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PETWORTH
Petworth (Sussex). Rural District Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Rural England series No. 72. With trade advertisements at front and rear. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BYRON Robert
Shell Guide to Wiltshire. A Series of Views. [First Faber edition], BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FABER EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous plates on cream stock, photographs (many full-page) in the text, 2 full-page coloured maps and pictorial endpapers; original ivory cloth, backstrip blocked in blue and lettered in white, comb-bound as issued, covers faintly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Originally published by Architectural Press in 1935, this is one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. The Gazetteer was compiled by Edith Olivier. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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QUENNELL C.H.B.
Somerset. Shell Guide. [Edited by John Betjeman. First Faber edition], BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST FABER EDITION
4to., First Edition thus, with numerous plates on green stock, photographs (many full-page) in the text, 2 full-page coloured maps and patterned endpapers; original ivory cloth, backstrip blocked in red and lettered in white, comb-bound as issued, covers lightly spotted (as often), a very good, bright, clean copy. Originally published by Architectural Press in 1936, this one of the first ten titles in this wonderful series edited by Betjeman (see Peterson D4). In 1939 the imprint passed to Faber who replaced the characteristic comb-binding with conventional cloth and standardised the titles. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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CAMERON Mary Lovett
The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi. to which is added the First Life of S. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edge lightly spotted; burgundy cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at edges and wanting top quarter of backstrip. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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CHAMBERS George F
Tourists' Guide to the County of Sussex. containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Fourth edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with large folding map as frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, endpapers very lightly spotted; original terracotta cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 40pp of trade advertisements at end.
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FORD Richard
A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home. Describing the Country and Cities, the Natives and their Manners; the Antiquities, Religion, Legends, Fine Ars, Literature, Sports and Gastronomy. Foreword by Sir John Balfour. Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Robertson. NEAR FINE SET OF THE CENTAUR EDITION
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 frontispieces and 2 large folding maps; navy cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, a near fine set. The set comprises Vol. I: Preliminary Remarks and Andalucia; Vol. II: Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Estremadura, Leon and Gallicia; Vol. III: The Asturias, The Castiles (Old and New), The Basque Provinces, Arragon and Navarre. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PAGE C.H.W.
The Story of St. Nicholas' Church, North Walsham, Norfolk. (formerly dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as isued, a very good, bright, clean copy. with the separately printed errata slip.
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BARR] [Guy
The History of Icklesham Parish Church. Revised Edition
8vo., Revised Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, firm copy. First published in 1955.
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FAURE Gabriel
Rome. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text; original series binding of chocolate cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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MAUCLAIR Camille
Normandy. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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CLARKE Moma
Paris. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text; original series binding of buff cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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GAUTHIEZ Pierre
Florence. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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DEBRAYE Henry
Touraine and its Chateaux. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text, original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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FAURE Gabriel
The Land of St. Francis of Assisi. Assisi and Perugia. [The Picture Guides series. Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., Second Impression thus, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in the previous year. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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HOLLAND Clive
Flanders and Hainault. [The Picture Guides series]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, title and text in sepia, with very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and front endpaper map, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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FERRAND Henri
Grenoble and Thereabouts. Chartreuse, Oisans, Vercors, Belledone, Uriage-les-Bains, Allevard, Trieves, Salette, Laffrey. [The Picture Guides series. Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., Second Impression, with title and text in sepia, title-vignette, very numerous photographs in the text and front endpaper map; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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HOLLAND Clive
The Ardennes and the Walloon Country. [The Picture Guides series]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, with title and text in sepia, title-vignette, very numerous photographs in the text and front endpaper map (mildly browned); original series binding of grey cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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PRAVIEL Armand
Biarritz, Pau and the Basque Country. [The Picture Guides series]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and front endpaper map, endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of brown cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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HUGHES Thomas
The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and its Environs. Containing a Short Sketch of its History and Antiquities, a Descriptive Walk round the Walls, and a Visit to the Cathedral, Castle and Eaton Hall. With Forty-Seven New Illustrations by George Measom etc. FIRM COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with steel-engraved frontispiece (lightly spotted) and engraved plates and illustrations in the text, some moderate and occasional spotting; publisher's blue embossed cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back,uncut, primrose endpapers, long tears in joints (but binding entirely sound) else a firm, clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of R J Fynmore on front paste-down, 4pp of local trade advertisements at end and binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down. VERY SCARCE. Anderson, p.66 (recording thirty-four illustrations).
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READ] [C.H.
A Guide to the Antiquities of The Stone Age in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 9 plates and 142 illustrations in the text; original printed boards, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition.
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ADAMS Douglas
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. DENT AND PREFECT IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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MURRAY'S HAND-BOOK.
Handbook for Travellers in Kent. Fourth Edition. With Maps and Plans. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with 2 full-page plans in the text and large folding map in pocket at end; original red cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, firm copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of William Thomas Laird Patterson on front paste-down, advertisement endpapers and 76pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett p.212 (recording the first and subsequent editions starting in 1858).
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CHESTER.
Chester Official Guide. 30th Edition. Issued by the Chester Corporation. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., Thirtieth Edition, with numerous photographs (the majority full-page) throughout and folding map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
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TAYLOR W.T.
Hexham Abbey 674-1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and folding plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA.
