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THE NEW GRAND TOUR Travelling Today through Europe, Asia Minor, India and Nepal

By: Alderson, Frederick

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Travel Book Club: 1971

Order Number: 1379

ISBN: 0715350056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book Club Edition; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 192 pages
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PHEASANT JUNGLES

By: Beebe, William

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam & Co.: 1927

Order Number: 18264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering peeling off. Former owner's notes on front endpaper ; The author, Director of Tropical Reasearch of the New York Zoological Society, spent 17 months in the far east before he published this book. Some of the chapters previously appeared in "The Atlantic" and "Harper's Magazine" but all have been rewritten ; 8vo; 248 pages
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PHEASANT JUNGLES

By: Beebe, William

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam & Co.: 1927

Order Number: 6571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dark blue boards with gilt lettering and spine lettering. The author, Director of Tropical Reasearch of the New York Zoological Society, spent 17 months in the far east before he published this book. Some of the chapters previously appeared in "The Atlantic" and "Harper's Magazine" but all have been rewritten ; 8vo; 248 pages
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PASSPORTS FOR ASIA

By: Borland, Beatrice

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.: 1933

Order Number: 1172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit faded. Erased previous inscription to front endpaper ; An adventurous 10-months-trip by a woman through the whole continent by all means of transportation, including horse back riding; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 319 pages
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JOURNEY TO THE FAR PACIFIC

By: Dewey, Thomas E.

Price: $174.81

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1952

Order Number: 11697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Wear & chipping to DJ; INSCRIBED to 'a Gallant Warrior' on half-title page by Dewey. New York governor Dewey's report to the far east visiting 17 countries and travelling 41,000 Miles to find out the situation of the cold war ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 335 pages
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THE ANCIENT WORLDS OF ASIA From Mesopotamia to the Yellow River

By: Diez, Ernst

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1961

Order Number: 19165

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ with light shelfwear; Cultures in Asia up to 5,000 years ago. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages
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THE CRITIC IN THE ORIENT

By: Fitch, George Hamlin

Price: $45.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company: 1913

Order Number: 1435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small red spot to front cover. Former owner's name to front endpaper ; 64 mostly tipped in plates from stunning b&w photographs. Tan bukram boards with matching endpapers ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 177 pages
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KRAKATOA

By: Furneaux, Rupert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1964

Order Number: 15107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Light wear with small tears to price clipped DJ. Title page blindstamped ; Detailed story of the infamous eruption. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 224 pages
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IN THE EYES OF THE EAST

By: Greenbie, Marjorie Barstow

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1921

Order Number: 1533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Boards with moderate wear to extremities. ; Tour of the vast world that lies between Vancouver and Shanghai ; Ex-Lib; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 420 pages
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LABRADOR LOOKS AT THE ORIENT Notes of Travel in the Near and the Far East

By: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1928

Order Number: 11703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Slight wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in front free endpaper; Persuaded at last to take a holiday after thirty years, author Grenfell takes a trip round Asia. Includes Egypt, Up the Nile, Jerusalem and Galilee, Bethlehem, Syria, and Transjordania, Iraq, the history of india, China, Korea, Japan etc. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 298 pages
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LABRADOR LOOKS AT THE ORIENT Notes of Travel in the Near and the Far East

By: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1928

Order Number: 19420

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Gilt spine lettering a bit faded, else a very handsome copy! ; Persuaded at last to take a holiday after thirty years, author Grenfell takes a trip round Asia. Includes Egypt, Up the Nile, Jerusalem and Galilee, Bethlehem, Syria, and Transjordania, Iraq, the history of india, China, Korea, Japan etc. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages
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INSIDE ASIA

By: Gunther, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1939

Order Number: 13350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light wear and chipping to DJ. Previous owner's names to front free endpaper; Colorful folding map of Asia as well as detailed information on the continent immediately preceding WWII; 8vo; 599 pages
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INSIDE ASIA

By: Gunther, John

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1939

Order Number: 12770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Light chipping and small open tears to DJ. Light wear to spine. Browning to endpapers; Colorful folding map of Asia as well as detailed information on the continent immediately preceding WWII. ; 8vo; 599 pages
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RICHARD HALLIBURTON'S SECOND BOOK OF MARVELS The Orient

By: Halliburton, Richard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1938

