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New York: Century Company, 1924. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Century Company, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Decorated American trade binding (signed binding - "S" monogram on front cover design). Very clean blue cloth boards with gold and dark blue decoration on cover and spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs, fold-out map in excellent condition. 462 pages. Dust jacket is clean, no tears, slightest hint of shallow chipping, not price clipped (3.50 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Haddonfield, New Jersey: Ed Hertfelder, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. Haddonfield, New Jersey: Ed Hertfelder, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition hardcover book in clean original dust jacket, SIGNED by the author, with a signed handwritten note laid in. Clean gray cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "They ain't getting better Harry, just longer! - Hope you like this one also - " Note on back of a folded poster for a motorcycle product reads: "Thanks for the order Harry. I'll let you know when the novel is done. - Keep in touch - Ed." Book is 335 pages with drawings by tScot Steele. Clean dust jacket (photo illustrated) is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable myalr cover. A book about… Read More

Harper & Row, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. Harper & Row, 1973. Stated First American Edition. Beige cloth boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages are clean. No names or bookplates. 212 pgs. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, unclipped, has chip at base of spine (maximum 1/3"), two tiny closed tears at top of spine, a few nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A fast and furious adventure tale set in the Middle East..

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1955. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean dark green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps and photographs. 372 pages with index. Clean jacket is not price clipped (6.50 on front inside flap), has edge wear, a few short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: Harper, 1895. Book. Illus. by Charles Dana Gibson, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Harper , 1895. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. Charles Dana Gibson, Illustrator. First Edition, First Printing. Blue cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering, red and gold decoration on cover and spine. Hint of very light soiling. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. 219 pp..

New York: Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row, 1971. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper's Magazine Press/Harper & Row, 1971. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean gold/brown tweed boards with gold cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean gold endpapers with previous owner name on front free endpaper. 199 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, one tiny 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Travel through Egypt, Jordan and Israel, lands which have been the unseen landscape of author's childhood and whose scriptural sagas had formed the dramturgy of his own work. Marshall Frady finds between Arabs and Israelis a collision of two ages, a blind grappling of two dialectics, two realities, each barely comprehensible to the other. 8vo. Middle East..

New York/London/Toronto: Whittlesey House, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York/London/Toronto: Whittlesey House, 1948. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Clean black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square; one tiny spot of wear to inside front hinge--no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers (illustrated with maps). Small previous owner name and date on back of frontis photograph. 184 pgs. illustrated with photographs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has very small shallow chips at top and bottom spine edge, short closed edge tears, a hint of very light soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An exciting exploration of the three great deserts of the world, the Sahara, the Kalahari and the Gobi. 8vo. Adventure..

New York: Pocket Books, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Pocket Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. Clean blue boards with dark blue spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight, very slight slant. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with photographs. 322 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, hint of wear at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Adventure..

New York: The John Day Co., 1931. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Second Printing.. New York: The John Day Co., 1931. First Edition, Second Printing. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Illustrated. First Edition, Second Printing, SIGNED by author. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Hint of slightest surface wear, no fraying or wear through. Small horizontal wrinkle to cloth near base of spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. SIGNED on publisher's "Here's to Adventure!" bookplate with small printed elephant illustration matching that on title page. Clean bright endpapers illustrated with maps (no marks or writing). 338 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs, including handsome frontis photo portait of the author. Foreword by Lowell Thomas. Author's adventures in Africa. Large 8vo. Adventure..

Fodor's Travel Publications, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Fodor's Travel Publications, 1997. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. 79 pgs. Fine in Fine DJ - archival quality mylar cover Very clean and tight book with no names or writing inside. Clean glossy white hardbound boards with red and black lettering. Beautiful clean dustjacket with no chipping, not price clipped. Wonderful travel adventure ideas (iceboating on Hudson River, mountain biking through Utah, canoeing in the everglades, hot air ballooning, dogsledding, and more!) with glorious full-color photographs that are art quality. A gorgeous book.Travel..

