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The Editor
Falmouth Official Guide 1961
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white card boards and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out map at rear in excellent condition with small tear at attachment point. 144pp. The official guide to Falmouth the 'Gem of the Cornish Riviera'.
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Stannard, Dorothy (editor)
Tunisia Insight Guide
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 344pp. With descriptions of the culture, history and tourism of the North African country this travel book takes the reader into some of its lesser known delights as well as the sand and sea tourist spots.
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The Editor
Paris : Mode Demploi (User's Guide) 2002
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. 144pp. Leisure, culture, eating, history and much more about Paris. Text in English and Frence.
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The Editor
Complete Guide to Scotland
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. Attached red silk bookmark. All fold-out maps in excellent condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing/rubbing to edges and corners. 448pp. Detailed tourist guide to the whole of Scotland. Seventh Edition revised., Undated ca. early 1960s.
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The Editor
South Wales : a tourist Guide
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to lower corners of covers. A very clean very tight booklet with slightly rubbed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 84pp. Well illustrated guide to the delights of South Wales.
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The Editor
Camposanto Di Genova (40 vedute)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, light crease to soft spine. A very clean very tight brochure with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards, minor bump to top od spine and no bumping to rounded corners. 40pp. A series of forty sculptures and panoramas of Genoa in Italy in one long folded strip with captions on the reverse side in Italian, French, English and German. Map of the city on end papers. Undated, ca 1930s.
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Karoly Szelenyi
Eger Heves County
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth gilt embossed boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Unpaginated ca 110pp. Culture, travel and history of the city of Eger in Heves County in Hungary. With 143 coloured plates. Scarce.
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Lourdes, S.A. Garcia
Cancun Life
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright laminated boards, tiny rub to spine foot, fine indenting to rear and no bumping to corners. 329pp. Lavish tourist guide to Cancun and surrounding area in Mexico.
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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.
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John Speed
The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of rear covers and to lower part of spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 288pp. Reproductions and discussion of the maps of every county of Britain done by John Speed, originally drawn and coloured just before and after the year 1600.
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The Editor
Black's Guide to the Channel Islands
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with gilt embossed dark green cloth boards, dusty page edges, extremely faint damp effect to edge of front and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Fold-out map of Jersey opposite title page in very good condition. Internal map of Guernsey foxed and with damp effect from edge. 115 pages of adverts plus 190pp. A guide to Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and adjacent islets. Map of Channel Islands on front end papers. .
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The Editor
Schloss- und Parkansichten der Stadt Puschkin
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 71pp. Castle and park views of the city Pushkin near St Petersburg, Russia. A significant city in Russian architecture and its connection with the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. All text in German.
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Geoffrey Palmer; Noel Lloyd
The Observer's Book of London
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to upper rear corner. 192pp. Revised edition of the standard Observer book on London.
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Isamu Kurita
Setsugetsuka no kokoro (Japanese Identity)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower edges and faint indenting. 191pp. In this study of Japan, Professor Kurita lifts away the veil that hides the Japanese nation's special traits and contrasts them with the West. Text in English and Japanese. Very well illustrated in colour.
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The Editor
Throughway Town Plans in Spain and Portugal
Slightly marked front. Has been stored neatly folded in two. 20pp. With 23 town plans from Almeiria to Zaragoza plus 8 district through routes. A fascinating reminder of the pre-satnav days.
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The Editor
AA Camping Caravanning Guide : Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Yogoslavia
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing to covers. A clean copy with very slightly marked covers. 49pp. A nostalgic look at the campsites available in the 1960s in parts of Europe. Very large fold-out map of the four countries at rear in excellent condition. Scarce.
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The Editor
Throughway Town Plans in Eastern France
A few stains to first two pages, not affecting maps. Calculations on blank part of cover. Has been stored folded in two. 40pp. With 66 town plans from Abbeville to Vichy plus 3 district through routes. A fascinating reminder of the pre-satnav days.
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The Editor
Guide of Paris
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front board and no bumping to corners. 63pp. All there was to see and do in Paris in 1970.
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Kazantzis, B.
Greece : The Land for All Seasons
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 42pp. Tourist brochure on Greece in the early 1970s. Well illustrated.
