Search Results: Titles starting with A from Walkabout Books

London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 351, with illustrations, index. Very light shelf wear, mild spine slant; else clean and sound. Dust jacket chipped at upper corners of front panel. "In compiling this book, Colin Willcock has set out to provide a concise and authoritative guide to all branches of shooting. As editor, he has produced a first class team of experts; all authorities in their fields, and all writers who communicate not only knowledge and experience, but also enthusiasm and enjoyment" (dust jacket). Organized into six parts: guns, game shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling, stalking, and clay shooting.

New York: A-D Publishing, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 102 pp, in original wrappers, with illustration, layout, and design by Ukrainian-American artist Irvine Kamens. Light wear to edges, contents clean, binding sound.

Landsdowne, PA: Hamilton Press, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. 7 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. Light shelf wear to wrappers, light toning to edges; contents clean. Alphabet book, likely produced as a Christmas greeting. Vintage woodcut illustrations of animals--one for each letter, A-Z, with English and French names for the animal and a brief Christman/Noel poem.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 372 pp, with illustrations and index. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, large bookplate on front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewar and has a vertical spine crease. Includes discussion of Jesuit travelers in the Himalaya, exploration by British Army officers and surveyors, and, of course, the mountaineers.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp xv, 380, with folding map. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Cloth chipped at spine ends, corners rubbed through, front hinge a bit wobbly. Bookplate without owner's name on front pastedown, penciled ownership signature dated 1875 on front free endpaper. Map has tape repairs and some small losses and is slightly mis-folded. Neate W95: "Wilson journeyed from Simla to Kashir through Shingo La, Padum, Penze La, Dras and Zoji La in 1873.

Boston: Printed and Sold by James Loring, 1816. Hardcover. Good. Eighteenth American edition. 3.5? x 5.5?, 72 pp, in original paper-covered wooden boards with leather spine. Fair to good: about 1/3 of paper missing from front board, which is attached by one thread, old dampstaining, pages tanned. Although a very popular school text that was published in dozens of editions, this work is now fairly scarce in the marketplace.

Canterbury: Five Mile Press, 1983. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. Approximately 60 pp, with frontispiece, 27 color illustrations. Pictorial boards show minor sheldwear, internals clean and sound. Minimal wear to dust jacket. A collection of works by Australian artist Jack Absalom, one of a group of five artists who exhibit under the moniker Brushmen of the Bush.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 259 pp, indexed, bound in original red cloth. Near fine, with a small bump to the lower front board and some glue staining on the front pastedown where a bookplate was once affixed. Dust jacket is toned at the spine, else fine.

London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752. First Edition. 8vo, pp vi + 84, 95, with 3 folding maps. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt rules. Small bookplate ("Lavington") on front pastwdown and one "From the Wilberforce Library Backsettown" on front free endpaper. Frontis map slightly misfolded, but overall a near fine copy. Robson was a former employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who had worked as a surveyor and "Supervisor of the Buildings" (i.e., construction superintendent). His experiences convinced him that the Company was mismanaging its holdings so badly that all of northern North America would soon be taken over by the French. Hill (1477) describes this account as one of the earliest and certainly the fullest of works that had hitherto been published on the Hudson Bay Territory," and explains that "Robson, with a sound knowledge of the locale and of the personnel of the Hudson's Bay Company, condemned the company for its failure to promote enterprise and development in its lands."… Read More

Hardcover. Very good. Bound typescript with no publication information given, but identified in OCLC as "a translation made by Antionette Hotovitzky in 1935 of the original Russian ed., St. Petersburg, 1847, omitting the Indian vocabularies in the originals." [vii] 422 pp, with text on rectos only, bound in green cloth. Numerous ink stamps of the Alaska Indian Service in Juneau on endpapers and edges, otherwise clean and sound. "Contains [an] introductory outline of Russian trade, administration, and exploratory work in Alaska before Zagoskin's visit, and of the latter's mission in 1842-44, to survey the Kvokhpak (Yukon) and Kuskokwin River regions, with a view to developing trade, establishing posts and routes....Zagoskin describes in detail the Russian trading posts; his arrangements for travel and food; topography of the Norton Sound region; and Eskimo inhabitants, their customs, trade with Russians, etc." (Arctic Bibliography 19779, 19781).