The Perfect Page, 2013. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Clean first edition paperback book, SIGNED by both authors. Clean color-illustrated cover is unchipped, no fading. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. Signed on title page: "Best Regards - Dave." and ""To G. Thomas Tranter, Sr. - Enjoy! - James Radford - Aug. 2015." Check-mark in pen on inside side of front cover...no other marks. Illustrated throughout with full color and black and white photographs of the Queen Mary, inside and out and at various stages of her career, as well as photos of the many famous guests that have been onboard, such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, and so many more. Lots of stories of romance, bad weather, accidents, transporting war troops, but mostly years of great enjoyment as a crew member on the greatest ocean liner of all time. 274 pages. .

London: Hutchinson, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First British Edition.. London: Hutchinson, 1956. First British Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First British Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean red-orange cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with glossy black and white photographs. 184 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has tiny edge chips and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The experiences of a man who entered the Coast Guard at age seventeen (by adding four years to his age) - with thrilling accounts of chasing bootleggers during prohibition, patrolling the seas around Newfoundland for icebergs; the excitements of salvage and rescue..

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Very clean red cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on spine. No fraying, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers (illustrated with maps); no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black & white photographs & maps. 448 pgs. with index. Dustjacket has small corner price clip at lower front inside flap edge, a few tiny edge chips and very short closed edge tears, clean except for faint shallow water mark to upper spine corner of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa..

New York: Simon And Schuster, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Simon And Schuster, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line on copyright page, in clean unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded red boards with gray cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 222 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, two very tiny closed edge tears, not price clipped (7.95 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A naturalist's adventures as a young man among the wild animals of Africa..

New York: Random House, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, but has tiny (almost imperceptible) dent at bottom of front board. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 225 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa..

Great Britain: Dragon's World, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Beautifully clean first edition in clean unchipped original dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with breathtaking paintings and drawings of one year's observations of life in and around the Sapi Waterhole, deep within the Mana Pools National Park in the Zambezi valley. 224 pages with Index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears; enclosed in new archival clear removable cover..

Washington DC: National Geographic, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Very clean hardcover book in colorful dust jacket. Cool blue cloth boards with blind-stamped Aleutian decoration on cover, burgundy lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Gorgeous photographic endpapers showing Northern Lights. Illustrations by National Geographic Photographer George F. Mobley (full color, nearly 200). Foreword by Gilbert M. Grosvenor. 208 pages. Clean bright dust jacket has a few small edge chips and short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. In "Alaska," first Special Publication of the 1969-70 series, author Bern Keating examines the state's exciting past and promising future. A beautiful book..

Portland, Oregon: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Gorgeous large format book, SIGNED by author/photographer Kim Heacox, in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean black faux leather boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Signed "Best Regards, Kim Heacox" on Alaska Inside Passage map. Contains 117 fabulous color photographs;1 shaded-relief, full color map; four essays about Alaska's Inside Passage. 144 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears; publisher's "autographed copy" small oval seal on front panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. With vivid photographs and prose, Kim Heacox portrays the natural history and human drama lived daily in this wonderful salutation of land and sea: 10,000 miles of coastline, one thousand islands, a waterway about which John Muir exalted, "I know… Read More

Lyons Press, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket - now in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Black cloth boards with crisp white lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages are clean with clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated in full color. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Chronicles the author's exceptional journeys through three regions of Africa--the Sahara desert, the Rift Valley, and the Congo rain forest. Lavishly illustrated with the author's stunning color photos. .

London: Adlard Coles, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Clean hardcover first edition in clean original dust jacket. Deep blue cloth boards with small silver illustration on cover, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - very small elegant ownership tag on front fixed endpaper. With four charts and seventeen plates. 216 pages with index. Clean illustrated jacket is unchipped, price clipped at lower corner of front inside flap; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's adventures delivering yachts on many seas and in all seasons..