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First Edition of Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia; Signed by Him; From the Library of V.S. Naipaul
THEROUX, Paul [V.S. Naipaul].
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.
First edition, first issue binding with “By Rail Through Asia”. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul was a close friend of Theroux’s for many years. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Front cover collage by Joe Hendrick. A unique example.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 90522
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Arabian Sands; Signed by Wilfred Thesiger
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1959.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Wilfred Thesiger on the title page. An excellent example in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Map unopened in the inside pocket of the rear pastedown.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 24033
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"Great Britain is, without contradiction, the largest, finest, and most considerable land in Europe: Nay, one might venture to affirm, she holds the first rank among all the isles of the known world": Second edition of Nichoals Tindal's English translation of Paul de Rapin's monumental History of England
THOYRAS, Rapin de [Paul de Rapin]. Translated into English with Additional Notes by Nicholas Tindal.
The History of England.
London: Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, 1732.
Second edition of Tindal’s translation of Paul de Rapin’s monumental history of England. Folio, Volume I., bound in full contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved folding maps and genealogical charts, headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 116744
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First edition of Harold William Tilman's Mischief Goes South; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
TILMAN, Harold William.
Mischief Goes South.
London: Hollis & Carter, 1968.
First edition of Henry William Tilman’s classic account of his 1966-67 voyage aboard the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Mischief. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the front pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation’s highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Yvonne Skargon.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114927
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"The most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written": Complete first edition set of The Story of the Panama Pacific Exposition
TODD, Frank Morton.
The Story of the Exposition; Being the Official History of the International Celebration Held at San Francisco in 1915 to Commemorate the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the Construction of the Panama Canal
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1921.
Complete first edition set of the most extensive review of the 1915 San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition ever written. Quartos, five volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers. With 600 illustrations from photographs, including 61 color plates. Near fine in the scarce original paper jackets which are in good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 98504
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"The sea drama of the century" (Sir Francis Chichester): First edition of Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall's The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
TOMALIN, Nicholas and Ron Hall.
The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
First edition of the Sunday Times journalists’ classic retelling of Crowhurst’s tragic and entirely fabricated round-the-world yacht race. Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs, charts, and maps. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by David Stanfield.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 115401
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"Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God": Mark Twain's Europe and Elsewhere; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Europe and Elsewhere.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1923.
Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. With an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 74026
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't": Mark Twain's Following the Equator; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1925.
Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 73027
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris’ visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Shalom Leon Uris.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112569
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Inscribed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris’ visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Jan- 1960 For Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Learner with warmest wishes Shalom- Happy New York Leon Uris.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 71041
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"There are always many people who say that golf cannot be learned from a book": First edition of P. A. Vaile's The New Golf
VAILE, P. A.
The New Golf.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916.
First edition of P. A. Vaile’s authoritative manual of the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece engraving of Jerome D. Travers with tissue guard, illustrated with forty engravings from photographs. In near fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88077
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First Edition of W. K. Vanderbilt's A Trip Through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Southern France
VANDERBILT, W. K.
A Trip Through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Southern France.
New York: Privatley Printed, 1918.
First edition of Vanderbilt’s account of his travels throughout Europe and North Africa. Octavo, original blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece map of the Tunis Tour, illustrated with engraved photographs, folding map. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 95181
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First Edition of William K. Vanderbilt's West Made East With The Loss Of A Day
VANDERBILT, William K.
West Made East With The Loss Of A Day: A Chronicle of the First Circumnavigation of the Globe under the United States Naval Reserve Yacht Pennant.
New York: Privately Printed, by Edmund Garrett, 1933.
First edition, number 82 of 200 specially bound copies. Quarto, original half blue levant morocco gilt over stamped boards, the upper cover with a motif of the Alva’s flag, illustrated endpapers, in original slipcase. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Lavishly illustrated throughout by William Belanske.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 98744
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First edition of Vanderbilt's Taking One's Own Ship Around the World; one of only 300 copies produced in buckram
VANDERBILT, William K.
Taking One’s Own Ship Around the World: A Journal Descriptive of Scenes and Incidents Together with Observations From the Log Books Recorded on the Voyage Around the World of the Yacht Ara.
