First Edition. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. First Edition. Quarto. 712 pages. Number 6 in a series by Oriental Explorations and Studies division of the American Geographical Society. Grey cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt over black. Light shelfwear along edges and corners. Binding..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Second Printing. [Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society Vol III] Octavo; x + 126pp, including appendices and bibliography. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth mildly soiled, with some scratches, and nudging to crown and foot of sunned spine. Lettering darkened on spine..... More
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown..... More
First Edition. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. Octavo; 168pp. Black and white plates. Rebound in colored paper over textured black cloth with leather title card to spine. Library stamp to half-title, but no other library markings present. Spine is faded. Binding is sound. Pages toned and a tad brittle, but unmarked..... More
Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1973. Reprint of the 1932 Metropolitan Museum of Art [MMA] Edition. Textured orange boards with spine stamped in gold over purple block. 496 pages plus 8 plates. Interior clean and unmarked. Pencil marking on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Pen mark on front board, approximately..... More
C. Whymper. New York: United States Book Company / John W. Lovell Company, [1892]. Stated Authorized Edition. Octavo; xxxii + 455pp + plus two-part pasted-in three-color fold-out map of the Congo river, each part 29" long, forming the continuous route Jameson took. B&W line drawings and photo illustrations by C...... More
Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine panels; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More
First Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges..... More
Rochester, NY: Cruithne Press/Boydell & Brewer, 1994. Large Octavo. 356 pages. Illustrations throughout. Black boards. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight and square. Dust jacket slightly creased at edges and crown, else fine. More