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BAILEY, Truman, 1902-1959 : POLYNESIAN VENTURE. New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First edition. Photographer and designer looking for fashion ideas in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Polynesia, Samoa, etc. SOLD |
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CHATTERTON, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 : CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1927). First edition. An elegant life of John Smith of Virginia (1580?-1631), soldier, explorer, admiral, colonial governor, and bestower of the name “New England” – rescue by Pocahontas and all the rest. In the “Golden Hind” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43421 – or simply click on the button
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DOUGLAS, Norman (George Norman), 1868-1952 : SIREN LAND. London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1911. First edition : although 1,500 copies were printed, 200 were sent to New York to make up the American edition – and 890 were later pulped, leaving a maximum of 410 surviving copies. “A new stage of intimacy in the Anglo-Italian love affair and one of the happiest of travel books” – Cyril Connolly citing this among his 100 Key-Books of the Modern Movement. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34906 – or simply click on the button
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FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (Sir Patrick Michael), 1915-2011 : BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER : ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE HOOK OF HOLLAND: THE MIDDLE DANUBE TO THE IRON GATES. London : John Murray, (1986). First edition. Inscribed (to Lucy) and signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free endpaper. On foot across Europe at the age of eighteen in the 1930s – “like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar” – the second instalment (from the borders of Hungary to Transylvania) of a famous journey, reconstructed from maps, memories, and a diary – fascinating on every page. One of the twentieth-century classics – a “sublime masterpiece” (William Dalrymple). SOLD |
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FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (Sir Patrick Michael), 1915-2011 : THE BROKEN ROAD : FROM THE IRON GATES TO MOUNT ATHOS. London : John Murray (Publishers), (2013). First edition. Signed by both editors, Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron. The posthumously published final instalment of Fermor’s famous journey on foot across Europe at the age of eighteen in the 1930s – “like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar”. The third leg – from the Iron Gates of Romania via Bucharest and Bulgaria to Salonika and Mount Athos. One of the twentieth-century classics – a “sublime masterpiece” (William Dalrymple). £150 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45442 – or simply click on the button
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FLEISHER, Wilfrid, 1897-1976 : VOLCANIC ISLE. Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. First edition. An account of “totalitarian Japan as it has evolved over the last ten years, the new Japan which aims to be supreme in Asia and to emerge as a partner of the Axis in a new world order”. Fleisher’s family had owned “The Japan Advertiser” and he had lived there between 1914 and 1940, also working as a correspondent of “The New York Times”, “The New York Herald Tribune”, etc. SOLD |
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GOLDING, Louis, 1895-1958 : SUNWARD. London : Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Sketches of travel through Italy to Messina and Sicily, via Bolzano, Verona, Padua, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Naples, Capri, etc., with mention of Norman Douglas, etc. “A rich tapestry, woven with fine language in a design of poetry, fancy, and fantasy. We enjoy every glowing strand of it” (Clarion, 7th November 1924). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27260 – or simply click on the button
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GOSLING, Cecil (Cecil William Gustaf), 1870-1944 : TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN MANY LANDS. London : Methuen & Co., (1926). First edition. The former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Bolivia reminisces on his travels as “a minor official in the employment of the Foreign Office”. Includes much on Bolivia, but also with chapters on Guatemala, Vryburg and Kimberley, Paraguay, and much else. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31521 – or simply click on the button
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GREY, J.R. (Jack Reginald), 1890- & GREY, B.B. (Beatrice Buckland), 1893- : SOUTH SEA SETTLERS. New York : Henry Holt & Co., [1927]. First edition : the American issue of the British sheets. A couple set up home on Moorea, the neighbouring island to Tahiti. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15143 – or simply click on the button
