Books on exploration and travel capture some of history’s greatest journeys. From global travel narratives to polar expedition and Everest mountaineering accounts, our books record courage, endurance, and discovery. They reflect experiences shaped by extreme and unforgettable environments.
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Vita Sackville-West – Twelve Days – First Edition 1928
£150.00A first edition, first printing of Twelve Days published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London in 1928. Bound in the publisher’s original marbled cloth, with gilt…
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Piers Paul Read – ALIVE – First UK Edition 1974 – SIGNED
£385.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Alive’ published The Alison Press [with] Secker and Warburg in 1974. A near fine book with spotting to the top edge and some light…
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Ernest Shackleton – SOUTH – First UK Edition 1919 – with the rare Heinemann Advertising Postcard
£3,000.00A first edition, first printing of ‘South’ published by Heinemann in 1919. A very good book with a little fading to the titles on the spine. Corners rubbed and a…
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Douglas Mawson – SIGNED Letter
£1,250.00A fine letter to E. Stanley Jones from Douglas Mawson, on the paper of the Royal Societies Club, St James’s Street SW1, dated 11 March 1929, written in blue ink…
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Theodore Howard Somervell – SIGNED Letter
£375.00A fine letter addressed to E. Stanley Jones from T. Howard Somervell on headed paper from Skyefold, Ambleside, Westmorland in blue ink on white paper, free from creases.
In full: ‘Dear…
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James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – First Edition 1979
£45.00First edition, first printing. Published by Michael Joseph in London, 1979. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper suffers from some very slight toning to the top edge;…
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Daniel Defoe – A Tour Through The Whole Island of Great Britain – First Folio Edition 2006
£65.00First edition, first printing of the Folio Society edition 2006. Near fine in slipcase. One Volume in slipcase. Large 8vo., 430pp. Beautiful First Folio Printing. Bound in green cloth with…
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Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia – First Folio Edition 2016
£60.00First edition, first printing of the Folio Society edition 2016 – First Edition thus, with frontispiece, pictorial boards, grey cloth with yellow trim, back lettered in silver, a fine copy…
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Joe Simpson – Touching The Void – First Folio Edition 2008
£50.00A first Folio Society edition, first printing of Touching The Void, published by The Folio Society, London in 2008. A fine copy free from inscriptions, in a very good black…
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William R. Anderson – Nautilus 90 North – First Edition 1959 – With Portrait SIGNED by Anderson
£275.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Nautilus 90 North’ published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. A good book with fairly heavy spotting to the page edges and some rough…
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Joan Blaeu – Scotia and Hibernia
£125.00The ATLAS MAIOR, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque, was brought out in 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland’s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in…
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Betty James – London On A Sunday; A Sort of Guide Book – First Edition 1964
£45.00A first edition, first printing of ‘London on a Sunday’ by Betty James, published by Batsford, London in 1964, with drawings by John Cooper. A near fine copy, boards bound…
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Thor Heyerdahl – The Kon-Tiki Expedition – First Folio Society Edition 1996
£95.00First edition, first printing of the Folio Society edition 1996 – First Edition thus, with frontispiece, pictorial boards, oatmeal cloth back lettered in brown, map endpapers, a fine copy in…
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John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Alfred Gregory
£485.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1953. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a very good, lightly nicked dust wrapper with some light fading…
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Colin Thubron – To A Mountain In Tibet – SIGNED First Edition 2011
£45.00A first edition, first printing of To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron, published by Chatto & Windus, London in 2011. A fine copy signed, inscribed and dated in…
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Colin Thubron – Distance – SIGNED First Edition 1996
£45.00A first edition, first printing of Distance by Colin Thubron, published by Heinemann, London in 1996. A fine copy inscribed by the author in black ink to the title page,…
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