Category: Travel

The Almanac of Cyprus 1992

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Nicosia, Press and Information Office : 1991

Seller ID: 008571

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated cover trade paperback. Provides basic information on history, government, economy, and social aspects of the island. Foldout map in back. 357 pp.
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Changing Seasons; Letters from Armenia (Signed)

By: Coe, Barbara A. (Ph.D.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Trafford Publishing : 2005

Seller ID: 004407

ISBN-13: 9781412070225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original colour photo cover trade paperback. Signed by author. Coe served as a visiting professor in this ancient, formerly communist, country for 2 1/2 years. Sponsored by the Civic Education Project, her aim was to counteract the widespread reality in Armenia that people felt unable to change their leaders, their country, or their communities. These letters convey the challenges and the joys of dealing with bright students and ignorant officials, gourmet meals and backfiring beans, and the structural conflict between credit from the West and military security from Russia. Surely a caref...
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Moon Cakes and Maple Sugar; Remembrances of China

By: Copland, Marnie

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Burlington, Ontario, Welch Publishing Company, Inc. : 1990

Seller ID: 011600

ISBN-13: 9780919532557

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Red softcover. The parents of the author were missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. The half-title page is signed by Robert B. McClure, who was elected Moderator of the United Church of Canada in 1968. 152 pp.
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The Marvellous Country; Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, the Apaches' Home

By: Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth

Price: $200.00 USD

Publisher: Amherst, N.S., Rogers & Black : 1874

Seller ID: 012432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Green cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on cover and spine. Spine worn head and foot. Hinges cracked and glued. 532 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Canterbury (Beautiful England Series)

By: Danks, Canon

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited

Seller ID: 011066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

White paper boards. Price-clipped DJ. 12 Colour scenes and descriptive text. 56 pp.
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The Real Paradise; Memories of Africa 1950-1963

By: Davidson, Ann M.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Durham, Pentland Press, Ltd. : 1993

Seller ID: 012516

ISBN-13: 9781858210445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Recently at home in St. Andrews, N.B., the author lived for 13 years in Nyasaland, which became Malawi. An inspired correspondent. Large foldout map. Laid in is an ad from Scottish World. 548 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Across Widest America, Newfoundland to Alaska; Withe the Impressions of Two Years' Sojourn on the Bering Coast Profusely Illustrated

By: Devine, Edward J. (S.J.)

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, The Canadian Messenger : 1905

Seller ID: 005141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original green cloth highly decorated in gold on boards. Hinges badly cracked, but covers still attached. Upper half of backstrip torn away from one joint, but present. Inscribed, "To Dr. Lunney, From one of his best friends. The Author. New Years '06." Author's portrait frontispiece as well as a second portrait on second free endpaper. This volume contains articles which were printed first in the London "Month" and the "Canadian Messenger" as well as additional material. Newfoundland, Towards the West, The Western Prairies, Through the Rockies, Seattle, The Russian Domination in Alaska,...
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Couleurs De Belgique / Belgium in Colour

By: Dumont, Georges-H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Bruxelles, Paul F. Merckx : 1963

Seller ID: 004762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original colour photo laminated boards backed in grey cloth. Text in French and English. Most of the plates are exteriors of colourful fields or buildings, but a few are of closeups of interior decorations of churches. 142 pp.
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The Norfolk Broads

By: Dutt, William A.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., Ltd. : 1930

Seller ID: 008217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Exceptional illustrations: 46 colour plates, 23 monotones, 9 other illustrations and 5 maps. 407 pp. with index.
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Legends of Greece Ancient and Modern

By: Economides, Irene

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Athens, : 1970

Seller ID: 007826

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original small, white booklet with illustrated cover. 68 pp. Signed.
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Our Maritimes

By: Evans, Millie and Mullen, Eric

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Tantallon, N.S., Four East : 1979

Seller ID: 000724

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial covered paperback, no DJ. Minor lower corner turnup. Unmarked. 251 pp. with index.
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Modern Turkey (Belgravia Ship's Library)

