Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Explorations of Antarctica: The Last Unspoilt Continent

Fogg, G. E. and Smith, David · 1990

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Cassell Illustrated, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Big, tall Imperial octavo format, bound in blue cloth over boards, light sunning along top ed...

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

Larson, Edward J. · 2011

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2011. 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. Larson's new account ...

Everest: The Testing Place

West, John · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in a two-tone blue paper over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distin...

Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica

Griffiths, Tom · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, being a superior exemplar thereof, in gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket,...

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Wheeler, Sara · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York , Random House, 2002. 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. According to the subject of this fine biogr...

The Everest Years: A Climber's Life

Bonington, Chris · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. A fine autobiography by one of England's greatest alpinists, he being called "the David...

Francis Younghusband: Explorer and Mystic

Seaver, George · 1952

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, John Murray, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed. Slight waviness of endpapers, dissipati...

Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin

D'Souza, Aruna · 2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Thames & Hudson, 2001. First American Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the personal library of the feminist art ...

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

Troy, Nancy J. · 2002

$38.40 (€34.84 | £29.07 | ¥6,132)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, with slight forward cock to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, littl...

Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art

McDonald, Helen · 2001

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, Routledge, 2001. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Black-and-white illustrations galore ...

American Geisha: The Art of Olivia

Olivia · 2003

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Malibu, California, Ozone Productions, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. From the publisher's ...

Peaks and Valleys

Smythe, F.S. · 1939

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1939. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. F.S. (Francis Sydney) Smythe (1900-1949) packed a lot into a short life and wrote popular accounts of his solo and co-alpinist ascents. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover ...

Footloose in the Himalaya

Harding, Mike · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Michael Joseph, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. A lovely gift for perhaps an intrepid traveler, a young, would-be alpinist in the making. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright a...

Worlds Beyond the Horizon

Leithauser, Joachim G. · 1956

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1956. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First English Edition of an enchanting marine, aquatic travelogue that highlights the dramatic "discovery" and exploration of to Westerners, "unknown" lands by Captains Cook...

Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing

Mehl-Madrona, Lewis · 1997

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Scribner's, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engaging memoir and pondering by a modern M.D. who wanted to improve his own models of healthcare in regards to problem patients by means of principles of Native American healing. Superio...

The Alps in 1864: A Private Journal, Volume I, Volume II

Moore, A.W.; E.H. Stevens, ed. · 1939

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Oxford, England, Basil Blackwell, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in two volumes and in First Edition states, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in a light gray ...

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953

Noyce, Wilfrid · 1954

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Illustrated paper dust wrapper present, fully intact, price intact, but with some w...

Kidd's Own Journal for Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General

Kidd, William · 1808

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London, William Spooner, for the author, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Phrenology for the million," "Persecuted animals," "History of the domesticated cat," and so much more. A compendium of popular science, poetry, religion, prose, politics and culture....

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, Volume I, Volume II

Mill, John Stuart · 1873

$168.00 (€152.42 | £127.16 | ¥26,827)

New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1873. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarcely available to the trade in this specific edition, being a reprint of the First American Edition, with "1873" appearing on both title page but without copyright page. Henry Holt's printer's de...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Complete in Four Volumes

Lord Macaulay; Trevelyan, George Otto, ed. · 1876

$172.00 (€156.05 | £130.19 | ¥27,466)

Leipzig, Germany, Bernard Tauchnitz Edition, 1876. Bernard Tauchnitz Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Scarce in the trade in this condition, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. An attractive set, complete in four volumes, of the Bernard T...