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Duff Gordon, Lina
The Story of Assisi
Hardcover without jacket; Medieval Towns series. Boards' corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. Previous owners' names penned on FEP and half-title page. First blank slightly creased. Text, illustrations and fold-out plans are clear throughout, on sound, clean pages. Fifth edition. TS Used
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Woodland, W. Lloyd
The Story of Winchester
Hardcover without jacket; Medieval Towns series. Spine is slightly tanned; small label on front pastedown; light wear to a handful of upper page corners - otherwise a very well-preserved volume with clean, sound pages and clear text, illustrations, maps and fold-out plan. First edition of 1932. TS Used
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Young, Norwood
The Story of Rome
Hardcover without jacket; Medieval Towns series. Boards' extremities are very slightly bumped. Minor wear on page block foot and a few lower page corners. Previous owners' names penned on FEP. Text, illustrations and several fold-out maps are clear. Pages are sound throughout. TS Used
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A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy and Sicily: Part II: Sicily
Paperback in good condition. Part two only; 'Sicily'. Ninth edition, with fold out maps and plans throughout. With index and directory for 1905. General age related exterior wear and fading, with some residue on the rear side. Spine foot is slightly frayed. Previous owner's details (in fountain pen), plus a signature in crayon, on the opening blank page. The binding is a little weak on the closing few pages, with one or two small tears on the gutters. Very good for age; all content is clear. CM Used
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Unnamed, Unnamed
Let's Go For a Run
A selection of car routes from the outdoor pages of the Manchester Evening News. Staple bound, staples have rusted. Cover a little aged but in good condition, all contents clean and bright. Used
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Petrauskiene, Z.
The Vilnius University Library
small-sized volume, numerous b/w illustrations, minor chipping to corners of front cover, light crease on front cover and title page, text clean and tight Used
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Thompson, H. P.
The West Indies
Very Good paperback. Somewhat foxed, age-darkened, and soiled. 69 pp. Used
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Hopkins, Gordon
Wanderings in South Wales
book is in very good clean condition with very few signs of use or other wear. Used
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Darkwood, Vic
How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer
Hardcover in very good condition. The jacket and hardcover spine feet are bumped. Traces of foxing on the page block. Pages are clean; all text and illustrations are clear. CM Used
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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to North Wales (Southern Section)
Paperback in acceptable condition. Ninth edition, revised. With eight fold-out colour maps and fifty illustrations. Includes appendix for anglers. 200 pages, with 70 pages of adverts between front and back. Stiff covers are marked and worn. Spine is creased and sunned. Spine ends are nicked. Four centimetre tear on spine foot. One centimetre tear on rear lower edge, which is reinforced on inside. Closed tear on front inside cover. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. Some pages are creased. Binding is exposed between a few pages but remains intact. Tears and tape on maps, not affecting content. Pages smell slightly of smoke. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used
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Sinclair, Iain
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light - A Fiction of Memory
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Jacket is lightly marked and edge-worn. Minor bumps and tears on upper edges of jacket and boards. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Minor mark on page block head. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Wani, Ku. S. V.
Guide to Kanheri Caves
Staple-bound paperback. This book does not have a publication date; it was not published in 1900. Covers are creased and a little tanned. Corners of covers and some pages are a little bent. Includes fold-out plan of caves' locations; ads. All content is clear. TS Used
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India: Tourist's Guide
Paperback. This book does not have a publication date; it was not published in 1900. Fold-out map at rear. Covers are faintly shelfworn; page block is tanned. Minor crease through early pages (effect minor). Text and colour images are clear throughout; all pages are sound. TS Used
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Fletcher, Banister
Arbitrations: Text-Book for Surveyors, in Tabulated Form
Gilt lettering to spine and front cover, mild sunning to spine, chipping to head and tail of spine and corners of cover, previous owner's name on FEP, one dog-eared page, otherwise text clean and tight. Used
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Osborn, George Howard
Walks in Dorset
Good condition, cover is slightly grubby and spine is sunned, clear, bright and tight. Used
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Bussmann, Klaus
DuMont Guide to Paris and the Ile de France (DuMont Guides)
Softcover with inside flaps is sound with light creases along spine and very slight signs of corner wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. T Used
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The Story of Lancashire
Sunning to spine, wear to corners. Text and illustrations are clean, tight and bright Used
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C. J. G.
