Search Results: TRAVEL from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

New Orleans: New Orleans Item, 1951. 1955 Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Creases and wear to folds. Guide to New Orleans in the 1950s, with points of interest; map of central city, the Vieux Carre and Garden District; and nightclubs and restaurants. B&w photographs. Double-sided, 12-panel pamphlet, which unfolds to 23-1/2"x19", when folded 9-1/2"x4"

Washington DC: American Automobile Association, 1959. Stapled wraps. Good. 63p. Wraps soiled and loose at staples. Travel guide to the 49th state written shortly after statehood. Includes approach routes to the highway, a log of the highway with services and lodgings, and a guide to Alaska's cities. Booklet. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9-1/4"x5-1/2")

New York: American Export Lines, 1952. Stapled wraps. Very good. 14p. Wrap corners lightly worn. Pamphlet with cruise itineraries for American Export Lines voyages from New York and Boston to the Mediterranean. (7-1/2"x4-1/8")

Atlantic City, New Jersey: Amusement Publishing, 1952. Stapled wraps. Good. 64p. Wraps creased and corners worn. Guidebook for Atlantic City services, sports, shopping, theaters, and religious facilities for the week beginning March 29, 1952. B&w illustrations. (6"x4")

Atlas Obscura, 2021. Pictorial boards. Very good/No Jacket. [128p.] Tear on front cover, cover corners lightly worn. Color illustrations and photographs. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")

Watkins Glen, New York: Finger Lakes Association, [1947]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 24p.) Name on top front cover and wrap edges scraped and corners worn. Guide book for the Finger Lakes Region of New York State with information on lakes, outdoor recreation, and points of interest. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/4")

Somerset Island, Bermuda, [1970?]. Leaflet. Good. One-fold leaflet stained on corners. Describes Belfield-in-Somerset, a restaurant and gift shop in an historic Bermuda house on Somerset Island. B&w illustrations. (4"x3")

Frankfurt: American Hotel Service, 1962. 9th Edition. Wraps. Good +. 88p. Wrap edges sunned. Travel guide to Berlin, the year after the wall was constructed. B&w illustrations and photographs and foldout maps of Kurfürstendam shopping guide and points of interest tour. (6-1/2"x4-7/8")

Haverhill, Massachusetts: Bassett's Tours and Travel Bureau, [1959?]. Wraps. Good +. Unpaginated (approx. 24p.) Missing tickets in front. Promotional booklet issued by Bassett's Tours with travel advice, things to do, and advertisements for Bermudan businesses. Wraps with stapled text block. B&w illustrations and photographs. (3-1/2"x6-1/8")

France: Ministère des Travaux Publics, des Transports et du Tourisme, Commissariat Général au Tourisme, [1950?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 32p. A few pages toned, wrap edges scraped. A promotional guide for British tourists to the physical features and customs of Brittany, France. Back cover folds out with photos of traditional headgear worn in the various regions and color illustrations of men's and women's festive dress illustrated by J. Pasquet. B&w photographs and color illustrations. (10-1/4"x8-1/4")

Daytona Beach, Florida: Daytona Beach Bungalows, [1960?]. Brochure. Very good. Brochure for the Daytona Beach Bungalows promoting its 8 cottages and twelve apartments for tourists in a compound located on the beach. Green text and photographs. (Folded - 9"x4"; unfolded - 9"x12")

New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1850. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 408p., 10 leaves of publisher's titles. Pages foxed especially those around the plates, cover corners worn, light pen marginalia and name on title page. Rebound. Issue 2, with map added, four lithograph plates by Sarony & Major. Describes surfing on p. 352 - 353; "Nothing here has amused me more than the surf-sports of the young chiefs. Each takes a smooth board, of some eight feet in length, leads it over the coral shallows far out into the sea, and when a tremendous roller is coming in, jumps upon it, and the roller carries him upon its combing top, with the speed of an arrow, to the shore. A young American, who was among them, not liking to be outdone in a sport which seemed so simple, thought he would try the board and billow. He ventured out a short distance, watched his opportunity, and as the roller came, jumped upon his plank, was capsized, and hove, half strangled onto the beach." [Cowen; p.137 and Howes; C 624] Four plates of… Read More

New York: Robert F. Warner Inc., 1951. Stapled wraps. Very good. 41p. Wraps and page fore edges curled. Booklet promoting deluxe hotels and resorts in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil marketed by Robert F. Warner Inc. Includes descriptions of facilities for select hotels. Cover design by Charles Cobelle and illustrations by Tony Wrubleski. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (9"x6")

London: Victor Britain Rent-a-Car System, 1959. Map. Very good. Creases to folds of 23"x18" map of Great Britain (9"x3-7/8"; folded) Color illustrations.

[San Francisco]: American Express Travel Dept., 1932. Pamphlet. Good +. Single sheet, double-sided, folded into 4 panels. Pamphlet creased with staining. Itinerary for a celebratory tour and cruise from May 15 to October 3, departing from and returning to San Francisco, California. Some of the locales the couple visited during their 4-month tour include Vancouver, Montreal, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Brussels, the Rhine, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Lucerne, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Nice, Paris, and New York. (Folded - 6"x3-7/8"; unfolded - 6"x15-1/2")

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair +. [x], 342p. Cover corners bumped and lightly worn, price clipped jacket has large chips and tears to edges. One of the Footloose series by this prolific post-World War II travel writer. Jacket design by Peter Burchard. B&w photographs. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Gatlinburg, Tennessee: [Gatlinburg Inn], [1950?]. Brochure. Very good. Single sheet, double-sided, folded into 6 panels. Brochure for a resort at the entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Black and orange map, b&w photographs. (Folded - 9"x4"; unfolded - 17-1/2"x12")

Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Motor Co., 1962. Stapled wraps. Good. 64p. Damp stain on top and bottom of pages. Includes articles on: homesickness; Rocky Mountain National Park; Santa Catalina Island; the Ford "406" Galaxie; the Friendship sloop; Chatham, Massachusetts; Mackinac Island. Inuit Olympics; the Ford Fairlane; and Ford camper conversions. B&w photographs and color illustrations. (6-5/8"x5")

Koblenz: Landesverkehrsverband Rheinland-Pfalz, [1952?]. Stapled wraps. Good +. Unpaginated (approx. 12p.) Booklet folded vertically with toning to fold on back. Booklet describing the Moselle and Saar river valleys with colorfully illustrated maps of the region. Text in English. Color illustrations. (8-1/2"x7-7/8")

[Philadelphia]: Pennsylvania Railroad, 1951. Stapled wraps. Good +. [58p.] Ink stamp on first page, wrap corners creased and worn. B&w map and photographs. (6-5/8"x4-1/4")