Bangkok, Thailand: American Women's Club of Thailand, 1971-1975. 14 volumes bound in one; quarto (29.5cm.); maroon library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in; illus., many in color, throughout. Publishing sequence as follows: May/April, 1971; July/August, 1973; January/February, 1974-November/December, 1975. Paper flaw to earliest issue upper cover from clumsily removed... More
New York: Random House, 1969. Second American Edition. Slightly revised edition of a work first published in 1937. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A15d. One of 3,000 copies. Octavo (21.75cm); light blue paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 253, [3]pp. Base of spine gently nudged... More
Leipsic [Leipzig]: Karl Baedeker, 1876 [but later]. 1889 printing (date printed at base of front pastedown). 12mo (15.5 cm). Original pale brick cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 610pp; illus. Includes 3 folding maps; 5 plates of illustrations, 20 inserted single- and double-page maps; one folding view... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1903. First English Language Edition. 12mo (16cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; x,237pp.; color double-page map frontispiece, 16 leaves of plates, including seven folding and one double-paged; additional text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge cracked and free endpaper separated... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twentieth Edition. 12mo (15.75cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; xxxviii,537pp.; color folding map frontispiece, 65 plates of which 32 double-paged and 29 folding; additional text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, map frontispiece has longish closed tear, one folding panorama split along... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947. First U.K. Edition. "In six large notebooks and a portfolio of more than a hundred drawings, Ludwig Bemelmans captured for himself the spirit of three trips to South America" (from front flap). The UK edition is preceded by the American edition published by Viking in 1941... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Bemelmans's travel narrative of his trip through Ecuador, "winding slowly on horseback toward the head-waters of the Amazon. When he reaches the coast some weeks from now, he will board a small tramp steamer named the Comedian and sail for the Galapagos... More
New York: Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. An omnibus collecting four of Bemelmans's travel books: My War with the United States, Small Beer, The Donkey Inside, and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You. Octavo; beige and burgundy cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in peach on spine... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition. Collection of writings on the French cities and countryside by a variety of authors, including Colette, Ruth McKenney, Paul Bowles, John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, S.J. Perelman, Robert Capa, and others. With contributions by Bemelmans, and his illustrations throughout. First Printing. Octavo; bluish-gray paper... More
[Moose Lake, MN]: Blacklock Nature Photography, [1993]. First Edition. Large square quarto (32.5cm.); publisher's cloth in thick cream pictorial dust jacket; 192pp.; chiefly color photographs. Tiny paper flaw at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Fine. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original black moiré cloth, pale green printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine; viii,[2],420pp.; photographic frontispiece, 47 leaves of photographic plates. Spine cloth a bit dulled, label toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. Travelogue of a...... More
New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. An engaging collection of nine travel essays, covering Bowles travels throughout the remote locations of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan worlds. An attractive copy of an easily-worn title. First Printing. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and blue on spine and... More
London: Peter Owen, [1990]. First U.K. Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 30 of 75 signed copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 80pp.; illus. Very light rubbing to jacket extremities, else Fine. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt; xxiv,490pp.; folding color map frontispiece, additional engraved frontispiece and title page, 19 leaves of two-toned (pale yellow and black) plates, additional text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed along extremities, spine gilt... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in grey printed dust jacket; [8],190,[2],[8](ads)pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a few tiny losses and closed tears, minor toning and small soil spot to upper panel, else Near Fine in an About Very Good... More
New York: Privately Printed by the Panurge Press, n.d., ca. 1930s. First Thus. Limited to 2010 copies of which this is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's buff decorative card wrappers, yapp edges; 107pp. Light shelf wear, brief splitting mid-spine edges, a few leaves somewhat messily opened, else a.... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; xiii,[3],359pp.; photo-gravure portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos, map endpapers printed on blue stock. Jacket extremities chipped and rather rubbed with some small loss... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Laune; xxi,[3],405pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 23 leaves of plates, map endpapers by James Darley. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few very short closed tears, spine faded. Fine in Very... More
Atlanta: Institute Press, [1961]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers; xxi,[1],153pp. Wrapper extremities a bit worn with shallow crease at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, the whole rather foxed and dust-soiled, else Near Very Good, internally fine. Account of the African expedition of John Wesley Gilbert... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1941]. First Edition. Special Delaware Edition "printed exclusively for the Greenwood Book Shop," limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 625. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, maroon topstain; [2],xi,[3],285pp.; illus., including some full- and double-paged and pictorial endpapers. Jacket... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; ix,[1],390pp.; portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and additional full-page illustrations throughout; illustrated title page printed in purple and black. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and creased, spine faded; Fine in Very Good... More
Cincinnati: Program for Cincinnati, 1981. First Edition. Square quarto (26cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 227pp.; color photo-frontispiece, illus. throughout. Dime-sized loss to top edge of upper jacket panel, additional chips and short closed tears, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed by the designer... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1931]. First American Edition. Limited to 300 copies printed on Utopian laid paper of which this is no. 276. Quarto (24.5cm.); original rigid cream pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket, with the original paper-covered slipcase; [2],ix,[1],156pp.; color illus. throughout by Dos Passos. Just a.... More
Mosvka: Akts. Izdat. O-vo "Ogonek" 1926 [but 1927]. First Thus. First Russian edition (abridged) of Charlie Chaplin's memoir My Trip Abroad (1922), recounting the Hollywood actor's return to his native England and travels through Europe after 10 years in the United States. Describes the (by then) universally recognized movie star's... More
Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by both authors, this being copy no.171. Octavo; patterned cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original glassine overlay; 62pp; illustrated throughout by Kyffin Williams. Fine in a Near Fine glassine, lightly rubbed at extremities... More
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