Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to
El-Medinah and Meccah
With laid-in autograph letter signed by Richard F. Burton
First edition of "a most remarkable work of the highest value" (T.E. Lawrence), Burton's important illustrated narrative of his journey to Mecca, with five full-page color chromolithographs, eight tinted plates, one black-and-white plate, three plans (two folding), and a folding map. In rare original cloth, in excellent condition, with autograph letter signed by Burton laid in. $21,000. | More...
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
First edition of Chatwin's award-winning first book that revolutionized travel writing in "its originality and its brilliance" (Paris Review), with illustrations not included in the later American edition, in original dust jacket. $1500. | More...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
First edition, first issue, of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, widely regarded as the best of the series and "one of the most gripping stories in the English language," with 16 illustrations by Sidney Paget. $11,000. | More...
Gulliver's Travels
Signed & Illustrated by
Arthur Rackham
Signed limited edition, number 170 of 750 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham, of Swift’s sharp, satirical masterpiece, with 13 full-page color illustrations, two full-page black-and-white illustrations, and seven in-text black-and-white vignettes. $3200. | More...
The Lord of the Rings
With tipped-in signature by J.R.R. Tolkien
First editions of all three volumes of Tolkien's tour de force: his richly imagined, elegantly crafted, wildly popular vision of the battle for the fate of Middle-Earth, an exceptional set with Fellowship of the Ring containing Tolkien's signature on a tipped-in gilt-bordered plate, finely bound in full crimson morocco, gilt-decorated with iconography from the novel. $15,000. | More...
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
First edition of Kerouac's second and most important novel, "a physical and metaphysical journey across America," in colorful original dust jacket. $9800. | More...
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
First edition of McCarthy's mythic vision of the American West, in original dust jacket. $5000. | More...
Seen in the Hadhramaut
Signed by Freya Stark
First edition of this travel memoir detailing a British woman's journey through Yemen, with 130 plates after photographs by the author, inscribed by her on the half title: "By Freya Stark." $2800. | More...
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
First edition, first printing, of Hunter S. Thompson's first book, an electrifying tale of the infamous biker gangs of California. $1600. | More...
Our Everest Adventure
Signed by six members of the 1953 Everest expedition
First edition, signed by six members of the 1953 Everest expedition: John Hunt, Michael Westmacott, George Band, Charles Wylie, George Lowe and Alfred Gregory. With over 130 photographic illustrations, in original dust jacket. $1400. | More...
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Charles M. Doughty
First edition of this classic of Arabian travel, illustrated with numerous plates, maps and in-text wood engravings, and folding map printed in color laid into a pocket at the rear of Volume I, as issued. Very hard to find in such nice condition in the original cloth, and with an intriguing provenance, from the library of British Arabist, colonial agent and diplomat Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles. $13,500. | More...
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