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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Munich and Zurich, Verlag Schnell & Steiner: 1975
Edition: 10th Edition
Seller ID: 18781
Condition: Fine
Very clean, attractive booklet measuring 5"x7" and illustrated lavishly throughout its 23 pages. Photos are predominately in full color with a few in black and white. Color photos large -- full page. Dense text offers full details, history and description. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Comite National du Souvenir de Verdun:
Seller ID: 18782
Condition: Very Good
Small booklet measuring 5"x8" with 47 pages. Nice center section with vintage photos, plus art elsewhere. Text escorts the visitor through the museum while offering historical info. No date, but appears relatively modern -- circa 1980's, early 90's. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Elcano Tours Travel Bureau: 1929
Seller ID: 19384
Condition: Very Good
Very nice, clean travel brochure offering a variety of summer tours to Spanish-speaking countries. It was then possible to take a 48 day tour in the high three figures per person. Photo illustrated in black and white. Fourteen tours offered with complete itinerary. Great travel ads. Measures 6"x8-3.4". Bright yellow, red and black cover art. Small bit of wear to spine only fault -- does not compromise integrity of binding. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Chicago, Curt Teich Co.:
Seller ID: 21005
Condition: Very Good
Colorful folder containing a cascade of accordian style postcards in full color, each offering a different view. Unused and undated. All images clean and bright. Folder shows mild corner wear and a small spot to face.Especially nice art work at reverse showing soldier surrounded by Native American motifs. Images include a portait of Johnny Baker, Buffalo Bill's foster son; the Pa-Ha-Ska Teepee; Buffalo Bill's grave; the Upper Hairpins and Windy Point; Sensation Point on the Lariat Trail; Golden and Table Mts.; sunset over Lariat Trail; Denver at night from museum veranda; and Clear Creek Canon... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, State of Ohio Devlopment Department: 1967
Seller ID: 24393BV
Condition: Very Good
We are offering two books with the same title, one an abbreviated version of the other. The main book is quite handsome and printed on heavy paper. There is some light foxing to the face, but very minimal and just a small mount at back outer bottom corner. Very clean with no names or writing, no spine crease and no creasing to corners. Book is printed on heavy paper and illustrated strikingly in shades of brown, black, gray and white. Covers 104 cities and towns with multiple listings for many. Interesting to see past attractions, some of which are now gone and others transformed. Unpaginated.... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii Star Journal: 1950
Seller ID: 25367
Condition: Very Good
An ephemeral annual in great condition save a small loss of paper at both sides of lower spine. Tightly bound and clean as a whiste inside and out with much crispness to paper and to cover. Commemorates Hawaii's Diamond Jubilee and precedes its statehood. The front sections has a lot of Hawaiian history and there is much info later on the various islands and the sugar and pineapple industries. There is also some tourist material and ads for hotels and restaurants, but this is really about what Hawaii was like at mid-century. Photo illustrated in black and white. The book measures 5"x7" and has... View more info
By: Allwood, John
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, Studio Vista: 1977
Seller ID: 27214DH
ISBN: 0025017101
Condition: Fine
Crisp, clean book with no defect of note. Clean as a whistle inside and out, retains original price, has no names or writing, no bumps to boards and no tears or chips. Jacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Book measures 9"x11-1/4" and has 192 pages including index. Illustrated throughout inboth color and black and white with historic photographs and drawings. The author was a big collector of ephemera from the World Fairs, or Expos as they were sometimes called. In addition to the American fairs there is also info on the Paris Exposition Universelle, plus offerings from London, ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: NORFOLK VA., DONNING CO : 1988
Inscription: GIFT INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR
Seller ID: 7100
ISBN: 0898657679
Condition: FINE
AN HONEST ACCURATE SINCERE ACCOUNT OF SEVEN TRIPS TO NINETEEN COUNTRIES THE TALES CONTAIN OBSERVATIONS OF CUSTOMS, RELIGIONS, EDUCATION , ARTWORK HABITS AND LIFE STYLES. MOST OF ALL. IT BRINGS HISTORIES , CUSTOMS, CULTURES ,AND TRADITIONS TO LIFE AND PRESENTS THEM IN A MODERN CONTEXT. ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: N.Y., HARCOURT BRACE: 1935
Edition: 1ST
Seller ID: 7172
Condition: VERY GOOD
THE EXCITING TALE OF THE TRIP THE LINDBERGHS MADE IN A SINGLE ENGINE FLOAT PLANE , FROM N.Y. TO CHINA VIA THE GREAT NORTHERN CIRCLE ROUTE IN 1931 BOOK IS SOLID AND TIGHT View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1927
Edition: New and Revised Edition
Seller ID: 27218DH
Condition: Very Good
Very nice clean book with just a small bit of wear to bottom edge of spine and a slight bit of softness to corners. Clean as a whistle inside and out. An early owner's name and the date 1938 penciled in on front free endpaper, but could easily be removed if desired. There's also an unused ownership sticker at front pastedownt which looks rather nice (see third picture). Book measures 4-1/4"x6-3/4" and has 466 pages plus an index and interesting travel ads at back. Covers British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main and the Panama Canal. Illustrated with maps and b... View more info
By: Baz-Dresch, John; Mixon, Bill
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Huntsville, Alabama, National Speleological Society: 1980
Seller ID: 28147
Condition: Very Good
