Eufaula, Alabama: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 1983. Paperback. 6" X 9". 135pp. Letter from publisher to owner of Scott's Book with order form laid in. Moderate edgewear and coverwear to paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this guide to 225 historical... More about Chattahoochee Trace Historical Markers in Alabama and Georgia
Paris: Editions de l'Indispensable, 1948. Paperback. 5 7/8" X 4 5/8". 126pp. Mild wear and light foxing to wraps printed in black and red. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An utterly charming 1948 guide to the Louvre, illustrated throughout in black and white. More about A Companion for a Visit to the Louvre Museum, Paris [A Companion to the Louvre of To Day
Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Japan: Kamakura Museum, 1953. Paperback. 7 1/8" X 5 1/8". 27pp, plus plates and index to illustrations. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with edgewear, bumping and creasing to extremities, dust soiling, and foxing. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked, if age-toned. A quite presentable copy of... More about Concise Guide to Kamakura Museum
London: Robert Davies, [1866]. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5". 160pp. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy sunning and fading to cloth, with mild edgewear, bumped corners, some spots of soiling, and tear to bottom 1/2" of spine, no losses. Hinges very tender. Bookseller notations pencilled... More about The History and Curious Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, King of the Mendicants
Philadelphia: Railway Lighting & Heating Company, June 1st, 1889. Wraps. 6 3/8" X 4 1/8". 19pp. Stiff russet printed paper wraps with spine backed in red cloth. Moderate wear to binding, with small open tear to top corner of upper wrap,creasing, spots of soiling, and scattered rubbing. Binding is sound... More about The Railway Lighting & Heating Company. Instructions for Manipulating and General Description...
Auckland, New Zealand: Barkfire Press, 2000. First Edition. 12 1/2" X 9 1/2". 173pp. Mild edgewear and dust spotting to accompanying slipcase. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in white. A hint of shelfwear to corners, else fine, firm and sound. Pages... More about Georgia: The Building and Travels of the World's Greatest Sloop
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999 and 2000. Paperback. 9" X 5 3/4". 900pp total. Very mild shelfwear to pictorial paper wraps of both volumes. Very small nick to spine of Vol. 1. Light dust soiling to right edge of bottom edge of text block. Both bindings tight and... More about Thus Spake the Corpse, An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998. Volume 1--Poetry & Essays and...
Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. 8" X 5 7/8". 93pp. One of 1250 First Edition, First Printing copies. Very mild rubbing to edges of paperback binding. Binding is tight and sound, spine uncreased. Contents are clean and unmarked. A very nice first edition copy of this book-length... More about This Time We Are Both
Rodale, 2005. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 7/8". 392pp. Inscribed by Rigel Crockett to title page. Mild cover wear, with a few indentations to jacket. Quarter-cloth with yellow paper over boards and spine backed in green cloth and letterd in gilt. A touch of shelfwear... More about Fair Wind and Plenty of It: A Modern-Day Tall Ship Adventure
Dayton, Ohio: Mead Papers, 1968. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/8". vii, 34pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with dampstaining, scattered rubbing, toning, small tears to edges, and remnants of price sticker to front. Patterened cloth over boards. Mild edgewear to binding. Slight lean to spine. Bookseller stamp to front free... More about Willkie's World (The Minds of Men: Volume IV
Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1963. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7 1/4". 157pp, with fold out frontispiece map. Red cloth over boards, with cover and spine lettered in red. Dust soiling and scattered rubbing to cloth, with corners rubbed to boards. Boards warped. Heavy dust soiling to edges of text... More about Voiage de Siam du Pere Bouvet
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 268pp. Mild edgewear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with chipping to rear panel at top edge and small tear to spine. Pencilled notes to front flap. Green cloth over boards, with submarine stamped in white... More about Torpedoes Away, Sir!: Our Submarine Navy in the Pacific
