No. 2 in Erik Kessels series of books featuring found vernacular photographs. This being a remarkable series of photographs taken by a taxi driver of one passenger, always seated in the lone taxi, and taken from a distance. The passenger and the taxi are pictured in front of mountains, fields, sunsets, city squares, highway rest stops and roadsides. What were they doing there? Who was she and why did she travel like this? Scarce.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear.
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A rare copy of Lum's 1930s travel guide to Japan, written and illustrated by the artist under the pseudonym 'Berll Lum' for Canadian Pacific Railway. Having spent time in Japan learning traditional printing techniques, Lum’s guide offers vignettes of what she considered the most important and interesting sights to see in Japan at the time, complemented by beautiful illustrations in both color and black and white. Lum, who had a background in printmaking from the Art Institute of Chicago, first traveled to Japan on her honeymoon in 1903. During.....
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Mt. Omei (also Emei) in China has been a major religious site and "holy mountain" for over fifteen hundred years. Early Western visitors wrote descriptions of their experiences with the site, but Dryden Phelps (Professor of English Literature at West China Union University) went much further and translated the Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook, a Chinese-language guide first published in 1891. This 1936 translation and "new edition" features the original Chinese text with an English translation and annotations. The woodblock plates from the original guide were destroyed or missing, so the.....
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The 1970 first printing of this "documented source book on the supersonic transport planes now being developed and the sonic booms they would produce". A polemic against the Concorde and supersonic transport detailing the harms to animals, people and the environment. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Very Good+, minor age toning to paper.
Item #828

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