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HOLE, The Very Reverend S.REYNOLDS: A Little Tour in America.
Edward Arnold. London. 1895 1st edition.
Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Black endpapers. 381pp. 32pp cat. With b/w photographs. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded with small marks. Small marks to boards. Slight lean. Corners slightly bumped. Neat inscription to first blank page, dated 1896. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. The author describes a tour of the United States, including Chicago, Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, Niagara, with chapters on aspects of American life.
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20.00 GBP
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JENKINS, PETER: A Walk Across America
A Lion Book 1980 (1st. UK ed.).
Tall 8vo. Brown cloth gt. Map and Numerous coloured and black & white photo. plates. 288 pp. Fine in very good dustwrapper. Peter records the first half of his travels with his dog Cooper from Alfred, New York, to the Gulf of Mexico
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14.00 GBP
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PEPYS, MARK. 6TH EARL OF COTTENHAM: Mine Host, America.
Collins, London. 1937
In original blue/green cloth covers with gilt to spine. 473pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographic plates and fold out map. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at edges with small tears at top and bottom. Small marks to covers and slight rubbing to bottom edges. Mild foxing to edges. School library stamp to front endpaper, a couple more inside. Sheet of paper tipped into back endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Pepys’ unusual trip was accomplished, from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, by automobile, bus, airplane & boat. He did 11,000 miles in 15 days, more than half of it in a Chrysler "Airflow". Some wonderful illustrations of 1930’s USA, cars & airplanes.
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15.00 GBP
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TEALE, EDWIN WAY: Autumn Journey.
Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1957 1st edition.
8vo. In orange cloth covers with black lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 386pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Slightly rubbed around edges with small tears. Price clipped). Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. The author takes a journey of 20,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Northern States of the USA recording the signs and activities of the changing season as he goes.
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12.00 GBP
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TEICHMANN, EMIL / TEICHMANN, OSKAR(ed): A Journey to Alaska in the year 1868: being a diary of the late Emil Teichmann. Edited and with an introduction by his son Oskar.
Privately printed at The Cayme Press, Kensington. 1925 1st. edition
Tall 8vo. In quarter vellum. Top edge gilt. 342pp. With two b/w portraits, one as frontis, maps and line drawings in text. With two steel engraved plates. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened with remains of missing title label. Front cover slightly creased and brown cloth slightly rubbed towards spine. Corners slightly bumped. Mild foxing to edges affecting most pages inside. Owner’s inscription on reverse of half title page. Else a clean and tight copy. Limited edition, this is number 87 of 100 copies. This is the original edition from 1925. A rare book telling the story of a journey to from New York to Sitka in 1868. Alaska and the Aleutian Islands had been purchased from Russia the previous year and the author was sent to safeguard his company’s interest in the fur trade. The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways had not yet joined and the Panama Canal was not yet built. The illustrations are taken from sketches made by the author at the time.
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375.00 GBP
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