Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Kiwitown's Port: The Story of Oamaru Harbour

McLean, Gavine · 2008

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Dunedin, New Zealand , Otago University Press, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, a big, tall, colorfully illustrated trade softcover, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight sh...

Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City

Banville, John · 2015

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Bloomsbury, 2015. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the The Writer in the City series. Fine-looking stated reprint edition of this fine work of journalistic travelogue. Glossy pictorial covers, tightly bound, clean and ...

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

Spufford, Francis and Elizabeth Kolbert, eds. · 2007

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Bloomsbury, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nicely bound dos-a-dos, "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Arctic," edited by Elizabeth Kolbert," being "upside-down" of "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Antarctic," edited by Fran...

Himalaya: A Human History

Douglas, Ed · 2020

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. The author Ed Douglas (born 1966-) has ...

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell--Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Wallach, Janet · 1996

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Nan A. Talese, for Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's address label at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny dust ...

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Niven, Jennifer · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Hyperion, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Rough-cut fore-edges, and a nice, long range of ...

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grant Tour of the Mediterranean

Theroux, Paul · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely in light tan cloth over boards, design stamped in gilt to front cover, white ...

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton

Lovell, Mary S. · 1998

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A truly fine, staggering biography of two giants of 19th-century travel and exploration. Stated First American edition, and First Printing thereof number line starting with 1. Fine-...

Coasting

Raban, Jonathan · 1986

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, England, Collins Harvill, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A brilliant memoir of a 1982 trip the author took to sailing 2,100 miles to and throughout the British Isles. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright ...

Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing

Cocker, Mark · 1992

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Pantheon Books, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, tan cloth over boards, light brown cloth-backed, bright and shiny dust jacket, evocative and pict...

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

Fermor, Patrick Leigh · 1986

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Elisabeth Sifton Books, an imprint of Viking, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. blue cloth over boards, gilt le...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific

Stoddard, John L. · 1903

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,666)

New York, Saalfield Publishing, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound handsomely in an oblong quarto hardcover format, red cloth over boards, no lettering to spine...

The Conquest of the Desert

Macdonald, William · 1913

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

London, England, T. Werner Laurie Ltd., . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Neither edition nor date of publcation stated, but perhaps an early reprint of the 1913 true First Edition. Bound in ...

Notes and Sketches of an Architect, Taken During a Journey in the Northwest of Europe

Narjoux, Felix; John Peto, translator · 1877

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

New York, James R. Osgood, 1877. Author's Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. A good exemplar of a First Edition Thus, translated by John Peto from the original French of Felix Narjoux. Bo...

Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

Garran, Andrew, ed. · 1888

$460.00 (€417.34 | £348.13 | ¥73,465)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This monumental undertaking was designed to commemorate the Centennial of the founding of Australia. An unusually sturdy and attractive ...

Time Well Spent

Cheesman, Evelyn · 1960

$16.80 (€15.24 | £12.71 | ¥2,683)

London, England, The Travel Book Club, 1960. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition (Thus) exemplar of this fine travelogue about traveling, a Travel Book Club monthly selection. Publisher's original blue cloth over boards, sharp and disti...

Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus

Morison, Samuel Eliot · 1985

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1985. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Maps are drawn by Erwin Raisz, and augmented with the drawings of Bertram Greene, the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1943. Sterling condition hardcover copy, handsomely p...

Pacific Northwest and Alaska

1949

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

, Union Pacific System, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of stiff card-stock covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Green covers,...

Rim of the Caribbean

Morgan, Carol McAfee · 1942

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Friendship Press, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A woman, the author, her husband, and their two children, travel around and make contact with the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean. A fine and accessible travelogue. Map on blue endpapers. Rea...

Pleasure Island: The Book of Jamaica

Chapman, Esther, ed. · 1952

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Jamaica, The Arawak Press, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly accessible tourist guide to the British West Indies. with period advertisements galore. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Orange card-s...