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Baltimore: G. Hill, 1805. Leather_bound. Good. 12 mo. in full calf, well rubbed about the edges and boards. Small contemporary hand-signed bookplate front pastedown and with the same signature ("Thos. Miller") top edge title page. The second American edition of the author's first book, originally published in England in 1803. 270 pp. plus single page publisher's ad at… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: I. Riley and Co, 1807. Third edition. Leather_bound. Good. Third American Edition stated. 12mo. in oriignal full calf, well worn and with a peeled spot front board. Spine lable lettered in gilt. 334 pp. Frontis engraving "By J___s, it is the only bit of fun I have hadsince I left Ireland" showing an Irish gentleman armed… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Norton, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition. Hardcover in gray cloth stamped in blue. 366 pp. Illustrated with drawings and color plates. Fine (small prev. own. sig. top corner nof front free endpaper) in original dust jacket, mostly bright but with s bit of light solining. This nis the first version of the jacket… Ler mais sobre este item

Trenton, NJ: Brandt Press, 1893. First. Hardcover. Fine/Yes. First edition. Dark brown textured cloth with spine stamped in gilt; 180 pps. with index of distances and historical appendix. Photographic frontis of Washington's Headquarters on the night of December 25th, 1776. IN THE EXTREMELY RARE DUST WRAPPER, PLAIN EXCEPT FOR THE SPINE PRINTING WHICH DUPLICATES THE LETTERING ON THE… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Education, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardcover. 528 pp. (with index). Dark brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black. Deaccessioned from a church library with their bookplate on front pastedown and sticker. Good. Edges and extremities rubbed and worn. 184 black and white maps and engravings.

New York: Times Books, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Hardcover. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Route map endpapers, 338 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. In the spirit of Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" and Least-Heat Moon's "Blue Highways", veteran journalist Henry Kisor clims aboard the legendary railroad liner "California Zephyr" and introduces the reader to the… Ler mais sobre este item

American Express Travel Department, 1931. Wraps. Good. 7" x 10" 16-pagetour booklet in striking deco-designed stiff wrappers. Issued by the travel department of American Express for the summer of 1931. Illustrated with photographs, route maps. Tidemarking to the left side of the front wrap,extending more lightly onto the title page and more faintly still to the rest of… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Scribner, Armstong, 1877. revised. Hardcover. Very Good. The "new and revised edition". Hardcover in dark brown cloth. LV+ 535 pp with index. Folding color tinted frontispiece chart of the elevations of the heights of Egypt, Sinai & Palestine. Six color tinted maps 9some folding and some double page) and one map integral. Very good, shallow loss… Ler mais sobre este item

Tien-Tsin (Tainjin), China: Libraire Francaise, 1937. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo hardcover in red cloth with spine lettered in black. Text in French. Photo illustrated endpapers, 347 pp. with index plus 14 pp. of adverts at rear. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings (many in two-color tint). Generally fine; only the front panel and two flaps of the dust jacket laid… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Duckworth, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in royal blue cloth lettered in gilt. 238 pp. plus one page adverts at rear. With a folding map and 24 photographic plates. Very good or a bit better, foxing to the half title, title on the text pages facing the plates. Lacking the rare dust jacket.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: J.H. Colton, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo hardcover in olive green cloth ornately lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and with design repeated in blindstamp on the rear board. Color lined frontispiece map of "Rail Road Routes between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington". Lacking the folding map at rear. 134 pp. plus… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in grey cloth ornately decorated and lettered in gilt and black. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. xvii+ 448 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Later printing (first was 1906) Color frontipiece of Botticelli's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 13 photogravure plates with… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First edition. hardcover. Near Fine. Firts edition. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt. xxiv+ 176 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. A tight, near fine copy, wear to one tip andspine lettering very slightly duller. No jacket. Linton Wells (1893-1973) was an American journalist and author. He gained fame as a foreign correspondent covering… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper & Bros, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in deep blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. First edition: title page is dated 1896 with copyright page dated 1895 but there is an 1895 Christmas inscription on the finrt front blank. Top edge gilt. 226 pp. plus final leaf ad for other works by Parsons.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. No date but stated Nineteenth Thousand so circa 1867. Thick small 8vo. in brick colored cloth stamped in gilt, leather title label letterd in gilt on spine. 698 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated with nearly three hundred full page engravings of ancient, modern, and biblical… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. First edition. Leather_bound. Fine. First printing (stated). The author's personal copy, bound in three quarter chocolate brown morocco over special, heavily textured tan paper decorated with design in brown and black (the binding bears no specific identification but the book was acquired from a western New Jersey personal friend of Furnas,… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition (stated). Hardcover in sky blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. xxiii+275 pp. Very good, spine lettering dulled. No jacket. World traveller William McFee describes the sights, sounds, and peoples of Columbia--for this book, he has reverted to… Ler mais sobre este item

Richmond, VA: George W. Englehardt, 1893. First edition. Softcover. Good. First edition (1893 date on title and copyright pages) . Octavo inprinted illustrated stiff wrappers. 315 pp. with index. Advertsing inside and rear wrap (back cover is ad for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway). Profusely illustrated with photographs, portraits and engravings of notable sights, scenes, places and people.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First printing. Slim hardcover in light blue paper covered boards lettered and decorated in white. 48 pp. with three color plates and twenty five illustrations in black and white. Near fine, touch of wear to the extremities, some offsetting to the endpapers. In the original dust jacket, very good.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: George H. Doran, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Hardcover in maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. xi+260 pp. with index. Sixteen color plates by Harry Morley and thirty-two reproductions from photographs. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright, tight copy. No jacket.