Introduction by Bernard de Voto. This is a reduced-size facsimile of the 1904-1905 edition (Arno also issued a deluxe edition, limited to 750 copies). The Thwaites edition is printed from the original manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark from other.....

First Edition. Travelog of the author's cruise through Monte Carlo, Portofino, Leghorn, the Bay of Naples, Capri, and Corsica. Illustrated throughout the text and with four full-color plates. Bemelmans, best known for his Madeline series of picture books, also wrote novels and nonfiction books. First edition (first printing). A very.....

First Edition. Technically the second edition of Shirase Nobu's biography (1861–1946), including an account of the Chishima Islands expedition in the Arctic, as well as of the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which Shirase led from 1910 to 1912. The first edition of this book was reproduced from typescript in 1940.....

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.....

First Edition. An uncommon account of travel to Australasia. The Scottish author was prominent in the early Christadelphian movement and edited The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898. This travelogue, which includes much theological commentary, has been published several times in the 20th century; this original edition is uncommon. [4].....

First Edition. A comic account of of life on a cruise ship, written by the captain with the help of the mystery writer John D. MacDonald. "The least common of [MacDonald's] late-career hardcovers"—Firsts Magazine, Nov. 2002. 305 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good.....

First Edition. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today.....

First Edition. Commodore Perry's correspondance written during his historic two-year expedition to Japan, which led to the opening of the island nation to the West. This is the first publication of Perry's dispatches detailing his observations on Japan at a time when it was very little known in the United.....