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“Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between": First edition of Mary Roach's Packing For Mars; signed by her
ROACH, Mary.
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
First edition of the author's best-selling fourth book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Mary Roach on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keenan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 136594
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First Edition of Chris Bonington's The Everest Years: A Climber's Life; Signed by Him; From the Library of fellow Adventurer Steve Fossett
BONINGTON, Chris.
The Everest Years: A Climber’s Life.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986.
First edition of this work by Bonington. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Chris Bonington on the title page. 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…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111631
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First Edition of Gerald Durrell's Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Gerald.
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1977.
First edition of this classic account. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gerald Durrell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127563
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Rare first edition of Raymond Lee Newcomb's Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Exploration
NEWCOMB, Raymond Lee.
Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1882.
First edition of Newcomb's account of the Jeannette Arctic Exploration. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with maps, portraits, and numerous engravings. Introduction by Rev. W. L. Gage. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126900
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Signed Limited Edition of James Michener's Facing East
MICHENER, James A. and Jack Levine.
Facing East.
New York : Maecenas Press/Random House, 1970.
Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author, signed by James Michener and illustrator Jack Levine. Folio, original cloth. lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine enclosed in a silk covered clamshell box with a large belt-like closure on the front cover. Fine in a near fine slipcase.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118821
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First edition of Charles Baker's The Esquire Culinary Companion; signed by him
BAKER, Charles H.
The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.
First edition of Baker's famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Charles H. Baker Jr." Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127386
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"In Lowestoft a boat was laid, mark well what I do say!" The Boston American's Reprint of Rudyard Kipling with The British Fleet
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling with The British Fleet.
Boston: For the Boston American, 1915.
The Boston American's complimentary reprint of Kipling's Fringes of the Fleet which first appeared in England in The Daily Telegraph, and in the United States in the Hearst newspapers. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120584
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; signed by mountaineer George Band and from the library of George Sale
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141037
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First edition of To Rule the Night; inscribed by Jim Irwin
IRWIN, James B. with William A. Emerson Jr.
To Rule The Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin.
Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1973.
First edition of the autobiography of Jim Irwin, who served as the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To William Stanhope my very best wishes for your life in Him. James Irwin." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Bender.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144838
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First edition of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
JEROME, Jerome K.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889.
First edition, second state of Jerome's humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Frederics. Second state with '11 Quay Street' (first state is without the 11) to the title page. In good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138348
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First edition of Albert Cook Church's Whaleships and Whaling
CHURCH, Albert Cook.
Whale Ships and Whaling.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.
First edition of Church's work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 130850
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"The Magic City": Rare panoramic map of Miami Bayfront Park
Miami Bayfront Park Panorama.
Rare panoramic view of Miami Bayfront Park. One page, folded, the panorama measures 28.5 inches by 7 inches with an advertisement for the City of Miami to the verso. In near fine condition. A bright and desirable piece.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 114357
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First Edition of North of South: An African Journey; Signed Twice by Shiva Naipaul
NAIPAUL, Shiva.
North of South: An African Journey.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 915
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Karl Baedeker's The Rhine From Rotterdam To Constance; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
BAEDEKER, Karl.
The Rhine From Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers.
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, Publishers, 1900.
Revised edition of Baedeker's classic standard guidebook to the Rhine Valley. Octavo, original boards, ribbon bound in, all edges marbled, illustrated with numerous folding maps. Fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 12042
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First edition of Nigel Tetley's Trimaran Solo; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
TETLEY, Nigel.
Trimaran Solo: The Story of Victress’ Circumnavigation and Last Voyage.
Hampshire: Nautical Publishing Company, 1970.
First edition of Nigel Tetley's account of his final solo voyage around the world his trimaran Victress. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, charts and diagrams. 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…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 112941
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote IV; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1997.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page in 2006.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19033
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote III; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario III.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1996.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19036
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First Edition of Miles Smeeton's Once is Enough; From the library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
SMEETON, Miles; Foreword by Nevil Shute.
Once is Enough.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959.
First edition of this "unique among books of maritime adventure" (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. From the library of 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…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112199
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First Edition of Howard Norman's Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian People
NORMAN, Howard.
Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
First edition of this spellbinding collection of tales of the far North. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Angela Skouras.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 135334
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First Edition of River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea; Inscribed by Colin Fletcher
FLETCHER, Colin.
River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of this epic adventure by Fletcher, a renowned traveler and writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 15 maps and 42 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Jimmie Stanley, Colin Fletcher 6/8/97." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100432