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The Channel Islands

By: Ansted, David Thomas & Latham, Robert Gordon

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Wm H Allen & Co: 1893

Seller ID: 010053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Detailed (and illustrated) nineteenth-century description of the 'Physical Geography', 'Natural History', 'Civil History', 'Economics and Trade' of the Channel Islands. Illustrated by Paul J. Naftel. ------- This third edition, published 30 years after the highly esteemed first edition, "numerous and extensive alterations.to the original text, reflecting the changes that have taken place" ---------- Green cloth with stamped gilt spine titles. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Hinges appear to have been strengthened. Many signatures uno...
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Japan as We Saw It

By: Bickersteth, M. [Mary Jane]

Price: $245.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1893

Seller ID: 008398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American Edition. Preface by the Bishop of Exeter, the author's father. ----Publisher's blue cloth with red border and stamped vignette in gilt. --- Bindings tight and square. Over opened at page 64/65. Text clean, light even toning some spotting. Moderate handling wear. Corners touched. Illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and photographs. --- 8vo, xvi, 354 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 21 1/2cm. index and notes. -------- "In 1891 The Bishop of Exeter accompanied by Miss Bickersteth went Japan for two months to visit his son the Bishop of Japan This is ...
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias

By: Blechman, Andrew D.

Price: $0.00

Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 2008

Seller ID: 008376

ISBN: 0871139812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

NOT FOR SALE No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. -------- "Leisureville is like the science fiction of Kurt Vonnegut--except that it is reality. What a great country!" -- Andrés Duany,
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Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China

By: Bordewich, Fergus M.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall (Simon & Schuster): 1991

Seller ID: 012251

ISBN: 0132021366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A travel narrative through China and its forbidden past as he journeys from the Gates of Hell to the Alter of Heaven, discovers hidden villages, and climbs mist-wreathed sacred mountains.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Unread.
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The Streets of Old New York

By: Brierly, J. Ernest

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Toronto, London, Hastings House: 1953

Seller ID: 007392

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a clear protective Mylar sleeve; has wear top and bottom spine and a stain on rear panel. 8.25 inches tall. 127 pages. Illustrated on each other page. --- The author has collected a series of articles and then illustrated each one. A delightful history of the city.
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The Lordly Hudson

By: Brown, Henry Collins

Price: $195.00

Publisher: New York / London, Scribner's: 1937

Seller ID: 005891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition of "The Lordly Hudson," being number 875 out of 920 [874 for sale] and signed by the author. The author's signature and limitation notice appear after the half-title page. A color mounted frontispiece depicts the Hudson River opposite the black and red title page. 15 of the 88 plates and illustrations are colored and mounted. ---- Beautifully illustrated history of the Hudson River and vicinity. ---- Bound in the publisher's cream cloth with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation on green on the front cover and spine. Showing mild external wear with light soiling abo...
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Zigzag Journeys in Classical Lands; or, Toby's Trip to Mount Parnassus

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1881

Seller ID: 008725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, Second Printing. 8vo; xii, [2], [15]-318 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, plates 22 x 17 cm. no publisher's adverts.-------- Publisher's Red cloth with stamped decorations in black and gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Red publisher's cloth with stamped decorations in Black and gilt. Very bright and clean. Spine sun-aged with mild rubs on spine bands. [Format 1] ------- With a bookplate of William Grayson Stetson (1840 - 1903) a well-known financier and trustee of Boston University, also his name on first blank p...
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Zigzag Journeys in the White City with Visits to the Neighboring Metropolis

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1894

Seller ID: 008826

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, Early Printing. 8vo; vii, (3), 12-320 pages illustrations 22 cm. Book 16 in the series. Format: binding style 2. --------- Highlighting the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago with photographs and drawings. Butterworth spoke in the Children's literary section at the World's Literacy Congress held at the Art Institute. ----------Red and white publisher's cloth with Administration Building in gilt. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. A bit of toning to white of spine. Light hand-soling. REF: OCLC: 497729, HB.c; Smathers 23h5287; D...
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Zigzag Journeys in Europe. Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1880

Seller ID: 008828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, 1880 [1879]. 8vo; viii, 311 p, [1] leaf of plates illus., ports. 22 cm.. Book 1 in the series. Format: binding style 3. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, plates and in-text drawings. --------- Decorated boards and spine with scenes in color. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear rubs to corners. Endpages with decorated map. Previous owner's name on first blank page in pencil with the date of 1879. --------- This large and elegant child's book of sending a teacher and his boys off on an expedition of learning in foreign la...
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Horn of Africa: A Novel

By: Caputo, Philip

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Holt Rinehart & Winston: 1980

Seller ID: 009877

ISBN: 0030421365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket that has wear top spine. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. ------ Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken manâ€™s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nationâ€™s fight for stability and peace.
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The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

By: Choudhury, Kushanava

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury USA: 2018

Seller ID: 010510

ISBN: 1635571561

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. -------- A beautifully observed and even more beautifully written new study of Calcutta. In its author, Kushanava Choudhury, we clearly have an important new talent. [William Dalrymple, The Guardian, Best Holiday Reads 2017]
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The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World

