New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative work between Bowles and Swiss photographer Peter Haeberlin, who capture in text and images accounts of daily life among the desert and hill country tribes of Northwestern Africa. Miller A8b. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies. Quarto..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955. Uniform Edition. In January 1938, Green took a five week-long trip through the backroads of Mexico, which resulted in his 1939 travelogue The Lawless Roads, and his 1940 novel The Power and the Glory, one of his acknowledged masterworks. A self-proclaimed "Catholic agnostic," Greene reported..... More
New York: Zero Press, 1956. First Edition. The final iissue of this short-lived literary magazine, published first from Paris, then from Tangier, and later from New York by Albert (Asa) Benveniste and Themistocles Hoetis (pseud. of George Salamos). Includes "From Notes Taken In Ceylon" by Paul Bowles, "The Smeraldina's Billet..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the photographer, this being copy no.121. Octavo; cork boards and russet cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to upper spine; xvi,107,[1]pp, with 16 duotone photographs by Michael Kenna. A Fine copy. An..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Superb association copy of this key volume of Theroux's travel writing, inscribed to Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul. Among the many pieces here, Theroux includes the story of how he met Naipaul in 1966, while working as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. First Edition. "An account of native life in India written from the point of view of a practical man of affairs who knows India from long residence" (Cleveland Leader). First Printing. Octavo (18.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt, green..... More
Richmond, VA: I.N. Jones & Son, 1898. First Edition. Detailed analysis of the healing and chemical properties of the various hot springs in Bath County, Virginia. Froehling, a German-born chemist, who in 1881 established a chemical laboratory and caol mining consulting firm in Richmond. OCLC notes 2 holdings (U.Virginia, NY..... More