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New York : Hyperion, 2002.
First edition of Greenlaw’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Linda Greenlaw on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s collection of hunting reminiscences and tales of horsemanship. Octavo, original cloth with labels to the spine and front panel lettered in gilt, illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 814. In near fine condition.
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London : Odhams Press Limited, c. 1930.
Odhams Press Limited edition of Wells’ classic work of scientific romance, presented here alongside his later psychological and philosophical writings. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, ruling and decorations stamped in blind to the front panel, top stain red. In very good condition.
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New York : Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.
First enlarged edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. In fine condition.
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London : Putnam & Co., Ltd, 1952.
First edition of English yachtsman Edward C. Allcard’s detailed account of his second solo trip across the Atlantic aboard the yawl Temptress. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person toContinue reading "Temptress Returns."
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
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Pietermaritzburg : Shuter & Shooter, 1937.
Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with some dampstaining to the spine.
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London : Picador, 1999.
First edition by the author described as ‘undoubtedly the finest writer afloat since Conrad’ (Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, with the Inside Passage North and South maps adhered to the front pastedown. Boldly signed by Jonathan Raban on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Marion Ettlinger.
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London : John Murray, 2012.
First edition, early printing of this biography on bestselling travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.
First separate edition Kipling’s story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film “Elephant Boy” starring Sabu Dastagir, India’s first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.
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New York : Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Stewart’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Rory Stewart on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman.
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Bloemfontein : A. C. White, 1950.
First edition. Octavo. A very good copy in a near fine bright dust jacket.
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London : Michael Joseph, 1998.
First edition of this portrait of English history and culture. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Jeremy Paxman 19.x.98.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the spine extremities.
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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Len Byrd all best John.” Additionally signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First edition of this official account of the thirty-day Gulf Steam Drift. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated from the French by Denver Lindley.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of this landmark illustrated history of the city that never sleeps. Quarto, original half cloth, heavily illustrated with 500 images in color and black and white. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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London : Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, headpieces, and tailpieces, all edges red. In very good condition.
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London : John Murray, 1936.
First edition, early printing of this landmark travel narrative through southern Arabia. Octavo, publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, facsimile signature of the author to the front panel stamped in gilt, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs from the author. In very good condition, stamp to the front pastedown.
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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
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New York : Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1904.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Illustrated with plates by Peter Newell.
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New York : Harcourt, 2000.
First American edition of the author’s account of travelogues through his native Portugal. Octavo, original boards. Signed twice by jacket designer Claudine Guerguerian Mansour on the front panel and on the rear jacket flap of the dust jacket. Claudine Guerguerian Mansour is a contemporary book jacket designer known for her visually distinctive and concept-driven coverContinue reading "Journey to Portugal."
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania : The Franklin Library, 1988.
Signed limited first edition of this incredibly vibrant history of Hong Kong, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands,Continue reading "Hong Kong."
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New York : Stein and Day, 1973.
First edition of this photographic and conservationist account of the wildlife of East Africa. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs of the fauna of East Africa. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, sticker to the front free endpaper.
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