THE TWO-HEADED EAGLE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996). First U.S. edition. Few small separations at hinge of half-title page (hinge is still tight), otherwise fine in bright dust jacket. Item #36155 More
ADVENTURE
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WINE ON THE DESERT: And Other Stories.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940. First edition. Very good or better with light rubbing to edges and endpapers slightly tanned; in good or better dust jacket with light soiling and rubbing, shallow chipping to spine ends and corners, and rubbed crease to spine. A scarce book that is..... Item #19979 More
SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1915). First edition. Action, romance and adventure in the 1680s, from Scotland to Virginia. Bookplate of Charles F. Roth on pastedown. Minor wear and rubbing to corners and spine ends and general aging, book plate on front paste down, cracking along gutter of verso of..... Item #53942 More
RAISE THE TITANIC!
New York: Viking Press, (1976). First edition. Fine in price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket. Item #54960 More
THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898. First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. edition published earlier the same year under the title "A DESERT DRAMA: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko." Story centered on a group of British tourists in Egypt who are abducted by Islamic forces. Illustrated with 40..... Item #53837 More
SINGLE-HANDED.
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1929. First U.S. edition. Published in UK as BROWN ON RESOLUTION. Trapped on the most remote island of the Galapagos, Brown finds the odds against him. A precursor to Forester's Hornblower novels of the sea. "SINGLE-HANDED is blood and thunder, but the blood is real and..... Item #40088 More
WHITE FANG.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1906. First edition. With tipped-in title page dated 1906, as usually seen. 8vo blue-gray boards stamped in gilt on spine and white and black on front; title page on laid paper (vs. wove, no known priority); tissue-guarded color frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles..... Item #72725 More
TWO IN THE FAR NORTH; [her scarce first book].
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. The famed naturalist's first book. Recounts her "grand adventures on the Alaskan frontier--in the Fairbanks of the gold-mining, dog-team era; as a young bride and then trail mate and fellow explorer of Alaska's wilderness with her distinguished biologist husband, Olaus J. Murie"..... Item #72717 More
RAMAGE AND THE DRUM BEAT.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1967). First edition. The second in the series. Fine in dust jacket with light wear on corners and spine edges. Item #36465 More
THE DOOMSDAY MEN: An Adventure.
London: Heinemann, (1938). First edition. Three men find their lives intertwined as they uncover a plot to blow up the world. Light scattered foxing to page edges otherwise crisp and fine in bright, near fine to fine dust jacket with barest of soiling and spine gently toned. A remarkably attractive..... Item #56005 More
THE HORIZON.
London: Heinemann, (1993). First edition. Not published in hardcover in the U.S. The third book in his "Royal Marines / Blackwood Saga" quintent. SIGNED by Reeman on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce signed. Item #55051 More
THE DIAMOND HUNTERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972. First U.S. edition. Scarce. Remainder spray on bottom page edges, red mark on top page edges and blindstamp on front endpaper, otherwise very good in dust jacket with corners a little rubbed, a few tiny closed tears, white back panel somewhat soiled and..... Item #30190 More
THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1873. First U. S. edition and first edition in English. Presumed first issue without the translator's name on title page. Basis for the 1956 movie "Around the World in Eighty Days" starring David Niven, Noel Coward, Jon Gielgud, et al. 16mo blue cloth boards..... Item #53945 More
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