Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 51 essays on travel from Plymouth to Cape Cod and Nantucket to Hawaii, Palau, Florida, Amsterdam, London, Britain, the Zambezi river, the Yangtze, the Mosquito Coast, the edge of the Great Rift and more. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography ix, 466 pp. ISBN: 0-618034064.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book described as "part contemplation of an America both austere and flamboyant, part love letter to the Old West and part idiosyncratic travel guide." Illustrated with original photographs by Lucy Gray. SIGNED on the half title page by the author. Notes, recommended readings and index. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454861.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1964. Classic story of traveling on a freighter from London to the upper reaches of the Amazon. Includes a new introduction by V. S. Pritchett.

New York: Dutton, (1927, 1920). SIGNED hardcover - The author's first book, originally published in England in 1912. A classic story of traveling on a freighter from London to the upper reaches of the Amazon. The dedication page that this is "the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forest of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910." SIGNED by Tomlinson on the half title page, and very uncommon thus. 371 pp.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young journalist's trip across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan, in an attempt to find out what was happening at the notorious salt mines at Taoudenni - where they being worked by Malian slaves, as was reported? Map, photographs, index. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-897330285.

New York & London: Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover - A survey of life and travel on the Great Roads of England - the Bath Road, the Brighton Road, the Dover Road, and more - whether in the lumbering vehicles of the 17th century or in the light faster coaches of the early 1800s. Profusely illustrated with drawings by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Originally published in 1888, this is apparently the first edition in the Macmillan's Illustrated Pocket Classics series. Top edge gilt. A small volume. 376 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the three and a half thousand miles of coastland that borders the Gulf of Mexico in the southern US and Mexico and a picture of the peope who inhabit these borderlands -from the Florida Keys in the spring to cities like New Orleans and Brownsville to Merida in Mexico. Bibliography. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-20721.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A brilliant reconstruction of the 'spiritual history' that led up to the European domination and decimation of aboriginal cultures - native American tribes, Caribbean tribes, the Mayans - as rich in mythic life as the Western culture was barren. The author contends that it was the progressive decay of Christianity from a living mythology into a historically oriented state religion that creted a spiritual vacuum in the West, resulting in a terrific restlessness and energy that eventually mainfested itself in exploration conquest and conversion." Notes on sources, index. xviii, 329 pp. ISBN: 0-670-160989.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 100 years after Mark Twain, 59 years old and deeply in debt, set out on a world-wide lecture tour, boarding a night train from Elmira to Cleveland on July 14, 1895, Cooper set out to retrace Twain's footsteps and the result is the first full-length book treatment of this journey since Twain's own. Twain's trip took him across North America and to Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. Based on journals, letters and newspaper accounts, this is a combinationof travel writing, social history, historiography and biography. Photographs, extensive notes, references, index. 420 pp. ISBN: 1-55970-5221.

New York: World Audience Publishers, (2010). SIGNED - While predominately a journal and travel guide, this book also provides historical insight into both the real Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) and the fictional Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel. Illustrated with hundreds of the author's photographs. While designed to be an "armchair travel guide"", the final section contains tips for a traveler who decides to follow this trail physically. INSCRIBED on the title page The second edition corrects a few errors and updates prices in that last section. Promotional postcard laid in. 255 pp. ISBN: 978-1935444534.

Seattle: The Mountaineers, (1987). dj. Hardcover first edition - Proving that adventure is not just something for the young, in this,her first book, a 70 year old grandmother Urrutia recounts her adventures bicycling all over the Andes in Ecuador - on a fat tired, single speed bike, accompanied by a 35 year-old taxi driver-guide-translator, a father of five who had never before ventured so far from Quito. Illustrated with drawings by Betsy James. Map, vii, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-898861411.

Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A guide to places off the beaten path, veering toward places offering vibrant art galleries, exciting art festivals, innovative theatre companies, art-filled coffee bars, and nightclubs showcasing local music talent. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780881506969.

New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1878. Folding frontispiece map. The author, a member of Parliament, traveled from Halifax in Nova Scotia, to Boston, New York, Saratoga, etc, and then went across to the Pacific and back on the Union Pacific Railroad, taking in the California sites, including Yosemite. Vivian visited Utah and includes notes on the Mormons and polygamy. As a metallurgist, he devotes a significant amount of attention to the mining districts and the mineral resources of Nevada, Utah and California. Comments on the Chinese questions, frequent statements like loving the "darkies" and preferring "the niggers, etc." A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. iii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054769.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. INSCRIBED on the title page ("to..."). Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.

New York: Viking Penguin, (1997). 53 interconnected tales from his travels over 5 years - from San Francisco and New York to Phnom Phen, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Jerusalem, Mogadishu and more - all populated by the lost and the lonely, whores and drug addicts, and more. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. Sources. xxii, 459 pp plus 7 pp of photographs at beginning of book, 8 pp at end. ISBN: 0-140254498.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - "a road map to the locations of American political violence and ruminates on their lessons ....much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue--it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and--the author's favorite--historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored.... there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult." 258 pp. ISBN: 9780743260039.

New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1906. Translated From The French by Mary Louise Hendee. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054777.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a three month long odyssey in 1988 by a Canadian-Soviet team of adventurers, with the goal of linking polar regions in the west and east - starting in Siberia and ending on Canada's Ellesmere Island. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by author, Laurie Dexter - "to - best wishes for good health and many safe adventures" and dated in 1997. Illustrated with full color photographs. Map, nine appendices. 213 pp. ISBN: 1-550131990.

New York: Twelve, (2008). First edition - Using as his guide the emerging field of positive psychology, the author traveled the world trying to find the happiest places and to figure out what made them happy - from Iceland to Bhutan to India, and more. 329 pp.

London: Allan Wingate, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - From Trieste to Greece, Syria, Iraq, India, and Australia and New Zealand and more. A young boy - 16 years of age - with only 9 pounds left out of his original 25, meets up with a 24 year old woman, and she begins to teach him how to flatter the border guards to get a transit visa, and how to create an image of a normal tourist, and more the beginning of a 5 1/2 years of hitchhiking from country to country. Illustrated with black-white photographs. 303 pp.

Guilford, Connecticut : The Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on his adventures in Costa Rica, with Peter Blake and the New Zealand sailing team, crocodile hunting in Australia, diving with the great white sharks in South Africa and much more by the author best known for his Doc Ford mysteries - but who has also been a fishing guide and the author of the "Out There" column for Outside magazine. SIGNED on the title page. xv, 195 pp. ISBN: 1592280331.

New York: Morrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover - Novelist and humorist Wibberley sets out with his wife, six children and cat to see the real West: the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mohave, the redwoods, and more. Map endpapers.

Grants Pass, OR: Midgard Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This book, an account of a trading adventure in 1805 between Norwegians from Ranafjord and nomadic Lapps summering with their reindeer on a treeless island off the coast of Norway, is unique in that it is based on both Norwegian and Lapp oral tradition and written by an 'insider' to that oral tradition, who is passing on the stories of his Lapp grandfather. Glossary. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-9615948-02.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - An American woman tells of her changed life after moving to Parma, Italy with her husband and daughter. Illustrations and photographs in black and white. Bibliography. x, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-865475016.

New York: Vantage Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slightly fictionalized account of traveling on a rubber raft down the Tajo River, which flows for more than 1000 kilometers from eastern Spain to Lisbon in Portugal and into the Atlantic. Illustrated with photographs. 109 pp. ISBN: 0-533047625.