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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, blue paper boards. ix, 268 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine with mild sunning to top edges. In about fine jacket with some slight sunning to spine and bumping to edges. Part travelogue, part meditiation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. Ranging from the elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the living rooms of the Mexican elite, to the streets of Manila, Lingis recounts incidents of state-sponsored violence and the progressive incorporation of third-world peoples into the circuits of exchange of international capitalism.
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Abuses
by Lingis, Alphonso
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Full blue cloth. 317 pp. Rebacked, with original spine laid down. Spine sunned. Paper repairs to foot of ffep. In original slipcase, which is lightly edge worn and scuffed, VG overall. Armorial bookplate of the Selden family and ex libris of Lynde Selden. Across the Plains is the second part of Stevenson's three-part travel memoir, in which he describes arriving in New York as an immigrant from Scotland and traveling across the United States to Monterey, California. It was written from 1879-80 and first published in 1892.
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The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
by Young Pelton, Robert
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New York: Doubleday, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter brown paper, tan paper boards. 229 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W photo plates. Light bruising to spine ends, tail edge and fore edge of front board. Some light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going.
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Against the Stream: A Life Story
by Melnyk. Bohdan
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Toronto: Self-published, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full green cloth. xiv, 15-572 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities. Else fine.
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All Alone: Washington to Rome (A '60s Memoir)
by Daly-Lipe, Patricia
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s.l.: XLibris, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Full navy cloth. 105 pp. B&W illustration in text. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine.
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Als Beduine Unter Beduinen: Mitgelebtes
by Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand
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Freiburg: Verlag Herder & Co, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Third revised edition. Orig. tan cloth. 147 pp. With 42 illustrations on 32 plates. Spine tilted. Acid migration to gutter at title page. Interior is age toned. Dust jacket is edge worn, chipped to spine ends and head of rear cover, long tears to fore edges.
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An Amazon Andes Tour, with an Introduction By George Booth
by Booth, Margaret and Booth, George
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London: Edward and Arnold, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Printed for private circulation for friends and family of the authors. [6] 148 p.p. [3] folding maps of the Booth's journey from Para to Lima (3,500 miles), Iquitos to Lima (1,300 miles), Yessupi to Oroya (225 miles) with in-text photographs. Frontispiece of the Pachitea River, nearing the foot of the Andes. Front and rear inner hinge cracked. Spine tilted and sunned. Light rubbing to boards and edges. Notes on front and rear pastedown endpapers and contents page. Otherwise a very good copy. Recounts the couples 1908 journey from London to Lima, via the Amazon river as recounted from Mrs. Booth's diary entries.
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Arctic Adventure: A Kazan River Journal, Being a Narrative, Day By Day, of a group of Intrepid Adventurers on The Kazan River, N.W.T., In the summer of 1982
by McKay, John W.
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Toronto: Betelgeuse Books, 1983. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Tan paper wraps, sewn and glued binding. xiii, 189 pp. B&W photos. Scuffs to head of front cover, stain to front, spine sunned.
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The Art of Seeing
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. First paper. ix, [1], 158 pp. Covers rubbed and creased. Damp staining to top and tail edges of gutter and to edges of text block. Aldous Huxley writes from his own experience the story of his recovery from near-blindness.
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The Art of Seeing
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo. Later printing. Quarter cream cloth, burgundy paper boards. xi, [1], 15-273 pp. Some foxing to cloth spine, mostly in joints. Small stain to tail edge of text block. Foxing to endpapers, but interior clean. Dust jacket is soiled, subned to spine, chipped at extremities, a few short tears, long perforation to front fore edge. Aldous Huxley writes from his own experience the story of his recovery from near-blindness.
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Artist at War
by Comfort, Charles
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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full blue cloth. xvii, 187 pp. [6] double-sided B&W plates + B&W frontis. Rubbing to extremities of boards. Ex libris stamp to front pastedown. Dust jacket is damp stained, edge worn with large chips to extremities, worst at spine foot with loss.
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As Though I Had Wings. The Lost Memoirs
by Baker, Chet
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Introduction by Carol Baker. 118 p.p. Paperback. No jacket. No marks to covers and interior. A fine copy of book.
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Auntie Pauline: A Journey of Love, Loss, Healing and Adventure
by Carrick, Pauline
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Port Hope, Ontario: Elgin Productions, 2000. Soft cover. Near Fine. Sorrell, Marjorie [cover]. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author, dated October 6, 2000. Green card covers, spiral bound. 279 p.p. Grief as a journey is a theme as old as literature itself. But a story about grief which resolves itself as Pauline serves as a third world aid volunteer in Guatemala and Sierra Leone, West Africa, surely lifts this memoir into the ranks of a "must read" book.
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An Australian Girl in Germany, Through Peace to War, Jan.-Oct., 1914
by Freeman, Hilda M.
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Melbourne: The Specialty Press Pty., Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. (N.d., ca. 1916 or later). Orig. brown cloth. 372 pp. [5] B&W plates, incl. frontis. Spine ends lightly bumpted, small bruise to taile edge of rear board. Small damp stain to spine. A few spots of light rubbing. Spine tilted. Offsetting to endpapers.
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Austrian Holiday
by Mais, S.P.B. And Gillian Mais
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London and Sydney: Alvin Redman Limited, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 250pp. Illustrated with 24 b/w plates plus 1 folding map of Austria. Spine ends bumped o/w near fine in a soiled but o/w near fine d/w. A family travelogue through the stunning landscapes of Austria.
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Cellini, Benvenuto; MacDonell, Anne (translator)
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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 18mo. Everyman's Library No. 51. Full red cloth. xi, 368 pp., 4. Slight bruise to spine head, very slight striations of sunning to spine. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and corners (worst at spine head, with some loss), some creasing and tearing with one tape repair to front cover, spine darkened. Ownership inscription to ffep. Benvenuto Cellini, born at Florence on November 1, 1500. He gained fame as a sculptor and metal worker, and was patronized by the Pope and various courts. He died in Florence on February 14th, 1571.
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An Autobiography
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
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London: Quartet Books, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full tan cloth. Illustrated endpapers. 620 pp., [32] pp. B&W photo plates. Some light staining and soiling to rear cover of dust jacket and some light rubbing to front fore edge, else fine.
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Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey
by Holyfield, Evander with Lee Gruenfeld
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New York: Atria Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards, red lettering to spine. x, 275 p.p. [16] p.p. colour photos. Bruise to spine head, small spots of wear to tail edge. A few bumps to edges of dust jacket. Else a fine copy. History's only four-time world heavyweight boxing champion and one of America's most admired and beloved athletes reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of the toughest sport on earth.
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The Beginning of a Mortal
by Miller, Max
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 253 pp. Spine tilted, chafing to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is cropped to flaps, sunned and soiled to spine, chipped to spine ends, a few short tears (several repaired to reverse with tape), perforation to head of front cover, staining to rear cover.
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Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing
by Kadushin, Raphael (editor)
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Madison, Wisconsin: Terrace Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. xi, 296 pp. Fine. There are weekend vacations, quick getaways, and overnight jaunts. But in this border-hopping anthology of travel memoir and fiction, every trip is a big one, as an advance guard of adventurous writers - both seasoned names and fresh voices - scatter across the globe, face the pure euphoria and sheer anxiety of travel, and survive a lot of very fast living.
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