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Cairo and How to See It

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cairo, Egypt, Les Editions Universitaires D'Egypte: 1954

Seller ID: 012706

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering on cover, silver advertising for Air France on rear board. Slight fading to cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright. Small previous owner initials and date 1954 at top edge of front free endpaper. 187 pgs. with clean fold-out map of Cairo at rear of book (excellent condition). Illustrated with photographs of buildings and antiquities. "Welcome to Egypt" pamphlet from Air France in excellent condition also enclosed. Book details history of the area and important sites, architecture; itinerary...
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The Seigneurs of La Saulaye

By: Abbott, Johnston

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1928

Seller ID: 015531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean red cloth boards with gold lettering and decorative title box on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers, with tiny previous owner name and date on front free endpaper. 379 pgs. Clean dustjacket with price intact ($2.50 on front inside flap), some corner clipping to front flap, slight wear to paper at top edge of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An historical French adventure story.
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One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Seller ID: 015274

ISBN: 0-394-57455-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean beige boards with clean green cloth spine with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 290 pgs. with bibliography. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no wear, no tears. As new book and dustjacket. Jacket enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.
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Collector's Luck in France

By: Alice Van Leer Carrick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1924

Seller ID: 026524

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition in somewhat tattered dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with small gold medallion decoration on cover, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. 207 pages with Appendix. Dust jacket is clean and bright, upper half of spine is missing, a few short closed edge tears and small chips at top of rear panel, separation at spine fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar c...
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Rolling Home: A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir

By: Allen, Tom

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2001

Seller ID: 028494

ISBN: 0670884731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean gray boards with blue spine, white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps. 298 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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The Last Resorts: A Portrait of American Society at Play

By: Amory, Cleveland

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1952

Seller ID: 028687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean Stated First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with black cloth spine, red and white lettering on spine, small white illustration on cover. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean color-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings and eight pages of wonderful photographs of the great resorts across America. 527 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has very slight hint of edge wear, no chips, two very short closed edge tears, not pr...
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My Life As An Explorer

By: Amundsen, Roald

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday Page: 1927

Seller ID: 025382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated First Edition. Clean blue cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Hint of slightest surface wear to spine corners, no fraying, no fading. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright (page 25 has marker line in lower margin), tasteful previous owner bookplate on rear pastedown, flaps from dust jacket neatly glued to front fixed endpaper with biographical information on Amundsen. Illustrated with photo, maps, drawings. 282 pages with index.
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Wilderness Wife

By: Angier, Bradford and Vena

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Radnor, Pennsylvania, Chilton Book Company: 1976

Seller ID: 023866

ISBN: 0-8019-6291-9

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean green cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean, with clean bright endpapers; very small previous owner return address label at top inside edge of pastedown. Illustrated with photographs. 177 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, one tiny close edge tear, not price clipped, a little light creasing. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Himalayan Odyssey: The Perilous Trek to Western Nepal

By: Antin, Parker with Phyllis Wachob Weiss

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Donald I. Fine: 1990

Seller ID: 011974

ISBN: 1-55611-197-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean dark blue boards with clean pale gray cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers with maps. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on front fly leaf. 291 pgs. with glossary. Illustrated with photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, no wear, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The story of a major trek around the Himalayas and through the dangerous, remote and largely forbidden country of Western Nepal.
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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica

By: Arnesen, Liv & Ann Bancroft with Cheryl Dahle

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Da Capo Press: 2003

Seller ID: 010086

ISBN: 0-7382-0794-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean blue boards with white spine, blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 251 pgs. Illustrated with color photographs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Book is as new. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Gift Quality 8vo. Exploration.
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A Syrian Pilgrimage

By: Ascham, John Bayne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Abingdon Press: 1914

Seller ID: 028712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, SIGNED by the author. Gray cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. A few minor faint spots to cloth. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper as follows: "To my critique of pure life, John _____ - J. B. Ascham." Color frontispiece of the Garden of Gethsemane. Additional illustrations throughout (black and white photographs). 203 pages with index.
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Spring Jaunts - Some Walks, Excursions & Personal Explorations of Town, Country & Seashore

By: Bailey, Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1986

Seller ID: 018598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"First Edition, 1986" on copyright page. Clean green boards with clean beige cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 239 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A collection which contains some of the best work that Anthony Bailey has done for The New Yorker. His descriptive journeys include the Isle of Wight, a dawn-to-dusk stroll along the New Hampshire coast, and...
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Horseback Honeymoon: The Vanishing Old West of 1907 Through the Eyes of Two Young Artists in Love

By: Ballard, Dorothy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Two Continents Publishing Group: 1975

Seller ID: 005991

ISBN: 0-8467-0105-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean brown cloth boards with orange lettering on spine. No bumping or wear to boards. Binding is tight, pages are clean (a little age speckling to top edges). No names, writing or bookplates. Endpapers illustrated with photographs and maps. Clean bright dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped, with just a hint of edgewear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Adventure.
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Explorations: My Quest for Adventure and Discovery Under the Sea

By: Ballard, Robert D., Ph.D.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1995

Seller ID: 005946

ISBN: 0-7868-6042-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very clean dark blue boards with blue cloth spine, red metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean, crisp dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8
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Footprints of Travel - Or, Journeying in Many Lands

By: Ballou, M. M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company: 1903

Seller ID: 026198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean decorated American trade binding - yellow cloth boards with tall palm trees, pyramids and camel riders on cover, giraffe and palm tree on spine. Tiny spots of wear to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks (previous owner name in very light pencil on front free endpaper). Frontispiece portrait of Captain Cook. Illustrated with many nice engravings throughout. 472 pages. A journey to many fantastic places around the world, from Yosemite Valley in California to the Alh...
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Road to Rakaposhi

By: Band, George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton for Travel Book Club: 1955

Seller ID: 028559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Travel Book Club Edition (circa 1955), SIGNED by George Band, in original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or fading; slight fading to lower board edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean; map-illustrated endpapers have some tape shadow marks on front and rear free endpaper. Signed by the author on title page: "George Band". Illustrated with maps, black and white glossy plates. All text pages are clean, but tanned. 192 pages. Clean dust jacket is bright, unchipped, very slight e...
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The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles

By: Barley, Nigel

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co.: 1991

Seller ID: 011072

ISBN: 0-8050-1968-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Clean orange boards with beige cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 276 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, with one tiny edge tear (1/16"). Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Tracing the travels of Sir Stamford Raffles, colonial adventurer of the British Empire era. 8 vo.. Adventure.
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The Voyage of the Narwahl

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton: 1998

Seller ID: 013452

ISBN: 0-393-04632-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean blue boards with dark blue spine, silver lettering on spine. Tiny bump to one corner tip. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers, illustrated with maps. No names, writing or marks. 399 pgs. Illustrated. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Part adventure narrative, part love story, this extraordinary chronicle captures a crucial moment in the history of eploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic. 8vo. Historical Fiction.
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Camping With the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa

By: Bass, Thomas A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1990

Seller ID: 022933

ISBN: 0395415020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped jacket, SIGNED by author. Clean orange boards with maroon cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright, with slight dust speckling to text block edges. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page: "11-04-90 - Clinton, New York - For a friend in the Kirkland Art Center - with All My Best Regards, Thomas A. Bass." 304 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (20.95 on front inside flap); small...
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The Story of Lindbergh the Lone Eagle

By: Beamish, Richard J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: International Press: 1927

Seller ID: 001520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean blue illustrated cloth boards with gold lettering. Light corner wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean. P/O name on front free endpaper. Illustrated with photographs. 320 pgs. 8vo. Aviation.
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