Travel from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. A lovelyL photo album recalling Lena Bland Currie's 1951 cruise to Hawaii. The album measures approx. 10"x7" with 35 captioned snapshots. The larger photos are 6.5"x8.5". Included are postcards, clippings and additional ephemera. The final leaf of the album contains the obituary for Lena Bland Currie in 1966. An album in very good collectible… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. signed. c1978. This photo album belonged to Commander William Allen Morgan, Commander of VXE-6 "Operation Deep Freeze". The front of the album is marked 'Commanding Officer VXE-6'. There are approx 55 photos [ 5x7 - 11x14 inches], together with newspaper clippings of VXE-6's deployment to Antarctica, and its rescue mission of downed Russian pilots. One… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1868. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾. 1868. 1st Edition. --TRAVELS In The EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO-- by ALBERT S. BICKMORE. Published by John Murray, London. 9"x 6", 560 pp, complete: (37) illustrations, (2) Folding Maps, Frontispiece, (31) Full Page Plates, (3) in-text Illustrations.   Albert Smith Bickmore (1839-1914) was… Read more about this item

Scrapbook. Very Good. Hardcover. 1931-1936 --Handwritten 'Commonplace Book/Journal'-- Yvonne O. Miller of Schenectedy, NY shows plenty of spark during the Great Depression. Her journal is a brightly collaged mash-up of torn ticket stubs and handwritten annotations. (94) pages of (175+) annotated items-- neatly assembled in chronological order-- movie ticket and football game stubs, menus, prints, all sorts of memorabilia.… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. c.1800s. -- PHOTO ALBUM of LOVELY VIEWS of NORTH WALES --(20) ORIGINAL, FINE ALBUMEN PRINTS. Album: 14.5"x10.5". (20) LARGE-FORMAT PHOTOS - 11.5"x 7.5". Full-leather beveled boards, spine re-backed, repaired - in very nice condition. Mounted on (10) double-sided boards, with paper sheets between the boards - all intact. Handwritten annotations on album pages name… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12. 1950 PHOTOGRAPH-ALBUM. --EXTENSIVE PHOTO-TRAVELOGUE of Post-WW2 ENGLAND & WALES-- (158) hand-colored & tinted b&w photographs of the outdoors and topographical scenes in England's seaside towns of Devon & Cornwall, street scenes near Canterbury Cathedral, and lake areas in Wales. DEFTLY COMPOSED, FINE QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS-- beautifully hand-tinted and colored, the photographs… Read more about this item

Handwritten. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1943, WWII autograph book -- by Joseph Sveiven, an American GI stationed in Casablanca, Morocco. Sveiven gathered his fellow GI's autographs and quips in this 7"x 4" album. Sveiven kept stamps here too; he collected some during the war and added others after he returned home). Inside cover: Property of Joseph Sveiven, Casablanca,… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Very Good. Hardcover. Thelbert Luper is originally from Oklahoma. The time period of this album Thelbert Luper is in Norwalk California, after, apparently, making a success of his life.The album celebrates the Luper family its travels- Bakersfield, Catalina Island, Yosemite, Muir Woods, Klamath River, Big Bear Lake, Los Angeles, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and celebrating the birth of the… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Illus. by The 'Go-Go' Soviet Occupation. Good. Hardcover. c1975. --A SOVIET-RUSSIAN SOLDIER'S PHOTO ALBUM -- snapshots from 1975 Hungary, taken by a young Soviet-Russian soldier while stationed there. (86) b/w PHOTOS, mounted on (48) pp. (86) PHOTOS show: young Soviet soldiers in Hungary enjoying themselves, during 1975 peacetime when Hungary was afforded greater freedoms compared with other… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Good. Soft cover. 45- b&w photos. August,1951 album. (10) photos of Indians living on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. (35) photos of the Sigmon family from Washington, DC. (11) color-tinted postcards, mainly from NC. Summer vacation & ethnological photos. Album has black paper pages with leather strip binding. With hand painted leather cover. Inside-cover has… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Good. Hardcover. The photo album opens in June 1942 with Lt. Berg relaxing in San Bernardino, CA before shipping out to Patterson Field, OH for bivouac and training into 1943.While at Patterson Lt. Berg has snaps of the mess tent, guys playing and working, practice ariel strafing, the Officer's Mess, chapel choir pics....Next on to Oran- NW… Read more about this item