Nice clean, tightly bound magazine issued yearly. The contents are pristine and the cover is good other than small flat creases to corners and darkness at the top front corner. The book measures 8-1/2"x11" and has 380 pages. Text includes cave descriptions in five regions -- see photo with map -- foreign caves, conservation, caving courtesy, cave science in biology and geology, equipment, lighting and photography, There's also a section set aside for poetry, prose and cartoons, all about caving.Book is illustrated with drawings primarily. View more info
By: Beetle, David H.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Utica, New York, North Country Books: 1984
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 28027
ISBN: 0932052142
Condition: Very Good
Very nice clean book with no bumps to boards and no wear to edges. Book is tightly bound and shows no names or wriitng. The jacket is likewise nice with no tears or chips and no price-clip. Only fault is a light bit of foxing to margins of back endflap and a light skim of same to back cover (see pictures). Overall, very nice. Measures 5-3/4" x 7-3/4" with 158 pages. Focus is on the Central Adirondack country with many beautiful black and white photographs throughout. View more info
By: Boulanger, Robert; Modot, Jean
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall Trade Division: 1989
Edition: First American Editions
Seller ID: 27220DH
ISBN: 013509027x; 013
Condition: Fine
Two very handsome and substantial travel guides, one for China and one for Japan, both from Les Guides Bleaus. Neither has been read, but there is toning to edges of endflaps on the China volume. Otherwise no tears or chips, no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Books measure 4-1/2"x7-1/2" and have not been price-clipped. Will arrives in brand new mylar cover.The China book contains 956 pages and the Japan volume 800. Numerous maps throughout bothbooks and much information. Great fun to read from the 1989 perspective. View more info
By: Bourbon, Fabio
Price: $90.00
Publisher: Swan Hill Press: 1999
Seller ID: 25295
ISBN: 1840370424
Condition: Fine
Beautiful as new copy -- no defect of any kind and dustjacket protected by brand new mylar.. . Recounts the extraordinary life of Frederick Catherwood, the English artist who explored the Central American forest and the Yucatan plateau during the first half of the 19th century in search of Mayan cities. Illustrated with full color art by Catherwood and maps. 193 pages plus back matter.Beautiful fold-out at front too. Exqusite book.Measures 10"x14" View more info
Price: $68.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt-Brace: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23832
ISBN: 051556946
Condition: Very Good
I somehow missed this book when it came out, but it's a great read. It's about a a young professor, the author, who took 17 students on a sleep-over bus as part of Hofstra University's traveling course, Art and Culture Across America. This was the maiden voyage and it included reading 12 books by great American writers, saw Bob Dylan in Seattle, gambled at a Vegas casino, danced to Bourbon Street jazz in New Orleans, visited Elvis Presley's Graceland and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak. But that wasn't all -- they meditated at a Buddhist college, branded cattle, hiked the Rockies rode the rapids... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Charles Scrribers' Sons: 1981
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 23573
ISBN: 0684144212
Condition: Fine in NF Slipcase
Book was published prior to this one by Charles Scibner in 1959. This one shows the 1959 copyright, but there is also an ISBN which shows that this book was published in 1981. Book and slipcase are lovely -- clean and beautifully designed. The boards are covered with a metallic gold, a brown cloth spine and a sky blue inked top edge, There are no names or writing. the pictorial slipcase is likewise clean and attractive with no real defect. Book in its case measures 6-3/4" x 9-3/4" and has 503 pages including an aviation glossary. Nice gift. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Cleveland , Ohio, Erica Collins Steffee: 2003
Edition: Presumed First
Seller ID: 23650
Condition: Fine Condition
Crisps and clean as new. No spine crease and no names or writing. The book measures 8-1/2" and has 175 pristine pages. Pages are printed on quality coated paper and has many photos both black and white and color. In the early late 40's and early 50's Maria and Ralph Collins of cleveland, Ohio went off to Russia at ages 33 and 38 with their two children in tow. Very interesting View more info
By: Cook, Louis
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Beaverton, Oregon, Beautiful America Publishing: 1980
Edition: First Edition Stated
Seller ID: 23648
ISBN: 0898021316
Condition: Near Fine
Other than a light bit of toning to white sections of cover this is a beauty. No names or writing, no spine crease and pristine pages with many full color photographs from all over the state. The booklet measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 72 pages. The text and its illustrations provide history plus information on the most beautiful buildings, homes, and natural beauty. No wonder the state's slogan is "Pure Michigan." View more info
By: Cox, Ian
Price: $36.00
Publisher: London, Festival of Britain: 1951
Seller ID: 23755
Condition: Very Good
This is a spectacular catalogue/guide -- big in ideas and big in the number of pages, 96 of text, plus 31 vibrant color ads at the back and 30 at the front. The story of the festival is told by Ian Cox in a lengthy text. The festival was all about contemporary design and bright color. Millions of people (international) thronged to the south bank of the Thames. In addition to what was at the main site there were other areas of London to offer more wonders. Among the exhibits were the Dome of Discovery, architecture, pleasure gardens, industrial power, science and much more. Catalog measures 7-1... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, The Gregg Press: 1968
Edition: Facsimile Reprint
Seller ID: 24633
Condition: Very Good
Very nice, clean book with no names or writing. Orange pebbled-surface boards are very clean with just one errant mark to top front corner which is likely pen. I tried to remove it with book cleaner, but it proved impervious. Pages and page edges are likewise clean. Book was originally published in Paris in 1818. French language. View more info
