Desert from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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Farewell to Arabia
by Holden, David
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Walker and Company, 1966. Hardcover. 268p., illustrated with numerous unfamiliar b&w photos and three handsome line maps, hardbound American first edition in tan cloth boards lettered dark brown, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Dj spine is mildly sunned (red has become orange) and otherwise we see no damage from handling or age. A very good copy:… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Stephen Long's Great American Desert. Reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 111, No. 2, April, 1967
by Dillon, Richard H.
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- 1967
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967. Pamphlet. Offprint, pp.93-108, the Dillon article solely-- three companion essays are left out of this reproduction of v.111 n.2., none of the three supplementary to Dillon. That said, a very nice copy: softbound in 10.5x8 inch plain printed grey wraps, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock; illustrated with a number of b&w period vignettes and… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Israel in Your Pocket, A Ramblers' Guide. Volume One: Northern Israel, Second revised and enlarged Edition (1954) -[with]- Volume Two: Central Israel and Jerusalem's Old City, Bethlehem & Jericho (1953) -[with]- Volume Three: Southern Israel
by Meysels, Theodor F., in collaboration with Lucian O. Meysels. Lay-out and cover by L.F. Toby. Maps by Zvi Friedlaender
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- 1955
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Jerusalem: Ben-Dor Israel Publishing Co. Ltd, 1955. Paperback. Respectively 129, xxvi, 127-280, xxiv, 281-398, xxiv. Matching small softbounds in upright paper covers (6.5x3.5 inches), diverse monochrome colors for each installment. Later issues were bound together in a singleton booklet. Our set, a second printing and two firsts, are edgeworn with faint abrasion to outer joints. These volumes are quite… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
The Negev. Sodom. Beer-sheva. Drawings; With an Introduction by Waldemar Georges, Paris; English translation by I. M. Lask
by Schreter, Zygmunt
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- 1958
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- Portfolio
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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Tel Aviv: The Dvir Publishing Co, 1958. Portfolio. Eight numbered & titled drawings done in broad pen and pencil, enclosed in a 13.5x10 inch decorated cardstock portfolio that is fastened with staples. Plates are looseleaf (complete; as called for) with drawings shown on 11x7.5 inch sepia print-blocks. Prints are very good pace a touch of dust-soil to the wide… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Burning Man: Caravansary (cover title: What, where, when)
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- 2014
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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n.p.: Black Rock City, LLC, 2014. Paperback. 160p. glossy paperback, very good; fold-out map at rear shows layout of the camp. Title on spine is Caravansary. Comprehensive listing of events at the desert gathering. Item Price
$35.00
Outback in Focus
by Carter, Jeff
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 181p., profuse b&w and color photography with captions and nearby text, first edition (it has been reprinted) with presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and, as an appendix, a matte section bearing text and silhouettes only. Hardbound in nice openweave linen, buff-colored, titled in dark brown. This casebinding is enclosed in the colorphoto… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Down Among the Wild Men. The Narrative Journal of Fifteen Years Pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert
by Greenway, John
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- 1973
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Richmond VIC: Hutchinson of Australia, 1973. Hardcover. 361p., illustrated with original b&w photographs and a few line maps, hardbound first edition in 9.5x6 inch raspberry cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the colorphoto dust jacket. Casing is mildly edgeworn with crimps at top and tail of backstrip, quite sound and square, clean and free of any markings, dust jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
The Last Cannibals. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister
by Bjerre, Jens
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- 1957
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$17.00
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1957. Hardcover. 192p., illustrated with quite a large number of b&w photos and doublespread endsheet maps, hardbound in papered boards with cloth backstrip decorated with a gilt line, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Author Bjerre contributes a brief foreword. Book itself is in excellent condition pace mild sunning to paper of casing,… Read more about this item Item Price
$17.00
Architectural glories of Temur's era // [Cyrillic titling also, in both Russian and Uzbek]
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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Tashkent: Chief Editorial Office of Publishing and Printing Concern "Sharq, 1996. Hardcover. Not fully paginated: a substantial coffeetable book page-numbered through p.117 followed by nearly as many appended captioned color photos, ergo about 200p. total. The first eighty pages are entirely in Cyrillic and largely textual only, with floorplans and diagrams and scattered vignettes captioned in three languages; then… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
El Paisano. Autumn 1967, Number 48
by Henderson, Randall, editor
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- 1967
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$10.00