In Palace and Faubourg
delightful b/w illustrations, vertically-ribbed pink cloth, ruled and elaborately blocked blind, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, gilt lettering to front cover, foxing to cover, darkening to spine, softening and small tears to head and tail of spine, lightly rubbed corners of boards, significant soiling to page block, one illustration detached but intact, otherwise text clean and tight Used
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 35, Number 4, October 2009
Ex-library. Stamp on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 35, Number 3, July 2009
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 34, Number 4, January 2008
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 34, Number 2, April 2008
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 34, Number 1, January 2008
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 33, Number 4, October 2007
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 33, Number 3, July 2007
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Driver, Felix; Wynn, Graeme (editors)
Journal of Historical Geography Volume 33, Number 2, April 2007
Ex-library. 2 stamps on front cover. Binding well preserved, contents clean and sound throughout. MB Ex Library
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Harris, Richard Colebrook
The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study
Hardcover in good condition. The plastic protected jacket is lightly marked, scored and edgeworn with a few nicks to the edges. Wear and fading to parts of the hardcover. Previous owner's name penned on the FEP and half title page. The binding is sound with clear content throughout. CM Used
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Egeria; Wilkinson, John
Egeria's Travels
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Translated with supporting documents and notes by John Wilkinson. Price-clipped jacket is lightly scored and worn. Rear of jacket is tanned. Jacket edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and creased. Jacket spine head is stained. Boards and page block are lightly marked. Pastedowns are slightly tanned. Bookplate on FEP. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Garbutt, Paul
World Metro Systems
Paperback with lightly sunned and shelfworn cover. Very good condition with clean and sound pages. Second edition, 1997. CM Used
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Rymill, John
Southern Lights: The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-1937
Hardcover in good condition. First thus edition, 1939. With two chapters by A. Stephenson and an historical introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. Fold out map at rear. The plastic protected jacket is lightly marked and worn with nicked and creased edges. The jacket spine ends are chipped; a few other chipped portions on the edges. Minor tanning and wear to the hardcover which is very faintly bowed. Light foxing on the page block and some pages. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Hammond, Reginald J. W. (ed.)
Lynton and Lynmouth: Exmoor and the Doone Country
Hardcover in very good condition; jacket in good condition. Nineteenth edition. The price clipped jacket has minor repaired tears on the spine head and rear lower edge. The inner flaps are creased. The pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Canada: Descriptive Atlas
Paperback in good condition. Covers are tanned, marked and scored. Previous owner's name penned on front cover. Front upper edge and spine ends are nicked. Leading corners are creased, slightly affecting pages. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked and tanned. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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New Rambles in Old London, Second Series
Hardcover (Homeland Pocket Books no. 16). Second series. Light shelfwear to jacket, with slightly dulled spine; page block and one or two early and late pages are foxed. Text and illustrations are clear throughout, and binding is sound. TS Used
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New Rambles in Old London, Third Series
Hardcover (Homeland Pocket Books no. 18). Third series. Jacket is a little tanned and shelfworn. Page block is foxed. Text and illustrations are clear throughout on sound, clean pages. TS Used
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New Rambles in Old London, Fourth Series
Hardcover (Homeland Pocket Books no. 19). Fourth series. Jacket is a little tanned. Extremities of jacket and hardcover are slightly worn. Page block is lightly foxed. Text and illustrations are clear throughout on sound, clean pages. TS Used
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Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Published in association with The Book Society Ltd. With black-and-white photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. Frontispiece and jacket design by John Craxton. Jacket is marked, tanned and edge-worn, with a few nicks. Hardcover front upper edge and spine ends are bumped. Page block is marked and tanned. Pages are clean and contents are clear. HCW Used
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Bostock, Peter
Incurable Wanderlust
Hardcover, signed and dedicated by author to former owner Derek Ingram on FEP ("...older but not wiser..."). Jacket is very faintly shelfworn; a little marked on rear. Pages in main body are clean and sound. All text and images are clear. TS Used
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Sinclair, Iain
Hackney That Rose Red Empire: A Confidential Report
Hardcover (no jacket). Signed by author on title page. Gift dedication on half-title page. Cover has some minor wear. Corners softened. Upper leading front corner bumped. Spine ends slightly bumped. Spine edge has small abrasion mark and bump. Back cover has water mark/tea cup stain. Page block head has water stain across block. Pages are clean, crisp, in very good condition. BW Used
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Hammond, Reginald J. W. (ed.)