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HALL, Duncan : THE PRIEST OF THE LEGION. London : Peter Lunn, 1947. First edition. A study of Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) – among the Tuaregs, etc. Illustrated by William Stobbs. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27816 – or simply click on the button
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HOLDRIDGE, Desmond, 1906-1946 : FEUDAL ISLAND. New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1939). First edition. A visit to the extraordinary island of Marajó at the mouth of the Amazon – a place where isolated feudal traditions “stem straight from the Conquistadors”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17962 – or simply click on the button
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LEIGH-FERMOR, Patrick (Sir Patrick Michael), 1915-2011 : A TIME OF GIFTS : ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE: FROM THE HOOK OF HOLLAND TO THE MIDDLE DANUBE. London : John Murray, (1977). First edition. On foot across Europe at the age of eighteen in the 1930s – “like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar” through Holland, Germany, Vienna, Prague, and on into Hungary – the first instalment of a famous journey reconstructed from maps, memories, and a diary – fascinating on every page. One of the twentieth-century classics – a “sublime masterpiece” (William Dalrymple). SOLD |
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MARSHALL, Herbert (Herbert Menzies), 1841-1913 & MARSHALL, Hester, 1886-1973 : CATHEDRAL CITIES OF FRANCE. London : William Heinemann, 1907. First edition. A charming and richly illustrated record of summer visits over five years, put together by the gifted water-colour artist Herbert Marshall and his daughter. Boulogne, Amiens, Laôn, Rheims, Soissons, Rouen, Evreux, Lisieux, Bayeux, St. Lô, Coutances, Le Mans, Angers, Tours, Blois, Chartres, Orleans, Bourges, Nevers, Moulins, Limoges, Périgeux, Angoulême, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Sens, Auxerre, Troyes, Meaux, Senlis, Beauvais, and Paris. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42854 – or simply click on the button
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O’BRIEN, Frederick, 1869-1932 : MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS. New York : Century Co., 1921. First edition. O’Brien looks back on his time in Tahiti – some of the time spent in company with the poet Rupert Brooke, of whom he provides a little-known first-hand account. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31527 – or simply click on the button
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PATON, Maggie Whitecross (Margaret Whitecross) -1905 : LETTERS AND SKETCHES FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1894. First edition. An extraordinary sequence of letters home to Scotland from Aniwa in the New Hebrides, dating from 1865 to 1889. Maggie Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the well-known missionary John G. Paton and the letters provide another slant on his own well-known autobiography. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19775 – or simply click on the button
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SAUMAREZ, Philip, 1710-1747 : LOG OF THE CENTURION : BASED ON THE ORIGINAL PAPERS OF CAPTAIN PHILIP SAUMAREZ ON BOARD HMS CENTURION, LORD ANSON’S FLAGSHIP DURING HIS CIRCUMNAVIGATION 1740-44. London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, (1973). First edition. Extracts from the long-lost log-books, discovered in Guernsey along with other letters and documents, and giving a new perspective on this celebrated voyage. Edited, introduced, and with commentary by Leo Heaps. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28601 – or simply click on the button
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SEVERIN, Timothy, 1940- : THE GOLDEN ANTILLES. London : Hamish Hamilton, (1970). First edition. Tim Severin, himself a formidable sailor and re-creator of epic voyages, looks at the travellers, adventurers, pirates, buccaneers and soldiers of fortune drawn by the lure of the golden dream – William Dampier, El Dorado, John Esquemeling, Thomas Gage – the man who loved chocolate, Laurence Keymis, William Paterson, William Penn, Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert Venables, Lionel Wafer and more. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43444 – or simply click on the button
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[SOMERVILLE, E.OE. (Edith Anna OEnone), 1858-1949 & “ROSS (Martin)” – [MARTIN, Violet Florence, 1862-1915]] : THROUGH CONNEMARA IN A GOVERNESS CART. London : W. H. Allen & Co., 1893 [but 1892]. First edition : in the more attractive of the two green variant bindings. “This is a very funny book of adventure which reads like a novel. Two Irishwomen disgusted with London weather, undertook a trip through Connemara” (Cork Constitution, 21st November 1892). With illustrations by W. W. Russell, worked up (not wholly to her approval) from Somerville’s original sketches. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44454 – or simply click on the button
