Original black cloth on boards. Colour photo DJ. A big book on a big country. Some striking photos in this coffee table number. Please inquire for postage. No names or damage. 192 colourful pp. View More...
Original black cloth on boards. Gilt spine titles. Previous owner's name. A privileged New Yorker sets out to duplicate the travels of Ulysses. 354 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ art by Josh Beutel. A retired Saint John newspaper editor reminisces about Fairville, Ireland, and the way things were. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Foreword by Harry Bruce. The exquisite colour photos of Sherman Hines bring the Maritimes to life. Large, heavy book will need extra postage. Approx. 200 pages (unpaginated). View More...
Original green cloth on boards. 70 line drawings by the author. Sad that this excellent book was allowed to sit in water long enough to wrinkle the bottoms of the pages and show waterstain up the lower 2 inches of the edges. Pages turn easily and there is no odour, but priced accordingly. 243 pp. with index. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Slight fading to spine. The author and her ulcer-nursing husband take off from their Idaho home in a "covered wagon" complete with canvas which they hitch behind their car. The first night they learn about waterproofing. In hindsight she says, "Vacations spent in our 'covered wagon' have cured him of insomnia, tax jitters, and 'world situation blues'." Humorous and fast-moving true story of a couple who succeeded in getting away from most of life's headaches. 178 pp, including a Bill of Materials for a Covered Wagon. No writing or damage. No other copies fo... View More...
Yellow cloth on boards. Travel and the American Identity. Foreign Travelers in America. American Travelers Abroad. Exploration and the American Naturalists.Travel and Exploration as a Theme in American Literature. No writing or damage. 205 pp. View More...
Original blindstamped red cloth on boards. Volume II only of a two-volume set. No writing. Mild hand soil to cover, and faint foxing spots to endpapers. In internet reviews, Kingston is rebuked for stating "eight knots an hour", when a knot is a sea mile per hour, making Kingston's reference to time redundant. In another, the comment is made that Kingston referred offhand to the prevalence of illegitimacy in this travelogue through northern Portugal. Only in 1851 did Kingston publish the first of the adventure stories for boys that made him famous. Volume II has 364 pp. View More...
Original bright red soft cover illustrated in black. A clever, imaginative booklet of about 90 pp. showing all the things Austria is good at. Especially interesting to me are the antique maps of Western and Eastern Hemispheres which appear to me to date from about 1700. Covers are long and folded to create a double thickness. No writing or damage. View More...
Laminated, illustrated boards. A book about Holland in six languages, telling of its people, its cities, its land, and its industries. Large format might need extra postage. Wrinkling to rear of DJ. English, French, Dutch, Spanish,Japanese, and German. 160 pp. View More...
Original photo cover booklet of approximately 72 pp. No writng or damage. A comprehensive view of life at this historical village, from initial planning to longterm effects. Described and pictured are buildings, activities, and animals. Quizzes and questions make your visit a learning experience. Don't miss the recipes ! View More...
Beige cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. The artist/author finds his preconception of Africa to be faulty. He describes it as "a marvelous virgin reservoir of incomparable inspiration."- p. xl. Heavy book will need extra postage. 299 pp. plus biography. View More...
Original dark green cloth on boards. Photographs by Patti Livingston. Poetry by William H. McDermott. Colour photos of Ireland's countryside. Approx. 60 pp. (Unpaginated). Previous owners' names. View More...
Copper cloth on boards. Translated from the French by George A.F. Inman and edited by Robert Harborough Sherard. Estimated date 1910-1920. Light foxing to several gutters and edges, not affecting text or illustrations. No writing. 283 pp. with index. View More...
