New York: Macmillan, 1908. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 498 pgs, b&w frontispiece. This work is by the other Churchill, the one who insisted that the now more famous one use his middle initial so as not to confuse the public as to who he was. Though most famous for..... More
New York: Random House, 1952. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 306 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations, mapped endsheets. The true story of the oil discovery that changed the world. Signed by both authors. More
San Luis Obispo, CA: Western Trails Publication, 1992. Revised. Paperback. 6 x 9, 143 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. A hiking guide to the High Sierra. More
Canada: Azimuth Inc., 2000. Paperback. 6 x 9, 327 pgs, maps, sections of color photos. Clarke's account of his expeditions through the Rub al Khali (The Empty Quarter) of Saudi Arabia and up Mount Everest. More
Menlo Park, CA: Briarcliff Press, 1982. Paperback. 6 x 9, 113 pgs, b&w photos. Describes the cable car's invention and its growth in popularity during Victorian years, and how the last three cable carl ines were saves and how the system continues to operate in San Francisco today. More
New York: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. 8 x 11, 626 pgs, index, color illustrations. High-school economics text book. More
Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2 x 11, 216 pgs, index, color photos throughout. Ten intrepid travellers describe journeys in the world's six trekkable continents, from mountains to jungles, desert sands to oceans. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 213 pgs, decorated endsheets. The author's famous novel about bull-fighting. Barnaby Conrad, writer, artist, bullfighting expert, and friend of Ernest Hemingway, wrote extensively on bullfighting both in novel and in non-fiction form. More
Wilmington, DE: Published/Printed by the author, 1908. First edition. Unbound. 6 1/2 x 10, 794 pgs, uncut, unbound. The second of three volumes of this detailed history of Delaware. More
Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehard, 1994. Revised. Paperback. 6 x 9, 526 pgs, index, b&w photos. Authoritative study of the Irish Republican Army from its origins to the heavy conflict in Northern Ireland and the terrorism in England. Revised to include the peace negotiations that lead to the ceasefire in 1994..... More
New York: Scribner, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 293 pgs. This novel is a winner of the British John Creasey Award, the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure and the American Edgar Award. The author's first novel. Dust jacket knicked in places. More
New York: Harper Collins, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 263 pgs. Novel about a man remembering his time as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army in Panama twenty years earlier, and the love affair he had there. More
Hardcover. 6 x 9, 770 pgs, six color illustrations and more than six hundred black-and-white drawings. The golden age of adventure stories returns in this splendidly designed, action-packed, globetrotting tale. Combining the bravura storytelling style of Kipling with the visual appeal of a richly detailed graphic novel, it captivates the..... More
New York: New American Library, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 339 pgs. Only the strong will survive. But what does it mean to be strong? The "Smash" has been building for years--runaway national debt, escalating oil prices--but when order finally breaks down, it happens astonishingly fast. Economic collapse..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1910. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 320 pgs. Crawford's debut novel, first published in 1882, is a brilliant sketch of life in British India. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1957. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 301 pgs, b&w photos, foreword by A. Starker Leopold. The Arctic in all seasons, caribou and their environment. More
New York: Walker and Company, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 5 x 9 1/2, 240 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and illustrations. Well-researched biographical vignettes reveal the drama, humor, intrigue, murder, and romance that shaped the lives and accomplishments of the late Italians. Photographs and maps of landmark churches, cathedrals, monuments..... More
Edmonds, WA: Nor'westing, Inc., 1986. Fourth edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 239 pgs, b&w photos. Account of cruising in the sheltered waterways, anchoring every night, in the San Juan Archipelago between Washington and British Columbia in the Straight of Juan de Fuca. More
Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 2000. First printing. Paperback. 4 1/4 x 7, 120 pgs, maps. Concise descriptions and detailed maps of 23 short, easy-to-follow routes within the park. More
New York: Empire Books, 1935. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 243 pgs. In the years following the first world war, the author was a soldier of fortune in Central America, and then served as a Central American correspondent for a London paper. His experiences there led to a few fiction and..... More
Canada: Heritage House, 2007. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 191 pgs, b&w photos. In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea quest ran..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1941. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 499 pgs, mapped endsheets. Old novel of the first five years of English settlement in Australia. More
London: New Holland, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 248 pgs, index, b&w photos. Draws on the oral history archives held by the Imperial War Museum as well as original sources never previously seen in print. These include letters, diaries and first-person accounts of more than 200 members of..... More
New York: Curtis Books, 1969. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 222 pgs. The most powerful story of men against a mountain since Annapurna. More
