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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 -
ASSASSINATION VACATION.
Edition: Later printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41968More details Price: $15.00 -
RANDOM JOURNEYS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, chipping to top of dj spine.)
Book ID: 51943More details Price: $100.00 -
MY IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
Edition: Facsimile Reprint.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and overall tight and clean in gold cloth with burgundy lettering.
Book ID: 57386More details Price: $25.00 -
NAGEL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA GUIDE: FRENCH AND ITALIAN RIVIERA.
Edition: Second edition.
Geneva: Nagel Publishers (Cowles, distributors) (1968) dj. Hardcover - A small, but thick, volume which is a combination travel guide and reference work. Includes 15 pp of town plans in color, 40 plans in black and white and 2 folded maps in three colors, affixed to the versos of the front and back free endpapers. In addition to information on the towns and cities of the area, this also includes selected itineraries, practical information and a selected vocabulary list. Red silk page marker sewn in. Eglish edition by Mrs. H. S. B. Harrison. xii, 640 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in red leatherette binding with gilt lettering in a very good red and white glossy dust jacket (few small chips)
Book ID: 89818More details Price: $30.00 -
SAUNTERINGS.
Edition: First edition.
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: 48002More details Price: $20.00 -
POLAR BRIDGE: An Arctic Odyssey.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73548More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59631More details Price: $18.50 -
TENEMENTS, TOWERS & TRASH: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 81548More details Price: $60.00 -
GET UP AND GO: Around the World on Twenty-Five Pounds.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (offsetting to the table of contents)
Book ID: 85963More details Price: $25.00 -
AN AMERICAN TRAVELER: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Sport.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68994More details Price: $40.00 -
VOYAGE BY BUS: Seeing America by Land Yacht
Edition: Book club edition. (Family bookshelf)
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.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (prev owners' names on half-title page.)
Book ID: 7390More details Price: $16.50 -
NORTH OF SKARV ISLAND: A Trading Adventure Between Norwegians and Lapps.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28419More details Price: $12.50 -
MOTHER TONGUE: An American Life in Italy.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (gift inscription on front end page, creasing to back of dustjacket).
Book ID: 54503More details Price: $15.00 -
DOWN IBERIA'S LONGEST RIVER.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corner of front endpaper clipped)
Book ID: 73965More details Price: $21.50 -
DEAD MEN DON'T LEAVE TIPS: Adventures X Africa.
Edition: Trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Paia, HI: Pilgrim's Tales Inc., (2006.). First edition - Adventures of the author and his wife, a young couple who live in Hawaii when not traveling, on a trip from Morocco to the southern tip of Africa, partly as part of a group of "overlanders" (a group trip from hell), and partly on their own, Written with humor but also with a deep respect for both the people and the natural environment of Africa. Photographs. Map. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-9770536-44.
Condition: Very good - slight spine slant, reading crease to front cover,
Book ID: 47856More details Price: $15.00 -
ENDURANCE: An Epic of Polar Adventure.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Norton, (1999) dj. Hardcover - An attractive new edition of this classic account of Shackleton's 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition by the commander of the ship, Endurance, and originally published in 1931. Includes a new preface by Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xxvi, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-393046842.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69324More details Price: $16.50 -
SWITZERLAND: HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
New York: Carlton & Porter. n.d. (ca 1856.). Hardcover - A small slim published by the 'Sunday School Union.' 214 pp plus 10 pp of 'Books for Sunday Schools." Actually a fairly decent history of Switzerland, and an interesting description of the natural beauty and the towns in this country.
Condition: Very good in embossed green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A small volume measuring approx 6 inches tall by 4 inches wide (stamp and name of town on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 55282More details Price: $20.00