Search Results: Travel and Exploration from Derringer Books

Berlin: S. Fischer, 1938. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Early German printing of this book about Shackleton's Ellesmere Land Expedition. Introduction by Wilhelm Filchner. 272 pp. Illustrated with photographs. A clean very good clothbound copy.

London: A & C Black, Ltd. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Attractive illustrated travel book with full color paintings by Forestier. Very good elaborately decorated clothbound volume.

Leipzig Und Zurich: Grethlein & Co, 1927. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Early German printing c. 1927. 261 pp plus foldout map at rear. A very good copy in teal cloth. General soiling to cloth, internally clean and tightly bound. Illustrated with photographs. Polar exploration.

Wien: Alfred Holder, 1876. First German Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First German edition. Illustrated with photographs and three fold-out maps. 696 pp. Elaborate decorative cloth binding in very good condition. Minor foxing. An excellent example.

Leipzig: F. H. Brockhaus, 1903. First German Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First German edition. Illustrated with photographs and fold-out maps. 566 pp. Pebbled cloth binding in very good condition with dramatic photo inset to front cover of a sailing ship crashing into an ice floe.

New York: Viking, 1943. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Stated fourth printing. Fine clothbound copy of Bemelman's memoir of travels through South America. Illustrated by Bemelmans who is perhaps best known for the creation of Madeline. This copy, a fourth printing, is INSCRIBED by the author and includes a charming DRAWING of a donkey. Laid in to the book is a typed card explaining that this copy is from the library of Goddard Lieberson who was the president of Columbia Records. Book comes in a bright very good dustwrapper with a few small chips to the base of spine area.

Boston: Phillips and Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Emerson's observations on England, based in part on his visits there in 1833 and 1847. Called one of the best of American travel books and one of the great and permanent works of its kind according to Van Wyeck Brooks. Publisher's original black-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind with blind decorative devices, cover bordered in blind. 312 pp. A good to very good copy with shelf wear and wear at tips. Prior owner name to second endpaper.

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in French. European geography book published at the direction of P. Vidal De La Blache and L. Gallois. 320 pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Very good condition. An oversized clothbound book.

Dublin: Liam C. Martin, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No. First edition. Privately published illustrated book on Dublin. Very good condition in extremely tall stapled card wrappers. Tiny chip to lower front corner. Uncommon title.

Hamburg Und Berlin: Alfred Janssen, 1912. First German Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First German edition. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. 540 pp. Clean very good copy in brown cloth. Remnants of bookplate to inside front board.

Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt, 1915. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Early German printing (possible first) of this book on Rasmussen arctic journeys. {1915} 239 pp. Illustrated with photographs and one map. A very good copy in green cloth with yellow spine lettering.

Paris: Garnier Freres, 1880. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Early French edition. 487 pp plus fold-out map. Introduction by M. Paul Boiteau. About very good condition in elaborate red cloth binding. Faded at spine, some light age spotting. generally clean and tightly bound. Gravure illustrations.