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Hoys, Dudley
English Lakeland in Colour
Inscription inside front board. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to lower front edge. 95pp. Half of the book is a description of the Lakes and its history and the other half is a series of full-page colour photographs and detailed notes on each.
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The Editor
Tourist Information : Egypt
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out map at front and large fold-out map and gazetteer of Cairo at rear both in excellent condition. 128pp. Official guide to Egypt from 1970. Many coloured photos. Scarce.
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The Editor
Holehird Gardens
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to lower corner. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards. 15pp. Guide to the estate gardens near Lake Windermere in the English Lake District. Undate ca 1970.
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John de Visser
Grand River Reflections
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to lower edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 155pp. A lavish photographic work giving some details of the history of the area from the Dundalk Highlands of Southern Ontario to Port Maitland on Lake Erie, beautifully enhanced by the superb colour images.. Very scarce in the UK.
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Billing, Graham
The New Zealanders
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to edges and slight indenting to rear. 192pp. The culture, the people, the places, the history of New Zealand, described by the author and very well illustrated by photographs from Smith and Jacobs.
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David Biggs
This is Cape Town
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 with rubbing to top of spine and minor traces of storage. 160pp. A lavishly illustrated study of Cape Town in South Africa beginning with a detailed profile of the city and superb colour photographs showing the landscape and seascape, the culture, the buildings and the people.
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D. B. A. Thompson; Colin Baxter
Scotland: Land of Mountains
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 minor sunning around spine. 128pp. Beautiful book on the wildness of Scotland's mountains with the superb photographs from Colin Baxter. 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.
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Leonardo B. Dal Maso and Robertp Vighi (editors)
Southern Etruria
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. Now protected in fully removable plastic sleeve. 64pp. Archaeological zones of Latium I-II - Southern Etruria. Very well illustrated tourist guide to archaeological sites in the area of Italy north-west of Rome. 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.
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Fabrizio Mancinelli
The Sistine Chapel
Probably unread. No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny creasing to lower corner of front cover, none to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. The history and the art of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. 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.
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Gabriele Cateni (editor)
Gli Etruschi : Guida Turistica and Carta
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. An as new very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Map has small crease to lower front corner. 63pp. Guide to the Etruscan treasures in the area centred on Rome plus large fold-out map (32 x 27 inches) in the two pockets of transparent wallet. All text in Italian.
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Robert Fulford
Canada - A Celebration
Inscription opposite half-title page. No other marks. 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 crease to front dust flap. 240pp. The book follows the route of a traveller crossing Canada from East to West, exploring each of the provinces and territories in his path. It is a spectacular depiction of the land of Canada, its history and a verbal tribute to the country's people.
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Erich Bachman, Burkard von Roda and Werner Hemlbeger (editors)
The Wurzburg Residence and Court Gardens
Book in mint condition. 200pp. History and description of the German Palace in Wurzburg between Frankfurt and Nuremberg, considered to be the most beautiful Palace in the country. Very well illustrated.
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The Editor
Yalta Resort : Postcard Book (1955)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight book of fold-out postcards with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Thirty-eight coloured photographs of Yalta the Russian resort in the Crimea, most postcard size, a few half-size, some double size. Descriptions in English, French, Spanish, German and two Cyrilic languages. Undated, ca 1955. Very scarce.
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Kelleher, D. L.
Ireland of the Welcomes
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing/rubbing to oversize parts of covers. A clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Tourist guide to Ireland with some photographs. Undated ca 1930s.
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Daen, Leonid ; Poznyak, Pavel & Cherp, Mark
Kiev Travel Guide
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright vinyl boards, faint ink mark to rear and no bumping to corners. 224pp. Travel guide to Soviet Kiev with an emphasis on Soviet propaganda and history. Scarce in the UK.
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David, Joy (editor)
The Hidden Places of North Yorkshire
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to front cover or to spine, small crease to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight damp effect to part of rear fore-edge and no bumping to corners. Fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. 216pp. An easily used book which takes you on a gentle meander through the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire. As well as some of the well-known tourist attractions are those little known features which are so easily missed.
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R. Harris
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
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. 56pp. Features on old and traditional buildings within the site explaining their constructional methods and history. Well illustrated. Tucked in are five colour postcards from the Museum.
