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ICE & FIRE: Dispatches from the New World, 1988 - 1998.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, (1998). First edition - Essays, written with "a poet's eye and an explorer's heart" - mostly on Canada, but also ranging into other parts of the "new world" by this award-winning writer. The final essay is a moving meditation on the life and death of a friend. 200 pp. ISBN: 1-551520613.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 67476More details Price: $18.00 -
REMINISCENCES FROM LAMPLIGHT TO SATELLITE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, some overall edgewear to dj) Laid in is a newspaper article about the author.
Book ID: 87366More details Price: $20.00 -
OUR PHILADELPHIA.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1914. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful collaboration between this husband and wife, in which the city is "described by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, illustrated with 105 lithographs by Joseph Pennell. In the preface, Elizabeth notes that this was written "simply for the pleasure of gathering together my old memories of a town that is dear to me and my new impressions of it after the absence of a quarter of a century." The lithographs by Joseph Pennell are a record an old Philadelphia and of the new one, a record that "in a few years would be impossible for anybody to make, so continually is Philadelphia changing." Index. A large and heavy book, 552 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in red cloth with gilt lettering and top edge gilt (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, wear to covers and some fraying at the top of the spine, front hinge cracked) The contents are clean and tight and near fine, and the binding remains sturdy.
Book ID: 81558More details Price: $30.00 -
GOLD RUSH DIARY: Being the Journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the Spring and Summer of 1849.
Edition: First edition.
Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Douglass Perkins traveled overland to Sacramento from Marietta, Ohio, with 5 companions, and used mules to pack his supplies, rather than wagons. He found only disappointment and death in California, but left behind an unusually full and well-written narrative, one which has also been well-edited and extensively annotated. Illustrated with drawings and maps; appendices; bibliography; index. Large format. xxv, 206 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some minor rubbing and soiling to the dj.) Rather uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 53861More details Price: $35.00 -
OUT WEST ON THE OVERLAND TRAIN: Across-The-Continent Excursion with Leslie's Magazine in 1877, And Overland Trip in 1967.
Edition: First printing.
Palo Alto, CA: The American West Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "For five months, Frank Leslie and his ''Excursion to the Pacific'' traveled by private railroad car. They stopped over in Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and San Francisco. They peeked into gambling casinos, opium dens, and mining camps; banqueted with Comstock silver kings and reported every detail of their trip to readers of the newspaper." This is the first time the story has been assembled book form, complete with the original drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In addition this trip has been coupled with an account of the same journey by an American writer 90 years later. Footnotes (at end), index. Large format, a heavy book. 207 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good first issue dustjacket with the original pre-publication price of $10.50 in the corner of the dj flap (some toning to textblock edges, chip to front cover of dj) .
Book ID: 78449More details Price: $35.00 -
THE OLD MAN'S BOY GROWS OLDER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Old Man is gone now, except in the Boy's memory - and the boy has left North Carolina to begin his life of travel and adventure. lllustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. 302 pp.
Condition: Near fine in brown cloth in a good dustjacket (bookplate, edgewear to top of dj, original price of 4.95 still present) .
Book ID: 88495More details Price: $65.00 -
MY FATHER'S PARADISE: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50882More details Price: $35.00 -
MY FATHER'S PARADISE: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 55152More details Price: $35.00 -
IRON & SILK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully written and perceptive account of Salzman's experiences in China from 1982, when he arrived in Hunan Province to teach English, to 1984 - or as the dust jacket describes it: "A Young American Encounters Swordsmen, Bureaucrats and Other Citizens of Contemporary China." Already skilled in the martial arts, he was invited to become the only pupil of Pan Qungfu, China's foremost wushu (kung fu) expert. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis for a movie, for which Salzman wrote the screenplay and played himself. Calligraphy by the author. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-394-551567.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (gift inscription on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 49851More details Price: $28.50 -
IRON & SILK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully written and perceptive account of Salzman's experiences in China from 1982, when he arrived in Hunan Province to teach English, to 1984 - or as the dust jacket describes it: "A Young American Encounters Swordsmen, Bureaucrats and Other Citizens of Contemporary China." Already skilled in the martial arts, he was invited to become the only pupil of Pan Qungfu, China's foremost wushu (kung fu) expert. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis for a movie, for which Salzman wrote the screenplay and played himself. Calligraphy by the author. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-394-551567.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (minor creasing to dj, front flap.)
Book ID: 36593More details Price: $40.00 -
THIS IS ROME.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: W. H. Allen, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of colorful and amusing books about cities around the world by this Czech author/illustrator. Large, tall format, printed in Italy. 60 pp. Rear flap of dust jacket lists his first two books on London and Paris.
Condition: Fair condition only in illustrated boards in a fair dust jacket (wear to ends of spine and corners of both the book and the dj, rubbing to folds of dj, several short tears, lower corner of front flap partially price-clipped) - despite the flaws in the binding, the contents are clean and attractive.
