New York: The Viking Press (1976), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 182 pp. Quarter blue cloth over black and grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Minor fading to the topstain in a Near Fine dust jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1879. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 8-445, [4] (including a [1] pp of publisher's advertising, for Harper's Catalog) pp. Original navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; front board is decorated by a Bedouin riding a camel while wielding a spear, all..... More
New York: A Dutton Book (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 276 pp. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards with orange and gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Traces of foxing to the top textblock..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. (1938), 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [6], 7-672 pp. Brown buckram with brown topstain. CL added as last line on copyright page with no blind stamping on the rear cover. Illustrated with several full-page duotone drawings. This issue recorded in O'Brien under..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., ca. 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. [6], 7-672 pp. Black blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and numerous additional plates. Published after the fourth American edition, O'Brien does not identify..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound in one. Large 8vo. ii-viii, [1], 4-7, [2], 10-326; [3], 2-4, [1], vi-viii, [1], 10-373, [1] pp. Each volume illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, volume one illustrated with three folding plans, 13 woodcut figures, eleven plates (one..... More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter [1965], 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. 207 pp. Bound in light blue cloth with red lettering on the spine, blue topstain. Price of $4.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated color title page on high-gloss stock (extends across two pages), two page map on green..... More
London: John Murray, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-451, [1], [1], 2-12, [4] pp. Three-quarter later red morocco over red cloth, spine in six compartments, lettered in gold; top edge gilt. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Illustrated by a full-page map and a fold-out map in the..... More