By: Farley, J. Lewis

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett : 1872

Seller ID: 008735

Binding: 3/4 Leather on Cloth Boards

Condition: Fair to Good

Original 3/4 leather on red cloth boards. Seal of the Anchor Line in gold. This is the second volume we have listed which was in the library of the Belgravia of the Anchor Line, which sank near Saint John in 1896. The author rose through a career in banking to being appointed consul at Bristol. He has several additional volumes to his credit. Damage appears limited to staining and wear of the covers, the interior being intact and clean. The catalogue of the ship's library is shown in two lists attached inside the respective covers. 353 pp.
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England and Canada; A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster

By: Fleming, Sandford

Price: $120.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, Rivington : 1884

Seller ID: 001923

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Red cloth, elaborately lettered, on boards. Spine sunned. Library bookplate and spine number. Previous owner's bookplate. Two gatherings loosening, but not separated. Clean and readable. 393 pp. plus long catalog. Spine head chipped.
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A Vagabond Journey Around the World; A Narrative of Personal Experience

By: Franck, Harry A.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Star Books; Garden City Publishing Co. : 1910

Seller ID: 011773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Black cloth on boards. First free endpaper missing 1/3. The author travels the world with very little tack. "A man can girdle the globe without money, weapons, or baggage."- P.xv. Actually, he had $104.00 and a camera. His descriptions of people and their behaviour are graphic and funny, as are his frequent lapses into foreign tongues. 502 pp.
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A Vagabond Journey Around the World; A Narrative of Personal Experience.

By: Franck, Harry A.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin : 1910

Seller ID: 003995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. Frontispiece and attached leaf re-inserted. Young American student circles the globe with very little money, no weapons, and no baggage. Wisely, he took a lot of photos with his "Kodak." Endpapers grubby. 502 pp.
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Persepolis; The Achaemenian Capital

By: Ghirshman, R. And Herzfeld, E.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Tehran, Iran, Mirdashti Farhangsara

Seller ID: 006337

ISBN-13: 9789649163475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original dark blue paper boards. Unclipped colour photo DJ. Compiled and translated by F. Ghani. Text in English with some Arabic. One tiny chip from front DJ. 122 pp. Photo history of the empire from the Seventh to Fourth Centuries, B.C. culminating in the development of Iran. Heavy book may need extra postage.
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Train Journeys of the World; A Spectacular Voyage of Discovery Along 30 of The World's Most Exciting Rail Routes

By: Gordon, Susan (Ed.)

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K., The Automobile Association : 1994

Seller ID: 001428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original plasticized photo cover on boards. DJ very good. Includes the story of each route, no matter how far-flung, with the atmosphere and specially-drawn map. Selections are from all except the polar continents, including the famous Orient Express. Travel tips are included for those who wish to live out parts of the story. 224 pp. with index..
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Inn & Out; Misadventures of a Nova Scotia Innkeeper

By: Gott, Marian "Penny"

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Braemar Publishing, Ltd. : 1988

Seller ID: 011599

ISBN-13: 9780921054061

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Two female veterans of WW II join forces to become innkeepers in Smith's Cove, N.S. 88 pp.
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Historic Cyprus; A Guide to Its Towns & Villages, Monasteries & Castles

By: Gunnis, Rupert

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Nicosia, Cyprus, K. Rustem & Bro : 1973

Seller ID: 009087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ lightly worn head and foot. Icons and the Greek Church, History of Cyprus, Arrangement of an Orthodox Church, Nicosia, Famagusta, Larnaca, Kyrenia, Limassol, Paphos, Villages, Castles, and Monasteries. Bibliography, Chronology, and Index. First chapter underlined in red. Whole book lightly wrinkled, but dry and lacking odour. Large map attached to back cover is very good. Laid in is news clipping about a 10-year-old boy who found a Hellenistic mosaic in 1996. 495 pp.
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Odessa Says Welcome/ Map of Leningrad

By: Guyvoron, A. A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Odessa, Odessa Publishing House "Mayak" : 1966

Seller ID: 009138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original white illustrated cover on paper boards. Laid in is a map of "Reconstructed Outskirts of Leningrad" Route and Diagram of Metro Lines. On reverse of this map are "Embankments on the Left Bank of the Neva" and "Nevsky Prospekt." The book has 180 pp. and is unmarked.
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Category: Travel