well illustrated,
Indexed. Good tight copy. Hard to find. 258 pages......$13.50
21. (BRITAIN)...Brandt, Bill (photographer). LITERARY BRITAIN: LANDMARKS,
LANDSCAPES AND HOUSES OF THE GREAT WRITERS AND POETS. New York, Aperture,
1986. Repr. 1951 edition.. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in edgetorn/taped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Full
page Black & white photos. Good tight copy. Np......$15.00
22. (BRITAIN)...(Country Life Ltd.). PICTURE BOOK OF BRITAIN: IN COLOUR
(Combining Volumes I & II). London, Country Life, Ltd, 1966. 1st/5th
printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition in lightly
edgetorn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped.
Color photos. Owner stamp endpaper. Spectacular full color photo tour of
Britain. Practically every country & aspect of Britain displayed. Taken by
the country's finest landscape photographers, from Cornwall to Devon, to Skye
& Ross & Cromarty, from Pembrokeshire & Caernarvonshire to Norfolk & Suffolk.
Including London to village scenes, country houses, cottages, mountains,
lakes, rivers & seashore. Nearly all pictures are of identifiable places.
Tight well-bound volume. 110 pages......$30.00
23. (BRITAIN)...(Country Life Ltd.). THE SECOND COUNTRY LIFE PICTURE BOOK OF
BRITAIN - IN COLOUR. London, Country Life Ltd., Publisher, 1966. 1st/3rd
printing. Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in lightly chipped
price-clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. With
53 full page full color plates. Splendid pictorial tour with text of the best
of Britain. To London & back. From the Home Countries of Kent, Sussex, Surrey
& Berkshire, through Hampshire & Oxfordshire to the West Country.. 105
pages......$20.00
24. (BRITAIN/SCOTLAND/WALES)...Boumphrey, Geoffrey. THE SHELL GUIDE TO
BRITAIN. New York, Hawthorne Books, 1964. 1st edition. Pictorial cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn/chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Very light corner wear. Color & Black & white
plates. THE authoritative, complete travel guide to England, Scotland and
Wales. With hundreds of illustrations in full color & Black & white. Includes
32 detailed road maps in color, plus a gazatteer covering each city, town &
hamlet of significance. Special features include: Landmarks to Visit -
Houses, Gardens, Museums & Institutions Open to the Public - Local
Information (Industries, flowers, wild life, sporting facilities & events,
gourmet delights, etc.) History & Festivals. Indexed. Tight well-bound
volume. 808 pages......$25.00
25. (BRITISH COLUMBIA)...Herger, Bob (Photography) and Neering, Rosemary
(Text). THE COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Books,
1990. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large Quarto. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Lower corners lightly bumped. Full
page color photos. With 120 large format full-colour photographs. Magnificent
portrait of the B.C. coast in all its scenic diversity. With Index. Tight
well-bound volume. 148 pages......$22.50
26. (BRITISH GARDENS)...Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane. HISTORIC GARDENS: A
GUIDE TO 160 BRITISH GARDENS OF INTEREST. London, Grange Books, 1993. Repr.
1990 edition. Pictorial boards, Imperial octavo. As new in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Full color photographs. Elegant volume. Detailed
photo-illustrated guide to outstanding gardens spanning the length & breath
of the British Isles. Including Scotland & Wales. Includes section on Gardens
in History - from Medieval Monasteries to Tudor Mansions. Withs the winners
of the Christie's Historic Houses Garden of the Year Award. Plus special
listings of Components, Buildings & Structures, Plants, Livestock Water
Features & much more. Full-color photographs - synopsis of information on
each garden. Extensive Index. Tight well-bound volume. 160 pages......$20.00
27. (BRITISH ISLES)...Dury, G.H., MA, Ph.D, FGS. THE BRITISH ISLES: A
SYSTEMATIC AND REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. New York, W.W. Norton, 1961. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Slight cover wear. Black &
white photos & maps. Good tight copy. 503 pages......$12.00
28. (BRUSSELS)...Gilliat-Smith, Ernest. Illustrated by Kimball, Katharine &
Gilliat-Smith, Guy. THE STORY OF BRUSSELS. Covent Garden, J.M. Dent & Co,
1906. 1st. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small 12mo. Very good condition.
