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ZWILLING ERNST A.
Jungle Fever Expedition Into Equatorial Africa
London, Souvenir. 1956, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. book lightly sunned to tips of spine, dust jacket missing central peice of rear panel and has chipping to some edges, 216pp + plates, big game hunting and tracking in the Cameroons and other parts of Equatorial Africa. Very Good/Poor.
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Book number: 006042
NZD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 8.91 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1410]
Keywords: Equatorial Africa Big Game Hunting Expedition Exploration

 
BAGNOLD RALPH A
Libyan Sands, Travel in a Dead World
London, Hodder. 1943, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) February 1943 reprint in Hodder Black Jacket edition, pencil name to fep, 288pp incl maps, scarce, small so cheaper shipping. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 010369
NZD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 41.75 US$ 44.55 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 7048]
Keywords: Libya Travel Exploration Petra Siwa Libyan Desert North Africa Arab Egypt Bagnold

 
MICHENER JAMES A
Return to Paradise
London, Secker. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sewn binding, lightly rubbed edges, front hinge cracked but tight, nice bright blue cloth, scarce dustwrapper is rubbed and worn to edges and joints with short splits at joint ends, scan on request, 437pp, a tidy copy in the scarce wrapper, Michener's second work. Very Good/Good.
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Book number: 006178
NZD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 41.75 US$ 44.55 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 7048]
Keywords: American Fiction Travel Writing Scarce First Edition Modern Fiorst Michener Scarce Dust Wrapper Pacific Australia New Zealand South Pacific

 
MICHENER JAMES A
Return to Paradise
London, Secker. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sewn binding, lightly rubbed spine and spine edge of lower board, blue cloth, 437pp, a tidy copy, Michener's second work. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 006192
NZD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 25 US$ 26.73 | £UK 21.5 | JP¥ 4229]
Keywords: American Fiction Travel Writing Scarce First Edition Modern Fiorst Michener Scarce Dust Wrapper Pacific Australia New Zealand South Pacific

 
MICHENER JAMES A
Return to Paradise
London, Secker. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sewn binding, rubbed joints, discoloured ( faded) spotting to fore edges of boards, ink name to fep, joint ends frayed, internally clean, 437pp, Michener's second work. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 008976
NZD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.88 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1880]
Keywords: American Fiction Travel Writing Scarce First Edition Modern Fiorst Michener Scarce Dust Wrapper Pacific Australia New Zealand South Pacific

 
MICHENER JAMES A
Return to Paradise (signed by author)
New York, Random House. 1951, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. cloth rubbed at spine ends and starting to fray, inscribed to fep 'Honolulu -1956- James A Michener', stated ELEVENTH PRINTING of Michener's second work, dust jacket has sunned spine with loss to both ends of spine, rubbed fore edges, head of front fold in flap has been trimmed, chipping etc, book is tidy, 437pp. Very Good/Poor. Signed by Author.
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Book number: 012941
NZD 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 108.25 US$ 115.83 | £UK 92.75 | JP¥ 18326]
Keywords: American Fiction Travel Writing Scarce Michener Pacific Australia New Zealand South Pacific

 
HAYTER ADRIAN
The Year of the Quiet Sun
London, Hodder. 1968, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW lamination starting to lift at spine tail and lower part of cover, corners rubbed, price clipped, book VG 191pp + plates 'One year at Scott Base Antarctica; a personal impression'. Very Good/Very Good.
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Book number: 012709
NZD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 14.85 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2349]
Keywords: Antarctica South Pole Geography Science

 
MOOREHEAD ALAN
The Blue Nile
London, Hamilton. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. boards a little bumped at spine ends. DW rubbed to folds, chipped at spine ends and corners, but only minimally, a little faded in part but still presentable. 308pp + plates + 2 folding maps . The Reconnaissance / The French in Egypt / The Turks in the Sudan / The British in Ethiopia. Very Good/Good.
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Book number: 000335
NZD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 14.85 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2349]
Keywords: Travel Exploration Africa Nile Victorian Egypt Sudan Ethiopia

 
RIMMER ALFRED
About England with Dickens
London, Chatto & Windus. 1899, New and Enlarged. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. minor rubbing to cloth, small split at head of spine, old ink inscription to fep 'Frederick W Gale Kaikoura 1900', light foxing to endpapers, tissue guarded frontis, ix 307pp + plates +32pp publishers adverts, illustrated in line throughout and on plates, places Dickens referred to in his writings. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 013124
NZD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 20.79 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 3289]
Keywords: British Travel Writing Victorian British Literature Literary Novelist Charles Dickens Frederick W Gale New Zealand

 
ROCH ANDRE
Die Klassischen Gipfelbesteigungen Der Alpen Mit Einer Einleitung Und 80 Grossaufnahmen
Zurich, Rascher Verlag. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Andre Roch. first German edition after the French, 1 bis 3 tausend, 24pp + 80 pp of monotone plates, full page mountaineering photography, map endpapers, dustwrapper under plastic sleeve, some wear to the spine folds of the dustwrapper. Very Good/Good.
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Book number: 003147
NZD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.75 US$ 32.67 | £UK 26.25 | JP¥ 5169]
Keywords: Mountaineering Photography European Alps Swiss Italian French Austrian Andre Roch

 
SHARP ANDREW
Adventurous Armada, the Story of Legazpi's Expedition
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. near fine in same dust jacket, 214pp + frontis. very tidy book on the early Spanish expeditions to the Phillipines. Fine/Fine.
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Book number: 006909
NZD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 17.82 | £UK 14.5 | JP¥ 2819]
Keywords: Nautical Exploration Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Spain Phillipines Sixteenth Century

 
SHARP ANDREW
Adventurous Armada, the Story of Legazpi's Expedition
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. near VG copy, dust soiling to boards, gift inscripition to fep 214pp + frontis. very tidy book on the early Spanish expeditions to the Phillipines. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 007758
NZD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.88 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1880]
Keywords: Nautical Exploration Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Spain Phillipines Sixteenth Century

 
SHARP ANDREW
Adventurous Armada, the Story of Legazpi's Expedition
Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG in same dust jacket with rubbed corners, top edge dusty, 214pp + frontis. early Spanish expeditions to the Phillipines. Very Good/Very Good.
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Book number: 009368
NZD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 14.85 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2349]
Keywords: Nautical Exploration Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Spain Phillipines Sixteenth Century

 
MITCALFE ANN & DOUG WILSON
Himalaya, Trekking From Sikkim to Pakistan
Auckland, Hodder. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340401176) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. small name to fep, VG+ copy but has some sun fade to edges of rear cover, map end papers, 159pp + colour plates, account of a ten month trek in the Himalayas. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 011686
NZD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.88 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1880]
Keywords: Himalaya Pakistan Sikkim Travel Trekking Tramping Kathmandu Everest Nepal India Karakoram 0340401176

 
FIEDLER ARKADY
The River of Singing Fish
London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1948, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Zdzislaw Ruszkowski. 191pp + plates, map endpapers, blue cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 010580
NZD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 11.88 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1880]
Keywords: Amazon Jungle, Exploration, Flora, Fauna, Natural History, South America, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Guaina, Wildlife Zdzislaw Ruszkowski

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