Travel & Exploration from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New Arrivals

THREE YEARS WANDERINGS OF A CONNECTICUT YANKEE in South America, Africa, Australia and California with descriptions of the several countries manners, customs and conditions of the people including miners, natives etc. Also a detailed account of a voyage around the world, attended with unusual suffering, hardship, provation, disappointment, and dangers arising from frearful storms; threatened wreks on rocky coasts, and amid reef; by fire, deception, mutiny, etc. also various incidents of life on shipboard.
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
New York: American Subscription Publishing, 1859. Illustrated by 2 steel engraved frontis, 8 plates in text. First (SD) edition. Original gilt decorated cloth. 8vo. pp. 358. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Cover gilt worn including spine. Foxing starting especially about plates, faint old dampstain to several last page corners..
Item Price
$65.00
INSCRIBED LANDSCAPES: Travel Writing from Imperial China.

INSCRIBED LANDSCAPES: Travel Writing from Imperial China.

by Strassberg, Richard E.

Condition
Used
ISBN
9780520085800
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00

Show Details

Description:
Berkley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, (1994). Translated by author with annotations and introduction by. Illustrated by "abundant paintings, portraits, maps and drawings" in 64 b&w figures. first & printing (N1) edition. Illustrated wraps, PUR binding, alk. paper. Super Royal 8vo. pp. xxv, [2] map, 580. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary. Near Fine. Light corner bump, unread copy. ISBN:… Read more about this item
Item Price
$50.00
No image available

BY LAND AND SEA: Incidents of travel with chats about History and Legends.

by Francis, Hariet E.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$75.00

Show Details

Description:
Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1891. Illustrated by Tissue port frontis and 26 tissue plates of photographs. First edition. Illustrated moss green cloth decorated in gilt and black, thick gloss paper issue, top edge gilt. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 198. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Rebacked and cleaned in our bindery with new acid free endpapers. England, France, Spain, Portugal,… Read more about this item
Item Price
$75.00
ALASKA HIGHWAY, Road to Yukon Adventure.

ALASKA HIGHWAY, Road to Yukon Adventure.

by Canadian Government Travel Bureau, compiled by.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$20.00

Show Details

Description:
Ottawa: (Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C.), 1962. Illustrated by color map, b/w photographs. Assumed first edition. 39-612-EL-T-7-P. Color stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 40. Very Good+. Rubbed spots to cover, faint rear corner crease. Reprinted through the 1970's, wonderfully done. Dawson Creek to Whitehorse 918 miles; Whitehorse to Beaver Creek 262 miles; Beaver Creek to Fairbanks 323 miles..
Item Price
$20.00
No image available

Fairbanks Alaska: Gateway to the Arctic.

by Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$10.00

Show Details

Description:
Fairbanks, Alaska: Commercial Printing, ca.1960's. Illustrated by color and b/w photos by Frank Whaley and others. unspecified edition. tri-fold pamphlet. 9x3.75-inches folded. pp. [2]. Very Good. Vintage cover prospector, Eskimos, gold dredges, riverboats, University of Alaska, Mt. McKinley..
Item Price
$10.00
GOLDEN WEST as Seen by the Ridgway Club, The.
More Photos

GOLDEN WEST as Seen by the Ridgway Club, The.

by Sidney, Margaret, pseud. (Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop 1844-1924).

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00

Show Details

Description:
Boston: D. Lothrop, (1886). Illustrated by b/w plates and text drawings throughout, folding map, orange map eps. First (NAP) edition. Decorated cloth, beveled boards. 4to. pp. 388. Very Good. Five Little Peppers author. Through the Year with the Poets publisher insert advertisement with "December" poem verso. Married to Daniel Lothrop, publisher..
Item Price
$125.00
Navigation of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Vol II Fifth Edition. The Coast of the Mainland from Key West Florida, US to the Orinoco River, Venezuela, with the Adjacent Islands, Cays and Banks, The.

