Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1925 Hardcover Reprint. Many sellers incorrectly identify this edition as the first edition. It is not. The first US edition was published by Boni & Liveright in 1925. This edition has the same size and contents (but without the 8 color plates) as the Boni edition but has different covers. Original beige cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration front cover, dark brown letterng and emblem spine. The book has some darking to spine areas where the DJ is lacking, generally clean covers, EP cracked paper at hinge but hinge is quite strong with solid mesh, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, solid binding. The original dust jacket lacks the top 7cm of the front panel, lacks bottom 4cm and top 3cm of spine. The book measures 248mm tall x 171mm, and has 544 pages, 165 b/w sketch illustrations by author, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
Hedin, Sven. My Life as an Explorer. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xi, 544p, ills. Spine faded, title page slightly soiled, interior pages clean and bright.
Seller: Yak and Yeti Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hedin, Sven. My Life as an Explorer. Boni & Liveright, New York, NY, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 544 pp. Tightly bound. A little bit of rounding to the corners but not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. Bound in medium brown cloth. Translated by Alfhild Huebsch. With illustrations by the author including color frontispiece and in-text black and white drawings. Illustrated end papers. The cloth on the spine shows light fading / discoloration. The title page states 1925. The copy right page states 1925 with no later printing history provided. Presumed First Edition / First Printing.
Seller: Book Bear, West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Sven Hedin. My Life as an Explorer. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 544pp. Bound in brown cloth. Translated by Alfhild Huebsch. With illustrations by the author including color frontispiece and in-text black and white drawings. Illustrated endpapers. Sun toning to the spine and front cover. Previous owner's bookplate and small date stamp on front fixed endpaper.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HEDIN, Sven. MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1925.
Price: US$76.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. xi, 15-544. Index. Illustrated by the author, 8 colour plates (incl. frontis.) & numerous text illus. translated from the Swedish by Alfhild Huebsch. Tan cloth stamped in gilt. Hinges tender, cover faded, scuffed, and somewhat worn at edges, o/w VG.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Sven Hedin. My Life as an Explorer. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG First US Edition lacking DJ.tight, clean & unmarked with all plates as called for.spine slightly darkened, boards a little rubbed
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$119.60 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 17x24cm, 544pp. Good condition in brown cloth (no dustwrapper). General light wear and scuff marks. Creased at spine. Sun-faded at spine and upper edges. Bumped at corners. Partial narrow line along the LH edge of the inside front cover where free uncut edge of the half-title has adhered slightly. Age-toned pages, with some foxing at upper and lower edges.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sven Hedin. My Life as an Explorer. Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Boni and Liveright, New York, NY, 1925. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. NYC: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 1st edition, NF/G+. No DJ Illustrated with 165 textual drawings, 8 colored plates, end-papers all done by Hedin. Includes index. Hedin was one of the great explorers of Central Asia, Tibet and the Himalayan region in the early part of the 2oth century. brown cloth boards with gilt tibetan decoration on cover, tight, clean fine condition A3
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 544p large octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in tan cloth. Dated 1925 but much later. Original edition was published by Boni and Liveright. This copy inscribed by Wiley Post the first pilot to fly around the world solo. Inscribed by Post in 1935 to aviation pioneer Will D Parker in 1935. Parker built his own plane in 1912 and flew with a British unit in World War 1
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
HEDIN Sven. MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER. Boni & Liveright, NY 1st US Edition, 1925.
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Description: Hb original brown cloth xi,544pp coloured frontis and mono illustrations by the author SIGNED Presentation plate tipped in to fep ÒTo Mr & Mrs Johannes Hovring from their friend Sven HedinÓ Spine lightly rubbed o/w A Vg copy
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hedin, Sven. My Life as an Explorer. Boni and Liveright, New York, NY, 1925.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 1st edition, NF/G+. Book has some color fading and wear to edges. DJ is price clipped, very worn & chipped at top of spine affecting the words "My Life", worn & chipped on lower spine to a much lesser extent, corners worn & chipped, wear to folds, wear and some small closed tears along other edges, bookplate on rear paste-down, some soiling along top edge of rear flap. Illustrated with 165 textual drawings, 8 colored plates, end-papers and the entire dust jacket, all done by Hedin. Includes index. Hedin was one of the great explorers of Central Asia, Tibet and the Himalayan region in the early part of the 2oth century. This could be the ultimate arm-chair travel book and I have read many. Nice copy, extremely rare in the original dust jacket, geat gift. 544pp.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.