Travel & Adventure | JEFF MASER, Bookseller

SARAMAGO, José.

Journey to Portugal.
$25.00
London: Harvill (2000). First UK edition. xii + 452 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Portuguese and with notes by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor.
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SNYDER, Gary.

Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition.
$12.50
(np): Shoemaker & Hoard (2007). First trade paperback printing. 136 pp w/bibliographic note. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Snyder adds a new preface.
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STEWART, Rory.

The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland.
$20.00
Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. First US edition. xii + 354 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SWEETENHAM, Frank.

A Nocturne and other Malayan Stories and Sketches.
$45.00
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First printing of this trade paperback edition. xviii + 216 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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THEROUX, Paul and Patrick Procktor.

Sailing Through China.
$25.00
Wilton: Michael Russell (1983). First trade edition. 64 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Theroux’s prose with illustrations by Patrick Procktor.
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THEROUX, Paul.

Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China.
$20.00
NY: Putnam’s (1988). First edition. 480 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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THEROUX, Paul.

The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific.
$25.00
NY: Putnam’s (1992). First edition. 528 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Theroux on the second leaf.
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THEROUX, Paul.

The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain.
$15.00
London: Hamish Hamilton (1983). First UK edition. 303 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else fine in fine dust jacket.
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THEROUX, Paul.

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through The Americas.
$25.00
London: Hamish Hamilton (1979). First US edition. 340 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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THEROUX, Paul.

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean.
$35.00
NY: Putnam's (1995). First edition. 509 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Theroux on the title page.
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THEROUX, Paul.

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean.
$15.00
NY: Putnam's (1995). First edition. 509 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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THEROUX, Peter.

Translating LA: A Tour of the Rainbow City.
$20.00
NY: Norton (1994). First edition. 271 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated (5-29-94) and INSCRIBED by Theroux.
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THESIGER, Wilfred.

Arabian Sands.
$45.00
NY: Viking (1984). First US printing of this reissue. 347 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short tear at the lower front flap fold. Includes all the original photographs of the 1959 edition. Thesinger adds a new preface to this account of his years in the Empty Quarter.
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TOMLINSON, H.M.

The Face of the Earth with Some Hints for Those about to Travel.
$25.00
Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill (nd). First US edition. vii + 246 pp. Dent to fore-edge, else near fine in very good dust jacket with several closed edge-tears and sunning to spine. From the library of Shirley and Marvin Malone (editor of The Wormwood Review) with their ownership stamp and signature.
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WALDMAN, Anne.

Blue Mosque.
$25.00
NY: United Artists, 1988. First edition. 59 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Louise Hamlin. A selection of travel pieces from 1967-1987.
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WAUGH, Alec.

Where the Clocks Chime Twice: A Travel Book.
$15.00
London: Cassell & Co. (1952). First edition. 271 pp w/index. Foxing to page edges, else very good plus in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a short tear and light edgewear.
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WHITE, Edmund.

States of Desire: Travels in Gay America.
$100.00
NY: Dutton (1980). First edition. xi + 336 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (June 1980) and INSCRIBED by White. “To Burton, / all my best / Edmund White.” Review slip, promotional flyer, and author photo laid in. Young 4079*.
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WHITE, Edmund.

States of Desire: Travels in Gay America.
$35.00
London: Andre Deutsch (1980). First UK edition. xi + 336 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Young 4079* (US edition).
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WILSON, Edmund.

Europe without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England together with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-1964.
$75.00
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1966). First printing of this new edition (originally published in 1947). 467 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. Wilson provides a new preface.
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WOLFE, Michael.

In Morocco.
$45.00
Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles 1980. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 400 copies. Title page photograph by Penny Pillatt. Dated (Oct. 3. 1980) and INSCRIBED by Wolfe, “For Leslie, / Thanks for the party; / there’s no place like home. / Love, Michael.” Wolfe’s third book, a journal of his 1979 visit to Morocco, from smoking kif to dining with Paul Bowles.
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[JAPAN].

Japan for the Young.
$45.00
[Tokyo]: Board of Tourist Industry/Japanese Government Railways, 1937. First edition. 134 pp w/appendix. Fine in illustrated wrappers and original unprinted glassine dust jacket (near fine). 14 1/4 x 15 3/4 inch map, printed in four colors, “Japan and its World Connections” folded and housed in an envelope at the back of the volume, as issued. Illustrated with twenty b&w photographs and one color plate.
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[VENICE]. Salzano, Edoardo. ed.

Atlante di Venezia.
$150.00
Comune di Venezia/Marsilio Editori (1989). Second printing (issued one month after the first). Square 4to. 420 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s decorated slipcase with one short split to the cloth on one edge. Maps and a complete visual record, via birds-eye color photographs, of the entire city of Venice. Texts in Italian and English.
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