Travel from Great Expectations Rare Books

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 202 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrations. First edition, first printing with full number line. A history of European travel, exploration and appropriation. No previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item

Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 177 pages. Sources Consulted, Bibliographical References and Index. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Ernst A Stradler. Foreword by John Francis McDermott. Black and white… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Sterling Signature, 2012. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format quarto, hardcover bound in elaborately decorated paper covered boards, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 377 pages. Further Reading List and Index. Translated by Morris Rossabi, with revisions by Henri Cordier. Profusely illustrated throughout with color drawings,… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Company LTD, 1928. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Second Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover, light red cloth with blind-stamped decoration and lettering on front cover and gold lettering on spine. 311 pages. Eight page publisher's General Literature catalog appended. Index. Illustrated with 43 black and white photographs and color fold-0t map… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1980. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, light blue blind-stamped cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 215 pages. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Index. Description and travel among the Lesser Antilles. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.… Read more about this item

London: Harvill, 1992. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 268 pages. Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First paperback of the revised edition published by Harvill with photographs by Werner Forman. First printing thus with full number line. No previous ownership marks.… Read more about this item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, two-tone tan cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 308 pages. Appendices. Edited, with annotations, a Life of Lister, and a Lister bibliography, by Raymond Phineas Stearns. First edition thus, being a facsimile edition of the third edition… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1912. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, green cloth lettered in gold. 259 pages. Light blue pictorial end-papers. Illustrated with 12 tipped in collotype plates [mounted on heavy black stock with printed captions]; 16 full page engravings [after G. Bigot] and 37 duo tones. … Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 558 pages. Bibliographical References and Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The narrative history of the American ex patriots in Paris from the 1830's… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, russet cloth with spine lettered in gold, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 474 pages. Index. Edited with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Illustrated with maps, drawings and sketches. New Edition, stated first… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan: Maruzen Company, Ltd., 1936. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. A small soft-bound volume with color pictorial image affixed to front cover, issued by the Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways and printed in Japan. Text entirely in English. 74 pages. Illustrated with three full page color plates and numerous duo-tone images… Read more about this item

New York: The North River Press, 1952. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth stamped and lettered in white, in publisher's white non price-clipped dust-jacket. 140 pages. Signed and inscribed by author to artist and sculptor Carey Boone Nelson whose extensive body of work includes sculptures shown… Read more about this item

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 479 pages. Selected Bibliography. First American edition, first printing. A travel journal covering all the usual suspects: Milan, Venice, Florence Rome, Naples, with excursions to lesser regions such as Pyglia, Calabria, Molise and… Read more about this item

Pitkin, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format paperback, small folio bound in heavy pictorial wraps. 96 pages. Text by Malcolm Miller. Illustrated with vibrant color photographs by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington. Reprint (1989), originally published 1985. A title in the Pitkin Pictorial Guides… Read more about this item

New York: Friendly Press, Inc., 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Hardcover, oblong folio bound in white boards and publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Unpaginated [196 pages]. Profusely illustrated on nearly every page with magnificent color photographs by Stephen Wilkes. First edition, first printing. A pictorial homage and celebration of… Read more about this item

GLOBETROTTER BOOKS, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover in publisher's bright pictorial dust-jacket. 188 pages. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of full color photographs. First edition. A photo-essay of the land and its people, captioned in English. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1906. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, slate green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gold and red. Top edge gilt. 290 pages. Illustrated with forty-six full page plates and a frontispiece, with tissue guard intact. First edition, first printing. Howells was… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1909. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, slate green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gold and red. Top edge gilt. 201 pages. Illustrated with thirty-one full page plates and a frontispiece, with tissue guard intact. First edition, first printing. Howells was… Read more about this item

London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1991. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 275 pages. Bibliography. Selected and introduced by Judy Mabro. First edition. An examination of European 'travel literature' specifically focused on Middle Eastern women. The biases and prejudices of the… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio bound in blue bind-stamped cloth, in publisher's non price-clipped, glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 232 pages. End material includes: map of Agra; architectural plan of the Taj Mahal; architectue of the Moghal Empire; glossary, Quranic passages inscribed on… Read more about this item