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  • THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS. by Auel, Jean M.
    Auel, Jean M.
    THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third massive novel in the "Earth's Children series, set in Ice Age Europe. 645 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-517-556278.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61099
    Keywords: europe, Historical Fiction, ice age
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  • ELIZABETH'S CHARM-STRING. by Forbes, Cora B.
    Forbes, Cora B.
    ELIZABETH'S CHARM-STRING.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, 1903. Hardcover first edition - A retelling for children of many old legends of Europe including St George and the Dragon, St Ursula, St Nicholas, the Doge and the Fisherman, the doves of Venice and more. Illustrated with 10 photographs and many smaller drawings in the text. xiii, 238 pp plus 2 pp publisher's advertisements.

    Condition: Very good in blue cloth with a red and gilt illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine (some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and the corners,)

    Book ID: 56697
    Keywords: Children's and Illustrated, europe, legends, photographs
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  • Auel, Jean M.
    THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third massive novel in the "Earth's Children series, set in Ice Age Europe. 645 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-517-556278.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 55939
    Keywords: europe, Historical Fiction, ice age
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  • Warner, Charles D. (1829-1900)
    SAUNTERINGS.

    Edition: First edition.

    Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Hardcover first edition - An account of travels through Europe by this American essayist and writer. He begins with looking at the differences between Paris and London, and blames the English Channel for them ("Almost everything is laid to the Channel: it has no friends. The sailors call it the nastiest bit of water in the world. All travelers anathematize it. I have now crossed it three times in different places, by long routes and short ones, and have always found it as comfortable as any sailing anywhere, sailing being one of the most tedious and disagreeable inventions of a fallen race." Also includes chapters on the Low Countries and Rhineland, the…

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    Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Hardcover first edition - An account of travels through Europe by this American essayist and writer. He begins with looking at the differences between Paris and London, and blames the English Channel for them ("Almost everything is laid to the Channel: it has no friends. The sailors call it the nastiest bit of water in the world. All travelers anathematize it. I have now crossed it three times in different places, by long routes and short ones, and have always found it as comfortable as any sailing anywhere, sailing being one of the most tedious and disagreeable inventions of a fallen race." Also includes chapters on the Low Countries and Rhineland, the Alps, Bavaria, Ravenna, Rome, Vesuvius and more. 289 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.

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    Condition: Very good overall in purple cloth (spine extremely sunned, prev owner's name and date of 1872 on front endpaper in pencil.)

    Book ID: 48002
    Keywords: Bavaria, europe, Low Countries, Paris and London, Ravenna, Rhineland, Rome, Sorrentino, the Alps, Travel and Exploration, Vesuvius
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  • Morris, Wright.
    SOLO: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The novelist's account of a year he spent as a young man travelling around Europe - France, Austria, Italy. - in the heart of the Depression, and at a time of political turmoil. He is himself broke and sometimes hungry, but this book is full of humor (including some oddball characters) and the events of that year changed him as a novelist forever. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015165x.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33552
    Keywords: austria, between the wars, Biography, autobiography, memoirs, europe, italy, paris, the great depression
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