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— Bertolt Brecht
Travel & Topography
With Gilbert & George in Moscow.
London: Bloomsbury, 1991. [Art and Russia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.191 [1]. With frequent black and white and occasional colour photographs. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George to Michael Barnett in red ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and red..... More
Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [Travel]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket by John Craxton, priced at £13.95. Very lightly handled; a clean fine copy. More
Mani. Travels in The Southern Peleponnese.
London: John Murray, 1958. ADVANCE COPY. Octavo, pp.xiii [5], 320. With 24 plates featuring photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell and a map drawn by John Woodcock. Title page illustrations and dust-jacket designs by John Craxton. In original green paper wraps with title to front cover. Also with original illustrated dust-jacket..... More
'Where Shall John Go? -Jamaica' contained within 'Horizon' Magazine. Edited by Cyril Connolly Vol.16, No.96, December 1947.
London: Horizon, 2 Lansdowne Terrace, London WC1. Printed at the Curwen Press. 1947. Price 2s 6d. Magazine format, printed covers. Contains the first appearance of Fleming's article on Jamaica, issued as the thirteenth part of a travel series run by Horizon, which was later expanded and collected in book-form as..... More
Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.364. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. As new. Out of print for many..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Contemporary tan half morocco by FOX of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spine..... More
The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
London: Cassell, 1958. [Antarctic Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] xviii; 338 [2]. With eight suites of four double-sided photographic plates, some in colour, as well as nine maps. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 30s. Some spotting to edges..... More
Antarctic Adventure. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58.
London: Cassell, 1959. [Polar exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15 cm), pp.[16]; 189; [3]. Sixteen pages of photographs taken by George Lowe and Jon Stephenson. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Toning to the textblock with spotting to edges, dust-wrapper a little..... More
The Thessaloniki Photographs.
Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008. [Greek Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.104. A collection of colour and black and white photographs accompanying the contemporaneous exhibition, recording life in Thessaloniki between the late 1960's and the mid 1990's. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards with titles in red and..... More
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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
Interval in Indo-China.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1956. [Vietnam and Cambodia] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 164. With 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map at rear. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'For Victoria Durham | with..... More
Majorca Observed.
London: Cassell, 1965. [Illustrated Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] 150 [8]. With frequent line drawings by Hogarth, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, also illustrated by Hogarth, priced at 36s. Some light handling to jacket. A fine copy..... More
The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, second state cloth. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.306; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine (first state has gilt titles), map endpapers. With ten black and white photographic illustrations to eight plates. Small repaired tear to edge of page..... More
Warriors and Strangers.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. [Autobiography and African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 320 [2]. With a large folding map. Publishers brown with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the orange dust-jacket designed by George Mayhew, priced at £2.75. Jacket bruised and lightly chipped to edges..... More
Seven Years in Tibet.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. [Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Unforgiving Wind.
London: Hutchinson, 1963. [Arctic Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.316. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's grey cloth with blue and white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro, priced at 18s. Miss Cond's..... More
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others..... More
From Libyan Sands to Chad.
London: Museum Press Limited, 1960. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.208. Ten pages of photographs and a map frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine, endpaper maps of the Sahara, dust-jacket with printed price 27s 6d. Clean pages with toning to edges, slight rubbing to edges..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
Diversion in Malaya: A incidental account of five years' residence in the Federated Malay States 1937-1942.
London: Collins, 1948. [Malay Archipelago] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.186 [4]. Publisher's green quarter cloth with black titles to spine and cream paper over boards. Ink ownership roughly erased from front pastedown. Heavy wear and bumping to boards, with some ring marks and other splashes. Spine sunned. Good..... More
Warwickshire.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1922. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.xii; 260. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the..... More
Cape Town to Clyde.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. [Early Flight] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 91 [1]. With a frontispiece and one further illustrated plate, as well as two folding maps. INSCRIBED in blue ink to flyleaf: 'To Captain Bob Ostler | with the author's | compliments & thanks..... More
Harvest of Journeys.
London: Collins, 1960. [Intrepid travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With numerous duo-tone photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by H. Bridgeman Grindley with printed price of 18s. net. Trivial spotting, jacket a little worn to crown; near fine. Travel..... More
Peeps at Many Lands: Holland.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. [Netherlands] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.viii; 82 [10]. With 12 colour-illustrated plates by Nico Jungman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine, green titles to upper, and a colour illustration laid over upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, not..... More