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Jonathan Cape, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Chatwin's desirable first book. 8vo. 204pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers with a frontispiece map and fourteen captioned photographs by the author. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the half-title. Very good indeed, but lacking the dust wrapper. The author's first book an account of his six-month travels in Patagonia beginning in December 1974. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award..

Hutchinson, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Reprint, issued in the same year as the first edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 276pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, two double-spread maps and fifty-two captioned colour photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a touch of rubbing to the spine panel ends. An account of the author's autumn 1989 exploits riding across Mongolia in the company of a band of Mongolia horsemen, re-enacting the feat of Genghis Khan's courier riders..

Duckworth, London, 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's fourth book. 8vo. 206pp. Blue smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece (drawn by the author), three pages of plates, a double-spread map and another map in the text. Cloth a little faded at the backstrip and at the margins of the rear board, and with a little marking and chafing to the upper board. Edges spotted and the endpapers browned, with a little more quite light spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. Quite a crisp and bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat tanned, worn, chafed and nicked with some loss to the spine ends and the upper edge. Book Society Recommendation label affixed to the front panel, fitting in quite splendidly with the wrapper design. Davis, Doyle &c vi..

T.Nelson & Sons, London, 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint (originally issued in 1881). 8vo. vi, 275pp + [x] publisher's catalogue. Decorated cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board, with gilt- and black stamped illustrations. With patterned endpapers, a frontispiece, one double-spread map, and thirty-one captioned plates of engravings. Cloth a little bruised at the backstrip ends and with a single tiny nick. Free endpapers browned. School prize plate to the front pastedown, and the motif of the same school gilt-stamped to the rear board, over the publisher's blind-stamped imprint. A very good copy. A handsome early reprint of the author's first book..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition in the correct first state binding, this UK issue preceding the American edition by a matter of days. 8vo. xxv, 561pp + xxxii publisher's (first state) catalogue dated March 1883. Pictorial red cloth, gilt lettered at the spine and upper board. Patterned endpapers. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and title page decoration and over three hundred illustrations as plates and in the text. The backstrip cloth very slightly faded. Some wear to the spine ends and just a touch more to the corner tips, and a strip of discolouration to the fore edge of the upper board. Fore edge lightly spotted, and with some spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A good copy, really very crisp internally. The author's memoirs of his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, plus an account of his post-war river trip from New Orleans to Saint Paul..

Ernest Benn, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, in apparently a later state binding with the spine lettering in gilt not black. 8vo. xiii, 224pp. With eight black and white photographs and one map in the text. Fore edge untrimmed. A strip of partial toning to one blank preliminary leaf, and also to the final text leaf. Very good indeed in the uncommon dust wrapper, with some toning, a little wear to the upper edge, a small splash of staining, and two inches of loss from the base of the spine panel. The author's first book, recounting his three-hundred mile tramp through Spain..

HarperCollins, London, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint - this copy inscribed by the author on the half-title in a rather shaky hand and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 219pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with three maps and fifty-four photographs by the author. Paperstock a little tanned, else a fine copy in lightly rubbed and fractionally dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A scarce inscribed re-issue of Thesiger's second book, an account of the eight years the author spent living with the indigenous people of the marshlands of southern Iraq. Sadly, this re-issue omits about half of Thesiger's superb photographs which appeared in the original 1964 edition..

HarperCollins, London, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. Small 4to. xiv + 224pp. Navy blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nearly 150 of the author's monochrome photographs, plus one full-page map. In fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a touch of further uneven fading to the upper margin of the rear panel. A record of Thesiger's thirty years living and travelling in Kenya..

Chapman & Hall, London, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy humorously inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Andy, once again to get his - - sideburns CUT. With love from Robin 23 Nov 1957". 8vo. 243pp. Beige cloth lettered in green at the spine and with the publisher's black stain to the upper edge. Map-illustrated endpapers. Printed on lesser quality economy wartime paperstock, yet still a very crisp copy in toned, rubbed and lightly spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a short internally repaired snag to the rear panel. The author's second book, an account of his travels in the Levant, and including encounters with Glubb Pasha and Ernest Altounyan (the basis for the "swallow's" father in Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons', and a close friend of T.E.Lawrence)..

The Bodley Head, London, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 191pp. Green boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Just a hint of soiling to the top edge. Very good indeed in very lightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An account of the author's two visits to Spain, recording encounters with aristocrats, intellectuals, priests, flamenco dancers, clerks, bull-fighters, pimps and prostitutes..

The Hogarth Press, London, 1926. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. viii, 181pp. Two-tone patterned cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-two photographic plates, most of which were taken by the author. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, and some spotting to the edges and throughout. The free endpapers browned and the binding cracked and a little tender at the half-title. Neat former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Quite a good copy, lacking the fugitive dust wrapper. The author's first travelogue, detailing explorations in Egypt, India, Iraq and Persia. Now really quite uncommon. Woolmer 107 / Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A14..

John Murray, London, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 448pp. Dark blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with fifty-two photographs and two holograph manuscript reproductions. Contemporary former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A biography of Paddy Fermor, penned by his literary executor..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and thirty-seven photographs. Top edge dust soiled and with a minor scuff to the upper board. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single tiny tear to the head of the rear panel. Neat inked name of a former owner to the head of the front free endpaper..

Published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head… Leer más

John Murray, London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 290pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and one map. The fore edge and free endpapers lightly spotted. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little creasing to the base of the spine panel. The author's curiously uncommon seventh book, an account of her bicycle trip to Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. Winner of the 1979 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page to an un-named recipient and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 249pp. Cloth-backed paper boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with a double-spread map. Front pastedown lifting in one small area, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An account of Keneally's travels from the Rocky Mountains to the Mexican border..

Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Tenth edition. 8vo. xviii, 487pp + [iv], viii publisher's advertisements. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth, re-backed with new endpapers, but retaining the original backstrip cloth. With a folding colour frontispiece map, and a large multi-panel folding colour map housed in a rear pocket (this second map with a few neat tape repairs to the corner folds). A third folding map which should also be pocket-housed is absent. Top edge dust soiled, with some spotting to the frontis map and title page. Several preliminary leaves a little tender. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown (this of Arabian specialist bookdealer Nadeem Michael El Issa). A good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby's celebrated account of his 1875-76 horseback journey to the Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia..

John Murray, London, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Purple boards lettered in silver at the spine. A short tear to the head of a single text leaf, impacting no text. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with perhaps a shade of fading to the spine panel. A hefty selection of Byron's letters home from Eton and Oxford, Greece, Austria, India and Tibet, Russia, Persia, America, China and elsewhere, edited with a commentary by his sister Lucy Butler (née Byron)..

The Limited Editions Club, High Wycombe, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. The first edition with these illustrations, limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Gill and Tegetmeier (this being #605). 4to. 136pp. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with rule and decorations stamped in blue and pink to the upper and lower boards. Bevelled edges. Backstrip darkened, and with a touch of occasional marking to the boards. A little light browning to the endpapers. Neat former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy in the original cloth-covered slipcase, chafed and a little marked in places and with a tanned, faded and slightly chipped paper spine label. No dust wrapper called for..

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The First English edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 288pp. Blue pebbled boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece, one double-spread map and twenty-fine black and white photographs, mostly full-page or double-spread. A little fading to the publisher's top edge stain, and a little spotting to the edges and endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little spotted and chafed at the natural folds, and with some nicks, creasing and several tiny fractions of loss from the upper edge..