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STARK, Freya (Freya Madeline), 1893-1993 : TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE / BEYOND EUPHRATES : AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1928-1933 / THE COAST OF INCENSE : AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1933-1939 / DUST IN THE LION’S PAW : AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1939-1946. London : John Murray, (1950-1961). A complete first edition set of the four volumes of Stark’s autobiography – the first volume signed by the author on the half-title. From her picaresque childhood, through her life and travels in the Arab and Persian world, to World War II – “It is difficult to know which to admire more, her vivid description of her experiences or the realism of the lessons which she draws from them ... Our future is uncontrollable if we are unable to read our past” (Sir Charles Petrie in The Illustrated London News, 28th October 1961). £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45856 – or simply click on the button
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STARK, Freya (Freya Madeline), 1893-1993 : ROME ON THE EUPHRATES : THE STORY OF A FRONTIER. London : John Murray, (1966). First edition. “This is the history of the long frontier of the Euphrates through eight centuries of Roman warfare”. A panoramic survey of the power-sapping travails of Rome on the eastern outskirts of empire – the Seleucid kings, the Parthians, the Armenian wars, etc. – and a message of “the uselessness of war across a frontier whose trade was able to benefit both sides”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45967 – or simply click on the button
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STARK, Freya (Freya Madeline), 1893-1993 : THE JOURNEY’S ECHO : SELECTIONS FROM FREYA STARK. London : John Murray, (1963). First edition. A selection of the best of her travel and autobiographical writing, – Syria, Baghdad, Arabia, Ionia, etc. – introduced by Lawrence Durrell. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39909 – or simply click on the button
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 : VAILIMA LETTERS : BEING CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO SIDNEY COLVIN. NOVEMBER, 1890 – OCTOBER, 1894. Chicago : Stone & Kimball, 1895. First American edition : possibly preceding the one-volume London edition published by Methuen in November 1895. Letters from the South Seas, with an introduction by Sidney Colvin. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23751 – or simply click on the button
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TOMLINSON, H.M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958 : GIFTS OF FORTUNE : WITH SOME HINTS FOR THOSE ABOUT TO TRAVEL. London : William Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Tomlinson with adventures in a Devon estuary, in the Brazils, off the coast of Celebes, on the Chesil Bank, in the forests of the Malay Peninsula, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17889 – or simply click on the button
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UNWIN, Stanley (Sir Stanley), 1884-1968 & STORR, Severn : TWO YOUNG MEN SEE THE WORLD. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1934). First edition. A handsomely illustrated journal of a pre Great War world tour by the publisher Stanley Unwin and his companion. The tour takes in Rhodesia, South Africa, Australia (Adelaide & Melbourne), Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, New Guinea, the Philippines, Japan, etc. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12793 – or simply click on the button
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WELZL, Jan, 1868-1948 : THIRTY YEARS IN THE GOLDEN NORTH. New York : Macmilllan Co., 1932. First edition in English. Hunting for gold and furs, principally in Arctic Siberia and the Yukon. Forword by Karel Capek. Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated by Paul Selver from the original Czech edition of 1930. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17541 – or simply click on the button
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WELZL, Jan, 1868-1948 : THE QUEST FOR POLAR TREASURES. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1933). First edition in English. The sequel to “Thirty Years in the Golden North” – hunting for gold and furs, principally in Arctic Alaska and Canada. Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated from the original Czech edition of 1930 by Marie & Robert Weatherall. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15147 – or simply click on the button
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WHITE, Edmund (Edmund Valentine), 1940- : THE FLÂNEUR : A STROLL THROUGH THE PARADOXES OF PARIS. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (2001). First edition. A sixteen-year sojourn in Paris, wandering “through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians ... an exhilarating adventure with a most seductive companion”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44452 – or simply click on the button
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