Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1867. Soft cover. A nineteenth-century Scottish guidebook. Green paper covers, with wear and split to head of spine. Folding map. Small stain across the bottom margin of a handful of pages. The 80 page guide is followed by a 32 page publishers' catalog of books.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. American edition in green cloth binding. A journey told in letters, with three folding maps, an Urdu glossary. and "decorations by the ballad singer". The three folding maps of varying sizes are clean and intact, however "the map in pocket at the end of.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd, 1924. Hardcover. 'Happiness is the great thing in this world. We each are free to seek it according to our own desires. If wealth is the main contributing factor, then the quickest route would appear to be via Monte Carlo, since all roads.....
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, with no further printings noted. A diary of a summer spent camping on an island in Ontario, with portraits of local residents and fellow campers, including the chemist Dr. Edward Renouf, to whom the book is dedicated.....
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. A comic novel by the Canadian novelist James De Mille, with the distinctive bookplate of Cecil B DeMille (not, as far as we know, a relation). John DeMille's novel satirizes the grand tour, and its humorous depiction of Americans abroad was linked by.....
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC T70641. Octavo. Two volumes in one. [2], [1]-208, [1]-205, [1]pp. Worn contemporary boards, rebacked. Prior owners names on the back of the frontispiece (one dated 1738, the.....
Virginia, Nev. F. Boegle, 1889. Soft cover. An early tourist's guide to Nevada, with a focus on the Comstock Mines but expanding to cover the rest of the state. From the introduction: "The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869. Hardcover. Josiah Gilbert's richly illustrated combination of travel book and art history, building upon his previous travels in the Dolomite Mountains. From his preface: 'The charm is due to a touch of Italian softness tempering Alpine severity and Dolomite grandeur. The interest centres in.....
New York: 1901. Hardcover. This slim work begins with a preface by Henry B. Alexandar, arguing for roulette as a game to play at home ('In my opinion, Roulette is the King of all games'), before offering an 'explanation' of the technical and French vocabulary, an 'illustration of the table'.....
Signature Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bump to tail of spine, with corresponding creasing to jacket. Glossy jacket, blue cloth boards, map endpapers, unmarked glossy pages. 304pp. 11.25 x 9". As an oversize, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur additional shipping charges.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1919. Hardcover. In a blue dust jacket, now in protective plastic, with wear to the corners and the edges of the spine. The jacket offers the following advertisement: 'The author has had an extensive experience in studying roulette playing at Monte Carlo, and the result.....
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London: Mills & Boon, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Slight wear and creasing to edges of jacket, with slight loss at head of spine and upper corners. Corresponding wear to blue boards. Laid in typed letter from Charmian to an acquaintance in Sonoma, thanking them for an invitation and noting how.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Third printing of May, 1925. Illustrated covers protected by jacket. Clipped jacket, with small loss to upper right corner and old tape repairs on verso. Slight wear to extremities and bumping to corners. ix, [3], 487, [1]pp. 20 plates. 7.75 x......
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Prior owner's gift inscription on title page. Pale blue and gilt boards, with slight fading to the gilt lettering of the spine. Faint spots of foxing to title page. xiv, [2], 345, [1], 6pp advertisements. 8.25 x 5.75.
New York: James Miller, 1869. Hardcover. Captain Michael James Box of the Texan Rangers compiled this "account of the mineral resources of Mexico" over ten years, to inform Americans interested in moving west. The book contains a guide to the "mineral treasures" of Durango, Chihuahua, Sierra Nevada, Sinaloa, Sonora, and.....
1930: Tipohrafia Selecta, 1930. Hardcover. A charming guide and souvenir, in an unusual customized binding, with an inscription from the author, the relentlessly self-promoting Italian-American tour guide Joseph Orecchia. Stated first edition of 5000 copies. Two ribbons in the colors of the Italian flag, now faded. 7 x 5.25"
London: W.J. Ham-Smith, 1912. Hardcover. Rasch promises to provide: '(1) Absolute Proofs of the fallacy of all known Systems; (2) to my knowledge, the only correct table of the Law of Chance or Average; (3) a set of about 15,000 consecutive coups, taken by myself and a partner in twenty-three.....
London: Edmund Seale, 1913. Hardcover. An exhaustive portrait of Monte Carlo before the War, mixing practical tips and information for travelers with absurd humor, often taking the form of answers to facetious correspondence. Date is taken from the preface. Half red cloth with image of a roulette wheel on the.....
Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Slightest wear to edges of illustrated jacket, with slight bumping to corners. Sturdy boards with bright gilt titles. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Signor's characteristically detailed study of Southern Pacific's Los Angeles Division, including "over 1,000 photographs - most never.....
New York: The Greystone Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8.5x5.5". SIGNED by Lowell Thomas Jr on the verso of the free endpaper. Thomas's account of his and his father's journey to and from the Dalai Lama's throne at Lhasa, shortly before the Chinese invasion of Tibet, illustrated with Thomas's striking color photos.....
The Book Club of California, 1947. Hardcover. From the Introduction: "Rosales approached his material from still another and in some ways a still more alien vantage point. It is this which accounts for the critical and satirical direction of his glance, a thing unmatched in other accounts." (xiv). 9.25" x......
Territorial Service of the Swiss Army, 1945. No Binding. Undated. A brief pamphlet formed of a 7 x 19" paper folded into 8 numbered pages, 7 x 4.75". Slight toning, and a suggestion that it was once folded horizontally. "Published by the Territorial Service of the Swiss Army. Approved by.....