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$45.00
2g37a/37

On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture


PERRY, PAUL et al

Square super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, orange & blue lettering to spine, xxvii + 195pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to covers, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Thunder's Mouth Press 1996

KEYWORDS: travel literature popular culture Ken Kesey merry pranksters biography memoir autobiography swinging 60s sixties Ken Babbs psychadelic

$65.00
2e10b/12

Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corsico and Cameroons (Second Edition, Abridged)


KINGSLEY, MARY H.

Octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 541pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, light fading & scuffing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prize presentation plate to front pastedown, ex-libris plate to verso of half title page, light foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1900

KEYWORDS: travel literature anthropology culture West Africa exploration Mary H Kingsley

$55.00
2e16a/27

Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics


CLARKE, ARTHUR C.

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 164pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & foxing to spine, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Temple Press 1950

KEYWORDS: first editions Arthur C Clarke astronautics space travel flight rockets stations physics

$40.00
2f17a/19

Log-Letters From The Challenger (Fourth Edition, Revised)


CAMPBELL, LORD GEORGE

EX-LIBRARY- REBACKED, FOURTH EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, white handwritten lettering to spine, folding map frotnispiece, 512pp + 36pp catalogue to rear, VG (usual library markings, light scuffing to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional foxing to prelims & terminalslight cracking to rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1877

KEYWORDS: exploration The Challenger maritime nautical history logs letters correspondence travel

$75.00
2f17a/45

Footprints of Travellers: Europe - Asia - Africa - America (2 Vols Bound as One)


N/A

2 VOLS BOUND AS ONE, sm octavo, red/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with black handwritten lettering to title plate to spine, deckled page edges, 142pp + 144pp, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, heavy soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Cassell 1850

KEYWORDS: travel literature culture anecdotes

$15.00
xxdva187069

Mountains of the Moon


SYNGE, PATRICK M.

Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Waterstone 1985

KEYWORDS: patrick synge botany flowers africa gardening travel britain british nature

$15.00
xxdvd187088

Alone and Loitering: Pages from an Artist's travel-diary (1938-1944)


BAKER, SILVIA & WILLIAMS-ELLIS, CLOUGH (comment)

LACKS FEP; octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Peter Davies 1946

KEYWORDS: slivia baker travel travelogue drawing drawings art artist malta maltese britain british

$350.00
2f17a/65

Glimpses of New Zealand; Being a Collection of High-class and Perfectly-finished Views of the Beautiful Britain of the South


N/A

Oblong quarto, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp illus/decoration to boards, patterned eps, frontispiece, 192 black & white plates & 22pp index to rear, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, light soiling & foxing to page edges, light to moderate cracking to some gutters, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Glimpses of New Zealand Publishing Co 1896

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel literature culture scenery photography photos

$70.00
2f25b/64

The Hot Springs of New Zealand


HERBERT, ARTHUR STANLEY

Octavo, grey light card covers, teal lettering to spine & front cover, xiv + 284pp, illus/photos, tatty (heavy creasing/cracking & chipping to spine with some moderate loss to extrems, light creasing & tanning to covers, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: H. K. Lewis & Co 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel literature hot springs hydro thermal geology spas hydrothermal environment climate minerals

$55.00
2f25b/65

The Second Brush Up Your German (Frische Dein Deutsch Auf!)


GRUNDY, J. B. C. & WARD, PHIL (Illus)

Octavo, grey cloth boards, blue lettering to spine & front board, blue German military illus to front board, illus eps, xi + 114pp, illus, VG+ (sl foxing & discolouration to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to preface page) in d/w, scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping with loss to spine & edges, moderate chafing & soiling/foxing, circular price clipping to front flap)

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1939

KEYWORDS: language languages German conversation vocabulary Deutsch travel

$65.00
2f30a/9

Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Vol III


MORRIS, E. E. (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 309pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy staining & discolouration to spine- moderate to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light staining to eps, moderate cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 1888

KEYWORDS: Australasia history culture Australia New Zealand travel literature

$16.50
xxcff187219

How We Got to the Moon: The Story of the German Space Pioneers


FREEMAN, MARSHA

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: 21st Century Science Associates 1993

KEYWORDS: space travel moon Germany astronauts science German

$10.00
xxchb187265

Birds, Beasts and Relatives


DURRELL, GERALD

LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Collins 1969

KEYWORDS: gerald durrell nature travel britain british england english animals animal natural science memoir

$1750.00
2f30b/45

Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815, in Company With the Rev. Samuel Marsden (2 Vol Set)


NICHOLAS, JOHN LIDDIARD

2 VOL SET, TASTEFULLY REBOUND, half leather biund marbled heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines with gilt rule/decoration & raised bands, frontispieces, vol 1- xx + 431pp, vol 2- xii + 397pp, folding map to vol 1, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, light fading to spines, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate creasing & minor closed tearing to folding map with light to moderate foxing)

PUBLISHER: James Black and Son 1817

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history maritime travel literature exploration nautical Samuel Marsden John Liddiard Nicholas

$25.00
xxchg187282

A Time to Speak: An Autobiography


FUCHS, Sir VIVIAN

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Anthony Nelson 1990

KEYWORDS: Sir Vivian Fuchs autobiography exploration travel literature adventure Antarctic south pole East Africa first editions

$22.50
xxchg187286

Devils in Waiting


MOTLEY, MARY

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1961

KEYWORDS: French Congo travel literature Mary Motley autobiography memoir culture Africa

$30.00
xxcic187301

Wanderings in Widest Africa


CAMPBELL, DUGALD

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society 1931

KEYWORDS: exploration Africa travel literature Dugald Campbell

$30.00
xxcic187303

The Whirl: Men, Music & Misadventures


CORNWELL, JANE

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015

KEYWORDS: Jane Cornwell relationships men autobiography memoir travel literature

$15.00
xxcjf187462

The World's Toughest Golf Holes


HEPBURN, TOM & JACOBSON, SELWYN

Square Imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Saint Publishing 1996

KEYWORDS: humour humor sport golf travel literature

$50.00
1a6a/7

Rejsen til New Zealand


HANSEN, OLE CONRAD & VINDING, OLE (Trans)

TEXT IN DANISH, sm octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, 101pp, VG (light creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Gyldendalske Boghandel 1950

KEYWORDS: text in Danish travel literature exploration New Zealand

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