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Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1967. 8p., staplebound newsletter, bears a mailing-convenient transverse foldline else very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Coyoite Canyon dam; directors meet; Salton Sea; bighorn sheep; fossils in badlands; noise pollution; desalinization; game hunting. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
El Paisano. Autumn 1962, Number 28
by Henderson, Randall, editor
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- 1962
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$10.00
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Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1962. 9p., staplebound newsletter, bears a mailing-convenient transverse foldline else very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Udall moratorium; roadside rests okayed; Riverside Land Office; educational programs; organizational change; 'Wildland News' to cease publication; Rainbow Bridge controversy; Native American homes finally plumbed; dams; pesticides. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
El Paisano. Summer 1962, Number 27
by Henderson, Randall, editor
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- 1962
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$10.00
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Banning, CA: Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation, 1962. 8p., staplebound newsletter, very good. Singleton copy. Topics: Lloyd Parrett to speak on avians; appointments and promotions; bighorn sheep; wilderness bill; Udall policy for Colorado River (reprinted from Smoke Signals, newsletter of the Colorado Tribes); poison bad; coyotes good. - Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
China - a Geographical Sketch
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974. paperback. 130p., illus. 1 plate, spine slightly toned, else in very good condition. "The present booklet of 17 articles is based on the briefer one which we published in 1972 under the title 'Geography of China.' " - publisher's note. Item Price
$12.00
Les Naufrages de dieu; Aventures d'un protestant et de ses compagnons exiles en deux iles desertes de l'ocean Indien 1690-1698
by Leguat, Francois
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- 1995
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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Paris: Phebus, 1995. Paperback. 203p., illustrated solely with the color cover facsimile of a very old map showing the islands in question. Softbound, an 8x5.5 inch paperback entirely in the French language. Structurally a sound pleasant copy, but expect holograph comment (in English) and underlines on pp.13, 14 and back cover, pointing up the possibility of an old and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scenes on the Famous Ridge Route Between Los Angeles and Bakersfield California
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- 1920
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Chicago: Curt Teich & Co, 1920. Eighteen photographic views, capably tinted in colors, each measuring 3x5.5 inches on slightly larger panels, accordioned on a single long light-cardstock leaf and tipped into a 4x6 inch postcard pocket. Item bears stamps legibly cancelled, a pencilled Oakland address and a brief pencilled message inside ("How is Betty Lou.. going to Long Beach… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Caravans and Trade in Afghanistan; the changing life of the nomadic Hazarbuz
by Frederiksen, Birthe
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780500016879
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Thames and Hudson / Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. 292p., coated paper with profuse color and b&w photos, line maps, diagrams; hardbound, the American first edition in 11x8.5 inch white boards titled in lavender, and colorphoto dust jacket. The dj shows mildest signs of handling (light pressuremarks, touch of edgewear) while book itself is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reflections in three self-guided tours of Manzanar
by Embrey, Sueko Kunitome, committee chair
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- 1998
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Los Angeles: Published by the Manzanar Committee, 1998. Paperback. iv, 45p., double-column text with superimposed period photography, site photos and plats, fold-out site guides on and inside frenchfold rear cover; 11x8.5 inch staplebound cardstock wraps, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments, A Contribution to Global Debates
by Sporton, Deborah and David S.G. Thomas, editors
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- 2002
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- 9780198234197
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xix, 231p., illustrated with figures, "boxes" and tables, hardbound in black boards gilt (the classic Oxford production) and dust jacket. The book itself is immaculate; the dj should have been equally lovely but careless storage has caused a 3-inch accordioned tear in back panel, which we have tacked with clear tape to verso, so..… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reclamation: Home Creating, Wealth Producing, Self Sustaining. Reclamation represents homes, livelihood for 900,000 persons [&c &c], irrigation, flood control, power, recreation
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- 1940
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1940. Pamphlet. Single leaf of glazed alkaline stock folded four times to make an upright 8.5x3.5 inch promotional brochure for federal spending on water projects. Printed with b&w photos mingled with texts and tables. Some intersecting fold-lines are a little crimped, owing more to the nature of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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El Paisano [6 issues]
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- 1962
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$45.00
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Banning, CA; Palm Springs, CA: Desert Protective Council, 1962. Six issues of the staplebound newsletter, very good. Issues present are 27, 28, 48, 49, 54, and 59. Generally eight or nine pages long. Randall Henderson was a longtime editor (he is the namesake of the Randall Henderson Loop Trail); others included Harry C. James, founder of the Trailfinders Organization,… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00