Search Results: Travel & Description from Julie's Books

Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., c1956. Hard Cover. First Edition. Inscribed By Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/No dj. . Book in very good condition. No owner's names, clean, crisp & solid cpy. Inscribed and autographed by author on title page. Illustrated. Includes appendix and index, 240 pages. .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to sailing for the novice that is illustrated with over 100 diagrams &Photos. Written by a sailor w/over 20 yrs. experience & 10 years as a writer & editor of textbooks. Very Good/Very Good dust jacket; Ex Library/Few Markings. 221 crisp, clean & solid pp., Indexed. Illustrated by John Fleming, Forword by George O'Day. EXCELLENT READING / REFERENCE CPY . Very Good. Hardcover. 1971.

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1894. Hard Cover. Ninth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Weals Rudemintary Series 83 Bis. Ships and Boats, Fair+/No dust jacket; hand tooled stamped designed linen cloth boards w/gilt lettering, cracked hinges, internally very clean, illustrated w/ numerous, models, figures, dimension tables, engravings, and line drawings, Publisher's catalogue in rear, 99pp., Collectibles. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1894.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Chicago: Standard Oil Company (Indiana), 1930. Fair+/No dust jacket; soft cover (Grade C+) No names or Markings. Why an Airplane flies-and How It is Flown-Simply Explained. Cover is held by 1 of the 2 staples binding this 48 page book. Cover shows wear, inside pages are very good. Many good illustrations. . Fair+. Soft cover. 1930.

Boston, MA: The Christopher Publishing House. The book boards are blue Moire' with gilt lettering & design, Fine condition! The dj. is acceptable, a bit tattered at the head of the spine strip. Illustrated throughout by Lottie B. Turner. Inscribed by author on end paper. Includes Chronology and Acknowledgments, laid in fact sheet on Author from Saginaw, Michigan. Fine Collectible . Collectible. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1938.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin College Div. QUM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Author sets off aboard a small boat "Nikawa" ("River Horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic in New York Harbor in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon. Light green paper covered boards w/pine green cloth quater binding, mild dust soil on outer closed edge, pictorial dust jacket of mild wear on rear lower left cover, diagramed & mapped endpapers, profusely illustrated w/maps, drawings, photos. 507 crsip, clean & solid pp. Price is unclipped, excellent reading /or personal copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1999.

N.Y.: Tudor Publishing Co.. Stated Second Printing, October, 1936. Reprint of 1929 Robert M. McBride & Company, Ed. Very Good/No Jacket.Mild wear to bright, sturdy, blue woven cloth boards, spine slightly cocked, interior clean, binding tight, decorated endpapers, owner's name & date neatly penned on endpaper (small & neat) Profusely illustrated 36 b&w plates on coated stock; four illustrations of which were done by Charles Russell, many text decorations, old prints, maps, cartoons & documents, , Frontis on coated stock. Indexed, 590 CLEAN & solid pp. Makes a lovely Personal, possible gift copy & packed w/railroading history! . Very Good. Hardcover. Stated Second Printing. 1936.

Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. H.O. No. 134 Issued under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. The Coasts of Spain & Portugal from Cabo Torinana to Cabo Trafalgar, The Madeira Group, The Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, & the West Coast of Africa From Cape Spartel to Cape Palmas. Very Good/No dust jacket; mild wear to black cloth boards w/ruled centered title box & lettering in gilt, No owner's names, Conversion tables on Paste down. Includes Glossary in 4 languages (English, Arabic, French & Spanish). Aids to Navigation, illustrated w/Fold-Out Map of WEST COAST OF AFRICA CAPE LOPEZ TO STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR WITH WEST COASTS OF SPAIN & PORTUGAL, plus British Admirality Charts and Fold-out ROUTE CHART illustrating routs described in H.O. pub. 134, numerous Tables, Appendices, Index, Fascinating Read & wonderful Nautical Collectible. Clean & Solid copy. 530pp. . Collectible/Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. 1942.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. The Story behind it all-the salt & savor of Railroad Life, the history depicting decades of effort by engineering departments, the clash of financial titans, the struggle with the wilderness which made the American railroads. Very Good/Poor. Brown cloth embossed boards w/ centered stamped titled lettering, Cover has moderate edgewear, bumped corners; dustjacket has been cut in two pages and "laid-in" it is bright, clean & smooth, and all information is legible. (Kollman's drawing of the North Coast Limited in Bozeman Pass, Montana, is reproduced on this jacket through the courtesy of the Northern Pacific Railway. Frontis plate on coated stock, Preface, Listings of Illustrations, Index, illustrated w/line drawings, figures, plates on coated stock, 374 clean, crisp & solid pp. Nice solid copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1933.