Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Janney, Werner
Da: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: Good. Green, illustrated paper covers with stapled binding; mild wear; spine is darkened/discolored; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 98 pages.
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Bright, lightly soiled wraps with small holiday wreath sticker affixed to top rear. Tight binding, gift inscription to previous owner on front end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. Signed on half title page by Werner L. Janney. Signed by Editor.
Editore: EPM Publications, McLean, VA, 1978
Da: Books Etc., Christiansburg, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 091444025X 142pp. Signed by Asa Moore Janney. Digest size (5.5" x 8.25"). Book is not quite perfectly square. (43333).
Editore: EPM, McLean, 1978
Da: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Softcover. Condizione: Fine in illustrated wraps. 8vo., 142 pp. Appendix, Bibliography.
Editore: X-High, 1994
Da: Berryville Old Book Shop, Berryville, VA, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Staplebound. Second printing. 98 pgs. Signed by Asa Moore Janney. Good+ staplebound softcover copy. Shelfworn covers. (517).
Editore: Lincoln, Virginia, 1980
Da: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. Centger-stapled softcover in pale green covers printed in black 98 pages clean and unmarked, signed by Asa Moore Janney on page 3, at end of introduction. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Werner Janney, 1984
Da: Marbus Farm Books, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Used: Very Good. 2nd printing. Staplebound Softcover, light shelfwear to covers with small price on rear. Contents clean and tight. 98 pages, bibliography, b&w illus.
Editore: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1965
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Wraps. Condizione: Good. B. Anthony Stewart, Emory Kristof, Robert S. Oakes (illustratore). Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 54 pages. Approximately 7 inches by 9 inches. Illustrations (some in color). Diagram. Illustrated cover. List of publications. Cover has some wear and soiling. Somewhat shaken. This appears to have been prepared for the opening of Explorers Hall. Melville Bell Grosvenor wrote in the introductory narrative "My pulse quickened to think that soon we would open our doors to an exciting new museum of science and exploration. Each exhibit would demonstrate, in color, sound, and motion, a milestone in man's conquest of earth, sea, and sky. To each visitor Explorers Hall would be a personal adventure of discovery, and this souvenir guidebook, a passport to that adventure." The National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. The National Geographic Society's logo is a yellow portrait frame - rectangular in shape - which appears on the margins surrounding the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo. It also operates a website that features extra content and worldwide events. A guide book is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included. Different kinds of guide books exist, focusing on different aspects. A forerunner of the guidebook was the periplus, an itinerary from landmark to landmark of the ports along a coast. A periplus such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was a manuscript document that listed, in order, the ports and coastal landmarks, with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore. This work was possibly written in the middle of the 1st century CE. It served the same purpose as the later Roman itinerarium of road stops.The periegesis, or "progress around" was an established literary genre during the Hellenistic age. A lost work by Agaclytus describing Olympia ( ) is referred to by the Suda and Photius. Dionysius Periegetes (literally, Dionysius the Traveller) was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style, intended for the klismos traveller rather than the actual tourist on the ground; he is believed to have worked in Alexandria and to have flourished around the time of Hadrian. An early "remarkably well-informed and interesting guidebook" was the Hellados Periegesis (Descriptions of Greece) of Pausanias of the 2nd century A.D. This most famous work is a guide to the interesting places, works of architecture, sculpture, and curious customs of Ancient Greece, and is still useful to Classicists today. With the advent of Christianity, the guide for the European religious pilgrim became a useful guidebook. An early account is that of the pilgrim Egeria, who visited the Holy Land in the 4th century CE and left a detailed itinerary. In the medieval Arab world, guide books for travelers in search of ancient Near Eastern artifacts, monuments and treasures were written by Arabic treasure hunters and alchemists. This was particularly the case in Arab Egypt, where ancient Egyptian antiquities were highly valued.
Da: Boomer's Books, Weare, NH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Clean and tight, showing light shelf and edge wear. Lower front corner of card cover has a partial crease. Signed by Editor Asa Janney. ; Signed by Editor.
Editore: At the Sign of the Pied Typer, 1992
Da: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Softcover booklet. Tan paper wraps with black lettering and map on front cover. Title page dated 1992. 22 pages. In good condition. 22 pages. In good condition. Cover is a bit toned, but otherwise clean and sharp. Binding is tight, comprised of a few stitches through the entire booklet and cover. First and last page a bit discolored from contact with covers. The rest of the pages are clean and bright. Overall free of marks, tears, or folds. Hand-drawn map of Rock Hill at centerfold.
Editore: The Sign of the Pied Typer, 1973
Da: Marbus Farm Books, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Staplebound Softcover, light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 53 pages.