Book ID: 87068More details Price: $21.50 -
THIS IS WASHINGTON, D.C.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of colorful and amusing books about cities around the world by this Czech author/illustrator. Large, tall format, printed in Italy. 60 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very good minus dust jacket (some rubbing and wear to dj, small chips on back cover, wear at ends of spine, dj flap clipped but publisher price of 3.95 still present)
Book ID: 87069More details Price: $45.00 -
THE ART OF THE BELGIAN GALLERIES: Being a History of the Flemish School of Painting Illuminated and Demonstrated by Critical Descriptions of the Great Paintings in Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and Other Belgian Cities.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very uncommon in dust jacket.
Book ID: 36916More details Price: $60.00 -
DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.
Edition: Trade paperback.
London: Century, (1985.). The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-712604510.
Condition: Good overall - some spine slant, contents clean.
Book ID: 80253More details Price: $11.50 -
DUST IN THE LION'S PAW: Autobiography 1939-1946.
Edition: First American edition, printed from the British sheets.
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as a liason to the Arabs and to the United States, and to counter the Nazi propaganda in the area. Illustrated with photographs, chronology, index. 297 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (gift inscription, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 52889More details Price: $50.00 -
ALEXANDER'S PATH: from Caria to Cilicia.
Edition: 2nd printing.
London: John Murray, (1970, c 1958.) dj. Hardcover - Travels along the coast of Turkey mostly by horseback and jeep. Illustrated with numerous, and often very striking, black and white photographs by the author. Folding map (tri-fold,with 3 maps.) References, bibliography and index. xiii, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-7195-13324.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Book ID: 57861More details Price: $40.00 -
ALEXANDER'S PATH: from Caria to Cilicia.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1988). Travels along the coast of Turkey mostly by horseback and jeep. Illustrated with small drawings and maps. References, bibliography and index. xix, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-87951-3403.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 62846More details Price: $10.00 -
FROM SCOTLAND TO SILVERADO.
Edition: First thus.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Comprising "The Amateur Immigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook and Across the Plains" and "The Silverado Squatters & Four Essays on California." This is the remarkably vivid, still fresh chronicle of a young writer in the early stages of a hard and sentimental journey. A John Harvard Library Book. Editor's note and introduction, Frontispiece portrait of Stevenson and one inserted plate. li, 287 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a poor dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper of editorial department of Harvard University Press, several large chips to dj, tears and overall edgewear.)
Book ID: 57746More details Price: $16.00 -
SUNRISE WITH SEAMONSTERS: Travels and Discoveries, 1964 -- 1984.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, dj, 1964. Hardcover first edition - Essays on a variety of topics - from travel, of course, including Malaysia, a leper colony, old Afghanistan, but also on Tarzan the expat, V. S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John McEnroe, Rudyard Kipling and much more. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-395-382211.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (creasing and tears to the upper edge of the back cover of the dj.)
Book ID: 49690More details Price: $14.00 -
THE ATLAS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86813More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ATLAS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, 1996. SIGNED first edition - 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. SIGNED on the half title page. 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. 461 p.
Condition: Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance copy, especially signed.
Book ID: 58593More details Price: $100.00 -
NEW SONG IN A STRANGE LAND.
Edition: Hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover - A young woman from Iowa, a sculptor and wood-carver, accompanies her husband to Liberia during World War II, where he was to manage a rubber plantation. sometimes humorous account of her learning the ways of the tribes people among whom she was living. Illustrated with sketches and decorations by Liberian artist Jo Dendel. 302 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated green boards with a black cloth spine, gold lettering (bookplate on front pastedown), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 75029More details Price: $12.50 -
NEW SONG IN A STRANGE LAND.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. dj. Hardcover - A young woman from Iowa, a sculptor and wood-carver, accompanies her husband to Liberia during World War II, where he was to manage a rubber plantation. sometimes humorous account of her learning the ways of the tribes people among whom she was living. Illustrated with sketches and decorations by Liberian artist Jo Dendel. 302 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (large chip at base of dj spine, small hole in dj).
Book ID: 50215More details Price: $13.50 -
ADVENTURES IN SCENERY. A Popular Reader of California Geology.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Lancaster, PA: The Jaques Cattell Press, 1942 (1944.) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with many photographs and charts throughout. The final section is a guide for tourists called 'geology from a motor car.' Glossary, bibliography, index. 438 pages. Printed on high quality glossy paper.
Condition: Near fine in light green cloth with a poor dustjacket (many chips, separated into 2 pieces along the spine fold).
Book ID: 25385More details Price: $25.00 -
SILENT TRAVELER IN SAN FRANCISCO
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1964. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with 16 full-color paintings and over 50 drawings. 366 pp
Condition: Ex-library but only a few markings - call letters on the spine and the remains of a pocket or bookplate on the front endpapers - overall a tight clean copy. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 14312More details Price: $15.00