Syria's Secret Library
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope through reading.
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The Sanctuary Murders
London: Sphere, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. The Twenty-Fourth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.
The Bone Fire
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page.
The Room Of The Dead. A Betty Church Mystery.
London: Head Of Zeus, (2019). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author to the title page with a line quote as well.
Kabloona
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original cloth binding with the spine in white buckram and the remaining in blue. Map endpapers front and rear. Illustrated by the author with a lovely color frontispiece. Written in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere. The author went to live with Eskimos and wrote this wonderful account...
Not By Bread Alone
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in white to the front panel and spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket which shows only minor edge-wear. The rear panel of the jacket has some scattered foxing. The author lived with the Mackenzie River Eskimos, and other northern indiginous groups, and...
Greenland It's Nature, Inhabitants, And History
Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very large quarto. Originally a soft covered publication. This volume has been re-bound in a gray buckram binding, which is completely un-adorned but quite strong. Private Library Stamp of the previous owner to the half-title and bound in internal original soft-cover. With 170 plates, 50 portraits, and a map. Translated...
The North Pole Of The Winds
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Quarto edition bound in original blue cloth, lettered in gold to the front panel and spine. With 26 photographic plates, map endpapers and many in-text illustrations. The book is very clean, bright and solid. The dust jacket has received some repair work which does not look...
Watkin's Last Expedition
London: Chatto And Windus, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in gold to the spine. Quarto. With 48 pages of plates and a map. An extremely clean, bright and attractive copy with a lovely example of the dust jacket with wrap-around photograph. This volume comes from the collection of acclaimed aviator, sailer, and...
Shores And Alps Of Alaska
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original blue/gray cloth, lettered in gold and stamped in black. Profusely illustrated with engravings, photographs, and maps. One map in color, preceding page 1 and another color map, an elaborate folding example, precedes 32 pages of ads at the rear. Unopened and unread. I can say this...
Report Of The Cruise Of The U. S. Revenue Cutter Bear And The Overland Expedition For The Relief Of The Whalers In The Arctic Ocean, From November 27, 1897, To September 13, 1898
Washington DC: Goverment Printing Office, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original pebble grain royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Large full color fold-out map laid in at the rear. A signature standing proud. A very bright and lovely copy in all respects. This book tells the harrowing tale of a rescue mission...
A Summer In Alaska. A Popular Account Of An Alaska Exploring Expedition Along The Great Yukon River, From Its Source To Its Mouth, In The British Northwest Territory, And In The Territory Of Alaska
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue/gray cloth, decorated in black and gold and lettered in gold. Large 8vo. 418pp. Twenty Illustrations taken from photographs by Mr. Homan. Twenty two illustrations from sketches by Sargeant Gloster. Twenty nine illustrations from diagrams by the author and others. One map of the Alaska Exploring Expedition. Some...
Alaska And Its Resources
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original large octavo bound in green pebble grained cloth with decoration in gilt to the front panel and decoration and lettering in gilt to the spine. All edges bevelled. Faint shadow of a previous owner at the top of the title page. The book is quite large, coming in at...
Cruises In The Bering Sea. Being Records Of Further Sport And Travel
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto volume bound in light brown cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and gold on the spine. Illustrated endpapers. With the book-plate of Nathaniel Cushing Nash to the front paste-down. The rear endpapers has a pocket which holds a lovely color map of the Bering Sea. Translated...
A Voyage Up The River Amazon Including A Residence At Para - also bound in - The Wayside Cross; Or, The Raid Of Gomez, A Tale Of The Carlist War.
London: John Murray, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small octavo, bound in 3/4 black morocco with marbled paper insets. The spine has six compartments elaborately decorated in gilt. Author/Title label also in black and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Bound in silk book-mark. This copy with the book-plate of Lipton Hutton Potts to the front paste-down. This volume...
Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two octavo volumes bound in red 3/4 morocco with red cloth insets. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with over sixty engravings, most full page but many smaller in-text examples as well. The folding map in volume I is present and in great condition. There is a small area of archival...
Wanderings In South America, The North-West Of The United States, And The Antilles, In The Years 1812, 1816, 1820, And 1824
London: J. Mawman, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto volume bound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper insets. The spine has six compartments and a deep red leather title label, lettered in gold. A very solid and attractive copy. The blank endpages are foxed as is the illustrated frontispiece. Internally there is very little foxing. 326 pp. Marbled endpapers...
The Blue Wall. A Story Of Strangeness And Struggle
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth with lettering in white to the front panel and spine. Stunning color design involving the frontispiece and title page as one canvas. Illustration on frontis page same as that of the jacket. Coles Phillips has designed this lovely image. With four full-page black and white...
"The Blackmailer"
New York: Paget Literary Agency, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original buff card stock covers. Separated at the spine. A small piece missing at the bottom edge at the spine and again at the rear panel at the fore-edge. This is a first edition of a short piece which was later incorporated into The Bradmoor Murder. A very rare...
The Bradmoor Murder. Including The Remarkable Deductions Or Sir Henry Marquis Of Scotland Yard
New York: J. H. Sears & Company, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original gray cloth with lettering in red to the front panel and spine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy in a lovely example of the dust jacket. The jacket is complete with a few very shallow closed tears. The red color of the...
Walker Of The Secret Service
New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original orange cloth, blocked in black rectangles to reveal the lettering. A very clean, bright and solid copy of this very scarce book. Our hero, Walker, begins his life as a train robber and general thief. He is offered the opportunity to play for the...
Bat Wing
New York: A. L. Burt, c. 1927. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. In an excellent example of the complete dust jacket - as clean and bright as the day it was issued. The copyright date of 1921 is related to the Doubleday, Page first edition and really has nothing to do with the Burt reprint. This...
Women
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original light green cloth with vertical ribs, blocked in gilt to the front panel and lettered in gilt to the spine.Top edge yellow. "First Edition" statement to the copyright page. Previous owner signature to the front free endpaper. In a bright example of the dust...
The Jungle Book
London: MacMillan And Co., 1909. Second edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. This edition with the lovely illustrations of Maurice and Edward Detmold. The frontispiece protected by a tissue guard. In all there are sixteen lovely color illustrations. A clean, bright and solid copy.
The Holy War
London: Methuen & Co., (1918). Soft Cover. Near Fine. Small single fold pamphlet containing Kipling's poem, The Holy War, an homage to John Bunyan. Black lettering and design on buff stiff paper. A very clean and solid example of this fragile work. The U.S. edition of 1917 predates the U.K. edition. It was done to secure copyright protection and was...
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