Washington DC: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 224pp. Review copy, wth publishers review request slip laid in. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with tears to head and tail of spine and to edges and extremities, mild dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Blue... More about Gold in the Blue Ridge: The True Story of the Beale Treasure
Paris: Paul Facchetti Publications, N.D. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 6 3/4". Unpaginated. C. 1950s-1960s. Mild wear to paper wraps, with rubbing to edges, corners, and spine, light soiling, bumping to corners, and small stain to rear. Light foxing to endpapers and first and last pages. Text block starting to separate... More about Korn Stalks in Paris
Paris: Andre Leconte, 1965. Dix-Septieme Edition. Paperback. 7 1/4" X 5 1/8". 732pp, plus fold out map tucked in to rear. Text in French. Enclosed in publisher's plastic dust jacket. Rather heavy wear to heavy plastic jacket, with small tears to edges and chipping to head of spine. Green stiff... More about Guide Commode de la Banlieue de Paris: Indicateur des Rues de 180 COmmunes de Seine Seine-et-Oise...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xvi, 495pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with chipping to tail of spine, scattered rubbing, small closed tears to edges, and heavy sunning and toning to rear panel. Red cloth over boards, with spine... More about Manila Galleon
Nashville, Tennessee: Convention Press, Foreign Mission Board, 1961. Staplebound wraps. 8" X 5 3/8". 74pp. Stapled pictorial paper wraps. Moderate edgewear, dust soiling, and cover wear to wraps. Crease to binding and pages near bottom half of spine. Dates stamped to rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and... More about Sylvia Goes to Spain (1961 Foreign Mission Graded Series
Boston and New York: Crocker and Brewster and Jonathan Leavitt, 1832. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 4 3/4". ix, 13-287pp. Blue cloth over boards with paper title label to spine. Very heavy rubbing and soiling to cloth, with moderate edgewear and bumping in to corners. Title label chipped, rubbed, and illegible... More about Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq. Deputed from...
Firenze: Bonechi. Ediz. Il Turismo. circa 1968. Paperback. 9 5/8" X 7 5/8". 144pp, with fold-out cieling of Sistine Chapel, plus laid in ephemera: frameable illustrated map of Rome, 9KBTV Denver tourism pamphlet for Rome, and 12 Vis-Color slides of Italian tourist sites in protective sleeve. Paper wraps enclosed in... More about All Rome: The Vatican and Sistine Chapel with fold-out and laid in map, slides, and tourism guide
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. Albert Schaffenberg. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 1/2". Flatsigned by the Author to flyleaf. "This is a copy of the First Edition" stated on copyright page. Mild rubbing to edges and corners of blue cloth hardcover. Cover and spine lettered in... More about David Goes to Baffin Land
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 272pp. Heavy wear to pictorial dust jacket, with heavy chipping at fold-overs, rear flap attached by bottom inch, open tears to edges and extremities, and mild dust soiling and sunning. Price present to front... More about Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
London: Ashgate for The Hakluyt Society, 2008. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xix, 341pp. Moderate edgewear and dust soiling to dust jacket, with small stain to rear. Blue cloth over boards, with ship device stamped in gilt to front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Light mark to fore-edge. Binding is... More about A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn Al-Mujawir's Tarikh Al-Mustabsir
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". xlv, 736pp, plus fold-out map. Bound in full dark blue leather, with boards and spine stamped in gilt. Rather heavy scattered rubbing to silt on boards, with hard bump to top corner of upper board with creasing to... More about How I Found Livingstone
N.P. Achilles International, 2015. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 11 1/8". 290pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with small closed tear at edge of head of spine. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. Mild edgewear to binding, with bumping to spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright... More about Go Achilles!: A Celebration of the Power of the Human Spirit (Third Edition
Carrollton, Georgia: Nelson Vaughn Publications, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 181pp. Moderate wear to pictorial wraps, with creasing to front cover, edgewear, and bumping to corners. Binding is firm and sound. Occasionally dog-earring to pages, else clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this memoir of Nelson Vaughn... More about Prisoners of the River Araguaia
