|
Lofthouse, Jessica
The Curious Traveller Through Lakeland (Signed By Author)
Signed by author on front end paper. Also small neat sticker from previous owner on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 199pp.
|
|
|
Scott, Don & Cooper, J. W. T. (editor)
The Nature of Hampstead Heath
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright slightly marked front board and no bumping to corners. 62pp.
|
|
|
Molony, Eileen (editor)
Portraits of Rivers
Ex Boots library book with marks only to covers, none to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with maroon boards and no bumping to corners. 139pp. With features on eleven British rivers by eleven well-known authors, including the Itchen by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, the Severn by Brian Waters and the Thames by Laurie Lee.
|
|
|
Marsden, Barry M
The Early Barrow-Diggers
Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp. Illustrated.
|
|
|
Knowles, Arthur
Lakeland Today
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Missing front end paper, otherwise book is 'fine'. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to upper and lower edges. 192pp. A study of the English Lake District through the eyes of one who has known and loved it since early childhood and who lives and works there.
|
|
|
Edwards, Tudor
The Ancient Stones of England
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or creased with very slight marking to rear and small tear near top of spine. 224pp. Archaeology and English history.
|
|
|
Barton, R. M.
Cornwall's Structure and Scenery : The Making of the Cornish Landscape
Booklet in mint condition. 48pp. Undated. ca 1960s. Price 3/6d.
|
|
|
The Editor
Mersey Valley : Report of Survey and Issues : 21 Enclosures
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. pp. A Mersey Valley Planning multiple enclosure publication comprising Report of Survey and Issues (48 pages - fine condition), Report or Survey and Issues Summary (7 pages), The Need for a Local Plan (leaflet), River Valleys Local Planning Framework (leaflet), Map of Study Area (A3 - Ordnance Survey), Maps of indivdual areas and policies (15 separate maps, each A3 - Ordnance Survey). All enclosures in a card folder which is a little rubbed. Very scarce.
|
|
|
The Editor
Archaeologia Cantiana : being Transactions of the Kent Archaeological Society : Volume XXX
A very small amount of underlining in ink, probably only to one page, plus a few interesting notes in pencil. Foxing to end papers and slightly to page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with lightly marked boards, rubbing with small nicks to spine ends and rubbing to corners. Clear gilt embossing to front and to spine. The fold-out maps and plans in excellent condition. The eight large maps and plans in the rear pocket all present and also in excellent condition. 95 + 340pp.
|
|
|
Darby, Ben
Journey Through the Weald
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 207pp. A descriptive, historical, geological, natural, architectural tour of the Weald from Romney Marsh to the village of Selbourne.
|
|
|
Stetka, Jan
From Fort to Field : The Shaping of the Landscape of Bakewell in the 10th Century
Book appears to be in mint unread condition. 104pp. The story of the rediscovery of a Saxon stronghold near Bakewell in Derbyshire and the farming which supported it. It was constructed under King Edward the Elder in AD 920 in order to secure the cooperation of the Vikings in a united England. Extremely scarce.
|
|
|
Lloyd, Christopher
The Search for the Niger
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slightly dusty rear, tiny nick to upper rear edge and rubbing to front. 220pp. The author tells the amazing story of the search for the River Niger. Its source was well known, so did it simply evaporate in the Sahara ? He explains how the mystery was solved and the river shown to flow first north-east, then east and finally south-east to the Bight of Biafra.
|
|
|
Demangeon, A. ; Laborde, E. D. (translated and revised by)
The British Isles
Ex high school library book with stamps to front end papers only. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight fading to spine foot, slight dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped with . a few small repairs and piece missing from upper front corner. 434pp. Revised edition of the classic work on the physical, economic and human geography of Britain.
|
|
|
Gibbons, Garry
Historic Places of Britain
Inscription to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 96pp. Beautiful capioned photographs from around Britain.
|
|
|
Hobbs, J. S.
Maps and Regions : An Introductory Course Volume One
Ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing and no bumping to corners. 143pp. An introduction to maps and regions.
|
|
|
Stevenson, I. P. and Gaunt, G, D.
Geology of the Country Around Chapel en le Frith: Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 99, New Series (British Geological Survey Memoirs)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, slight dustiness to page edges, slight bumping to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with rubbing and small nicks to edges and corners and very slight soiling. A fair number of fold-out diagrams in perfect condition apart from a small tear to one. 444pp. Detailed geology of this area of Derbyshire within the Peak District limestone. Coloured frontispiece. Illustrated with black & white photos.
|
|
|
Wolbling, Jutta
Die Wesermarsch von Oben
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of soft front cover. Rear cover is sunned stiff card. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. Single-sided with interleaved tissue. 16pp. Aerial views of Weser Marsh in northern Germany. All text in German.
|
|
|
Edlin, Herbert L.
