New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 109 pages. Rare book by the Father of the Boy Scouts, reviewing the positive roles played by such organizations in fostering healthy, happy, and helpful citizens of nations and the world. Bound in black cloth over boards..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First edition. Black and white photographs. Full cloth. Small quarto. xiv, 492 pages. Observations and impressions by an American woman's who was with Ambassador Horace Porter's party on a diplomatic visit to Turkey. Dodd stayed at the Sultan's Yildiz Palace at Constantinople. Illustrated..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Black & white photographs, map. Full cloth. Octavo. 198 pages. Vivid account of an American woman's trek through the Forbidden Land, crossing the Himalaya twice--from the Eastern and Western sides--accompanied only by native servants. Ms. Merrick was the most..... More
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., (1929). Early reprint. Black and white drawings by Alexander King. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 3-336 pages. Willie Seabrook, born in Westminster, Maryland, was an adventurer, World War I ambulance driver, occultist, and ex-pat writer whose friends included Aleister Crowley, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e...... More