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Bowles, Chester
AMBASSADOR'S REPORT A Remarkably Human and Hard-Headed Account of a Successful Mission Involving Not Only the Problems of India, but all Asia
Imprint: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
DJ sunned; INSCRIBED by author to half-title page. Maps to endpapers; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 413 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 10238.
$US 80.00 |
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Bowles, Cynthia
AT HOME IN INDIA
Imprint: New York, Harcourt Brace, 1956
Binding: Hardcover
DJ flap pasted to fep ; Ex-Lib; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 180 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1467.
$US 20.00 |
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Bowles, Paul
A LITTLE STONE
Imprint: London, John Lehmann, 1950
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Dampstaining slightly to front board and significantly to rear board. Small open tear to rear of price clipped DJ. Browning to half-title page; Short story collection with an initial print run of only 3500 copies. Colorful Keith Vaughan jacket design; 8vo; 222 pages, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 16636.
$US 300.00 |
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Bowles, Paul
YALLAH
Imprint: New York, McDowell, Obolensky, 1957
Binding: Hardcover
Wear to DJ. One corner bumped ; 83 pages of photos of the peoples of Northwestern Africa. Text by Paul Bowles. Review copy with slip laid in ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 17,83 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 11933.
$US 200.00 |
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Bowman, John S.
A BOOK OF ISLANDS
Imprint: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ with light wear to extremities; An anthology of writings on the appeal of islands by noted authors such as Jules Verne, Washington Irving, A. C. Doyle, among others. ; 8vo; 345 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 7354.
$US 30.00 |
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Bowman, Heath; Bowman, Jefferson
CRUSOE'S ISLAND In the Caribbean
Imprint: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
B&W Photographs`; 8vo; 339 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 9864.
$US 30.00 |
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Bowra, C. M.
THE HERITAGE OF SYMBOLISM
Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1943
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Boards, DJ and included letter all with some dampstaining. Endpapers a bit browned. DJ a bit frayed and with spine darkened. Former owner's notes on front endpaper ; Includes handwritten contemporary letter on the stationery of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York. SIGNED by W. S. Maugham ; 8vo; 232 pages, Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 3833. ISBN: 0333082400
$US 500.00 |
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Boyce, W. D.
ILLUSTRATED SOUTH AMERICA
Imprint: Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1912
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; A profusely illustrated detailed exploration of the continent. "A Chicago Publisher's Travels and Investigations in the Republics of South America, with 500 Photographs of People and Scenes from the Isthmus of Panama of the Straits of Magellan"; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 638 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 19732.
$US 60.00 |
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Boyd, Louise A.
THE FIORD REGION OF EAST GREENLAND
Imprint: New York, American Geographical Society, 1935
Binding: Hardcover
Some rubbing to boards ; Book only. Does not include slipcase, maps, photograph; Special Publication No. 18; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 369 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 761.
$US 30.00 |
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Boyle, Robert H.
THE HUDSON RIVER A Natural and Unnatural History
Imprint: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969
Binding: Hardcover; Third Printing
DJ price clipped. Former owner's name to front free endpaper; The mighty Hudson is not only a river but a trout stream, estuary, ship channel, and unfortunately, a sewer ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 304 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 17334. ISBN: 0393053792
$US 40.00 |
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Boyle, Kay
THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN
Imprint: New York, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Fraying and small open tears to DJ. DJ spine gone. Boards a bit faded; Stories from Germany concerning the immediate post war era; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages, Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 11844.
$US 45.00 |
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan
WATERMUSIC
Imprint: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1981
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
8vo; 437 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 3836. ISBN: 0316104671
$US 50.00 |
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Bracken, Peg
BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD! The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
Imprint: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973
Binding: Hardcover
8vo; 270 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 17706. ISBN: 0151149844
$US 30.00 |
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Bradford, Ernle
MEDITERRANEAN Portrait of a Sea
Imprint: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1971
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Light edgewear to DJ; The mighty Mediterranean, joining three continents, has seen civilization evolve over thousands of years of sailing, trading, fighting and living ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 574 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 16420. ISBN: 0151585849
$US 50.00 |
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Bradley, Bill
LIFE ON THE RUN
Imprint: Norwalk, Easton Press, 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Leatherbound limited edition SIGNED by Bradley with certificate of authenticity and new introduction. Basketball Hall-of Famer and US Senator Bill Bradley relates how life in the NBA is different from real life, before his political career began. A candid, engaging book for sports fans and the armchair athlete alike; 8vo; 229 pages, Near Fine
Stock number: 15309.
$US 50.00 |
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Bradley, A. G.
RIVERS AND STREAMS OF ENGLAND
Imprint: London, Bracken Books, 1985
Binding: Hardcover
This is a nice Reprint of the title that was originally published in 1909 by A&C Black. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 18982. ISBN: 0946495599
$US 40.00 |
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Bradley, A. G.
