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xxgmf214345

Ajanta & Ellora: Our World in Colour


SENGUPTA, RANHANA (Text) & KEDAR, ATUL (Photos)

Quarto 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: The Guidebook Company 1991

KEYWORDS: India peninsula Ellora Ajant acaves travel brochures souvenirs guides culture ancient history

$15.00
xxgoc214390

No 91/92: A Dairy of a Year on the Bus


ELKIN, LAUREN

FIRST EDITION, 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: Semiotext(e) 2021

KEYWORDS: first editions literature Lauren Elkins travel Paris Parisian public transport buses diaries journals

$25.00
xxgsc214532

Innocents to Everest


DONALDSON, JEAN

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: United Writers 1976

KEYWORDS: adventure travel exploration Jean Donaldson Kathmandu Everest approach march

$55.00
1p8a/4

Traveller's Tracks


FARWELL, GEORGE

FIRST EDITION, octavo, peach heavy boards, green lettering to spine, 168pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges/extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss also, light to moderate rubbing & wrinkling to spine, light to moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: first editions Australia Australian travel literature writing George Farwell

$25.00
xxgse214556

Salamina


KENT, ROCKWELL

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG-) water damage/stained; 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: Faber and Faber 1936

KEYWORDS: travel exploration adventure Rockwell Kent literature writing Greenland first editions

$15.00
xxgvc214624

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi


DASGUPTA, RANA

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: Text Publishing 2014

KEYWORDS: India New Delhi Rana Dasgupta economics travel writing literature

$20.00
xxsbf214706

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories


GHOSH, AMITAV

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: John Murray 2024

KEYWORDS: history opium trade Amitav Ghosh travel Britain India China

$19.50
xxsbg214719

The Message


COATES, TA-NEHISI

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: Hamish Hamilton 2024

KEYWORDS: travel conflict journalism reporting war zones

$20.00
xxscf214789

A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal


BOURDAIN, ANTHONY

FIRST EDITION, tidy ex-library, super 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: Bloomsbury 2001

KEYWORDS: celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain travel literature writing food first editions

$40.00
1t18c/14

Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest


BREDON, JULIET

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, unpaginated prelims + 467pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, annotation in ink to dedication page)

PUBLISHER: Soul Care Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing China Peking Juliet Bredon

$40.00
1f2a/7

City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong


LEE, LEO OU-FAN

Square octavo, purple cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated illus prelims, 322pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine cocked & slightly bruised, light soiling to page edges, prev owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & scuffing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing China Hong Kong Leo Ou-fan Lee

$50.00
1e3c/24

Into the Dark Continent: The Travels of Henry Morton Stanley


STANLEY, HENRY MORTON & McLYNN, FRANK (Ed & Intro)

IN SLIPCASE, FOLDING MAPS LOOSELY ENC., imperial octavo, brown/beige heavy boards, gilt & black lettering & illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained beige- sl faded, frontispiece, xxiv + 596pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2002

KEYWORDS: folio society exploration travel adventure history Africa Henry Morton Stanley

$150.00
1w48a/9

The Story of the Renaissance (5 Vol Boxed Set)


CRONIN, VINCENT & HALE, J R & ELTON, G R & PENROSE, BOIES

5 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, maroon/blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE (sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2001

KEYWORDS: folio society history renaissance travel discovery exploration reformation Europe European Florentine Florence

$47.50
1y22c/1

The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London


GREEN, NILE

Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + (6) + 388pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Muslim travel literature writing England Iran Iranian 19th nineteenth century ethnicity

$50.00
1y22c/30

Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India ; Mission to the Volga


AL-SIRAFI, ABU ZAYD & MACKINTOSH-SMITH, TIM (Ed & Trans) & FADLAN, AHMAD IBN & MONTGOMERY, JAMES E (Ed & Trans)

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, sm gilt motif to front board, x + 312pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: New York University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China India Arabic Volga River Russia

$25.00
xxsdd214913

An Essay on the Civilisations of India, China & Japan


DICKINSON, G LOWES

Sm 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: J M Dent & Sons 1915

KEYWORDS: literature prose essays travel writing India China Japan G Lowes Dickinson

$25.00
xxser215022

Papa Mike's Cook Islands Handbook


HOLLYWOOD, MIKE

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, 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: iUniverse 2003

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Cook Islands signed Papa Mike travel guides literature writing

$22.50
xxsew215038

Cook Islands: A Guide


DOUGLAS, NORMAN and NGAIRE

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: Pacific Profiles 1990

KEYWORDS: pacific Cook Islands travel guides literature

$25.00
xxsfc215053

China Diary


SPENDER, STEPHEN & HOCKNEY, DAVID

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: Thames and Hudson 1993

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature China David Hockney

$22.50
xxsfm215081

Black Sea


ASCHERSON, NEAL

Super 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: Jonathan Cape 1995

KEYWORDS: travel history Black Sea Neal Ascherson

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