Black & white frontis & plates. With fold-out map of Brussels. Good tight
copy. 383 pages......$12.00
29. (BUDDHISM / HIMALAYAS)...Crossette, Barbara. SO CLOSE TO HEAVEN: THE
VANISHING BUDDHIST KINGDOMS OF THE HIMALAYAS. New York, Vintage, 1995. 1st.
Paperback. Small octavo. Very good condition. Black & white photos & maps.
Travels through Bhutan - and a modern portrait of the rituals & ceremonies of
Tantric Buddhism still practiced in that area. With Glossary, Bibliography,
Index. Good tight copy. 297 pages......$10.00
30. (BURMA)...Courtauld, Caroline (Introduction by Tinker, Professor Hugh).
IN SEARCH OF BURMA. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1984. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, Large obl octavo. Very good condition in lightly edgetorn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. 68 color plates. Lavishly photo-illustrated
history & tour of modern-day Burma. With Historical-Cultural Chronology
Charts. Plus, Festivals, Glossary, Index. Good tight copy. 112
pages......$22.50
31. (BURMA - ELEPHANTS)...Williams, Lt.-Col. J. H. ELEPHANT BILL. New York,
Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
chipped/clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very light
edgewear. Black & white photos. Rare photos. Account of the elephants who
work in Burma's teak forests plus an account of elephants in the Burma
Campaign. First hand experiences of the author, who spent 25 years directing
elephants in Burma. Good tight copy. 250 pages......$20.00
32. (CALIFORNIA)...Chapman, John L.. INCREDIBLE LOS ANGELES. N.Y, Harper &
Row, 1967. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR. Good tight copy. 271 pages......$12.50
33. (CALIFORNIA)...Reynolds, Jerry. SANTA CLARITA: VALLEY OF THE GOLDEN
DREAM. Granada Hills CA, World of Communications, Inc, 1992. 1st edition.
Leatherette, Quarto. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Very light edgewear. Color & Black & white photos.
Photographic endpapers. Delightful detailedjourney through the rich & storied
past of California's Santa Clarita Valley. Photo-illustrated (many rare
prints). Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 211 pages......$25.00
34. (CANADA)...Patterson, R. M. THE BUFFALO HEAD. New York, William Sloane
Associates, 1961. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good
condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Slight
edgewear. Black & white photos. A superb account of personal adventure in the
vast, primeval wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. Good tight copy. 273
pages......$12.50
35. (CANADIAN ARCTIC)...Mowat, Farley. THE SNOW WALKER. Toronto, McClelland
and Stewart Ltd, 1975. 1st Canadian. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good+ in
very lightly chipped/edgeworn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Memorable portrait of the Canadian Arctic & its Eskimo inhabitants. Tight
well-bound volume. 222 pages......$40.00
36. (CAPE HORN)...Chiles, Webb. STORM PASSAGE: ALONE AROUND CAPE HORN. New
York, Times Books, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Travel
Diary of Chiles, 1st American to sail alone around Cape Horn - one of the
longest solo passages of all time. Tight copy. 245 pages......$12.00
37. (CASCADE RANGE)...Atkeson, Ray. THE CASCADE RANGE. Oregon, Charles H.
Belding, 1969. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Small Folio. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. Over
150 color photos with text. Atkeson's magnificent tribute the mighty Cascade
Range. Good tight copy. 181 pages......$25.00
38. (CASCADES)...Linck, James G. PAULINA PREFERRED: A LOVER OF NATURE FINDS
HIS SHANGRI-LA IN THE HIGH CASCADES. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1945. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge
wear. Black & white photos. "Paulina" being Paulina lake. A fishing odyssey
in the Great Northwest. Photo-Illustrated. SIGNED BY JAMES G. LINCK. Hard to
find. Good tight copy. 220 pages......$20.00
39. (CHICAGO)...Meeker, Arthur. CHICAGO WITH LOVE: A POLITE AND PERSONAL
HISTORY. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st edition. Engraved cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white photos.
