Search Results: European Travel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1962 2nd ptg. 192pp. illus. yellow cloth sm 4to: Good+ in an edge torn dj in Brodart poly cover [top edge is age foxed; rem. stars bottom edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An eccentric personal tour by Irish bad boy writer Brendan Francis Behan (1923-64), author of "Borstal Boy" and other works, wonderfully illustrated with drawings by English artist Paul Hogarth (1917-2001).

Antibes: Editions Alp' Azur. 1980. unpaginated illustrated mustard cloth 4to: Fine in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [engraved business cards of two high level tourist officials from Cannes are stapled to ffep; else F; dj = torn in places along the top edge; else VG+] A handsome oversized volume featuring Cannes as seen in old postcard views and other colorful illustrations with French language text.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995 1st ed. 190pp. hardback 16mo: Fine in a Fine dj. A small size anthology of tales about Istanbul featuring 16 contributors ranging from Joseph Brodsky to Gore Vidal.

Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2006 1st ed. thus. 176pp. illus. pictorial hardback 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

London/New York: Waterstone/Hippocrene, 1986 1st ed. thus.  217pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Good [spine creases; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An attractive reissue of the prolific Irish writer Robert Gibbings' (1889-1958) account of a journey down the French river, originally published in 1953, illustrated with fine wood engravings by the author/artist.

London: Skeffington & Son, 1938 1st ed. 287pp. 16 illus. red cloth 8vo w/silver decoration: Good+/no dj [brief ink gift inscription half-title p.; some age browning of edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An interesting view of Czechoslovakia during the interwar years, nicely illustrated with high quality photographs. Lady Margaret Kinloch Forbes Sheppard traveled there in the late 1930s. Her travel book was published in the very year that Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich.

Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1981 1st ed. 284pp. yellow cloth 8vo: near Fine in a near Very Good dj [top corners are lightly bumped; else nrF] Selections on Florence from Machiavelli, Boccaccio, Dante, Berenson, Melville, et al. Jacket praise from Jan Morris.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1996 1st ed. 224pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of edge foxing; else nrF] A nice crisp copy of this memoir by American writer Wharton (the pen name of Albert William Du Aime, 1925-2008).

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995 1st ed. 310pp. paperback 8vo in French flaps: Very Good [touch of age browning to top and deckle fore edges; some foxing to back white cover; else a nice crisp copy] A Canadian poet/novelist in the footsteps of H. V. Morton.

Belfast: Appletree Press, 1994 1st ed. 96pp. illus. paperback: Fine [couple of turned page corners; else F] A slim paperback guide to the subject.

New York: Atheneum. 1969 1st ed. 305pp. red & green cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good dj [dj = price-clipped with some nicks @ spine ends; else VG] "A lively excursion through Italy, Sicily and Sardinia" by James Fassett (1904-86), music director of CBS Radio from 1942-63.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992 2nd ptg. 272pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj [bottom corners very lightly bumped; else F]

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990 1st ed. thus. 139pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [ink name; text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The Spanish writer Cela (1916-2002) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989.

New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983 1st ed. 336pp. putty and brown cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a Very Good dj [edges show age foxing; some browning of endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2008 1st ed. thus. 325pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [edges are age foxed; else a nice crisp copy]

Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2004 1st ed. 272pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Good in a Fine dj [text is completely age browned owing to publisher’s paper quality; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A fascinating account of the Jacobean era European travels of the Englishman Tom Coryate (ca. 1577/79-1618).

New York: Knopf, 2008 1st Am. ed. 400pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of top and fore edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] A marvelous account of a modern traveler following in the steps of the U.S. Army’s progression through northern Europe in 1944-45.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1977 1st ed. 211pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Good+ dj [some age darkening of top & fore edges; else VG+] A paean to the City of Light by the American novelist Shaw (1913-84) with wonderful Searle (1920-2011) endpapers and illustrations.

New York: Putnam's, 1995 1st ed. 509pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some foxing to edges; else nrF; dj = rubbed @ spine head & a top corner; else nrF] An interesting Theroux trip to less wild and woolly places than he typically describes.

New York: Penguin, 1985 1st ed. thus. 469pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] Some 45 essays by travelers ranging from V. S. Pritchett to Hugh Leonard on London, Paris, Rome and Athens.