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VENTURE TO THE INTERIOR.

van der Post, Laurens, · 1953

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Reprint Society, London, 1953, club edn., 254pp, frontis in line and 3 maps in text, green cloth with maroon leather title label lettered in gilt, patterned dustwrapper, the author, sent on a government mission to Nyasaland in 1949, relates his journey with the eye of the nat...

A WINTER IN NEPAL.

Morris, John, · 1964

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1964, club edn., 232pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagram in text, black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, patterned dustwrapper, an anthropologist and former army officer with twenty years service, mostly wi...

THE STORY OF ELSA.

Adamson, Joy, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Collins and Harvill Press, London, ND (copyright 1966), 1st edn., 319pp, 64pp half tone photo ills., plans in text and col'd plans at endpapers, yellow cloth with red title panel at spine lettered in gilt, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the story of Elsa the lioness, first told...

U. S. A. - An Outline of the Country, its People and Institutions.

Brogan, D. W., · 1942

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Oxford University Press, London, 1942, 5th imp., 144pp, map and half tone photo ills. in text, blue cloth lettered in red at spine and upper board, photo pictorial dustwrapper, first published January 1941, an account of the country, people and institutions, a contemporary pi...

TIBETAN VENTURE - In the Country of the Ngolo-Setas.

Guibaut, André, · 1949

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1949, club edn., x, 206pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps at front endpapers, yellow cloth lettered in maroon at spine, decorated in maroon upper board, patterned dustwrapper, an account of the second Guibaut-Liotard expedition to Tibet in 1940, to id...

TRAVELS IN THE NORTH.

Capek, Karel, · 1940

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1940, club edn., 269pp, in text line drawings throughoutr, light ochre cloth lettered in maroon at spine and decorated at upper board, upper edge coloured, an account of pre-WW2 visits to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, a little bumped at lower corners, spi...

THE BRENDAN VOYAGE.

Severin, Tim, · 1979

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Arrow Books, London, 1979, 1st in imprint, paperback, 265pp, [v] ads., 24pp col'd photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the attempt to recreate the legendary 6th Century voyage of St. Brendan from Ireland to North America in a leather boat, a litt...

HIGH ACHIEVER - The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington.

Curran, Jim, · 2000

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Robinson, London, 2000, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xvi, 264pp, 20pp half tone photo ills., line drawings in text, photo pictorial wrappers, biography of the leading British mountaineer and expedition leader, light vertical creasing at spine and upper hinge, very good plus,

THE CLEFT STICK, or, "It's the same the whole world over"..

Greenwood, Walter, · 1937

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Selwyn and Blount, London, 1937, 1st edn., 222pp, 12 double page and 4 single page black and white illustrations by Arthur Wragg, pictorial eps., large format 10 x 7 inches, ivory white cloth lettered in black at spine and decorated in black upper board, top edge coloured, lo...

THE RIVER OF SINGING FISH.

Fiedler, Arkady, · 1951

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Readers Union, London, 1951, club edn., 191pp, 16pp aquatint ills., col'd map at front endpapers, lemon yellow cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated in blue upper board, patterned dustwrapper, an account of travel and exploration in the Amazon basin together with histori...

MR. CHURCHILL - A Portrait.

Guedalla, Philip, · 1941

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1941, 1st edn., 347pp, frontis port., green cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, pictorial dustwrapper, a biography of Winston Churchill from his Victorian childhood to Prime Minister, top edge sl. dusty, all edges a little foxed and ...

CHESHIRE V.C..

Braddon, Russell, · 1956

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Companion Book Club, London, 1956, club edn., 256pp, 20 pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squ...

CASSINO - Portrait of a Battle.

Majdalany, Fred, · 1959

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Popular Book Club, London, 1959, club edn., 264pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 1 panoramic view in line, 8 maps in text, deep ochre cloth lettered in gilt at spine, the major stumbling block to the Allied advance on Rome was Cassino, the fulcrum of the German defensive Gustav...

MARGIT VISCONTI.

Clarke, Keith, · 1976

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Gollancz, London, 1976, 1st edn., 222pp, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper, a little bumped at upper corners, lightly rubbed at extrems., top edge very faintly foxed, dustwrapper: sl. sun...

THE STRODE VENTURER.

Innes, Hammond, · 1965

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Collins, London, 1965, 1st edn., 320pp, blue/black dichromatic cloth lettered in gilt at spine, dustwrapper design by 'Farnhill', a maritime adventure in coral atolls of the Maldives, with a background of high finance in the shipping world, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tann...

THE FORGER.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1963

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1963, paperback, 207pp, pictorial wrappers by 'Peff', lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, bookseller stamps on inside upper wrapper and on half title, very good plus,

THE FOUR JUST MEN.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1950

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1950, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, #142, pictorial wrappers (unattrib), spine slanted, rubbed at extrems. with short nicks to spine ends, light overall soiling to wrappers, edges tanned, good,

THE HAND OF POWER.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1961

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Arrow Books, London, 1961, paperback, 272pp, #413, pictorial wrappers (unattrib), very sl. slant and roll with faint wrinkling to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,

THE JOKER.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1960

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan Books, London, 1960, paperback, 192pp, #G370, pictorial wrappers by Fox, very sl. roll to spine, price label lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good plus,

THE TRAMP (original title The Northing Tramp).

Wallace, Edgar, · 1965

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1965, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp, [iii] ads., #X448, pictorial wrappers (unattrib), sl. roll and slant to spine with light vertical creasing, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,