New York: Privately Printed by William Edwin Rudge, 1929.
First edition of Vanderbilt’s account of his voyage around the world aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Folio, bound in the original brown buckram, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with engravings after photographs by Wiliam E. Belanske, Pierre C. Merillon, Charles H. Thompson, and Vanderbilt and 18 color plates with lettered tissue guards after watercolors by William E. Belankse. One of only 500 copies printed and 300 bound in buckram, this is number 412. From the library of Thomas and Margaret Winn with a note of provenance laid in in Margaret’s hand. Margaret Winn worked as a volunteer at the William K. Vanderbilt Museum and Education Center from 1985-1988 where she was gifted this book by the museum’s staff. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 100202
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Rare limited quarto edition of Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III's History of Rocketry & Space Travel; in the publisher's full handcrafted mission leather
VON BRAUN, Wernher; Frederick I. Orway III.
History of Rocketry & Space Travel.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966.
Rare limited quarto edition of this seminal work on the history of rocketry. Quarto, bound in the original handcrafted full Mission leather by Brown and Bigleow, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Original illustrations by Harry H-K Lange. Introduction by Frederick C. Durant III. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 117665
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Rare Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph
VON EHRENFRIED, Manfred .
Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried Signed Photograph.
Rare original photograph of Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried. Boldly signed by him, Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried Apollo A9-11B Suit.” The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 106020
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First edition of Captain John Claus Voss' Venturesome Voyages of Capt. Voss; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
VOSS, John Claus.
Venturesome Voyages of Capt. Voss.
Yokohama: Japan Herald Press, 1913.
First edition of the author’s account of his most notable voyages, including his attempt to sail around the world in his canoe Tilikum. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 13 plates and 2 maps, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Voss. Rebacked. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation’s highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. In very good condition, rebacked.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114370
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Rare Original Warren & Wetmore Blueprint Portfolio of the iconic Royal Hawaiian Hotel
WARREN, Whitney and Charles Delevan Wetmore.
Hotel at Waikiki Beach Blueprint Portfolio.
New York: Warren & Wetmore Architects, c. 1925 .
Rare original blueprint portfolio for Warren & Wetmore’s iconic “Hotel at Waikiki Beach”, later named the Royal Hawaiian. Folio, containing 30 sheets bound and bradded. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 114203
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First Edition of Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef's Daughter, with Recipes; Warmly Inscribed by Alice Waters
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau; Illustrations by Ann Arnold.
Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef’s Daughter, with Recipes.
New York: The Viking Press, 2016.
First edition of this work for anyone who loves France, food and adventure. Quarto, illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Alexis with love, Alice Waters.” Fine in a fine dust jacket, gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Ann Arnold.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 45672
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First Edition of Carveth Wells' Six Years in the Malay Jungle
WELLS, Carveth.
Six Years in the Malay Jungle.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1925.
First edition of Wells’ work on the Malay jungle. Octavo, original orange cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket,
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1921
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"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood": First Editions of the author’s Masterpiece; Signed and Inscribed by the author
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
London: Macmillan, 1941.
First editions of the Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth. Both volumes are near fine in near fine dust jackets that show light shelfwear to the extremities. Volume One is inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author, volume two is signed and dated in 1965. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scarce and desirable signed by West.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 1495
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“It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky": First Edition of E.B. White's Here is New York; Inscribed by Him
WHITE, E.B.
Here Is New York.
New York: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949.
First edition of this classic meditation on the City of New York. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “E.B.White Dec. 1949.” Presented above by Katherine White, “Merry Christmas from the Whites.” White was a writer and wife of the author. She was the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960. In 1977, William Shawn wrote, “More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The New Yorker its shape, and set it on its course.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 74056
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Rare First Edition of Peking the Beautiful; With 70 Photographic Plates; in the rare publisher's wooden slipcase
WHITE, Herbert C.
Peking the Beautiful.
Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press, 1927.
First edition of this work comprising photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital with descriptive and historical notes. Folio, original embroidered silk pictorial boards, original publisher’s wooden box. In fine condition without wear. Contains 70 photographic plates mounted, numerous illustrations in text. Contains an introduction by Hu Shih, professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking. Rare and desirable in the original publisher’s wooden box.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 107644