Order Number: 18592

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light shelfwear. Spine a bit sunned. Former owner's name on front free endpaper and with rough spot from removed price sticker. ; The profusely illustrated "School Edition"; 8vo; 316 pages
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FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY

By: Hillary, Edmund (Sir)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1979

Order Number: 13348

ISBN: 0670331724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight fading to boards. ; Travelling through India and Nepal via earth and sky ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 273 pages
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FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY

By: Hillary, Edmund (Sir)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1979

Order Number: 11958

ISBN: 0670331724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Travelling through India and Nepal via earth and sky ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 273 pages
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FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY

By: Hillary, Edmund (Sir)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1979

Order Number: 13355

ISBN: 0670331724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Travelling through India and Nepal via earth and sky ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 273 pages
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SOUVENIRS D'UN VOYAGE [2 VOLUME SET] Dans La Tartarie, Le Thibet Et La Chine Pendant Les Années 1844, 1845 Et 1846

By: Huc, M.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris, Librarie D'Adrien Et Clere Et Cie: 1853

Order Number: 2255

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

Covers chipped with open tears. Vol I: Spine split pp 129 and covers detached but present. Volume two covers detached but present. Foxing throughout; Visits to Tibet and China from 1844-1846. In French; 8vo; 440, 518 pages
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THE RISING TEMPER OF THE EAST Sounding the Human Note in the World-Wide Cry for Land and Liberty

By: Hunt, Frazier

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1922

Order Number: 19204

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine faded. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Very light occasional foxing. ; B&w photograph frontispiece of Gandhi; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages
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JESTING PILATE An Intellectual Holiday

By: Huxley, Aldous

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1926

Order Number: 3916

Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing

Condition: Very Good

Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Small closed tears to a few pages in rear ; Chapters: India and Burma; Malaya; The Pacific; America; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 326 pages
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ASIA [TWO VOLUMES SET] Vol I. : Northern and Eastern Asia. Vol. II: Southern and Western Asia

By: Keane, A. H.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Edward Stanford: 1896

Order Number: 17333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hinges professionally repaired. All maps in astounding good condition (NF). One page dog eared and small corner missing ; Dark green boards with gilt pictorial decoration and black lettering. Gilt lettering and gilt pictorial design to spine. ; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel (New Issue) ; 8vo; 527, 526 pages
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FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT

By: Kirtland, Lucian Swift

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1927

Order Number: 13354

Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing

Condition: Very Good+

Boards with light wear to extremities; Including chapters on Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, Manila, French Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Java, Burma, India and Ceylon ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 462 pages
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AN EASTERN ODYSSEY The Third Expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil

By: Le Fevre, Georges

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1935

Order Number: 6484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

DJ browned and with small chips. Spine with apparent dampstaining ; Rare in DJ. Expedition in motor vehicles across Asia and over the Roof of the World ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 368 pages
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THE PROBLEM OF ASIA And its Effect Upon International Policies

By: Mahan, A. T.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Company: 1900

Order Number: 12499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Bookplate to front pastedown. ; Front fold-out map; 8vo; 233 pages
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CAUCUS-RACE

By: Merrick, Henrietta Sands

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1938

Order Number: 19540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

29 illustrations from photographs by the author. Map. Includes descriptions of journeys to Persia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Java, Bali, Sumatra, Siam, Cambodia, India, Himalaya, Western Tibet, Around Darjeeling, Burma, China and Japan; Copper plate; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages
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GATES TO ASIA A Diary from a Long Journey

By: Myrdal, Jan & Gessle, Gun

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 1971

Order Number: 13346

ISBN: 0394471156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Slight wear to price clipped DJ. DJ spine sunned; All sorts of journeys into and insights about Central Asia; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 246 pages
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EAST OF SUEZ Ceylon, India, China and Japan

By: Penfield, Frederic Courtland

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1907

Order Number: 12256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Previous owner's name in front pastedown. Occasional foxing; Travels through the Great East; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 349 pages
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JOURNAL-LETTERS FROM THE ORIENT

By: Rogers, Clara Kathleen

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Plimpton Press: 1934

Order Number: 18853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

An adventurous journey in 1903 to Japan, Hong-Kong, Himalayas, Bombay as well as Egypt and Italy ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 420 pages
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