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RISALA 'AAN AS SOUDAN (REPORT ON THE SUDAN), SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESEDENT NAGUIB.
by MUHAMMAD NAGUIB (FIRST PRESEDENT OF EGYPT)
Cairo: The government press, 1954 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. PRIVATELY BOUND AS PRESENTATION COPY IN 29-5-1954, TO "OUR SON MR. ABDUL HAMID IBRAHIM ABD UR RAHMAN", FROM GENERAL MUHAMMAD NAGUIB. FRONTIS OF M. NAGUIB SIGNING THE TREATY OF SUDAN 12 FEB. 1953. TITLE PAGE WITH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION, SIGNED BY M. NAGUIB, THE FIRST PRESEDENT OF EGYPT AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1952. FRONTIS OF M. NAGUIB WHEN HE WAS IN KHARTUM IN 1921, IN HIS MILITARY UNIFORM....
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SGD 11,029.60
We Ended In Bali
by Gillsater, Sven
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1961. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket. DJ lightly creased at fore edge. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates and maps. Translated by F. H. Lyon. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 151 pages. This intrepid photographer made a romantic and unforgettable journey...
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SGD 16.22
An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Trans-Continental Connections Between Europe and Asia Vol. III North-Eastern Japan
by (The Imperial Japanese Government Railways)
Tokyo: The Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Stout 12mo. Pp. ix, [1], 2-488. Color frontis. illustration with printed tissue guard. With 25 maps, many folding. Laden with black-and-white photos, both in text and dedicated plates. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Endpaper maps. Bound in cinnamon-colored cloth stamped with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark bound in. Very slight wear to covers, with endpaper maps age-toned. The first...
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SGD 275.74
Fame By Chance: An A-Z of places that became famous (or infamous) by a twist of fate.
by O'Brien, Donough
Honiton, Devon: Bene Factum Publishing. 2003. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wraps. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 420 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 13.52
Persia and Its People
by SYKES, Ella C
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Thick 8vo. Pp. xi. 356. Frontis. photo portrait of the Shah as a boy. With 20 additional photographs taken by the author. Large fold-out map at rear. Index. Bound in blue cloth with elaborate cover titles, spine with lettering and floral design in gilt. Minor soiling to front cover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Withal, a sturdy, presentable copy. "A description of life in Persia as observed by the author during two...
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SGD 241.27
Travels in the North
by CAPEK, Karel
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First American Edition. Good+/Good-. Karel Capek. 8vo. Pp. 269. Translated by M. & R. Weatherall. Frontis. color illustration. With Capek's black and white line drawings throughout. Bound in yellow cloth with blindstamped letter "C" on front cover, lettering stamped in silver on spine. Slight age-toning to edges of cloth. Dust jacket with a bit grubby with age-toned spine, slight chips at head and tail of spine and a three-inch dampstain that has bled through to...
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SGD 55.15
The Ties That Bind: Six Journeys of a Lifetime
by Jameson, Julietta
Sydney: Bantam. 2002. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 317 pages. 6 well known Australians return to their family's ''homeland''. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Trade Paperback.
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SGD 10.81
The Naked Hills Tales of Afghanistan
by BEARDSLEY, Charles
London: Peter Davies, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. First Edition. Small 8vo. Pp. 276. Bound in blue cloth. Dust jacket is price-clipped, and with minor folds to top of spine. The author was a native of San Francisco whose wanderlust thwarted being awarded diplomas from two universities. After serving WWII in the Philippines, Beardsley traveled in Morocco before heading to Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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SGD 41.36
Dust on My Shoes
by Pinney, Peter
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1957. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Top half-cm of front free endpaper and half-title page [the next page] neatly clipped off. Map on endpapers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 312 pages.. . reprint. Hardback.
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SGD 40.55
The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
by Abley, Mark
London: Heinemann, 2008 1st ed. 262pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj [dj = small roughed spot on back cover; else nrF] A sort of linguistic travel book by a winner of Canada’s National Newspaper Award.
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SGD 6.88
Footsteps. Nine Archaeological Journeys of Romance and Discovery
by Norman, Bruce
London: Guild Publishing. 1987. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 279 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 13.52
Around the World on Expenses: I Came, I Saw, I Lost My Luggage
by Biddlecombe, Peter
London: Abacus, 1996 1st ed. thus. 378pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous view of business travel by a well-traveled Brit.
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SGD 6.88
Nehjat-ul Manasik, geographic and descriptive book on the Hajj road
by Mehmed Edip b. Mehmed Dervish
Ottoman text, 256 p. With 14 p. Tertib Ajza, Pharmaceuticals should be used by pilgrims on the Hajj road. Printed in Bulak 1250.
