![Item #12824 Shadows of Africa [Signed by Both]. Peter Matthiessen, Mary Frank](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12824.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648839487)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. First Edition. Signed by both Matthiessen and Frank without inscription on front free endpaper. Quarto (10" x 10.5); 120pp. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with black lettering. Jacket shows a few scratches to surface and a bit of fading to spine. Boards..... More
![Item #27729 On the Eaves of the World [Two volume set]. Reginald Farrer](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27729.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698180808)
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926. Second Impression. Two volumes. Black and white photographs; map to rear of volume I, complete. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Mild edgewear; light scuffing and spotting to boards; slight lean. Bindings sound. Touch of foxing to top edge of text block but pages..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 492 pp. Two lithographs with tissue guard (Sketch of Medinah and additional title); fold-out map of Burton's route. Original brown publisher's cloth, recased, brown endpapers. Originally published in three volumes the year prior in England, here condensed to one..... More
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2001. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers; 128pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 322 pages + advertisements. Black and white map of part of the North Coast of Upolu. Olive cloth stamped in dark green and gilt. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Spine toned. Binding sound. Previous owner's inscription..... More
![Item #25740 Southern Wagon Train 1976: So Your Children Can Show Their Children [wrapper title]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25740.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677778748)
[N.p.]: [s.i.], 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated wraps. Light wear and spotting to wraps with some creasing and curling to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Unrecorded photographic record of the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage, a "year-long celebration, reversing the..... More
![Item #11214 A Stronger Climate [Signed]. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11214.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633629590)
[London]: John Murray, 1976. Reprint. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo;214pp. Printed dust jacket with £3.95 price intact; book in orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some fading along edges and sunning to spine. Boards are square with light bumping at..... More
Matthews, NC / Charlotte, NC: Heritage Publishing Company, 1985-1987. First Edition. Two volumes; quarto; publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jackets; 224, 272pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Vol. 1 dust jacket trimmed half an inch too short at time of publication (as usual with this volume), light wear to extremities of..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. First Mariners Library Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price, blue topstain; 219pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, rear panel a shade toned, light soil to upper cover cloth, topstain unevenly faded, else a Very Good..... More
![Item #28148 A Second Visit to the United States of North America [Two volume set]. Sir Charles Lyell](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700505698)
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. First U.S. Edition. Two octavo volumes. 273 & 287 pp. + publisher's 12 pp. catalog dated July 1849. Fourteen in-text black and white illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards edgeworn with chipping to crown of vol. I; general fading..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company, Ltd., [1931]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket clipped but retaining original price (7/6 net), pictorial endpapers; 313pp.; frontispiece and thirty-one (31) leaves of plates including photographs. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and toned, old tape repair at spine ends..... More
New York: Praeger, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 193 pages. Black and white photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in black. Very slight bumping to corners and spine ends. Endpapers and pages clean and unmarked. Top edge foxed. Tight in binding. More
London: Rider, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with stain and scraping to front and mild general spotting and smudging. Boards nudged at spine ends with a couple scuffs to spine..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 128pp. Photo-illustrations, all present. Illustrated yellow dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; bound in beige cloth and brick buckram spine with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with dark toning down spine and folds and..... More
Boston: The Page Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo. 376 pp. + [4] pp. advertisements. 16 color illustratons from original paintings, mainly by California artists; 40 duogravures from photographs; fold-out Southern California road map. Original blue cloth boards decorated in green, orange, and gilt; top edge gilt. Boards gently..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1994]. First Edition. Thick, narrow octavo; publisher's leatherette in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 549pp.; thirty-two (32) leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, many in color, maps throughout text. Minor wear to jacket extremiites from handling, brief bubbling to rear jacket panel lamination, corners..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Hillerman loosely laid in at title page. Quarto. 240 pages. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket has some general smudging, light shelfwear, and moderate creasing at top of spine. Amateur tape..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Five volumes; octavo; uniformly bound in publisher's green gilt-embossed cloth; numerous plates throughout, including myriad folding, double-paged and color, text illus. throughout (collated and complete). Light shelf wear to cloth extremities, chiefly at spine ends, brief paper remnants to front cover of Vol..... More
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); recent calf over the original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],352pp.; map in text. Stock a bit brittle and toned, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy and handsome new binding. Treatise on the "Macedonian question" of the late..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's deluxe binding of three-quarter maroon morocco over cloth, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; xiii,[3],367pp.; frontispiece, extensively illustrated throughout. Binding recased with original spine leather laid down, new endpapers (binder's ticket to rear pastedown), leather a bit scuffed..... More
![Item #10987 Horning Into Africa [Signed]. W S. Van Dyke](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10987.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632859088)
[N.p.]: California Graphic Press, 1931. First Edition. Signed by Van Dyke on front free endpaper with inscription, "Bill, there was plenty of trouble in this system! W.S. Van Dyke July 11, '34." Tall octavo. 219 pp. 26 Black and white photographs with Van Dyke's commentary below, complete. Blue cloth stamped..... More
Mankato, MN, et al: ca. 1890s. Small oblong octavo (14x18cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers lettered in white; [16]ll. of pale grey stock to which are mounted sixteen (16) silver gelatin snapshots (all ca. 8x8cm.) on rectos only, usually with manuscript captions on facing page. Some photographs a bit overexposed at..... More
New York / London: George P. Putnam / Richard Bentley, 1850. First Edition. Signed, handwritten letter from Bryant tipped in at front free endpaper. Octavo; 442pp. Publisher's blue cloth with blindstamped border enclosing publisher logo to front and back and lettering in gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers. No..... More
London: John Rodwell, 1827. First Edition. Large quarto; later half brown morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; vi,[2],213pp. Moderate scuffing along leather spine margins, textblock a bit brittle and toned, fairly extensive and erudite marginalia to first half of text in a 20th-century hand, lacking all six plates. A...... More
London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1965. First Edition Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 69. Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial two-toned (blue over black) cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, retaining original acetate dust jacket and publisher's paper-covered slipcase; 59pp.; facsimile marginalia throughout. Moderate wear to slipcase..... More