Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the folding map and 4 lithograph plates present. The book is bound in early leather on the spine with with raised bands. The binding is tight with some rubbing to the spine and light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with light discoloration from age. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a customer slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
BURTON, Richard. GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS or, Six Months Sick Leave.. Bentley, 1851.
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: First edition. Bound in contemporary full morocco with elaborate gilt borders to the covers, raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. In excellent condition. Charming gift inscription from one school leaver to his friend, dated 1861. Four tinted lithograph plates and a folding map Burton's first book, an account of his travels through south-west India, from Bombay to Goa, whilst on sick leave from the Indian Army in 1847.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's first book, second issue (blue, not fawn cloth), 8vo, pp. viii, 368; folding map, 4 lithograph plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g.; extremities rubbed, front hinge just starting; good and sound, or better. Prize inscription on half-title. Penzer, pp. 37-8; Casada 37: "It shows Burton's early development as a travel writer and bears all the hallmarks of his efforts in this genre."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 tinted plates (including frontis), folding map, illustrations, xxiv, 368p. Original fawn-colored cloth, rebacked with most of original backstrip mounted. Endpapers preserved with hinges professionally repaired with archival paper tape. Backstrip slightly darkened. Light cover soiling, scattered foxing. Bookplate (Burke Casari). First issue of Burton's first book. Penzer calls this first issue in fawn cloth "rare."
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.