New Forest : Forestry Commission Guide
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright slightly faded unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 99pp. Early official guide to the New Forest covering its history, geology, nature and topography.
|
|
|
Butcher, Dave
High Light (Signed By Author/Photographer)
Signed on title page by Dave Butcher. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 64pp. A series of stunning monochrome landscape images of mountains and high places in Britain and throughout the world taken by the author.
|
|
|
Whiteman, Robin & Talbot, Rob
Lakeland Landscapes
Inscription opposite half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks/slight creasing to top of spine. 160pp. Superb photographical work on England's Lake District.
|
|
|
Redhead, Brian
Manchester : A Celebration
Signed on title page by William Egerton, Lord Mayor of Manchester May 1883. No other inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to middle of upper and lower front edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 168pp. Manchester was where the atom was split, the computer was developed, the first passenger railway station was built and where Mr Rolls met Mr Royce. This book is a unique ovation for Manchester in stunning photographs previously unseen, a record of how by 1993 it came to be the city leading Britain towards the twenty-first century.
|
|
|
Roy Millward; Adrian Robinson
South East England: Channel Coastlands (Landscapes of Britain)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with label removal mark to front and well rubbed front. 208pp. A study of the evolution of the scenery of Britain considered both from the physical and historical points of view. This volumes looks at south-eastern England. There are then twelve local studies, chosen to illustrate the region in depth.
|
|
|
John, Liana
Amazonia: Olhos De Satelite (The Amazon: A Satellite's Eye View)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, tiny rubs to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears to slightly curled edges. 143pp. A lavish coloured study of the River Amazon from the air alongside its nature, its peoples and its features at ground level. Text in English, French and Portuguese.
|
|
|
Rob Talbot; Robin Whiteman
The Yorkshire Moors and Dales (Country)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Some of England's finest examples of both natural and man-made scenery, photographed in colour by Rob Talbot and described from historical, geographical and natural perspectives by Robin Whiteman.
|
|
|
National Rivers Authority
The Mersey Estuary: A Report on Environmental Quality (Water Quality)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 43pp. Detailed scientific report on the quality of the River Mersey in the 1990s. Scarce.
|
|
|
Price, Robert J.
Highland Landforms
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 109pp. The geology and geography of the Scottish Highlands. Well illustrated in black & white.
|
|
|
Andro Linklater
Measuring America
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 312pp. The story of how the US Congress surveyed and sold the land to the west of the Ohio river in 1785. This was the greatest property deal of all time and led to the the imposition of the well-known current grid system on the unmapped land.
|
|
|
Jim Perrin
River Map (River Dee)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 58pp. A prose and photographic study of the River Dee on its way from the Welsh mountains to the sea, season by season.
|
|
|
Carter, C. F. (editor)
Manchester and Its Region
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to spine ends, clear gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with two tiny nicks to lower rear edge. Fold-out map of University in excellent condition. Twenty-nine mostly double plates plus 265pp.
|
|
|
Silson, Anthony
The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Starting when West Yorkshire was just emerging from under a sea, about sixty million years ago, this study shows how the landscape has developed, in particular over the last 7,000 years from the effects of people changing the area.
|
|
|
Bettey, J. H.
The Landscape of Wessex
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with faint indenting to both front and rear and nick to top of spine. 168pp. A topographical, geographic and geological account of the old kingdom of Wessex covering major parts of southern England.
|
|
|
The Editor
Recreation in the South Pennines: An Interim Report
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to corners. A very clean very tight copy with lightly rubbed boards, slightly marked rear and no bumping to corners. All ten maps tucked in at the rear in excellent condition. Maps plus 79pp. A study of the leisure, recreation and tourist interests of the South Pennines area from Carleton in the north down to Holmfirth in the south.
|
|
|
Karoly Szelenyi
Tokaj: Countryside in Changing Light
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards with fainly intented rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with faintly indented rear. Unpaginated pp. A pictorial account of the Hungarian regions of Bodrogkoz, Hegyalja, Hegykos and the Tokaj Hills. Almost all text in English, a little in Hungarian. With 136 colour plates, many full or double page. Scarce in the UK.
|
|
|
Lock, Alice (editor)
Denton in Old Photographs
New Book. 48pp. A collection of photographs with accompanying text of the Denton district of Tameside, Greater Manchester, formerly in Lancashire, mainly from the early years of the 20th century, but some go back to the later 1800's. Subjects covered include Coal Mining, Wire Works and Hat Works (for which Denton was particularly famous), Oldham's Batteries, Denton Jail and Denton Hall, early street scenes and school groups, a major fire and the Council on Jubilee Day 1897.
|
|
|
Dunn, Michael C.