Navigation of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Vol II Fifth Edition. The Coast of the Mainland from Key West Florida, US to the Orinoco River, Venezuela, with the Adjacent Islands, Cays and Banks, The.

by Ray, R. C.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00

Show Details

Description:
Washington, DC: GPO, 1907. Illustrated by Fold out map frontis. Stated 5th edition. No. 64 Hydrographic Office. Original Blue blind-stamped cloth, marbled edges. 8vo. pp. 626. Very Good. Pencil owner, Rubbed caps and corners, internally near fine. [Note: Volume I published separately as No. 86 starting in 1888]..
Item Price
$50.00
No image available

RIVERS RAN EAST, The.

by Clark, [Col.] Leonard 1908-57.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00

Show Details

Description:
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1953*). Illustrated by Lynd Ward Jacket, author [16 pp.] centerfold photographs, text maps. True First edition. Cloth backed grey pattern boards. 8vo. pp. xviii, 366. Appendices (7), Index . Near Fine/Very Good ($5.00)/Unclipped price in mylar. Spots of foxing on top edge of binding, shallow edgewear to jacket with small puncture mark. Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction,… Read more about this item
Item Price
$125.00
OUT THERE: In the Wild in a Wired Age.

OUT THERE: In the Wild in a Wired Age.

by Kerasote, Ted.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00

Show Details

Description:
Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, (2004). Edited by Josh Leventhal. Illustrated by one map and compass vignettes. First (N1) edition. Royal paper covered boards. Cr.8vo. pp. 139, [1] Acknowledgments. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Canoeist in Northwest Canada with then and now perspective. ISBN: 978089658560..
Item Price
$50.00
UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER: Designed to Introduce Readers at Home to an Acquaintance With the Arts, Customs, and Manners, of the Principal Modern Nations on the Globe, The.

UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER: Designed to Introduce Readers at Home to an Acquaintance With the Arts, Customs, and Manners, of the Principal Modern Nations on the Globe, The.

by Goodrich, Charles A. (Augustus) 1790-1862.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$75.00

Show Details

Description:
New York: Luther James, 1838. Second edition. c.1836. Full calf, gilt decorated spine, marbled edges. Thick cr.8vo. pp. 504. About Very Good. Light rubbing and edgewear; internally near fine with several sections shaken (or slightly off score on fore-edge side). "Embracing a view of their person, character, employments, amusements, religion, dress, habitations, modes of warfare, food, arts, agriculture, literature &c.… Read more about this item
Item Price
$75.00
Danish Travel Brochures and Publications lot ca.1950's.

Danish Travel Brochures and Publications lot ca.1950's.

by [Copenhagen, Denmark, Danes].

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00

Show Details

Description:
[Denmark]: Kandrup & Wunech; Dyva & Jeppesens (2); J.A. Hansen; Det Berlingske Illustrated by M Bodecker; b/w and color; line drawings; photographs. 5 volumes. Folded maps, brochures and card wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. Light toning to several and one lightly stained, no tears, nice 50's collection of five. Four by National Travel Association of Denmark: 1-We Danes… Read more about this item
Item Price
$50.00
No image available

Key West Welcomes You 1954

by True, Dorothy.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$10.00

Show Details

Description:
Key West, FL: The Welcome Service, Key Lodge, 1953. Illustrated by Lemon yellow illustrated cover. Stapled pamphlet. 8vo. pp. 18, [2] map. Near Fine. Piracy, cigars, rum runners U.S. Navy, shrimp fishing, Ernest Hemingway house, period advertisements, rear fold-out map..
Item Price
$10.00
No image available

IN DARKEST AFRICA or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, with two steel engravings, and one hundred and fifty illustrations and maps.

by Stanley, Henry M. (Morton) [John Rowlands] 1841-1904.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$300.00