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Alex Inkson McConnochie
Deeside: Aberdeenshire
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked red cloth boards, rubbing to spine ends and lower edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning and a little rubbing to edges. Large fold-out map at the rear (35 x 14 inches) published by Lewis Smith of Aberdeen in excellent condition. 233pp. Originally publshed in 1900, this guide for tourists of the time gives history and legend, poetry and ballad and much description about the area of Deeside and is still of relevance to the present day tourist.
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Cowles, Frederick I.
Not Far from the Smoke
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A series of adventures and excursions to outlying towns and villages around the cities Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leeds and Birmingham. A few photographs.
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A. Wainwright
Wainwright's Favourite Lakeland Mountains
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 indenting to front. 216pp. Superbly illustrated guide to and descriptions of the Lake District mountains from A Wainwright. Tucked in is a guide to a walk from Clapham - Gaping Gill & Ingleborough.
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The Editor
Pompeii: Villa of Mysteries, Vesuvius
Book appears in mint unread condition. 127pp. Tourist guide to Pompeii and Vesuvius. Very well illustrated.
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Leonardo B.Dal Maso
Rome of the Caesars
Book in as new condition. 126pp. Description of Rome in historic times from the 1st century BC up to the mid 4th century. Very well illustrated.
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Stokes, Adrian
Venice : An Aspect of Art
Label removal mark inside rear board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with dusty marked boards and page edges, sunned spine and bumping to front corners. 72pp. A history and description of Venice and its buildings with forty-eight black and white photographic plates.
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Brewer, Leslie
Britain By Road : A Car and Coach Travel Digest
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Slight creasing to front corners, creasing to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty boards, small mark to front, a little rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 214pp. Routes around Britain for the car traveller using many by-roads to get the traveller to a destination more quickly (1963 style). The book avoids the industrial areas - as these are not 'worthy of recommendation to the tourist' !
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Bateman, M. (editor)
Atlas of Portsmouth
A very large book. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some page corners. A clean copy with sound ring binding, slightly dusty slightly sunned unmarked boards with a little peeling to the reinforcing laminate on the boards. Unpaginated. ca 140pp. Mainly a series of maps and associated text showing the statistics applicable to Portsmouth in terms of Administration, Physical Background, Historical Development, Economic Structure & Social Facilities, Census and Community Analysis and Contemporary Growth and Change. Plus a fair number of photographs of the area showing the features referred to in the maps and text.
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John Prebble
John Prebble's Scotland
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked unusual white card boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 207pp. John Prebble's journey through the landscape of Scotland, through memory and history, spanning the Borders, the Highlands and the Isles. Illustrated in colour and in black & white.
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The Editor
Harrogate and York and their surroundings
Name/date on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards, light rubbing to oversize parts of covers, very old price sticker to front and no bumping to corners. 32pp. A series of photogravure photgraphs mainly of buildings plus towns and beauty spots in these parts of North Yorkshire, including Knaresborough, Beverley, Ripon and Ripley.
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Brodrick, Alan Houghton (editor)
Normandy : The People's France
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked owith small tear/crease near upper front spine edge. Large fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. 316pp. Well illustrated study and guide for the area of Normandy in northern France. The same format as Mee's King's England.
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White, Walter
A Month in Yorkshire (Signed By Publisher)
Appears unread. Signed to front end paper 'With the publisher's compliments M.T.D. Rigg, Dec 01'. No other 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. 386pp. The original travel/history account was published in 1858. This is the second edition facsimile.
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Chagnolleau, Jean ; Dez, Gaston ; Lavaud, Jacques & Crozet, Rene
Visages De Poitou
Name, date & origin on front end paper. Also two of authors names and a few place names underlined. Creasing to oversize parts of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with sunning to page edges and covers and rubbing to spine ends. 195pp. Very well illustrated guide, culture and history of the French region of Poitou, now part of the new region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. With a number of fold-out maps all in very good condition. All text in French.
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John Betjeman
John Betjeman's Oxford
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to spine, signs of storage and no bumping to corners. 192pp. Originally written in the 1930s, an unusual illustrated guide and history to the City of Oxford.
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