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The Return

By: Aldrin, Buzz and John Barnes

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Tom Doherty Associates: 2000

Edition: First

Seller ID: 009878

ISBN: 0-312-87424-3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Very clean glossy black boards with image of the earth on cover. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 301 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped - in perfect condition. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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The Voyage of the Narwhal

By: Andrea Barrett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1998

Edition: First

Seller ID: 023485

ISBN: 039304632X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, first printing, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Blue boards with darker blue spine, silver lettering on cover and spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 397 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (24.95/34.99 on front inside flap). Enclosed in removable mylar cover.
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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

Edition: First

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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Extraterrestrial Civilizations

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1979

Edition: First

Seller ID: 016013

ISBN: 0-517-53075-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, first printing. Very clean blue boards with clean yellow cloth spine, dark blue stamped lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright, very faint dust speckling to edges. 282 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Asimov analyzes the universe, life, and intelligence, basing his conclusions on the most recently available scientific findings. 8vo. Space Exploration.
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Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos - The Growth and Future of Human Knowledge

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 1988

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026070

ISBN: 0517546671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition (first printing, with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean dark blue boards with red cloth spine, blue metallic lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 339 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; slightest hint of light surface rubbing. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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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

Edition: First

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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The Voyage of the Narwahl

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $15.00

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

Edition: First

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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The Book of Nothing - Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe

By: Barrow, John D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 2001

Edition: First

Seller ID: 027434

ISBN: 0375420991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First American Edition (first printing, with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or fading. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated in black and white. 361 pages with index. Dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A fascinating exploration by a foremost mathematician and cosmologist on the nature of nothing. From the origins of zero in ancie...
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Black Hole - How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

By: Bartusiak, Marcia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New Haven CT / London, Yale University Press: 2015

Edition: First

Seller ID: 024606

ISBN: 030021085X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Second Printing, SIGNED by the author in clean unclipped dust jacket. As new condition. Clean unfaded black boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page: "To Carl, A fellow friend of the cosmos - Marcia Bartusiah - 2006." Illustrated with black and white photographs. 237 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Away to Cape Breton

By: Brinley, Gordon

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead: 1936

Edition: First

Seller ID: 013837

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Slight fading at top and bottom spine edges. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean map-illustrated endpapers; tasteful previous owner bookplate on back side of front free endpaper. 266 pages. Color frontis illustration, plus illustrations throughout by Putnam Brinley. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few small shallow chips at top and bottom of spine edge, a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An exploration of Cape Breton Island...
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The Greatest Challenge - The incredible adventure and splendid destiny of man in exploring space

By: Caiden, Martin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1965

Edition: First

Seller ID: 026538

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with many photographs and drawings (drawings by Fred L. Wolff). 320 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (5.95 on front inside flap), vertical crease to front panel, a few short closed edge tears; nice photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar c...
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The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World

By: Campbell, Christy

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books: 2005

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028847

ISBN: 156512460X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean burgundy boards with green spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 320 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of scientific exploration, botanical history, politics, profiteering--and a tiny aphid (Phylloxera vastatrix) from America that almost destroy...
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Little America: Town at the End of the World

By: Carter, Paul Allen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1979

Edition: First

Seller ID: 022638

ISBN: 0231046820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with crisp white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs, map. 301 pages with index. Dustjacket is not price clipped (15.95 on front inside flap), slight age-toning, a little wear to paper at corner tips. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of a tiny community perched on the edge of the vast wasteland of ...
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The Grand Peregrination

By: Collis, Maurice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1949

Edition: First

Seller ID: 013613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean red cloth boards with black title box and illustration, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean, with some light foxing to endpapers. Yellow top stained page edges. 313 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is price clipped (slightest edge of price showing), has several short closed edge tears, tiny chips and wear at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. This book is the first biography in any language of Fernao Mendes Pinto, the most extraordinary of all Portuguese adventurers. He travelled all over ...
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The Twilight of the Primitive

By: Cotlow, Lewis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1971

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 006326

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing, signed by author. Very clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Illustrated with photographs. 257 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket has not been price clipped, is unchipped, hint of edgewear at top rear edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Typed one-page transcript of Lowell Thomas Tape on "The Twilight of the Primitive" book review laid in. A distinguished explorer revisits the peo...
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By: Cotlow, Lewis

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company: 1953

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 024544

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Later printing, association copy, inscribed and SIGNED by the author, in original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean rose paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To my fellow explorer Allan R. Holmberg with high esteem and sincere best wishes for continued success on your Peruvian humanitarian project. - Lewis Cotlow (Christmas 1957)." Laid in is a four page review of the book with photographs by the San ...
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The Heart of the Forest

By: Cowell, Adrian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1961

Edition: First

Seller ID: 007327

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean red cloth boards (tiny bit of fading at extreme top and bottom edges of spine). Bright gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. 238 pgs. Illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny chips at top and bottom of spine, light corner wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Exploration.
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Exploration in Texas, Ancient & Otherwise with Thoughts on the Nature of Evidence

By: Davis, John L.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Antonio, TX, The University of Texas: 1984

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 010903

ISBN: 086701-018-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, signed by author, in clean dust jacket. Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No previous owner names or bookplates. Clean orange-brown endpapers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. 136 pgs. with index. Illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings. Clean dustjacket has slight edge wear, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8-1/2 x 10-1/2".
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The Undersea Adventure

By: Diole, Philippe

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner: 1953

Edition: First

Seller ID: 017063

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. Clean dark blue cloth boards with small silver seahorse on cover, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name neatly stamped on front fixed endpaper and on half-title page. No other marks. 236 pgs. Illustrated with black & white plates. Unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, with a few short closed edge tears, hint of very light soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Translated from the French by Alan Ross. Author's thrillin...
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Beyond the Capes

By: Dodge, Ernest S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston - Toronto, Little Brown & Co.: 1971

Edition: First

Seller ID: 014210

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Slight fading to edges at top and bottom of spine, no bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers illustrated with Central Pacific map; no writing or marks. Illustrated with portraits and maps. 429 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, some rubbing and surface wear to rear spine vertical edge with a few tiny holes to paper, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger (1776...
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Keyword: Exploration