By: Daniels, Anthony

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1991

Seller ID: 012045

ISBN: 009174153X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 24 cm; 9.5 inches tall; 202 pages with index. ------- The author is better known by his pen name of Theodore Dalrymple. ------- This book, published just as much of the established communist bloc was collapsing, gives a valuable insight in to the absurdities and hypocrisies of Marxist regimes. The lack of freedom, the drab monotony, the deathly sapping of life these regimes have on their inhabitants are clearly delineated by Dalr...
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A Leicestershire Sketch Book

By: Edwards, Lionel R.I. [Dalhousie Robertson] (1878 - 1966)

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London, Eyre And Spottiswode: 1930

Seller ID: 009712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. 4to; 32 cm.; 12.5 inches tall; 102 pages; 8 plates in color; 36 plates in b/w. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with fading to the perimeter and some spotting. With eight colour plates and thirty six black and white plates by Lionel Edwards. ---Edwards a keen hunting man, spent his life combining hunting and painting and most of his pictures were worked from sketches made on the spot. [Ref: Mitchell, 205-06]
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Among the Amish in Pennsylvania Dutchland A Pictorial Presentation

By: Elmer L. Smith

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Akron, Penna:, Applied Arts,: 1961

Seller ID: 009474

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Third Printing. Stapled pictorial wraps. Tight and clean. A bit of Age-toning. 28cm. 11 inches tall; 42 pages. A photojournal of the way of life of the Amish told via photo and text.
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Image for Observations Made At Paris During The Peace; And Remarks In A Tour From London To Paris Through Picardy, And To England By The Route Of Normandy; Containing A Full Description Of Every Object Of Curiosity In The French Metropolis And Its Environs; A Critical Review Of The Theatres, Actors, &c. And Every Interesting Particular That May Serve As Useful Companion To The Stranger, And Amuse The Mind Of The Curious And Scientific.

Observations Made At Paris During The Peace; And Remarks In A Tour From London To Paris Through Picardy, And To England By The Route Of Normandy; Containing A Full Description Of Every Object Of Curiosity In The French Metropolis And Its Environs; A Critical Review Of The Theatres, Actors, &c. And Every Interesting Particular That May Serve As Useful Companion To The Stranger, And Amuse The Mind Of The Curious And Scientific.

By: Eyre, Edmund John

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, Robinson, and Longman and Rees: 1803

Seller ID: 005664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Bindings very firm and square. Minor shelf handling. Text clean. Even toning to text. Occasional soiling/staining throughout. xv, 393 pp. (8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5") Full calf, raised bands, edges speckled red. Rebacked. ---- Edmund John Eyre was an English dramatist who left university to join a theater troupe. He became first a comedian, then an actor who appeared at Drury Lane.
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Olivia Goes to Venice

By: Falconer, Ian

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers: 2010

Seller ID: 010846

ISBN: 1416996745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. ---------- Olivia tops her past ventures and escapades when she convinces her family to spend spring vacation in Venice. They wander over many bridges, are enchanted by the beautiful palazzos on the Grand Canal, and feed the pigeons. The pigs consume numerous gelatos and almost sink a gondola from the extra weight they've put on. Charcoal and gouache illustrations and photos of the city are digitally enhanced.
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The Romance of the Rivers

By: Faris, John T.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York:, Harper & Bros.,: 1927

Seller ID: 004469

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Blue cloth covered boards. Titles and large decoration in stamped gilt. The author was born in Missouri and wrote a number of Americana titles. This book includes information on the principal rivers of North America, their discovery, settlement and pioneer history. Bindings square and tight. Light shelf handling. Yellowed newspaper article pasted in front endpage. Text clean, light even toning. 298 pages with index plus publisher advertisements. 8.75 inches tall.
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The Lion of St Mark: Venice: the Story of a City from Attila to Napoleon

By: Feist, Aubrey

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Indianapolis and New York, Bobbs-Merrill: 1971

Seller ID: 007739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Unread, unopened. Bindings tight and square. Text clean. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light shelf handling. Illustrated with photographs. 299 pages with extensive bibliography. Feist, an eminent British historian and novelist has distilled the spirit of Venice, the intangible essence marked as much by the lust for blood, power and gold and the quest for beauty.
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La Fontane Di Roma. [The Fountains of Rome]

By: Fendi, Anna with Carla, Franca, Alda and Paola [Forward: BOLLEA, Giovanni]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Italy:, Fendi: 2000

Seller ID: 005123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No flaws but minor scuff to rear of dust jacket. Text in Italian, English and Japanese. 13.5 inches tall. B/W photography. A beautiful photo exploration of the significant fountains in the city of Rome. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.
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Selma: Queen City of the Blackbelt

By: Fitts, Alston

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Selma, Alabama, Clairmont Press: 1989

Seller ID: 010683

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED by the author with no inscription. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 10 inches tall; 230 pages with index, illustrated with historical photographs. ------- A through history of this fascinating city of the Deep South. -------- Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.
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