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823. Hardcover. Very good. Two text volumes, no atlas. 8vo, pp 503, 442, xcviii (including Astronomical and Meterological Record and Vocabularies of Indian Languages), in contemporary full calf bindings with red and black spine labels. Both volumes show some old pale dampstaining, but still a very good, clean set overall. This important government-sponsored expedition, led by Major Stephen Harriman Long of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, was tasked with conducting a military and scientific reconnaissance of the central plains for the first time. The part included men with training in geology, botany, zoology, and ethnology, as well as a naturalist, an artist, and a topographer. Eight guides and hunters and a seven-man military escort completed the twenty-two man detachment. Edwin James served as botanist, geologist, and surgeon. Wagner Camp 25:1, Howes J-41, Streeter 1783.

Chicago: Mrs. T.M. Starr, 1896. Softcover. Very good. Fourth edition. 48 pp. 6.5 x 5 inches, in original stapled wrappers. A very good copy, with some chipping to the spine, ownership signature on front cover. Title continues: Including Concise Instructions for Coloring with Transparent Oil Colors and for Enameling Over Colors, Mounting on Glass, Coloring Lantern Slides, Fabric Painting, etc., etc. Mrs. Starr, the publisher, was manager of the Acme Water Color Co. As promised, the book offers tips on how to select and apply color to diffrerent parts of an image (e.g., hair, flesh, backgrounds) and to photographs of different types. Just one copy (of any edition) located in OCLC.

London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 252 pp + publisher's ads, with 27 illustrations and a folding map, in original maroon cloth. Considerable rubbing to edges of boards, corners bumped, slight bleed of cloth color onto top edge of rear endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. Neate C99: After a quick ascent of Anconcagua, Conway attempted Sarmiento in Tierra del Fuego. This mountain resisted many attempts to reach its twin peaks, which were not climbed for another fifty years. This expedition marked the end of Conway's career as a serious mountainer....He was Alpine Club President 1902-04.

Springfield and New York: Samuel Bowles & Company; Hurd & Houghton, 1866. Hardcover. Good. Early reprint (first published 1865). 452 pp, with colored folding map. Original brown cloth, worn at spine ends. Small bookplate ("Marcy Mills") and bookseller's label on front pastedown, another label partially removed from rear pastedown, part of rear free endpaper lacking. Binding tight, text clean, pages somewhat tanned. Wagner-Camp (410): "Samuel Bowles and his party left Atchison, Kansas on May 21, 1865 for San Francisco by way of Salt Lake and across central Nevada, stopping at Austin and Virginia City. They reached the Pacific at the end of June, and traveled overland up the the coast to British Columbia, returning to San Francisco by steamer. They visited Yosemite in August, and were back in New York by the end of September. This book is composed of Bowles's letters to the 'Springfield Republican', revised and expanded." Graff 370; Sabin 7077; Flake 767.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 63 pp, bound in decorative paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Mild rubbing to lower edge of boards, else a fine copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Theodore Green with respect, Archibald MacLeish." Dust jacket has a short closed tear to the upper front panel and some chipping along the top edge of the rear panel.

[Washington], 1813. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 233 pp + table of contents, in original plain blue wrappers. Partially unopened, some insect damage to wraps, moderate foxing throughout.

Washington: Gideon & Co, 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 28 pp, in original sewn self-wrappers (not disbound from a larger volume as often found). Light foxing; very good. "Winthrop emphatically advocates the immediate admission of California and exhorts Congress to refrain from the injustice of omnibus tactics which would "embarrass, and perhaps peril her admission" (Eberstadt). Cowan p. 691.

San Francisco: Press of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 56 pp, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt illustration on front board. Very good, with some light abrasion to the cloth. Internally sound and clean. Published in the same year Sutro became Mayor of San Fransciso, having made a name (and fortune) for himself in mining and real estate.

London: Macmilland and Co, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 339 pp + publisher's ads, bound in original dark green cloth. Chipping to head of spne, corners lightly bumped, evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound, text clean.

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 236 pp, in original brown cloth with embossed floral decoration. Corners lighly bumped and rubbed, else fine. Contemporary private library label/bookplate of Samuel E. Howe on front pastedown; inscribed on the front free endpaper by Howe to his friend Charles P. Frissell, Esq.; and signed by Frissell in Burlington, VT, on the rear pastedown. Both men appear to have been in the fire insurance business in New England. Kaser (The Washington, D.C. of Fiction, #2): "Set in the 1850s, this satire is presented mostly in epistolary form, through letters written by Solomon Smooth....An advocate of the most inclusive republicanism, Smooth's letters to Uncle Sam describe the specific corruption of the Pierce administration and of Washington political life and society. The work includes descriptions of the National Hotel, African Amerians, Irishmen, office seekers, and legislators representing various states....The work… Read More