A Guide to the Town of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with photographs and double-page map; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
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BEVAN G. Phillips
Handbook to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Sixth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SIXTH EDITION
8vo., Sixth Edition, with 2 plans (one folding) and large folding map, small neat contemporary signature on half-title; original brown cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip a little faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp of trade advertisements (many illustrated) bound in at end. First published in 1876, 'Bevan' is probably the best of the later nineteenth century pocket or 'portmanteau' guides to the county. These were deliberately condensed, both in size and content, to provide ultimately portable information for those visiting by rail and road. A seventh and final edition appeared in 1891 by which time the larger and weightier guides were beginning to dominate. Bennett, p.204.
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GIBBS J. Arthur
A Cotswold Village. Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece, 18 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Gibb's classic account, centred round Ablington near Bibury, was first published in 1898. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Austin, 7124 (recording the first edition).
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REES Vyvyan
South-West Wales. Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text and photographic endpapers, small signature on front free endpaper verso; original green cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in green and red, case lightly shaken else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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HARROD Wilhelmine
Shell Guide to Norfolk. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and double-page coloured map in the text, and pictorial endpapers; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Revised version of the first edition of 1957. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROPER Anne
The Church of Saint Augustine, Brookland. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with photographs and illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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HICKMAN M. M.
S. Mary the Virgin, Shipley, Sussex. [Third Edition]. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. First published in 1947; this edition with amendments and some new photographs.
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BRIGHTON.
Brighton, Hove and District. A brief Description of Brighton of To-day and Yesterday, with a Street Plan, and Illustrations. BRIGHTON: A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and very large folding street plan on japon; original brown card wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With trade advertisements throughout. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WADE G.W.
[The Little Guide]. Monmouthshire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 5 plates and plans, large folding coloured map at end, and front endpaper map; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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JESSUP Ronald F.
The Little Guide. Sussex. Based on the original Guide by F.G. Brabant. [Tenth Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, sepia-toned plates and large folding coloured map at end; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1900.
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TUDOR Thomas L.
The Little Guide. Derbyshire. Revised by E. Carleton Williams. [Fifth Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED BRIAN COOK DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, sepia-toned plates and large folding coloured map at end; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With delightful dustwrapper illustration by Brian Cook. First published in 1903, with fifth revised edition by Williams following in 1950. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SELIGMAN Adrian
No Stars to Guide. Decorations by Konstance Pares. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with tinted frontispiece, wood-engraved title-vignette, 20 plates printed in blue, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 6 large folding maps (one printed in colours), endpapers very faintly spotted; sand cloth, a a very good, bright, clean copy. In one of the earliest personal memoirs of naval service in WWII, Seligman gives a thinly veiled account of his experiences in the Aegean in 1941 when he helped to smuggle five Russian merchantmen through the Axis blockade. He returned on the MV OLINDA and that journey also is described in full. Although there is no connection whatever, this little-known story is reminiscent in sheer daring and blatant skulduggery of Maclean's fictitious The Guns of Navarone. This is an extraordinary book in other ways. Produced by a major publisher not often given to war memoirs, it is unusually well-produced with lavish illustration and large and detailed maps. The print run must have been small for it is very scarce, especially in this condition. Enser, p.63; Law, 0360.
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BETJEMAN John
Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide. Editors John Betjeman, John Piper. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and folding map coloured in outline; strongly bound in green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp,clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on title verso only. The second of Murray's Architectural Guides. The series was commissioned by Jock Murray as a successor to Betjeman and Piper's pre-war Shell Guides. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Peterson A17; Stapleton 77.
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WILLIAMSON George C.
The Cities of Northern Italy. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. Second Edition, revised and corrected. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with title in red and black; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. Considerably revised version of the first edition of 1901.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Smaller Tuscan Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and 32 plates; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Smaller Tuscan Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and 32 plates; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CRUICKSHANK J.W.
The Umbrian Towns. Grant Allen's Historical Guides. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, and diagrams in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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ADAMS Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [Complete set]. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [with] The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [with] Life, the Universe and Everything [with] So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish [with] Mostly Harmless. Illustrated by Jonathan Burton. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES
5 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces and numerous full-page coloured illustrations; pictorial blue cloth, upper boards blocked in silver and colours, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine set in publisher's slip-cases.
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ROSS GAZETTE
The Wye Tour. Comprising Historical and Geological Notes on the River from Plinlimmon to Chepstow. Together with a History of Ross and its Vicinity. To which is added an Accountof the Life of John Kyrle, the 'Man of Ross'. NEWLY BOUND IN BOARDS
8vo., with folding map as frontispiece and illustrations in the text,former owner's annotations on map and title verso and Preface; attractively bound in modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a bright, clean copy.
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WARD C.S.
Thorough Guide. North Devon (including West Somerset) and North Cornwall. From Exmoor to the Scilly Isles with a Description of the various Approaches. Sixth Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Sixth Edition, with coloured and monochrome maps and plans (a number folding) and coloured front endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, coves lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright,clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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WORTH R.N.
Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire: Rail and Road. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with folding map as frontispiece and full-page plan; original terracotta cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
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LOCKIE John
Topography of London. Facsimile of John Lockie's Gazetteer 1813. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with large folding map at end; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 148.
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STEER Francis W.
Guide to the Church of St. Andrew Steyning. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ADAMS Douglas
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy 4. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with hologram mounted on upper panel.
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ARRAS.
Arras Historique after the Bombardment. Guerre 1914-1915-1916-1917 BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Oblong 4to., captions in French and English, with 24 full-page plates toned in sepia; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a remarkably well-preserved bright, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GLOVER Michael
A New Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and the Low Countries. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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