TRAVEL BOOKS AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First edition. Photographer and designer looking for fashion ideas in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Polynesia, Samoa, etc.
Royal 8vo (24cm). (x),(234),[ii]pp. Plates. Original decorative cloth; a few very faint marks, endpapers a little browned, but a very good copy.

SOLD

London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1927). First edition. An elegant life of John Smith of Virginia (1580?-1631), soldier, explorer, admiral, colonial governor, and bestower of the name “New England” – rescue by Pocahontas and all the rest. In the “Golden Hind” series.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (xii),286,[vi]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Plates. Three maps, two folding. Original cloth; some very minor wear and a few marks, but a good and sound copy. Pencilled 1930 gift inscription to A. B. Albright – presumably Alfred Beaumont Albright (1861-1932) of Worcestershire.

£25

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43421 – or simply click on the button

London : George Routledge & Co., 1852. First edition. Promoted by the publishers as “the best book on this important country, written by a gentleman who has resided there many years”, and lauded by reviewers – “We can recommend the volume under notice as being one of the best and most instructive on the subject of Australia that has issued from the press. The concluding chapter is full of valuable and practical advice, and the success indeed of the work is best evinced by the fact of 20,000 copies having been already sold” (The Era, 15th August 1852).
Foolscap 8vo (167 x 100mm). [2],viii,216,[ii] + 16pp inserted advertisements. Folding map by John Richard Jobbins (1798-1866). Bound in a neat recent half roan, banded and ruled in gilt; tan label; marbled sides; text lightly tanned; a few minor marks, chips and creases; very faint fringe of mild discolouration to extreme outer edges of some leaves, but a good copy of a highly informative production.

£200

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46455 – or simply click on the button

Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. First edition. An account of “totalitarian Japan as it has evolved over the last ten years, the new Japan which aims to be supreme in Asia and to emerge as a partner of the Axis in a new world order”. Fleisher’s family had owned “The Japan Advertiser” and he had lived there between 1914 and 1940, also working as a correspondent of “The New York Times”, “The New York Herald Tribune”, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (xii),(346),[ii]pp. Original cloth; endpapers tanned, but otherwise a very good copy in a chipped and price-clipped Hawkins dust-jacket.

SOLD

London : Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Sketches of travel through Italy to Messina and Sicily, via Bolzano, Verona, Padua, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Naples, Capri, etc., with mention of Norman Douglas, etc. “A rich tapestry, woven with fine language in a design of poetry, fancy, and fantasy. We enjoy every glowing strand of it” (Clarion, 7th November 1924).
Crown 8vo (19cm). (xvi),(320),[iv]pp. Original black cloth, with white paper label printed in red on spine; very faint spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the original yellow dust-jacket, printed in red – just very slightly marked.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27260 – or simply click on the button

London : John Murray, (1977). First edition. On foot across Europe at the age of eighteen in the 1930s – “like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar” through Holland, Germany, Vienna, Prague, and on into Hungary – the first instalment of a famous journey reconstructed from maps, memories, and a diary – fascinating on every page. One of the twentieth-century classics – a “sublime masterpiece” (William Dalrymple).
Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],(292),[iv]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Double-page map. With the elusive errata slip – “for ‘water-hog’ read ‘water-hag’”, etc. – in duplicate. Original boards; a few very faint spots, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket by John Craxton (1922-2009) – just faintly sunned (as usual) and lightly spotted on flaps and rear panel, but still very good.

SOLD

London : William Heinemann, 1907. First edition. A charming and richly illustrated record of summer visits over five years, put together by the gifted water-colour artist Herbert Marshall and his daughter. Boulogne, Amiens, Laôn, Rheims, Soissons, Rouen, Evreux, Lisieux, Bayeux, St. Lô, Coutances, Le Mans, Angers, Tours, Blois, Chartres, Orleans, Bourges, Nevers, Moulins, Limoges, Périgeux, Angoulême, Poitiers, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Sens, Auxerre, Troyes, Meaux, Senlis, Beauvais, and Paris.
Crown 4to (24cm). x,(282),[ii]pp. Sixty tissue-guarded colour plates by Herbert Marshall. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black and blocked in gilt; some very mild rubbing and wear; some spotting, mainly to prelims and edges, but a good copy of a handsome production.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42854 – or simply click on the button

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1894. First edition. An extraordinary sequence of letters home to Scotland from Aniwa in the New Hebrides, dating from 1865 to 1889. Maggie Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the well-known missionary John G. Paton and the letters provide another slant on his own well-known autobiography.
Post 8vo (21cm). (xiv),382,[ii]pp. Frontispiece. Twenty-three photo illustrations, many full-page. Coloured map. Original cloth gilt; slightly bruised and marked; a few minor spots; just a little strained, but a very good copy.

£50

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19775 – or simply click on the button

London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, (1973). First edition. Extracts from the long-lost log-books, discovered in Guernsey along with other letters and documents, and giving a new perspective on this celebrated voyage. Edited, introduced, and with commentary by Leo Heaps.
Super royal 8vo (26cm). 264pp. Numerous illustrations; charts; facsimiles, etc., some in colour. Original imitation leather; very good in very lightly tanned dust-jacket.

