n/a

Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & blind rule to boards, printed eps, x blue light card pp adverts + 442pp (22pp of those are blue light card adverts), Vg- (fraying to spine extrems & spine edges & to board corners, slight soiling & small ding to rear board, owner's ex libris label to fep, browning to blue light card advert page edges, front & rear gutter paper cracked)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Index Annual Office 1899

KEYWORDS: New Zealand 1899 annual reference manufacturing industry farming agriculture mining mail services places towns cities localities accommodation hunting fishing travel tourism

CARTER, PAUL

First edition, Sebastian Black's copy, octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, x + 214pp, illus, nr fine (tanning to page edges), in d/w, VG+ (bruising & light creasing to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1992

KEYWORDS: Paul Carter first edition history language linguistics ethnography travel migration culture

WILSON, SIR CHARLES

All volumes professionally and beautifully re-backed utilising original binding to the extent that it is difficult to detect, new eps, original four-page prospectus & testimonials and history of a few subscribers loosely enclosed, four-volume set, quarto, small folio, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to front board & spine & black decorative motifs to spine & front board, new eps, aeg, frontispiece & tissue guard between it & illus title page, x + 240pp (vol 1), vi + 240pp (vol 2), vi + map + 240pp (vol3) vi + map + 236pp + 4pp adverts (vol 4), illus, VG (some rubbing to board edges, slight bruising to board corners, some soiling spots & rubbing to boards, moderate browning to prelims & to tissue guards (but not to engravings), some slight foxing) HEAVY ITEM

PUBLISHER: JS Virtue & Co Ltd circa 1880

KEYWORDS: HEAVY Sir Charles Wilson Palestine Sinai Egypt travel history scenery architecture cities temples castles ruins

GOODLIFFE, W.

Duodecimo, yellow & red light card covers with black lettering, illus eps, xxiv pp adverts + folding map + frontispiece + 88pp + 22pp adverts, illus, VG (rubbing to spine & wear to spine edges, slight soiling to covers, v slight foxing)

PUBLISHER: Homeland Association 1925

KEYWORDS: W Goodliffe Homeland Association Britain Littlehampton Arundel Amberley history maps geography travel

JONES, TRISTAN

First edition, super octavo, light blue boardswith gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 264pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, v slight fading to board edges) in d/w, VG (fading to spine, bruising & nicks to corners & spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1980

KEYWORDS: Tristan Jones autobiography explorer maritime nautical sailing exploration voyage Cresswell sailor yachting adventures travel

KERR, MARK

First UK edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 406pp, illus + folding chart, VG (heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, heavy tanning to some pages esp prelims, moderate foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1927

KEYWORDS: Mark Kerr memoir reminiscence history biography travel nautical air exploration expedition

HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

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: Penguin 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Hibbert Africa history exploration expeditions travel

MARRIOTT, EDWARD

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: Picador 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Edward Marriott Papua New Guinea travel Liawep tribe

n/a

Oblong super octavo, black leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, printed pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (rubbing, brusing & fraying to spine & spine extrems, damage to boards with loss of leather in two patches, heavy tanning to eps, stitching to body of book loose)

PUBLISHER: Iles c.1910

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua photographic pictorial history record travel geysers Whakarewarewa

n/a

Long narrow oblong super octavo, illus light card sewn wrappers, unpaginated but 20pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (bruising & creasing to front & rear card fore-edges, light soiling spots to cards, stitching to body of book loose, some foxing to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Graphic CB & Co Ltd (n/d) circa 1890-1900

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua Rotomahana Tarawera photographic pictorial history travel scenery

CLARKE, THURSTON

Softcover octavo (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: Arrow Books Limited 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Thurston Clarke travel travelogue memoir journey Equator

SORRELL, PAUL & WARMAN, GRAHAM

Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus title page, map + 176pp, illus, near fine

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2011

KEYWORDS: Paul Sorrell Graham Warman New Zealand Central Otago rail trail travel cycling bicycling

HUDSON, MARK

octavo softcover (fine); 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: Minerva 1990

KEYWORDS: specials mark hudson travel West Africa the Gambia

HUDSON, PETER

Softcover octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Flamingo 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Peter Hudson travel writing Africa Mali Zaire Somalia

JABAVU, NONI

Paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Ravan Press 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Noni Jabavu autobiography memoir South Africa travel writing

DODWELL, CHRISTINA

softcover octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Picador 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Christina Dodwell travel writing memoir Papua New Guinea

DESSAIX, ROBERT

Ex library, imperial 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: Picador Pan Macmillan 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Robert Dessaix Andre Gide travel France Lisbon Sahara Algiers

SCOTT, J. M.

octavo hardcover ex library first edition (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: Chatto & Windus 1953

KEYWORDS: specials J M Scott ex library first edition travel exploration greenland ice cap illustrated

BOVA, BEN

First edition hardcover octavo (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: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited 1980

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Ben Bova literature science fiction space travel novel

TRAMP, A.

first edition, scarce, Dennis McEldowney's copy, octavo, brown stapled paper wrappers, frontispiece, 150pp + 20pp adverts, G+ (3x4cm torn off portion to lower cover front corner, heavy bruising, nicks, tears and creasing to covers, rust staining from staples to covers, handwritten title to front cover, browning to page edges, pencil annotation to title page, heavy browning to eps, foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Wilsons and Horton 1891

KEYWORDS: A Tramp John Dickson Wickham first edition scarce New Zealand travel history autobiography