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Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf/Elizabeth Kostova, 1995. Galley of the first edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine/Fine/Fine. 4to (12"x9.5"). 193pp. + unpaginated volume with loose colored plates. This is a set of two pre-publication galleys: one has text, B&W frontis, B&W cuts & no plates, the other is blank with the loose color plates inserted chronologically. The published edition was limited to 310 copies. Red cloth-covered boards with giltstamped titles to spines, illustrated map endpapers. Photographic dust jackets covered in protective mylar. This is Elizabeth Kostova's first book (it is NOT signed by Kostova).

Novelty, OH: Veritie Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to (10"x7.5"). 302pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Inscribed to the political activist Lonabelle "Kappie" Kaplan Spencer and signed by Boyer to ffep. Rusty paper clip mark to half title. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: edgewear, 1" closed tear to head of upper panel, 2" scuff to lower panel.

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Grey cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Spine slanted. Sun-faded edges. Two corners bumped. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar. Half title & index foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Jonathan and Tom, wishing you 'bond' voyage. The bicycler boy is here now waiting to take this so the only mildly witty thing I can think of is "No man is an island except Fred Madagascar'--To Tip and Top with love" in calligraphic marker to half title. Association copy of the poets Jonathan Williams & Thomas Meyer.

Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1838. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 8vos (7.5"x5"). 252pp. + 248pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, spine labels deteriorating. Spine slants, sunfaded spines, soft endcaps, rubbed corners, light edgewear. Boards spotty, small dent to lower cover of vol.1. Bookplates to front pdeps. Tears at hinge to ffep of vol.2, lower hinge starting. Heavily foxed. Scarce.

Weltvreden, Indonesia: Drunk Van G. Kola & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (7.5"x10.75"). 423pp. Blue cloth covered boards, Gilt text to front cover as well as spine. Mild shelfwear. Corners bumped. Near top spine cockled. Binding cocked and a smidge loose. Two bound-in fold-out maps as well as, one loose map sleeved at end of book. 1/2" gouge to bottom, rear endpapers. Gouge only effects the end papers (not rear board or text block). B&W photos throughout. Association copy, as pencil signed on front endpaper by the American ethnologist and archaeologist M.W. Stirling.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 16mo (5.25"x7.5"). 331pp followed by several pages of publisher advertisements. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt author, title and decoration to spine. Corners bumped. Spine extremes bumped scuffed and chipped. Light stain to front board. Shelf wear. Cracks to text block binding in several places but holding strong. Mild, age-related discoloration to text block. One dog ear and one closed tear. Western U.S. travelogue.

New York: S. H. Goetzel and Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vos (7.5"x5"). 348pp. +348pp. Brown, embossed cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Water damaged boards (discoloration and cockled cloth), gilt mostly worn away, spines faded. Spine slant to vol2. Corners bumped and rubbed. Pencil marks to endpapers. Corresponding dampstains throughout, without interior cockling. Pages toned, some foxing. Sewn binding tight, lightly cracked at several locations to gutters. Complete set in 2 volumes.

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Green cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: inner panels toned. Photographic endpapers foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Tom & Jonathan, the poets of Skywinding, last keeper's of the grail in F(P?)atsylvania's cultural wilderness" in calligraphic marker to half title. Association copy of the poets Jonathan Williams & Thomas Meyer.

Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 12mo (5.5"x8"). 297pp. Light green cloth covered boards with gilt title and author to front board. Title, author and publisher to spine. Spine sun faded. Small (2" approximately), white stain to front board. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Spine extremes scuffed and rubbed. Mild overall age-related, discoloration to text block. Prior owner paste down bookplate to front endpaper. Signed by both authors also on front endpaper. Further more on same is the inscription "From the Morse Museum, Warren, NH. August 1936. Frank and Floss". The book is in two parts, Seven Months in the Velda by I.H. Morse and Safari In the Rain by Julie B. Morse. B&W photographs throughout. Boards protected in dealer provided Mylar.