Asian Travel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991 1st ed. 233pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover. A literary travelogue.

Boston: Beacon Press, c1986 reprint. 310pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [text is completely and uniformly age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A modern travel classic.

London: John Murray Readers Union, 1957 reissue. 259pp. illus. hardback sm 8vo: Very Good/no dj [a small spot on pastedown; some foxing at fore edge of ffep; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A classic account of Goullart's (1902-78) years in Yunnan Province, China, on the Tibetan border during the 1940s, originally published in 1955.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994 1st ed. 229pp. hardback 16mo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [top edge spot; ink signature; else a nice crisp copy] 14 tales of Hong Kong by writers ranging from Ian Fleming to W. H. Auden.

New York: The Vendome Press, 1992. 223pp. illus. hardback sq 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

Cleveland: World, 1959 1st ed. 314pp. illus. green decorated cloth tall 8vo: Good/no dj [some darkened spots on fore edge; some cover fading and roughing along spine strip; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A travelogue by the prolific English writer and critic Sitwell (1897-1988), published not so many years after the Second World War.

Austin: Dorje Press. 2008 1st ed. INSCRIBED inside front cover by author. 307pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1994 1st ed. 246pp. illus. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [some light foxing to edges; else a nice crisp copy] The account of a rough journey in Central Asia as the Soviet Union was falling apart.

Singapore: Times Editions, 2003. 223pp. paperback: Fine. A humorous anecdotal look at Singapore by an expatriate Brit.

Hong Kong: Oxford Univ. Press. 1987 1st ed. thus. 206pp. illus. paperback: Very Good [text is age browned; else VG]

London: Phoenix, 2001 reprint. 262pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The New York Review of Books called this "A funny book and a touching one."

Hong Kong: China Guides Series. 1985 new revised ed. 96pp.  illus.  paperback 8vo: Fine. A period guide to a now unrecognizable city.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987 1st Am. ed. 226pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [text is age browned; a page mid-text is slightly torn @ fore edge margin; else G+] Afghanistan as seen during the Soviet occupation of the 1980s.

New York: Chilton Book Co. 1966 1st Am. ed. 279pp. cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj [few small spots on fore edge; else nrVG; dj = torn with loss @ spine ends; chipped @ corners; sticker remnant on front cover panel; spine is sunned; else G] The English poet Hugo Williams’s (b. 1942) youthful travel memoir is… Read more about this item