Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, two-tone cloth, very good, some mild stains to rear endpapers. 355 pp. On Mexico. Ballou was a Boston based journalist, editor and publisher. In the 1880s and 1890s he authored several travel books, covering Alaska, Russia, Cuba, India, South America, Australia, Tasmania.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c. 1910. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing, c. 1910. Hardcover, original brown cloth, illustration in gilt and black. 373 pp. Previous owner's signature to the fly leaf, otherwise a sharp, square, clean copy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1890. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Fifth edition, 1890, hardcover with green cloth boards, octavo, 352pp., not illustrated. Book good with soil and rubbing to boards, mild wear to corners and spine ends, binding tender, previous seller's stamp and price to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked.....