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London: Victor Gollancz, 1934. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. 351 (1) pp, Pristine tipped-in fold-out sketch map and 53 illus. [Neate #730]. Black cloth with worn tip of upper forecorner shows board, tight binding with slight forward lean, else only the slightest external wear, No markings, with clean text. 6.3" x 9.4". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1949. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Thick 8vo. In Very Good - Illustrated Dust Jacekt. . xxii, 1348 pp. 46 pages of maps; U.S, map on on front end-papers; U.S. sectional map of eight regions on rear end-paper. First Edition, 1949. Described as "The Only Complete Travel Guide to the United States. Mile by Mile Descriptions: Where to to --- What to See --- How to Get There. An American Source Book: History --- Culture --- Commerce --- Industry --- Recreation." The Guide divides the country into eight regions with hundreds of tours to all the points of interest in each area with regional sections linked by transcontinential trips, including those to national shrines, parks scenic and industrial wonders. From the main routes, side tours branch off, tempting the tourist to new discoveries. From all large cities convenient trips within a forty-mile radius are described. Price clipped. 1"x3/4" and 1/2" square chip to top edge spine… Read More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1939. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. vi + 279 pp, Published in June, 1939. Author's Note, list of 15 b&w photos, Prologue, 11 titled chapters, epilogue. Pages clean, unmarked, rust-colored cloth with only slightest wear to bottom edge forecorners, else unworn, with light wrinkling to the very top and bottom spine, binding tight, gilt spine letters bright. Textured DJ, with several layers of illustration laid on, unclipped, in protector. .

London: Robert Jennings and John Major, 1892 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. Volume I: xlii, 421 pp. Volume II: 1v, 428 pp. Volume III: iv, 481 pp. 12 plates, numerous engraved illustrations and facsimile autographs in the text, A classic account of books and book hunting in France and Germany during the early 19th Century. Second Edition, 1892. 2 1/2" closed tear Volume I title page to xviii. Age-toned impressions facing pages from frontispieces with some foxing throughout. Plates of Volume two show age-toned tide marks. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Mylar Protected. Professionally rebound in tan cloth with paper labels to spine..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / Later Printing. Octavo. 8vo. xvi (i), 358 (10) pp, frontis- b&w photo of Kwame Nkrumah, Preface - Apropos Prepossessions, text in XLV Chapters, Index. with very lightly age-toned text block, else, Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved, light wrinkling to black cloth spine top/tail, 5.75" x 8.25". Black half-cloth with brown paper-covered boards, and white lettering to spine. Thin line of chipping along top and bottom edge of clipped DJ In acetate protector..

London: Oxford University Press, 1963 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xx, 188 (8) pp, b&w frontis, preface, Introduction, Itinerarium Johannis Maundevill; Mandeville's Travels -- The Bodley Version; Commentary; glossary, index of names. Published for The Early English Text Society for the Oxford University Press: First Edition, 1963. "The abridged Bodley Version of Mandeville's Travels is extant in two manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Each of these manuscripts was written in the first half of the 15th century, and each contains numerous unique minor variations from the common substance which prove that each descends independently from a common ancestor, now lost. From the linguistic and palaeographical evidence it is clear that both extant manuscripts were written before 1450, and both derive independently form a common ancestor which was not the archetype of the Bodley Version." from the Introduction. Only the faintest wear with light age-toning to text block… Read More

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1906 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. x, 187 (5) pp, preface, list of 37 color illustrations, I. The Market-Place and Belfry --- Early History of Bruges; II. Baldwin Bras-De Fer --- The Place Du Bourg --- Murder of Charles the Good; III. The Beguinage -- Churches --- The Relic of the Holy Blood; IV. The Bruges Matins --- Battle of the Golden spurs; V. Damme --- The Bruges Sea-Fight at Sluis --- Splendour of Bruges in the Middle Ages --- The Fall and Loss of Trade; VI. Bruges La Morte; VII. The Plain of West Flanders --- Ypres; VIII. Furnes --- The Procession of Penitents; IX. Nieuport --- The Battle of the Dunes; X. The Coast of Flanders; XI. The Scenery of the Dunes; index. First Edition, 1906. In mylar portector. Minor edge wear with partially closed tear to gutters with no effect to binding at hinges, and lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block edge, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Octavo. 8vo. (xii), 321 (2) pp, with many illus, and fold-out maps at the back. Light external wear with slightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block, and foxing to endpapers, prelims and a few page margins. No markings, binding tight and clean text. 5.5" x 8.25". Dark-green cloth with gilt vignette on front board, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block. "With fifty full-page illustrations, photographed by Catharine Weed Barnes Ward, as well as three sketch maps and many wood-cuts in the text.".

Boston, Massachusetts: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 252 pp, + 24 pp list of books published by Ticknor & fields dated DEc 1864. Original cloth binding (BAL binding A), some wear at head and tail of spine. letters faded or rubbed but legible. BAL 20115, Borst A5.1a (2000 or 2040 copies in first printing). 5" x 7.4" boards. Fore-edge show slight protrusion , due to slight separation of signature from backing. in glassine wrapper.