ROUND ABOUT WILTSHIRE
Imprint: New York, Mcclure, Phillips & Company, 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Very light foxing to front endpaper ; Color Illustrations; 8vo; 386 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 488.
$US 25.00 |
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Bradley, Bill
THE JOURNEY FROM HERE
Imprint: New York, Artisan, 2000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
SIGNED by Bradley with black marker on dedication page ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 168 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 19640. ISBN: 1579651658
$US 200.00 |
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Bradley, Bill
TIME PRESENT, TIME PAST
Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
INSCRIBED by the basketball star and presidential candidate to the title page; 8vo; 442 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 12513. ISBN: 0679444882
$US 200.00 |
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Bradley, A. G.
WORCESTERSHIRE
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1909
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Spine sunned. Hinges not tight. Endpapers browned and a bit brittle ; Quite scarce. Light blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt design of two castle towers; 8vo; viii, 181 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 249.
$US 70.00 |
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Bradley, A. G.
WORCESTERSHIRE
Imprint: London, A & C Black, 1909
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with moderate edgewear. Light fraying to spine ends. First and last few pages browned and brittle. Hinges started. Small hole to outer spine covering; Quite scarce. Light blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt design of two castle towers. Tissue guarded watercolors by Thomas Tyndale; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii, 181 pages, Very Good-
Stock number: 19663.
$US 50.00 |
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Bradnum, Frederick
THE LONG WALKS Journeys to the Sources of the White Nile
Imprint: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970
Binding: Hardcover
DJ a bit tanned and with light wear to extremities; Explore up the Nile with this expedition ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 271 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 3674.
$US 25.00 |
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Brahms, Johannes & Tschaikowsky, Pyotr Ilyich
THE SYMPHONIES OF BRAHMS AND TSCHAIKOWSKY IN SCORE
Imprint: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935
Binding: Hardcover
DJ darkened, lightly worn and with a few open tears. Bookplate; Fully notated symphonies in rather small print; Musical notation; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 14370.
$US 30.00 |
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Braider, Donald
THE NIAGARA
Imprint: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear & chipping to DJ. Slight foxing to edges ; Of course everyone knows of Niagara Falls, but how many know of its source, the Niagara River? stated first edition; Rivers of America; 8vo; 294 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 15712.
$US 35.00 |
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Bramsen, Bo
A HUNDRED YEARS OF DANNEBROG The History of the Dannebrog Shipowning Company 1883-1983
Imprint: Copenhagen, Nyt Nordisk-Arnold Busk, 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 9929. ISBN: 8717051894
$US 70.00 |
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Brandeis, Madeline
MITZ AND FRITZ OF GERMANY
Imprint: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1933
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with slight wear to extremities and minimal soiling; The story of two travelling German Kinder; 8vo; 160 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 16212.
$US 15.00 |
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Brander, Michael
AROUND THE HIGHLANDS
Imprint: London, Geoffrey Bles, 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Bookplate. DJ price clipped and with light rubbing to extremities; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 224 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 1009. ISBN: 0950214825
$US 25.00 |
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Brander, Bruce
CANARY ISLANDS
Imprint: New York, Doubleday, 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Slight browning to flaps of DJ; 30 Color plates of incomparable scenic beauty; Color Photographs; 16mo; 613 pages, Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 3467.
$US 10.00 |
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Brantl, Klaus
MUNICH The Heart of Bavaria
Imprint: Munich, Wilhelm Andermann Verlag, 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Panorama Books; Color Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 62 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 18895.
$US 15.00 |
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Brassey, Lady
IN THE TRADES, THE TROPICS, & THE ROARING FORTIES
Imprint: New York, Henry Holt, 1885
Binding: Hardcover
Light wear to extremities; around the world in the good ship Sunbeam; Wood engraving; 8vo; 532 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 12602.
$US 350.00 |
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Brassey, Mrs.
SUNSHINE AND STORM IN THE EAST
Imprint: New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1880
Binding: Hardcover
Some fraying to top and bottom spine. Front hinge weakening. Some fraying to rear map margin, not effecting printed area. Previous owner's name to front pastedown; Rare. Numerous b&w illustrations and two maps; 8vo; 448 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 1309.
$US 255.00 |
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Brassey, Mrs. [Annie]
A VOYAGE IN THE "SUNBEAM" Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Imprint: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Company, 1881
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light rubbing to spine heels. Front hinge professionally repaired. Else in NF condition; Decorative brown buckram boards with black embossed lettering and an embossed decoration in black with the Sunbeam in gilt. ; 8vo; 511 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 17262.
$US 125.00 |
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Brassey, Mrs. [Annie]
A VOYAGE IN THE "SUNBEAM" Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Imprint: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Company, 1881
Edition: Early edition
Binding: Hardcover
Hinges professionally repaired. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Decorative dark green buckram boards with black embossed lettering and an embossed decoration in black with the Sunbeam in gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 511 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 19222.
$US 100.00 |
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[Braun & Cie]
A DAY IN VERSAILLES Illustrated Guide to the Palace, Museum, Park and the Trianons
Imprint: Paris, Braun & Cie, 1924
Binding: Softcover
60 engravings and plans; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 125 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 17329.
