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New York:: Grand Central Publishing, , (2017). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock, pages), an uncommon advance issue and especially so signed.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which surpasses his fiction in adventure and suspense. "In 2012, Preston joined a team of explorers searching for… Read more about this item

New York:: Robert McBride., 1932.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in red and gold illustrated boards (bookplate, corners bumped, one small wormhole only affecting the margins, but still sturdy and easily readable) . First edition. Illustrated by Robert Rotter with 7 glossy plates and numerous small drawings, and with 8 pages of photographs by the author.… Read more about this item

New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2005.. First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Kincaid. Collects 25 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2004. Includes contributions from Pam… Read more about this item

New York:: World Audience Publishers,, (2010). SIGNED -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Second edition. While predominately a journal and travel guide, this book also provides historical insight into both the real Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) and the fictional Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel. Illustrated with hundreds of the author's photographs. While designed to be an "armchair… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2000.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A collection of 51 essays on travel from Plymouth to Cape Cod and Nantucket to Hawaii, Palau, Florida, Amsterdam, London, Britain, the Zambezi river, the Yangtze, the Mosquito Coast, the edge of the Great Rift and… Read more about this item

New York:: Grand Central Publishing, , (2017). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book which surpasses his fiction in adventure and suspense. "In 2012, Preston joined a team of explorers searching for Ciudad Blanca ('The White City'), a legendary ruin hidden in the dense jungle of eastern Honduras. The… Read more about this item

New York:: Summit Books,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of front flap of dj).. First US printing. Chatwin's first book, one which redefined travel writing, a record of a six month stay in Patagonia in 1974 but much more, including reflections on his childhood and the stories… Read more about this item

London:: Panther, , (1976). Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (sticker on first page).. Paperback. "During the sixties and early seventies Alberto Moravia made five African journeys, which are recorded in this collection of descriptive essays. He observed this vast and complex continent less as a journalist than as a humanist and a traveler." Translated from the Italian… Read more about this item

New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,, 2018.. First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Strayed. Collects 24 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2017. Includes contributions from Pam Houston, Ian Frazier,… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, , (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm… Read more about this item

New York:: Dutton,, (1927, 1920). SIGNED hardcover -. Very good in textured blue cloth with gilt lettering, light green tinting to top edge - some rubbing to the covers, spine somewhat sunned) . 5th printing. The author's first book, originally published in England in 1912. A classic story of traveling on a freighter from London to the… Read more about this item

New York & London:: Abelard-Schuman,, (1960). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped) . First printing. An autobiography of the author's time on the icebound seas along the coasts of Alaska - and especially of the years he spent aboard whaling ships. Illustrated with both line drawings by the author and… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1941). Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only (from a circulating library) with one tape repair to the binding, tape ghosts to the green cloth covers, in a poor dustjacket with extensive tape reinforcements to the interior, edgewear and more. . First US printing. A coast-to-coast trip across Africa from Dar-es-Salaam… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking Penguin, , (1997). Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. 53 interconnected tales from his travels over 5 years - from San Francisco and New York to Phnom Phen, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Jerusalem, Mogadishu and more - all populated by the lost and the lonely, whores and drug addicts, and more. While Vollmann,… Read more about this item

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. Leo's story of homesteading - first with his girlfriend in 1981 - and then for 10 years with his young son - in a wild and beautiful land. 303 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First US printing. An account of 3300 miles of traveling across the United States - Nigel, the father, started in Miami and goes up the coast to the Canadian border, along the Great Lakes and then down the middle of… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1997.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. A modern classic of travel literature: "Ostensibly a quest for Mokele-mbembe, the Congo dinosaur , this story of travel through the jungles and swamp forests of the northern Congo is Tolstoyan in its depth, scope and range… Read more about this item

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Lakier's account is an uncommon view of America by a Russian, originally published in Russian in 1859 but unknown in English until this publication. It has a confident and optimistic conclusion, but also reveals how… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ:: Rutgers University Press,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A book which discusses how maps "reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. [It] looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and… Read more about this item

New York:: Pantheon,, (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A memoir of travelling through modern Greece, a "land of noisy anarchic cities and quiet idyllic towns and harbors" where the influence of the past - the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman - is still felt. The author, an award-winning poet, "conjures… Read more about this item