Warmhearted memories of Chicago & Chicago Society - its life, leaders &
sensational events, its activities & peculiarities. Illustrated with 23
photographs. Tight well-bound volume. 293 pages + Index......$20.00
40. (CHINA)...Allen, Steve. "EXPLAINING CHINA": AN OBJECTIVE VIEW OF
CONTEMPORARY CHINA. New York, Crown Publishers, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Owner signature endpaper. Black & white
frontis. 150 Black & white photos. Steve Allen's report on his 3 trips to
China, visiting major cities, universities, communes, factories, military
bases, etc. With Selected Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 339
pages......$25.00
41. (CHINA)...Clayre, Alasdair. THE HEART OF THE DRAGON. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small Quarto. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very slight
edgewear. Color & Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers.
Magnificently photo-illustrated historical overview and portrait of modern
China. Detailed examination of villages, factories, mines, courts, hospitals,
asylums, prisons, schools, cooking, science, literature, art & government.
Perhaps more important, the book examines the ancient religions &
philosophies of of the Chinese people, including Buddhism, Taoism,
Confucianism. Stunning illustrations, some of which have never been seen
outside of China. With Notes, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 281
pages......$25.00
42. (CHINA)...Dedmon, Emmett. CHINA JOURNAL. New York, Rand McNally & Co,
1973. 1st printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in chipped
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Full color
photographs. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. With 16 pages of full color photos & 31 pages
of Black & white photographs. Account of the Author's odyssey to the People's
Republic of China - in-depth coverage of the day to day life of the Chinese
people. Indexed. Good tight copy. 176 pages......$17.50
43. (CHINA)...Jenkins, Peter. ACROSS CHINA. William Morrow, 1986. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Color & Black
& white photos. Good tight copy. 351 pages......$10.00
44. (CHINA)...Karol, K.S. (Translated from the French by Baistow, Tom).
CHINA: THE OTHER COMMUNISM. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1967. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Decorated endpapers.
With 32 pages of photographs by Marc Riboud. Superbly illustrated report on
modern china. Deeply informed record by a leading journalist & world expert
on china affairs who spent 4 months travelling the length & breadth of China.
With historical perspective, plus interviews with some of China's highest
ranking officials. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 474 pages......$16.00
45. (CHINA)...Lord, Bette Bao. LEGACIES: A CHINESE MOSAIC. New York, Alfred
A. Knopf, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Betty Bao Lord's
story. Plus an inside look at Revolutionary China today. With chronology 1839
- 1989. Good tight copy. 245 pages......$12.00
46. (CHINA)...Malloy, Ruth Lor. TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
CHINA. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1980. 1st revised. Paperback. Large
octavo. Very good condition. Very light edgewear. "Sample copy" stamp
endpaper. Black & white photos, drawings, maps. With Comprehensive
Chinese-English phrasebook. Special sections for business people.
Chinese-English address directories. Plus Advice on Manners and Customs.
Up-to-date practical information. Conversion tables. Descriptions of 90
cities. Good tight copy. 366 pages......$12.00
47. (CHINA)...Spender, Stephen & Hockney, David. CHINA DIARY. New York, Harry
N. Abrams, Inc, 1982. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Imperial octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light
cover/corner wear. Front endpaper clipped. Color/Black & white photos &
drawings. Beautifully illustrated, perceptive account of Spender (Poet,
Novelist) & Hockney's (Painter, Photographer) trip to China. 158 watercolors,
drawings & photography, including 84 plates in full color and 1 map.
Eye-opening magical tour through a modern China. Tight well-bound volume. 200
pages......$16.00
48. (CHINA)...Terrill, Ross. 800,000,000: THE REAL CHINA. Boston, Little,
Brown & Co, 1972. 1st/3rd printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Decorated endpapers. "Most sensitive, informed
eyewitness study yet written of the people, government & leaders of China".
