Adventure from Turtleman Used Books

First edition. No dust jacket. Orange fabric shows minimal edge wear, with a couple of small stains and darkening over the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate sticker inside the front cover. Set in Central Africa at the time of Belgian colonization.

First edition. No dust jacket. Green fabric covered boards show wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. Gilt author's signature on the front cover and faded gilt print on the spine. The pages are yellowed with age, but remain clean, tight and unmarked. Many photographic illustrations (35). This is… Read more about this item

Latest date in the book is 1917. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper is dated 10/1/31. On that same page is a bookplate sticker from a more recent owner. A third name is on the half-title page. The frontispiece is in color, the remaining illustrations are black and white. Splits in the endpapers show the binding fabric, both… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Green textured paper covered boards with red print on the spine and wear at the corners and spine. Map on endpapers. Owner's bookplate on the ffep. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. A scarce book.

Book shows its age. The brown fabric covered boards with black print on the front and spine has board showing through at three corners and is quite worn at the top of the spine (see photo #2). Hinge splits have occurred at the front and rear endpapers, with the front free endpaper being lost (see photos #3 and 4). The… Read more about this item

A Danish explorer's memoir of his various expeditions into the arctic, both from the Northeast and the Northwest. A map of his various journeys is printed on the endpapers (see photo). No dust jacket. The book shows very little wear, and the deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate sticker on the front endpaper.… Read more about this item

Stated first edition (in this series). A reprint from the original (ca. 1920), translated from the original Swedish by F. H. Lyon. The author was the husband of author Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Green textured paper covered boards with gilt print on the spine. Book shows little wear other than some spotting on the top page edges (only on the… Read more about this item

First edition, in this format. Green textured paper covered boards with gilt print on the spine. Minor edge wear to book and dust jacket. Little else. Deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with a few black and white photographs. The publisher included a disclaimer on the copyright page related to their use of the original language and attitudes, which… Read more about this item

Signed by the author with brief inscription, inside the front cover. Little wear. Spine has one crease. Glued binding failed at that crease and has been reglued. Pages are clean and unmarked. A rare book.

First edition. Book shows very little wear. Gray paper covered boards with red fabric at the spine, with gilt print. The dust jacket shows a little wear, mostly along the upper and lower edges of the back cover. The dust jacket is plastic over paper, and in a few places the plastic has started to peel,… Read more about this item

Gently worn. Small chips at the corners and edges. Spine has a single crease but remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, other than a few scattered spots on the page edges. Two sections of photographs. A fairly rare book. A memoir of Lois and Herb Crisler's time in the Alaskan wild,… Read more about this item

Very little wear to book or dust jacket. Dust jacket does have the remains of a circular sticker on the front cover. First edition.

Little wear other than some creases on the spine, which is slightly skewed as well. I had to look twice to be sure this rather short book was actually written by Michener. A story about the Canadian gold rush of 1897. Owner's name inside front cover.

Little wear, mainly at the corners. Note inside front cover. 260 pages, full color illustrations, with highlighting and notes. Learn to Scuba.

A small amount of wear, primarily some spine creases and a bent corner on the front cover. 451 pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The third of eight books in the Philip Mercer series. A satellite discovers to location of the lost mines of Solomon and a deadly gold rush ensues.

Printed like a pulp magazine of the 1950s, complete with the Charles Atlas ad in the back. A science fiction action adventure on a secret science installation. Almost like new, no significant wear. 91 pages. A rather rare book.

The second book of six in the series. Our hero, Will Burrows, has to thwart the evil plans of a subterranean madman intent on wiping out all the unsuspecting people who live above ground. No appreciable wear, almost like new. You might be the first person to read this copy. (Or I will, but I'm very… Read more about this item

If you are looking for a rare book, this just might be it. This is a novel from a writer who is not known for writing novels. Creswicke is mainly known for writing an eight-volume accounting of the Transvaal War.in South Africa. He also wrote a biography of some dude named Joseph Chamberlain, which itself runs to… Read more about this item

Book one (of two) in the Saratine Mosaic series. Little wear, mainly at the corners, with one spine crease. 546 clean, tight pages.. A world of intrigue, violence and magic.

Front cover has seen some wear, but the back cover is mostly missing. Owner's name and brief inscription inside front cover. Pages are all present and accounted for, unmarked and intact. A boy goes off to perform in a circus. A classic from the mid 20th century. If you want to read the story rather… Read more about this item