I get booksellers' e-newsletters and paper catalogs and run across interesting travel-related items from time to time. Many are on remainder sites so "quantities are limited" but when a post is fresh here, you'll likely get it if you want it.
Spotted today in the Daedalus Books catalog is one by Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing, "a dissident's eye-view of the world's most secretive superpower, observing, "Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end." Sale price, $2.98
An Island in Time, The Biography of a Village, by Geert Mak. "This... town has more in common with an English village than with Amsterdam, and... Mak moved there to observe close-up how small-town life all across Europe was changing,...and the residents struggled to preserve their cherished way of life." $4.98
More from Daedalus: Nature in the South of France, sleeping in Spanish monasteries, Rome, Venetian gardens, Paris, Prague, Ireland, and an atlas of France.