Llandudno: Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Conway, Snowdonia, Betws-y-Coed and North Wales (Northern Section) (Ward Lock's Red Guide)
Third edition. Red hardcover. Boards are bright and clean. Spine and covers lettered in black. Price-clipped dust jacket has nicked and creased upper edge and nicked foot of spine. Advertisments precede title page. Pages are clean, binding remains intact, contents are clear. Bright copy with a sound binding. T Used
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Sansom, William
South: Aspects and Images from Corsica, Italy and Southern France
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. Jacket design by John Piper. Jacket is marked, edge-worn and nicked. One centimetre tears on front edges of jacket. Boards, page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Upper leading corners and spine head are lightly bumped. Lower edges of pages are rough-cut. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Williams, Harry
Nigeria Free
Hardcover in very good condition. Jacket in good condition. First edition. Jacket not price-clipped. Original price is 21/- net. Jacket is marked, worn and nicked. Hardcover spine head is bumped. Page block is marked. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Sitwell, Osbert
The Four Continents, Being More Discursions on Travel, Art and Life
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition for age. First edition, second reprint September 1954. Jacket not price-clipped. Original price is 25s net. Jacket is lightly marked, tanned and edge-worn. Minor nick on front spine side of jacket. Slight fading on hardcover. Minor bump on hardcover spine foot. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Gordon, David J.; Ryan, Victor H. (eds.)
Handbook of South Australia: Published by Authority of the Government in connection with the visit of The British Association For The Advancement of Science, Australian Meeting, 1914.
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. With three fold out maps in the rear pastedown pocket. Minor marks and age releated wear; small tear on the spine foot; the rear lower leading corner is a little frayed. Foxing and tanning on the page block and some pages. The binding is sound with clear content. CM Used
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Priestley, J. B.
Midnight on the Desert
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked, edge-worn and nicked. Hardcover edges are lightly worn and tanned. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block and pages are lightly tanned and foxed. Light creases throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. Spine is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW Used
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Miller, J.P.
Last Boat For Africa: A District Officer's Experiences During Swaziland's Run-Up to Independence in the 1960s
Paperback in very good condition, with clean, sound pages and clear content throughout. TS Used
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Flynn, Arthur
County Clare: Its Towns and Villages
Paperback in very good condition. Pages are clean and sound, with clear content throughout. TS Used
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Griffis, William Elliot
The Mikado's Empire: Vol. II.
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Volume two only. Twelfth edition. Includes Book II ('Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, 1870-1874') and Book III ('Supplementary Chapters, Including History to the Beginning of 1912'). Illustrated in black-and-white. Boards and spine are marked, faded and worn. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. Lower edges of pages are stained. Minor creases and bumps throughout pages. Volume is cocked and pastedown hinges are partially split but binding remains intact. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used
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Selby, Bettina
Riding the Mountains Down: A Journey By Bicycle to Kathmandu
Hardcover. One or two instances of minor exterior wear; page block head is foxed. Pages are sound and content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Malcomson, Scott L.
Borderlands: Nation and Empire
Hardcover and jacket in very good condition, with some faint foxing to page block. Pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. TS Used
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Smolka, H.P.
40.000 Against the Arctic: Russia's Polar Empire
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. First US printing. Lightly marked and worn boards and spine; a few minor bumps to the edges and corners. A few minor marks on the rough cut page block. The opening fold out map has a repaired tear (3-4cm). One or two nicked and creased page corners. The binding is sound with clear text and images. CM Used
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