Result of a journey lasting forty days and extending 7,000 miles. Rare
photos. Good tight copy. 235 pages......$13.50
49. (CHINA - ANCIENT)...Grosier, J. B. (Text) Translated by Castellano, Lana
& Campbell-Thompson, Christina. THE WORLD OF ANCIENT CHINA. New York, Tudor
Publishing, 1972. Hardcover - cloth, Large Sqare octavo. Very good condition
in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Upper corners
very slightly bumped. Color & Black & white photos. Beautifully
photo-illustrated (includes full-page color & tinted plates). Detailed
portrait of Ancient China. Excellent photographs of many Chinese momuments &
landmarks, including some of the Forbidden Ctiy. Includes customs, religion,
metaphysics, rules of marriage, laws tortures, food, clothing, houses &
architecture, landscape gardening, art, plus the great Chinese inventions &
discoveries. Also the influence of the Jesuits is discussed. Tight well-bound
volume. 144 pages......$17.50
50. (CHINA/JAPAN/RUSSIA)...Newsham, Brad. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES: TRAVELING
LIGHT THROUGH CHINA, JAPAN, AND RUSSIA. New York, Villard Books, 1989.
1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good+ in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Moving, lyrical account of a
young American's adventures backpacking, hiking and biking through China,
Japan & Russia. Vivid recreation of the experience of traveling light through
a variety of exotic landscapes. Tight well-bound volume. 291
pages......$14.00
51. (CHINA/MANCHURIA/TIBET)...Mangeot, Sylvain. MANCHURIAN ADVENTURE: THE
STORY OF LOBSANG THONDUP. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1975. 1st. Hardcover
- 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. True adventures of a modern
soldier-of-fortune in Siberia, Manchuria, Communist China, Sinkiang and
Tibet. Good tight copy. 280 pages......$12.50
52. (CONTINENTAL GARDENS)...Quest-Ritson, Charles. THE ENGLISH GARDEN ABROAD.
London, Viking, 1992. 1st/3rd printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Near
fine in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white
photos. A historical & contemporary look at the celebrated tradition of
English Horticulture throughout europe. A beautifully photo-illustrated tour
of past & present English gardens throughout the Riviera, Italy, Tuscany,
Portugal, Spain, France & more. From the spacious 18th Century landscape
gardens designed by Capability Brown to the densely planted luxuriance of
Hidcote and Sissinghurst. With a wealth of new material, & illustrated
throughout with modern & previously unpublished archive photographs.
Well-indexed. Tight well-bound volume. 232 pages......$22.50
53. (COTE D'AZUR)...Robichon, Jacques (Text) Translated by Monson, Don
(Photographs by Fronval, Jacques & others). COTE D'AZUR: THE FRENCH RIVIERA.
Paris, Sun, Paris, 1976. Hardcover - cloth, Large square octavo. Near fine in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. Opulent full-color
full-page photo-illustrated tour of the countrysides, seascapes, cities,
harbors, restaurants... Mountainscapes, Villas, Highways & people of the
magnificent French Riviera. With Map, Table of Illustrations. Tight
well-bound volume. 109 pages......$25.00
54. (COUNTRY INNS)...Andrews, Peter (Photographed by Raymond, Lilo, Gardner,
George W. & Northrup, Steve). CLASSIC COUNTRY INNS OF AMERICA (3 volume boxed
set). Los Angeles, Kna pages Press, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
dec/cloth, Small Quarto. Very good condition. Full color photographs.
Beautiful 3 volume boxed set. Color paste-down photo on box. Good tight set.
480 ttl pages......$35.00
55. (DESERT WARFARE)...Lawrence, T. E. REVOLT IN THE DESERT. New York, George
H. Doran Co, 1927. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition.
Light cover wear. Corners bumped. Front hinge starting. Black & white frontis
& plates. Decorated endpapers. Fold out map of region. Lawrence's account of
the Arabian revolt & his involvement in the conflict. With Index. 335
pages......$16.50
56. (DIVING)...Haas, Hans (Translated from the German by Cleugh, James).
