Travel from Berthoff Books

Independently published (Berthoff Books), 2024. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 241 pages. Memoir by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (1924-2022), who taught writing at U. Mass-Boston. "This is a memoir of places lived in and loved, stayed at length in, visited briefly, places dreamed about. . . The places here remembered have, mostly, disappeared. . . In these… Read more about this item

Gateway (Henry Regnery Company), 1951. Soft cover. Good. 373 pages, with Note by translator and editor Phyllis Penn Kohler, Introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. The French aristocrat's memoir of his journey to Russia in 1839. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and soil to wraps, text block quite brown with age, a few accidentally dog-eared pages. No marks observed within.… Read more about this item

E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 326 pages, with index, glossary of Arabic and botanical names of plants mentioned, list of characters. Sixty-eight illustrations (b&w photos), seven maps including one large unfoldable formerly glued-on but now laid-in map of the Empty Quarter. Memoir by British officer Thesiger of his travels by foot… Read more about this item

Impress, 2018. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 169 pages, illustrated with many color and b&w photos on plates. The author recounts travel, solo and with her husband, the literary critic and professor of English at Amherst William H. Pritchard, over 60 years. Excerpts from each of their journals create a "he said, she said" (the title… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 447 pages plus index pages: Indexes of Subjects, Names of Persons and Books, Names of Places. 1924 edition edited and with introduction by R.W. Chapman, 1948 reprint. Double-page map, six b&w illustrations (art reproductions and facsimiles) on plates, one of which is detached. 16mo (5" x 7-1/2"), dark blue cloth, rubbed… Read more about this item

Mainstream Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, with list for further reading. Illustrated with b&w photos (cuts and plates, many portraits) and color ones on 12 double-sided plates. History is interspersed with accounts of travelling through the Highlands. The author formerly headed the Scottish Crofters Union. Super 8vo (8" x 11"), gray buckram… Read more about this item

Rizzoli, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. Each volume is 275 pages long. Introduction in Vol. 1, chronological table, biographies. Color plates of art reproductions reach across a page and a half, with remarks by famous visitors about the given location printed on the remaining half of each recto page. Arranged by area of… Read more about this item

Electa Napoli, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 248 pagine, con indice dei nomi, indice dei luoghi. Illustrated with art reproductions on color plates. Chapters include ones on English, French and German visitors to Italy. 4to (10" X 11-3/8" - 25.4 X ~29 cm), black cloth with white lettering on spine, end papers decorated with… Read more about this item

New Hampshire Publishing Company, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 165 pages, with b&w photographs and maps (location and trail). Several of the walking or hiking routes go through wildlife sanctuaries; it appears that most of these trails are still available. Introduction gives basic advice on hiking. About 7-1/2" x 9", wraps worn/rubbed along edges and spine, a little creasing… Read more about this item

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 272 pages, with Index. 127 b&w art reproductions and photos, many of them taken by the author on travels throughout Europe; 20 maps. Chapters range from southern Italy to the northern British Isles. Edited by Robyn Cooper, who prepared the book for publication after the author's death… Read more about this item

Ulysses Press, 1990. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Good. 429 pages, with index, 17 maps, special sections on winetasting, Spanish Mission towns, rafting, whale-watching. Fourth edition, illustrations and maps by Rob March Harper, edited by Sayre Van Young. Trade paperback, reading crease, other creases and wear to front cover. Old price and name of a former owner written… Read more about this item

The Victorian Society in America, New England Chapter, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine. 142 pages, with index of architects, art, architectural styles; 30 b&w illustrations, maps. 5" x 7", illustrated matte wraps, minimal shelf wear, binding tight. Names of former owners written on title page, very light aqua stain on copyright page. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Ecco Press, 1988. Soft cover. Good. 224 pages. Collected excerpts from Freya Stark's many accounts of her travels in Arabia and the Near East, written between 1927 and 1958. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Trade paperback, glossy wraps curled, creased at corners, light soil to edges, a few spots of foxing to end papers, pencil notation on ffep,… Read more about this item

Writer's Showcase (iUniverse), 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 444 pages. Autobiographical sketches by a veteran of fighting and reconstruction on Okinawa at the end of World War II, his childhood on a Missouri farm, and later life and travels in the USA (Wyoming, Chicago, St. Louis, California) and abroad (Mexico, India, Turkiye). Illustrated with 34 b&w photographs. Trade… Read more about this item

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 312 pages, with index, appendix and bibliography on various aspects of folklore and folk arts. Illustrated with b&w photos on 16 double-sided plates. The author visited Italy and travelled around the country in the early 1950s. Medium 8vo (9-1/4" x 6-1/8"), faded orangish cloth with spine especially sunned, black lettering on… Read more about this item

New York Review Books, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 403 pages with index, additional section on unnumbered pages of about 50 b&w photos by A. Costa, each with a substantial caption verso; a few b&w drawings elsewhere in book. Introduction by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, photos by A. Costa. NYRB Classics series edition of book first published 1950. Trade paperback,… Read more about this item