$US 40.00 |
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Breasted, Charles
PIONEER TO THE PAST The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Slight browning to endpapers. Front hinge weakening; Nicely INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper; 8vo; 436 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 11038.
$US 50.00 |
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Breasted, Charles
PIONEER TO THE PAST The Story of James Henry Breasted, Archaeologist, Told by His Son
Imprint: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Previous owner has pasted various pictures and clippings to the first few pages, including a bookplate. Occasional pencil marks. Endpapers browned. Front hinge weakening ; 8vo; 436 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 11057.
$US 20.00 |
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Brebner, John Bartlet; Nevins, Allan
THE MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN A Short History
Imprint: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ faded and chipped ; 8vo; 243 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 10552.
$US 15.00 |
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Brendon, Piers
THE MOTORING CENTURY The Story of the Royal Automobile Club
Imprint: London, Bloomsbury, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
In lightly torn original box. The profusely illustrated history of the British Automobile Club ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 432 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 18606. ISBN: 0747530343
$US 50.00 |
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Brentnall, Margaret
THE CINQUE PORTS AND ROMNEY MARSH
Imprint: London, John Gifford Ltd., 1980
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Along the Sussex and Kent shores of the English countryside. Profusely illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 18946. ISBN: 0707106265
$US 40.00 |
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Bridenbaugh, Carl
SEAT OF EMPIRE The Political Role of Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg
Imprint: Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg, 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to price clipped DJ; Many of America's early leaders were from greater Williamsburg ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 85 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 14406.
$US 15.00 |
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Bridge, Ann; & Lowndes, Susan
THE SELECTIVE TRAVELLER IN PORTUGAL
Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus, 1967
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Wear with small tears & chipping to DJ, with some dampstaining to rear that has slightly bled through to rear board; Rather more historical content than usual, with the emphasis on landmarks and works of art. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 292 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Stock number: 15629.
$US 25.00 |
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Bridges, R. C. ; Hair, P. E. H.
COMPASSING THE VASTE GLOBE OF THE EARTH Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996
Imprint: London, The Hakluyt Society, 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Bookseller's invoice and errata slip nicely attached to endpapers; Second Series; Vol. 183; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Stock number: 18943.
$US 40.00 |
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Bridges, E. Lucas
UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH
Imprint: New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Light foxing to first and last few pages and edges; "Uttermost Part of the Earth is the autobiography of a pioneer who spent most of his life in Tierra del Fuego, a superb combination of personal adventure, frontier history and Indian lore... It is a book of permanent importance"; 8vo; 558 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 18003.
$US 200.00 |
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O'Brien, Frederick
ATOLLS OF THE SUN
Imprint: New York, Century, 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Boards sunned, especially spine and with rubbing to extremities. Edges browned. Hinges started; Grass green boards with pictorial design of palm trees and orange lettering ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 508 pages, Good+
Stock number: 17178.
$US 40.00 |
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O'Brien, Philip
T.E. LAWRENCE A Bibliography
Imprint: Boston, G. K. Hall & Company, 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Slight wear to DJ. Binding could be tighter; Comprehensive source of precise information about Lawrence's published writing as well as critical and biographical works, over one hundred in all. Divided into sections; books written by Lawrence and books written about him ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 724 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 15765. ISBN: 0816189455
$US 70.00 |
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Brien, John F. O.
MANUAL FOR THE USE OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1903 Prepared Pursuant to the Provisions of Chapter 683 Laws of 1892
Imprint: Albany, Oliver A. Quayle, 1903
Binding: Hardcover
Boards with light edgewear. Front hinge started. Front map dog eared ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1057 pages, Very Good
Stock number: 17497.
$US 400.00 |
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O'Brien, Frederick
MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS
Imprint: New York, The Century Co., 1921
Binding: Hardcover
Decoration to spine and boards a bit faded; Author O'Brien travels to the South Seas and describes visits to Tahiti and Papeete, among others. Color fold-out map outlines the journey. Tissue protected frontispiece. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 534 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 7348.
$US 40.00 |
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O'Brien, Frederick
MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS
Imprint: Garden City, Garden City, 1921
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Spine a bit sunned; Author O'Brien travels to the South Seas and describes visits to Tahiti and Papeete, among others. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 534 pages, Very Good+
Stock number: 19707.
$US 35.00 |
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O'Brien, Robert
THIS IS SAN FRANCISCO
Imprint: New York, Whittlesey House, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
DJ torn and chipped. ; Nicely INSCRIBED by the author on half title page with ink. A detailed description of the Golden City with illustrations by Antonio Sotomayor; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Stock number: 18958.
$US 50.00 |
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Briggs, Lloyd Cabot
TRIBES OF THE SAHARA
Imprint: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
DJ a bit darkened ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 295 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Stock number: 8541. ISBN: 0674908708
$US 125.00 |
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