NY: Macmillan, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First printing. Slim hardcover in blue cloth. Uri Shulevitz retells in text and pictures one of the most beloved Yiddish folk tales, based on a story by I.L.Peretz. Elijah, disguied as a traveling magician, appears to a poor couple on the eve of Passover.....
London: John Murray, 1959. Hardcover. 12mo (5" x 7") thick hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt,speckled edges, marker ribbons. The 18th Edition, revised and updated from the previous edition of 1955. cii+ 631 pp. with directory and index.Errata slip tipped in at page x. Ilustrated with maps both integral.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in light gray cloth with tipped color illustration and title, spine lettered in gilt. ix+ 244 pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Ilustrated with drawings by the author. Observations of the author's year spent in the United States just.....
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1903. First. Decorated Cloth. First printing. Light blue cloth decorated and lettered in white, black, red and gilt. 334 pps., title page printed in red and black with vignette; color drawing frontis of a Paris cocquette. Illustrated with three-color plates drawn by the author and with.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Light cloth over gilt stamped paper covered boards.Illustrated with drawings by the author. LAID IN IS A SHORT HANDWRITTEN NOTE FROM SMITH TO A FRIEND CONCERNING A VISIT, DATED 1895. One side on folded notepaper, with additional mailing fold. The book.....
London: Longmans Green, 1892. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Bright red clothl ettered and decorated in gilt and black, top edge gilt; 317 pps. with index plus 3 pps. of illustrated ads for hotels and railways; 140 monochrome illustrations, photographic and engraved, in sepia or green. Very attactively produced travelogue.....
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Chronicle Books Llc, 1987. First Printing. Softcover. 166 pps with illustrations. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Companion piece to the art exhibit at the New York State Museum. A must-have for the baseball fan and art fanatic. Fine, tight copy.
New York: Praeger, 1970. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover. 360 pp. Facsimile reprint of the original edition published in the 1830s. Stewart tells of a voyage to South America and around the Cape undertaken in 1829-30. He describes the land, social customs and life style of the people of Brazil, Peru, the.....
NY: Scribners, 1894. A.B. Frost. First. Cloth. SIGNATURE OF THE AUTHOR TIPPED ONTO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. First edition. Light green cloth letterd in gilt and decorated with two small sketches in black; numerous illustrations by A.B. Frost. A sequel to the author's more famous "Rudder Grange" presented as a series.....
NY: Putnam, 1929. Hardcover. Hardcover. 277 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. 6th Impression. An Englishman, living a life of ease in Paris, is persuaded to travel to Africa. Very good, spine lettering duller. No jacket.
Auckland: New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., 1931. REVISED. Wraps. (REDUCED INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AVAILABLE ON THIS ITEM. PLEASE INQUIRE) Illustrated orange wrappers decorated in black. "New Edition, Completely Revised" stated on title page. Folding three-section frontispiece color plate of The White Terrace, Rotamahana. 57 pp. Double page map of "The Country Around.....
American Alpine Club, 1943. Hardcover. Presumed first (and only) edition. Hardcover in red cloth. vii+ 83 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of period documents and drawings. Very good, some wear about the spine and some spotting to the cloth but internally tight and clean. Authored by the.....
Boston: L.C. Page, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with 1908 date on title and copyright pages. Hardcover in light grey ribbed cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black and white. Top edge gilt. 319 pp. with index. Two folding maps inserted in the index. With 16 illustrations in.....
NY: Knopf, 1921. Limited. Cloth. First printing, limited to 2100 numbered copies of which two thousand were for sale (this being number 393). Tomlinson's tales of the London section of the Thames. Very good. Spine and spine label rubbed. No jacket.
Philadelphia: James Challen, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Ornately decorated black full leather. All edges gilt. . 475 pp. with index plus publisher's list at rear. Frontispiece color tinted engraving of the Mosque of Omar and Temple Area; nine additional tinted engravings. Travel memoirs of the Middle East including.....
New York and London: D. Appleton, (1899). Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 1000 numbered copies, this being No. 306. Selected Works of John Tyndall, Westminster Edition. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. xii+ 481 pp. with index. Six plates. A tight, fine, bright.....
NY: Crowell, 1881. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Color litho illustrated hardcovers; patterned endpapers; 314 pps. Illustrated throughout with full and partial page engravings. Travel book for young people which describes the European travels of an old-fashioned New York schoolteacher nicknamed Rip Van Winkle by his pupils. Generally very good.....
London: Duckworth, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 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.....
London: George Routledge and Sons. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1877). Early, though apparently not a first, edition. Green cloth ornately decorated in black , spine stamped in gilt and black. 264 pps. With 46 illustrations by Riou. Verso of title page lists five Verne title with this book listed third. A......
New York: Harper & Bros, 1878. Leather_bound. Red limp leather self folding covers. Illustrated advertising endpapers. Sequentially paginated 540-1001 + 24 (index) + 173 PP. section of adverts including many for hotels illustrated with engravings; two sheets of blank lined notepaper bound into the inner rear cover. Illustrated throughout with.....
NY: J. Day Co, 1973. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 198 pps. with index, index of the writings. Composer Richard Wagner is seen in a new and unexpected light through this collection of his letters written from Paris in the 1840s. At age 26, Wagner gave up his as.....
New York: American News Company, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed in the front free endpaper: "Will S. Monroe/ From The Author". Hardcover in olive greeen cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt, beveled edge, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. 98 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in gray linen cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. xv+ 146 pp. plus 4 pp. of publisher"s ads. Illustrated with 17 photographic plates of humorous staged scenes and a map (which is the endpaper design). Tight, near fine.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1928. Reissue. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth lettered in orange. 325 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Early reprint. Unique travelogue, a record of seven years in a young man's life (age 14 to 21) He was thrown on his own in Chicago at age 14, was cptured.....
NY: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. Three-Quarter Leather. Mid-19th century three quarter brown leather over patterned paper-covered boards; spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Two volumes in one (268 and 242 pps.). Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. Originally published in London in the same year. Classic work on travels.....