Walking Through the Lake District
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 222pp. Specially designed for fellwalkers, this guide to the walks in Cumbria's Lake District provides seven walks to tackle, ranging from 15 miles to a seven-day walk of 88 miles around the Lakeland Horseshoe.
|
|
|
West, Richard
River of Tears: the Rise of the Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little sunning. 201pp. An account of one of the largest mining companies in the world, the London based Rio Tinto-Zinc (RTZ). The book charts the drastic alteration of land and culture which occurs wherever RTZ's mining takes place.
|
|
|
Gaia Vince
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 436pp. A survey of life on Earth as we experience the changes we are inflicting on the planet in this new Anthropcene era. Illustrated.
|
|
|
The Editor
Northern Ireland : The Land of Delightful Scenery : Camera Studies
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing adjacent to spine. A clean tight copy with slightly marked slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 42pp. Forty coloured photographs of Northern Ireland from the 1940s all in excellent condition.
|
|
|
Gatrell, Anthony C.
Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective (Contemporary Problems in Geography S.)(Signed By Author)
Inscription from Tony on front end paper - likely the author. No other marks. Light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to lower corner. 195pp. A detailed study of the many different concepts of distance and space including sets and relations, travel times, separation costs, social relations, maps and cognitive distance.
|
|
|
Schwarz, E. H. L.
The Kalahari or Thirstland Redemption
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean tight pages with dusty very slightly marked slightly bumped boards, a little foxing and with rubbing to ends of sunned spine. Three fold-out maps in very good condition. 163pp. A study of the Kalahari Scheme designed to bring irrigation and drinking water back to the region where lakes and rivers are slowly drying up. Undated but 1919 is mentioned in the text as the latest drought data.
|
|
|
Singleton, David
The North West : Land for Leisure
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A clean tight copy with no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slightly faded spine. 96pp. How our growing leisure time is changing the landscape of the region. Focus on England's North West
|
|
|
Marc Bekoff
Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence
Book in as new mint condition. 198pp. The auther applies the concept of rewilding to human attitudes. He invites readers to do the essential work of becoming re-enchanted with the world, acting from the inside out, and dissolving false boundaries to truly connect with both nature and themselves.
|
|
|
Dukszto, Aneta & Arguedas, Jose (editors)
Secrets and Mysteries ; Nasca Lines
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 31pp. Very well illustrated account of the Nasca Lines in Peru plus Paracas and the Inca Ruins of Tambo Colorado.
|
|
|
Jones, Jonah
The Lakes of North Wales
Small neat name label on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to edges. 192pp. This is primarily a book for walkers but also appropriate for geologists, botanists, naturalists, historians and even engineers.
|
|
|
Wright, Nicky
English Mountain Summits
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with old tape marks and small tears to upper rear edge. 208pp. This book covers the 345 mountain summits in England which can be identified on the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps as being 2000 feet or more in height - the English Munros. Access to all of these is described.
|
|
|
Wilkins-Jones, C
Tameside : An Outline History of Those Parts of Lancashire & Cheshire Now in Tameside Metropolitan Borough
Unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creases to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean tight copy. 82pp. The creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside within Greater Manchester in 1974 united nine local authorities which, whilst sharing to a large extent a common industrial history, nevertheless were significantly different in many ways. This book presents a short history of some of these differences and similarities. Illustrated and with a select bibliography. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
|
|
|
Hammerton, J. A. (editor)
Countries of the World : Volume 1 : Abyssinia to Bengall
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Contents excellent. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly irregularly sunned boards, rubbing to ends of and small scratch to spine and no bumping to corners. 724pp. With a ten page introduction by Joseph Conrad, this very well-researched and well-wrtten account of the countries and cities across the world tells us what our world was like 100 years ago with nearly 700 photographic illustrations including about 200 in full colour or photogravure. Undated ca 1923. A heavy book.
|
|
|
Hammerton, J. A. (editor)
Countries of the World : Volume 3 : Constantinople to Iceland
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Contents excellent. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly irregularly sunned boards, minor rubbing to ends of spine and no bumping to corners. 1453-2180pp. A very well-researched and well-wrtten account of the countries and cities across the world which tell us what our world was like 100 years ago with nearly 700 photographic illustrations including about 200 in full colour or photogravure. Undated ca 1923. A heavy book.
|
|
|
Hammerton, J. A. (editor)
Countries of the World : Volume 4 : India to New Orleans
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Contents excellent. A very clean very tight copy with bright slightly marked slightly irregularly sunned boards, minor rubbing to ends of spine and no bumping to corners. 2181-2908pp. A very well-researched and well-wrtten account of the countries and cities across the world which tell us what our world was like 100 years ago with nearly 700 photographic illustrations including about 200 in full colour or photogravure. Undated ca 1923. A heavy book.
|
|
|
Hammerton, J. A. (editor)
Countries of the World : Volume 5 : New York to Siam
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Contents excellent. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly irregularly sunned boards, minor rubbing to ends of spine and no bumping to corners. Fold-out coloured maps of New York and Paris in the 1920s in excellent condition. 2909-3628pp. A very well-researched and well-wrtten account of the countries and cities across the world which tell us what our world was like 100 years ago with nearly 700 photographic illustrations including about 200 in full colour or photogravure. Undated ca 1923. A heavy book.
|
|
Receive by email
Download as PDF document
RSS feed
Permanent link
