First US edition. Fonseca and Carolino’s inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things... "Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written" ... A book of "miraculous stupidities." "The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language." Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke...the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook.....

A short travelog of a Japanese Christian minister's visit to the United States to attend the World Sunday School Convention, in July 1928. Miura gives a brief report on the convention and then details his travels, visiting cities and natural landmarks, as well as Japanese communities. [4], [10 leaves, each.....

First Edition. This is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by McMurtry, and issued by his local bookstore. For a number of years, Three Dog Books put out these limited editions using the trade edition of the book to which they added an ink stamp limitation statement. This is, I......

First Edition. A travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in.....

First Edition. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good copy with some shelf.....

First Edition. A business-oriented travel guide to the United States with additional sections devoted to Europe, South America, and Cuba. The book offers advice on obtaining permission to travel (a somewhat difficult endeavor given anti-Japanese sentiment in the US), information on traveling by rail across America, recommended hotels for entrepreneurs.....

"A guide to America which provides general information as well as specific facts on the American educational system, matriculation requirements, and curricula, especially of colleges and universities. The appendix consists of a list of selected American colleges and universities."—A Buried Past, 113. The author may be Rippo Eitaro Iijima, a......

First Edition. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French.....

First Edition. "A collection of miscellaneous essays on America intended as a guide. All the essays first appeared in the Tobei Zasshi. A 12-page section on English conversation is appended."—A Buried Past, 131. Tobei Zasshi (America-Bound Magazine), was "the official organ of the Tobei Kyokai (Association for the America-Bound), an.....

First Edition. One of the most influential books on the Challenger space shuttle disaster and a notable work on the sociology of decision-making. According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited 5000 times in the academic literature. Vaughn is a professor of sociology at Columbia University. 575 pages. First.....

First Edition. Volume three only of this series. The contents are "Diary of Sarah White Smith (Mrs. Asa B. Smith); Letters of Asa B. Smith; and Other Documents Relating to the 1838 Reenforcement of the Oregon Mission." Published in the series First White Women Over the Rockies: Diaries, Letters, and.....

51 pages. 6-1/2 by 9 inches. Colophon with a printed limitation of 150 copies. A critical transcription of Christopher Columbus's journal entries regarding his time in Cuba with words and phrases crossed out by hand to indicate the corrections made by Bartolome de las Casas. This selection from Columbus's "Derrotero o......

First Edition. An inspirational book by a marathoner and mountain climber. 225 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed, "To Brian! Mitch Lewis."