Show Details

Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Illustrated by b/w tissue ports, text engravings and maps . First Edition Maps, Second US edition. c.1890. 2 volumes. Original decorated green buckram, brown eps. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 547. Appendix; xvi, 540. Appendices, Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear to cleaned covers. Hinges and all three 1890 maps… Read more about this item
Item Price
$300.00
TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, The adventures and misadventures of the Plaisted Polar Expedition, March 28 - May 4, 1967

TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD, The adventures and misadventures of the Plaisted Polar Expedition, March 28 - May 4, 1967

by Kuralt, Charles.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00

Show Details

Description:
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). Illustrated by pp.[32] b/w photographs, most by Art Aufderheide in two sections. Stated first edition. 8684151 on cr, rear binding and jacket. Black cloth, olive end papers, black topstain. Inscribed by "To Kenneth A. Dorey, 90 N April 19th, 1968, Ralph Plaisted" in blue on half-title. 8vo (21.5cm). pp. 193, [3] about author.… Read more about this item
Item Price
$50.00
No image available

ROOF OF THE AMERICAS From Alaska to Cape Horn.

by Warburton-Lee, John.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$35.00

Show Details

Description:
Shrewsbury, England: Swan-Hill Press (Airlife Publishing), (1996). Illustrated by color photographs and maps. First edition. Blue cloth. Signed by author on title page. Cr.4to. pp. 192. Index. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Stamped "Atkins" on top edge and front pastedown. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales..
Item Price
$35.00
No image available

POMPEII, The Excavations.

by Santini, Loretta.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$25.00

Show Details

Description:
Italy: Edizioni Plurigraf, (1978). Illustrated by 115 color plates. Gloss pictorial wraps. 4to. pp. 79, [1] colophon. Near Fine. Traces of wear..
Item Price
$25.00
EAST: SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND, The.

EAST: SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND, The.

by Spencer, Rev. J(esse) A(mes), M.A 1816-98.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$225.00

Show Details

Description:
New York: George P. Putnam, 10 Park Place (T.B. Smith), 1852. Illustrated by 9 in b/w: 2 maps, text drawings, one fold-out plate is inserted at pp. 320 (labeled pp. 318). Stated third edition. c.1849. Dark Green blind-stamped and gilt embossed topboard illustration, gilt spine print, yellow eps. Large Post 8vo. pp. [4] blank, [iv], xvi, [2], 503. Appendix. Near… Read more about this item
Item Price
$225.00
INTO THE EAST, Notes on Burma and Malaya, with a preface by Joseph Conrad.

INTO THE EAST, Notes on Burma and Malaya, with a preface by Joseph Conrad.

by Curle, Richard 1883-1963.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$100.00

Show Details

Description:
London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. (R&R Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh), 1923. Edited by [E. C.]. First separate edition. Much serially appearing in in various forms in: The Times, The English Review, The Rangoon Times, The Blue Peter. [First produced in limited addition of 125 large paper copies]. Burgundy blind-stamped cloth, gilt print spine, thick paper issue. Large Post 8vo. pp.… Read more about this item
Item Price
$100.00
No image available

SVERIGE, 100 (Aerial Photos, Photos Aeriennes, Luftbilder, Ilmakuvia, Flygbilder).

by Schalin, Gunnar.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$25.00

Show Details

Description:
Stockholm: Esselte Kartor AB, Lantmateriet, (1984). Illustrated by color: Lars Bygemark, Bengt Johanson, Bengt Lindecrantz, Rutger Segemark. First edition. Blue washable cloth. Square 4to. pp. 206, [3]. Fine/Near Fine/No price in mylar. Light rear edge crease to jacket. English, French, German, Swedish, and. Text verso, color photo recto..
Item Price
$25.00
No image available

ROME IN COLOUR, Album and Guide, The Vatican, The Sistine Chapel.

by Pavilo, F. C.

Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$10.00

Show Details

Description:
Roma: Casa Editrice Lozzi, n.d.. Illustrated by full color throughout. Pictorial stiff wraps, top red band, thick paper issue. Large 8vo. pp. 125, [3]. Rear city map. Near Fine. Traces of edgewear. English..
Item Price
$10.00