Ionia: A Quest
Harcourt, 1954. First American. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Hinges starting. Tape-repaired, chipped and worn jacket wrapped for further preservation. Full-page half-tone illustrations throughout. More
Harcourt, 1954. First American. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Hinges starting. Tape-repaired, chipped and worn jacket wrapped for further preservation. Full-page half-tone illustrations throughout. More
Modern Library, July 2001. Trade Paperback. In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes..... More
Viking, January 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. Dustjacket is missing. Light tan cloth with darkened spine and margins with green lettering upon spine and green line drawing on front board. Heavy foxing & darkening og end pages front and rear. Early reprint. [143 pages]. More
Dover Publications, June 1969. Trade Paperback. "The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil...At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed the face of a monument, and then to dig around and bring to light a...... More
Editorial Dante, 1986. Trade Paperback. Two volume set; 127 engravings, including three fold out illustrations by Catherwood. Mild wear. (321, volume one & 352 volume two.). More
McGraw-Hill, January 1962. Hardcover. Eighth Printing. Tan cloth with silver lettering & brown, silver & red horse & rider. Beige end pages. Slight slant to spine. In price-clipped, jacket with edgewear and several small tears (half inch or less). Chip & stain at bass of spine. More
Harvest Books, May 2006. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "stupendous...an instant travel classic" (Entertainment Weekly). In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1999. Paper Back. In the 1960s John Kennedy Toole wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which details the uproarious misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit. Though he has visions of grandeur, Ignatius winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors..... More
Henry Holt & Company, July 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. ""I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest..... More
J.B. Lippincott Company, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in chipped & torn jacket. Flap is not clipped. Blue cloth covered spine with gold lettering on spine. Blue paper covered boards. Ochre end pages. [239 pages]. More
HarperCollins Publishers, January 1976. Paper Back. Octavo with mild wear. Previous owner's name & a date inked on half title page.{[180 pages]. More
Mariner Books, April 2004. Trade Paperback. The legendary travel writer's thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux endures danger, delay..... More
Penguin Group, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. More
Ballantine. Mass Market PaperBack. Covers creased on upper outer corners, cracked 1/2' on lower spine. More
Etruscan Press, January 2004. First Edition. Cloth. What a beautiful book. I knew it was going to be poetic, but I was knocked over twice by its compelling narrative drive and quiet sense of humor.-Sherman AlexieDiane Thiel's The White Horse: A Colombian Journey takes us on a magically real journey..... More
Harper Perennial, March 2012. Trade Paperback. "A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted." --Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books "Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living, and I can't remember when I have been so thoroughly and deeply moved..... More
Harper and Brothers, October 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in brown cloth with gold lettering. Worn edges. Mild discoloration of cloth. Previous owner's name and a date inked ffep. Foxing. [196 pages]. More
Thomas Dunne Books, November 1998. Hardcover. Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each summer to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthian nest of his relations and to the passionate, warm-hearted people of his valley. North of Naples, South of Rome describes a hilariously chaotic wine competition, samples the Italian..... More
International Marine Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary adventure. --Sea Kayaker In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In In the Wake of the..... More
Dover Publications, September 1989. Trade Paperback. Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the..... More
Friends of the Bancroft Library, January 1972. Soft Cover. Seven' x Ten &1/4'; quarto; Cover darkened at margins & spine. There is a one & one-half inch mostly closed-tear to paper wrapper at base of spine up and across the quarter-inch width of spine. Binding remains sound. There is a...... More
Lozzi Publisher, 1954. Soft Cover. 11th edition. 12mo. With foxing & darkening. Includes large folded laid in illustrated map of Rome in ochre, green and black ink. [281 pages]. More
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, November 2001. Hardcover. Provence through the eyes of its writers--those who wrote of it in Provençal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty--that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence. In this compact travel guide, Marseilles native..... More
Passenger, August 2020. Trade Paperback. A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Once Upon A Time: The Greek Taverna by Petros Markaris?Land of Migration by Matteo Nucci?The Lost Generation by Christos Ikonomou?plus: Yorgos..... More
Little, Brown, April 1984. Cloth. Dust jacket is mylar wrapped for preservation. Jacket is torn along top edge, shelfworn. More