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SGD 13,787.00
In Quest of Oases -- with slipcase
by VAN SINDEREN, Adrian
New York: Privately Printed [Adrian Van Sinderen], 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 8vo. Pp. 124. Illustrated with color photograph plates, and many black-and-white photos of horses and carriages. Photographic endpapers. Bound in full gray cloth imprinted with a diamond patter and labeling in a burnt red, in matching slipcase. Pages 34-35 were once adhered and then separated, leaving a dime-size abrasion. Edition limited to 600 copies. Printed by the sons of William E. Rudge. Near Fine in and...
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SGD 41.36
WORLD AIRPORTS
by Manuel Cuadra
This book is in very good condition. There are no markings in the book except previous owners stamp on the first page. 2002. German and English language book. Ships within 24 hours.
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SGD 45.43
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
by McCORMICK, Oran
Boston: Self-Published, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Pp. 397. Nearly every page is laden with well-reproduced b&w photos. Printed on light yellow-orange stock. Bound in tan cloth with title and design printed as a block-print on the front cover. Dust jacket complete and fresh. Inscribed on the title page: "To the Hon. Rufus C. Holman / from the Author / Feb. 1939" Inscribed to US Senator from Oregon, Rufus Holman. McCormick's book is as preposterous a self-tribute as can be imagined,...
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SGD 206.80
Camera Obscura
by Van Hildebrand (Nicolaas Beets)
A Dutch literary classic originally written in 1839. Camera Obscura is a collection of stories and reflections written by Hildebrand, pseudonym of Nicolaas Beets. He wrote most pieces as a student of theology in Leiden. Camera Obscura ' gives an image of the 19th-century Netherlands by trekschuit and Stagecoach.This is the 23rd Edition of the book printed in The Netherlands in 1904. It is written in the original Dutch. The spine has been broken and is half detached inside of the front cover but still...
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SGD 17.23
Tunis, Kairouan and Carthage Described and Illustrated with 48 Paintings by the Author
by PETRIE, Graham
London: William Heinemann, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 4to. Pp. xiv, 252. Color frontis. Illustrated with 48 full-page color plates, with printed tissue guards, after the author's paintings. Index. Bound in full red cloth with pictorial cover stamped in black, lettering stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate with offsetting to front free endpaper; spine a touch faded. Withal, a solid, presentable copy. Petrie (1859-1940) is best known as a landscape artist and railway poster...
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SGD 137.87
Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road
by Leo, Jennifer L., editor
Palo Alto, CA: Travelers' Tales, 2003 reprint. 194pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Almost 30 humorous accounts by women travelers.
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SGD 6.88
Wanderers: Episodes from the Travels of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and Her Daughter Victoria 1849-1855 -- INSCRIBED copy; With a Preface by Sir Ronald Storss
by CUST, Mrs. Henry
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 364. Frontis. illustration. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Touch of dust soiling to top edge. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Inscription reads, "To Dr. Bouwen (?) from Nina Cust / August, 1939." The author's address is added in pencil on the rear free endpaper ("Mrs. Henry Cust / 17 Hyde Park Gate / London SW17"). The subjects were the author's mother (Victoria) and grandmother (Lady Emmeline)....
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SGD 103.40
The Travels of a Fat Bulldog
by Courtauld, George
London: Abacus Books, 1997 1st ed. thus. 288pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is age browned; edges show some foxing; else a nice uncreased copy] A humorous travel book by a "Queen’s Messenger," or official British royal courier.
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SGD 13.72
Here, There and Everywhere an Informal Account of Incidents, People and Places
by BLISS, Edgar S
West Springfield, Massachusetts: Edgar S. Bliss, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 56. Bound in light green paper-covered boards, title and rules stamped in blue on the cover. Fore edge untrimmed. Edition limited to five hundred. Printed by William Edward Rudge, Inc., New York. Cover edges a little rubbed, front hinge parting at lower end. Leaves bright and crisp. Bliss purchased a controlling interest in the Worthy Paper Company of West Springfield in 1896. Following his retirement...
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SGD 34.47
Open Return
by Bradfield, Catherine
Canberra: Published by Author. 2002. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. 247 pages. The author's 1960s travels through Asia, Israel , UK Switzerland, Russia, FInland and Vanuatu. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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SGD 14.42
Personal Impressions and Brief Notes of European Travel
by BUSH, R. T
New York: Privately Issued, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. Pp. 98. Blue cloth, titles and decorations stamped in gilt and black on the cover, brown endpapers. Author signature facsimiles. Spine darkened, edges soiled and bumped, spine ends chipped. Printed for Private Circulation and Presented with Compliments. The "enthusiastic American" author, wife and sister depart New York on July 17, 1880 and return in December. From the Introduction: "These notes were mainly taken before the thought...
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SGD 206.80
Away from Home: Canadian Writers in Exotic Places
by Dobbs, Kildare, editor
Toronto: Deneau Publishers, 1988 1st ed. thus. paperback. 326pp. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [some foxing to edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An anthology of Canadian travel writing including pieces by Stephen Leacock, Morley Callaghan, John Glassco, Malcolm Lowry, George Woodcock, Bharati Mukherjee & Brian Moore, et al., 28 in all.
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SGD 6.88
