Chronicles Abroad, First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark green boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This handsome book is a collection of stories and essays concerning modern Cairo. It is 175 pages in length. This copy is in mint condition. Photographs are available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1994 1st ed. 229pp. hardback 16mo: Very Good in a near Fine dj [top edge spot; ink signature; else a nice crisp copy] 14 tales of Hong Kong by writers ranging from Ian Fleming to W. H. Auden.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; anthology of articles/essays by Leo Tolstoy; Nina Berberova; John Reed; Tatyana Tolstaya; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Edmund Wilson, et al; dj w/unclipped price; 244 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 247pp. An anthology of Czech writing incl. Vaclav Havel, Kafka, Milan Kundera etc.

Hardcover. Condition: as is. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. ix, [1], 175, [7] pages. This is one of the Publisher's Chronicles Abroad series. Contributions by Rudyard Kipling--Preface, Naguib Mahfouz--Blessed Night; Alexandre Kinglake--Cairo and the Plague, Alifa Rifaat--Mansoura, William Burroughs--The Western Lands; Beryl Markham--West with the Night; William Thackeray--To Cairo; Yehia Hakki--An Empty Bed; Michael Palin--Cairo; and Lawrence Of Arabia--Home Letters. A rare quality escape from this publisher. The pagination goes 1-6, 23-38, 23-175. Thus pages 7-22 appear to be missing and pages 23-38 appear twice. Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, al-Q hirah, was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th-16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site status in 1979.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Chronicle Books, 1995 First Edition Hardcover and Jacket As New. 1995 Anthology of stories and essays about Istanbul in the "Chronicles Abroad " series covering many periods and multiple authors--Herman Melville, Simone de Beauvoir, Gore Vidal, Mary Lee Settle, Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Palin, Joseph Brodskey, Bahloal Dana, Ottaviano Bon, Gulten Akin, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alev Lytle Groutier, Nabi Efendi, J.F.Packard, Nazim Hikmet. 190 pages. 6.25 x 5 inches. 1995, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 1994. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped ($12.95). Collection of writing about Czechoslovakia and Bohemia by international authors including Vaclav Havel, Janet Malcolm, Milan Kundera, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Skvorecky, Franz Kafka, etc. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. xiii, 248pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is As New crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is also As New, fresh and bright. Essays about Berlin by noted writers in a handy travel-size format. 16mo. 211 pp. In protective Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st US Edition. Istanbul an anthology of stories and essays about Istanbul in the 'Chronicles Abroad ' series covering many periods and multiple travellers and writers. Joseph Brodsky/ Bahloal Dana/ Mary Lee Settle / Ottaviano Bon / Herman Melville/ Gülten Akin / Michael Palin / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / Anonymous/ Alev Lytle Croutier/ Benjamin Disraeli / Simone de Beauvoir/ Yousouf Efendi/ J.F. Packard / Gore Vidal/ Nazim Hikmet. 190p.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($13.95 price intact). Published by Chronicle Books, 1996. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 211 pages. ISBN: 9780811810814. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 6.1 X 4.8 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. Format is approximately 4.875 b7 6.25 inches. x, [2], 211, [1] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Includes a Preface by Vladimir Nabokov and selections from: Bertolt Brecht, Marie Vassiltchikov, Alfred Doblin, Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, Marcellus Schiffer, Bennett Owen, Lillian Helman, Karl Badeker, Christopher Isherwood, Josephine Baker, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Christa Wolf. In one pocket-sized volume, Berlin collects the best fiction and nonfiction about the city from an array of writers of international stature. From chanteuse Josephine Baker on her second adopted home to playwright Bertolt Brecht on the decline of the Weimar Republic, and including an excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, a resident's 1989 account of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a description of Berlin from the 1912 edition of a Baedeker guide (written by Karl Baedeker himself), Berlin is an engaging literary stroll through a remarkable city. Authors like Franz Kakfa, Lillian Hellman or Vladimir Nabokov, between other great ones, show us their feelings and impressions of a city that has been part of so many important moments in world history.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a fine dj. Features stories by Cristina Garcia, Fidel Castro, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene & others.; 240 pages.

hardcover. First Printings ea. uniform design, ea dj has a sepia-style image on front; Venice ('94): purple boards & endpapers, 165 pgs, 14 contributors; Cairo ('94): dark green, 175 pgs, 10; Venice ('94): purple, 163 pgs, 14; St. Petersburg ('94): blue, 144 pgs, 14; Prague ('94): black, 248 pgs, 11); Hong Kong ('94): red, 230 pgs, 14; Istanbul ('95): red, 190 pgs, 16; Havana ('96): yellow, 240 pgs, 16; Berlin ('96): blue, 211 pgs, 15. edited by John & Kirsten Miller; also Tim Smith & Susannah Clark. various translators fine copies in fine dust jackets.