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| This selection contains 11 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 11 |
 | BUSK, DOUGLAS. The Delectable Mountains. London: Hodder & Stoughton August, 1947. 2nd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 274 pages. Index. Description: Includes a frontis plate, 47 b&w photo illustrations on plates and four fold out maps. Chapter tailpiece drawings and dust jacket art by Bridget Busk. The author relates fifteen years of mountaineering experience around the world. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000HYZM3Y USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 034215 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | CALDWELL, ELSIE NOBLE. Alaska Trail Dogs. New York: Richard R Smith 1945. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 150 pages. Description: Includes several b&w plates. A book sure to appeal to dog lovers, students and collectors of Alaskana, and true adventure readers. True stories of real dogs of the north country. Tells of the pioneer years from the first Klondike gold rush and the years that followed until at last in 1914 rail and motor transportation made travel relatively easy in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Contents are: Goldfang, Alias Snowbird, Alias Sandy; Blossom, Speed Demon of the North; Arctic, Prince of Malemutes; Hurricane, Rogue of Nenana; Lasco, Mother Dog; Pickpocket, Financier; and Rowdy, Outlaw. BINDING/CONDITION: bright navy blue cloth with gilt text; a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000O9OOFE USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 057394 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
| EBERLEIN, HAROLD DONALDSON AND GEOFFREY J MARKS AND FRANK A WALLIS. Down the Tiber and Up to Rome. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott 1930. 1st Edition, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 8 to 9.5 inches tall) 207 pages. Index. Description: Includes a color frontis, plus an additional 12 b&w plates from drawings by Frank A Wallis. BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth with blue and black text and art; the spine is darkened, moderate wear and handling soil -- the book is Good; no dust jacket. ISBN: B000X76RA2 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 011464 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | ||
 | FORD, CHARLES BRADLEY. The English Countryside in Colour: A Short Survey of the English Landscape and its Antiquities. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1938. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 118 pages. Index. map endpapers. Description: 92 color illustrations are shown on double sided color plates. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth; a Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket. ISBN: B000YNAZV2 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 029950 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | HEYERDAHL, THOR; TRANSLATED BY PATRICIA CRAMPTON. The Ra Expeditions. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company 1971. Book Club Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) 341 pages. map endpapers. Description: Illustrated with 111 color photographs. One possible explanation for the striking similarities among ancient civilizations of the Americas and the Mediterranean is travel between the continents. In this book, Thor Heyerdahl set out to prove that men could have sailed across oceans in small reed boats centuries before the beginning of recorded history. Unfortunately for the expedition, much of the knowledge of crafting those reed boats has been lost over the centuries, and their first attempt met with failure. This is the account of the voyages of Ra and Ra II. BINDING/CONDITION: dark green cloth; slight bend to the corners, light rubbing to the spine ends, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket. ISBN: 0-385-00098-7 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 055838 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | LEWIS, RICHARD S. From Vinland to Mars: A Thousand Years of Exploration. New York: Quadrangle / New York Times 1976. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 436 pages. Index, notes. Description: Includes two sections of b&w photo plates. Note: the copyright date is 1976, however the copyright page also has a printed date of 1978 (for the paperback printing). From the earliest Viking voyages to the dramatic Viking spacecraft landing on Mars, this is a comprehensive history of man's urge to explore. BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue boards withi silver spine text; a Very Good- book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-8129-0647-0 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 750] Book number: 017217 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | MASSETT, STEPHEN C. Drifting About: or what Jeems Pipes of Pipesville Saw-and-Did. An Autobiography by.... New York: G W Carleton 1863. 1st Edition. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) 371 pages + ads. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. This is a book in much the same style as Mark Twain's books Roughing It or Following the Equator. The author covers travel in California (San Francisco, Sacramento), the Sandwich Islands, and on about the globe. Carl Wheat explains ''Massett was the editor of the Marysville Herald who discovered 'Dame Shirley'. He was a tireless journalist who knew everyone and saw everything during those first frantic years of the gold rush.'' Cowan adds, ''The author visited California with the gold rush, arriving here in 1849 (pages 112-144); pages 154-159 and pages 367-370 are given over to the author's second and third visits to the state''. {listed in: Wheat's Gold Rush, Number 139; Cowan, page 419} BINDING/CONDITION: maroon cloth; owner's name, the front free endpaper is chipped, the rear hinge is weak, well rubbed at the corners and overall handling wear -- a Poor book; no dust wrapper. ISBN: B00085CHJO USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 021273 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | MOOREHEAD, ALAN. The Blue Nile. New York: Harper & Row 1962. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 308 pages. Index, sources. illustrated endpapers. Description: Includes 18 chapter decorations, 2 fold-out maps, and a section of b&w plates. A companion book to the author's earlier White Nile, this tells of Western exploration and expansion from 1798 through the nineteenth century, into the regions watered by the Nile on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth; owner's name and date, on the half-title page; the top edge has a dusty, speckled appearance, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket. The cloth is clean and bright, all pages clean and very good, hinges sound. ISBN: B000O6KSOS USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 618] Book number: 054110 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | PRICE, A WHIGMAN. The Ladies of Castlebrae: A story of nineteenth-century travel and research. Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd 1985. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 242 pages. Appendix, bibliography. Description: Includes two sections of b&w plates. The fascinating account of a pair of learned and eccentric twin sisters. From their Victorian home of Castlebrae to the Sinai where they made an incredible discovery, this charts their long lives and extraordinary attachment to one another. In the early 1890s, the ''Giblew'' (a combination of their married names) sisters journeyed by camel across the Sinai desert to the monastery of St Catherine's. Their discovery of a very early Syriac version of the gospels -- then being used as butter dishes on the refectory table -- led eventually to a publishing sensation. Foreword by Eric Newby. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-86299-228-1 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 056494 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | RALSTON, ARON. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. New York: Simon & Schuster 2004. 5th Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 354 pages. Glossary. Description: Includes a section of color plates. In 2003, Aron Ralson was climbing down off a wedged boulder in a remote area in Utah when a falling boulder pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. This is the account of his six day ordeal. BINDING/CONDITION: dark navy boards with silver spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-7432-6353-7 USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 056710 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. | |
 | RYHINER, PETER; AS TOLD TO DANIEL P MANNIX. The Wildest Game. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott 1958. 1st Edition, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 320 pages. Description: Includes two sections of b&w photo plates. Peter Ryhiner relates his many adventures capturing wild animals. 8.5 inches tall, 320 pages. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0007E0A90 USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 054005 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm. |
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