£25

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28601 – or simply click on the button

London : John Murray, (1950-1961). A complete first edition set of the four volumes of Stark’s autobiography – the first volume signed by the author on the half-title. From her picaresque childhood, through her life and travels in the Arab and Persian world, to World War II – “It is difficult to know which to admire more, her vivid description of her experiences or the realism of the lessons which she draws from them ... Our future is uncontrollable if we are unable to read our past” (Sir Charles Petrie in The Illustrated London News, 28th October 1961).
Four volumes. Demy 8vo (23cm). (xiv),346; (xvi),(342),[ii]; (xvi),(288); xii,(298),[ii]pp. Numerous plates – many from the author’s own photographs; portraits; maps, some double-page, etc. Wood-engraved decorations by Reynolds Stone. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, with facsimiles of the author’s signature on upper covers; the first volume a little faded; some edge-spotting, chiefly to the final volume, but otherwise a very good set in the Frank Quilter dust-jackets – the first price-clipped, a little worn, nicked and chipped, with repairs at head; the second price-clipped, a little chipped, with repaired tears to foot at folds; the third with slight chipping at head and some repaired nicks; the fourth very good, with only a hint of wear. The first volume with the decorative bookplate of Jean A. Callander of Westwood, Falkirk, the third and fourth with unrelated inscriptions.

£500

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45856 – or simply click on the button

London : John Murray, (1966). First edition. “This is the history of the long frontier of the Euphrates through eight centuries of Roman warfare”. A panoramic survey of the power-sapping travails of Rome on the eastern outskirts of empire – the Seleucid kings, the Parthians, the Armenian wars, etc. – and a message of “the uselessness of war across a frontier whose trade was able to benefit both sides”.
Medium 8vo (23cm). (xii),(460)pp. Plates. Double-page map. Folding map at rear. Bibliography, etc. Original canvas, lettered in gilt; just a touch sunned; a few ninor marks and spots, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket price-clipped by the publisher with a revised price over-sticker, and with some very minor marking and wear, but also very good.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45967 – or simply click on the button

London : John Murray, (1963). First edition. A selection of the best of her travel and autobiographical writing, – Syria, Baghdad, Arabia, Ionia, etc. – introduced by Lawrence Durrell. “One of my favourite authors. She has that rare ability to turn a penetrating eye on both people and places and tell of them in beautiful language” (J. D. Eccles in the Surrey Mirror, 13th December 1963).
Post 8vo (21cm). xiv,(224),[ii]pp. Plates. Original turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge blue; a very good copy in the Harvey dust-jacket, price-clipped by the publisher, with a revised price over-sticker – just lightly rubbed and creased, but also very good.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39909 – or simply click on the button

Chicago : Stone & Kimball, 1895. First American edition : possibly preceding the one-volume London edition published by Methuen in November 1895. Letters from the South Seas, with an introduction by Sidney Colvin.
Two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (18cm). (282),[ii],[2]; (276),[ii],[2]pp. Frontispieces (one an etched portrait of Stevenson by William Strang). Original green buckram, ruled and lettered in gilt; top edges gilt; just a hint of rubbing; just a touch dulled, but a very good set, housed in a jaunty protective patterned-paper slip-case. Prideaux 42.

£50

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 23751 – or simply click on the button

London : George Allen & Unwin, (1934). First edition. A handsomely illustrated journal of a pre Great War world tour by the publisher Stanley Unwin and his companion. The tour takes in Rhodesia, South Africa, Australia (Adelaide & Melbourne), Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, New Guinea, the Philippines, Japan, etc.
Medium 8vo (24cm). (512)pp. Plates. Original cloth; a very good copy in a very clean dust-jacket – price-clipped and just slightly nicked.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12793 – or simply click on the button

New York : Macmilllan Co., 1932. First edition in English. Hunting for gold and furs, principally in Arctic Siberia and the Yukon. Forword by Karel Capek. Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated by Paul Selver from the original Czech edition of 1930. “Welzl’s great virtue was that he could adapt himself to all new conditions, even bad ones. When the notion of mining coal occurred to him, he cheerfully bought a number of Eskimo girls from their fathers, and set them to work like slaves” (Daily News, 23rd March 1932).
Demy 8vo (23cm). 336pp. Folding map. Original cloth gilt; top edge orange; a few edge spots, a little sunned; small nick in upper cover, but otherwise a very good and sound copy in the Amberger dust-jacket – the jacket nicked, chipped and lightly sunned.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17541 – or simply click on the button

London : George Allen & Unwin, (1933). First edition in English. The sequel to “Thirty Years in the Golden North” – hunting for gold and furs, principally in Arctic Alaska and Canada. Introduction by Bedrich Golombek and Edvard Valenta. Translated from the original Czech edition of 1930 by Marie & Robert Weatherall. “Every whit as racy as its predecessor” (Truth, 19th April 1933).
Demy 8vo (23cm). 352pp. Original canvas; spine a little mottled, but otherwise a very good copy in a lightly tanned dust-jacket.

£40

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15147 – or simply click on the button

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (2001). First edition. A sixteen-year sojourn in Paris, wandering “through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians ... an exhilarating adventure with a most seductive companion”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). [x],(212),[ii]pp. Endpaper maps. Original pictorial boards; a few faint marks, but still very good in the matching dust-jacket – also very good.

£20

To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44452 – or simply click on the button