MANTA: UNDER THE RED SEA WITH SPEAR AND CAMERA. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co,
1953. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Owner
plate front endpaper. Black & white photos. Decorated endpapers. Diving and
underwater adventure in the Red Sea. With Glossary. Good tight copy. 278
pages......$12.00
57. (EASTERN AMERICA)...Chamberlain, Samuel. THE NEW ENGLAND IMAGE. New York,
Hastings House, 1962. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Very good
condition. Lower edge lightly bumped. Light crease front endpaper. Black &
white photos. Text & photography by Chamberlain. Many full-page Black & white
plates. Beautiful, nostalgic look at New England. Includes, Four Seasons,
Farms, Villages, River & Lakes, Churches, Literary New England, Education,
Early Inns & Taverns, Houses, Doorways, Interiors & the New England Coast.
With Index. Good tight copy. 192 pages......$22.50
58. (EASTERN TRAVEL)...Herbey, Harry (With Illustrations by Murphy,
Christopher). WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL: PAGES OUT OF THE EAST. New York,
Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover - decorated cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Corners lightly bumped. Owner stamp endpapers. Black & white
plates. Far East Travel. "Extraordinary book...some three hundred and fifty
pages of thrills from Hawaii to Rangoon". Decorated endpapers. Good tight
copy. 350 pages......$15.00
59. (ECUADOR)...Wallis, Ethel Emily. THE DAYUMA STORY: LIFE UNDER AUCA
SPEARS. New York, Harper & Row, 1960. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in chipped scraped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Light corner wear. Black & white photos. True story of Dayuma,
native of the Equadorian Auca tribe, who fled from her father's killer to an
encounter with a missionary. Also, the story of the "five martyred
missionaries" of Ecuador. Good tight copy. Photographic endpapers. Good tight
copy. 288 pages......$15.00
60. (ENGLAND)...Scherman, David (Photography) & Wilcox, Richard (Descriptive
Text) Preface by Morley, Christopher. LITERARY ENGLAND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLACES
MADE MEMORABLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. N.Y, Random House, 1944. Hardcover -
cloth, quarto. Very good condition. Very light cover/edge wear. 50 full page
Black & white photographs. Full page photographs (with descriptive text) of
scenes & places made famous in English Literature. Includes: The Castle at
Tintagel, Winchester, Canterbury Cathedral, Battle Abbey, Keats Grove,
Sherwood Forest, Stokes Poges Churchyard, Fleet Street, Dickens' House,
Dartmoor, Reading Gaol, Piccadilly Circus, Stonehenge, Doone Valley, Wimpole
Street and many more. Good tight copy. Np......$15.00
61. (ENGLAND/FORESTS)...Whitlock, Ralph. HISTORIC FORESTS OF ENGLAND. New
Jersey, A. S. Barnes & Company, 1979. Hardcover - cloth, Imperial octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color &
Black & white plates. Illustrated history of the indigenous forests of
England from earliest times & their significant role in the national life.
With color & Black & white photographs, paintings, drawings, maps. Sections
include: The Primeval Forest, Celts, Romans & Saxons, The Royal Chase, After
the Middle Ages, Men of the Forest, Wild Life in the Forests, The New
Commercial Forests, Gazetteer(the Historic Forests). With Bibliography,
Index. Tight well-bound volume. 176 pages......$20.00
62. (ENGLISH WALKING TOURS)...Oakes, George W. TURN LEFT AT THE PUB: WALKING
TOURS OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE. New York, David McKay Co, 1968. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white
maps/diagrams. More than 20 walking tours. Included are cathedral &
university towns of England... plus delightful strolls in Kent, York, Suth
Devon, Bath, the Cotswolds, STratford-on-Avon & more. With easy to follow
outline maps, info on transportation, points of interest. Delightful book.
Good tight copy. 174 pages......$12.50
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