Dusseldorf: Hub. Hoch Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4to. 109 (8) pp, text in Spanish, English and German, b&w photographs. Tercera Edicion. Near Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Cloth spine with pictorial boards..

New York: The Century Co., 1927 Book. Illus. by Thornton Oakley. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. xxiii, 497 pp, list of b&w illustrations, foreword by the artist, introduction, I. Nice, Guardian of the Alps; II. Hill-Towns of Alpes-Maritimes; III. Blosom-Time at Barcelonnette; IV. A Jaunt into Piedmont; V. The Haughty Town of Briancon; VI. Assailing the Lautaret and the Galibier; VII. In the Heart of Dauphine; VIII. Concerning Grenobe; IX. Dauphine and Its Seven Marvels; X. Romantic Chambery; XI. Maurienne the Fair; XII. Tarentaise the Tenacious; XIII. The Lake of Lamartine; XIV. The Sapphire That Is Annecy; XV. Chamoix; XVI. Above the Clouds; XVII. Encircling Mont Blanc; XVIII. Geneva. First Printing, Augist, 1927. Minor edge wear with lightly age-toned text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with decorative gilt landscape and lettering to front board, gilt lettering to spine, and… Read More

Omaha, NB: Union Pacific System, 1924 Book. Near Fine. Pamphlet. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. 48 pp, illus., large folding map attached to inside of back wrapper. First Edition, 1924. Thin stapled pamphlet. Only the faintest external wear, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean and white. 6.75" x 10". Stiff pictorial wrappers with color illustration and gilt lettering on front wrapper. In protective sleeve. With laid-in 6 page inserted pamphlet "Hotels and Resorts in Colorado.".

New York: Random House, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. x, 217 (1) pp, illus. Frontis and photographs by William Caskey: First Printing, 1948. Not Price Clipped. 1" closed tear with tiny chips along top edge spine dj, and some additional minor edge wear to same. Lightly rubbed bottom ede, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Tan heavy-weave cloth with black cloth back strip, gilt lettering to front board and spine, map on end papers, and charcoal top text block. Pictorial dj in acetate protector..

Hartford, CT: Emergency Relief Commission, 1935 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 320 (2) pp, maps. A project of the State Planning Board, Initiated under CWA and completed with FERA funds: First Edition, 1935. Light external wear with age-toned spine, and text block, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5.5" x 8.5". Green heavy-card wrappers with map on front end paper..

London: Bloomsbury, 2004. Book. Illus. by Dovydenas, Jonas - photography. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Wide Octavo. Large 8vo. 221 (3) pp, illus. First Edition, 2004. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.5" x 9.25". Blue cloth with lettering in blind on front board, gilt lettering to spine, and map on end papers. Pictorial dj in acetate protector..

Boston: Houghton Miflin Company, 1939 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Tall 8vo. In Very Good - Illustrated Dust Jacket. xv, 75 pp + unpaginated Illustrations. Large fold-out map tipped to rear free end-paper. Sponsored by the Bret Harte Associates. American Guide Series, Later Printing without any date on title-page. The reprint measures 1/4" taller than first printing, and apparently issued only in cloth, 1939. Not Price Clipped. Only the faintest wear to dj, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Light-red cloth with black lettering to front board and spine..

New York, NY: David McKay Company, Inc., 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. x + 406 pp, Text in three Parts: Planning (5 titled chapters), Preparation(11 titled chapters); Passage (3 titled Chapters). with b&w ilustrations throughout - line drawings, photos, weather maps, etc.. No index. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Spine head cloth with minor edgewear. 6.5" x 9" smooth blue cloth boards, with red letters and design, in illustrated DJ.

London: Joseph Collard Printer Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Small Octavo. Small 8vo. 59 pp. n.d. (1893). Printed cloth covers are somewhat worn at the edges with foxing to title page. No markings, tight binding, clean and white. 5" x 7". Illustrated blue cloth with blue lettering to front board. In protective sleeve. 0.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1936 Book. Illus. by Wallace Nutting. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. Re-issued. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. vii (i), 284 pp, illus. Published in Cooperation with Old America Company: "Re-Issued in Deluxe Edition" of 1928 Dodd, Mead, and Co. original. Penciled name on ffep. Dust line to top text block, and slightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 7.25" x 10.25". Brown boards with illustrated landscape on front board, and black title plates and gilt lettering to spine. "Illustrated By the Author With Pictures of Rural England with Special Reference to Their Aesthetic Features and Old Life.".

Philadelphia, PA: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. Volume I. xii, 402 pp. Volume II. viii, 412 pp. + large folding map First Edition, 1900. Lacking frontispiece Vol. I. Minor edge wear; a slight bump to fore-edge pages through frontis tissue; and light age-toning to bottom and fore- text block. No markings, tight binding and clean interior. 5.5" x 8". Blue cloth with decorative gilt crest and lettering to front board, and gilt lettering to spine..