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British South Africa Company
Rhodesia: Information for Tourists and Sportsmen
Hardcover, first edition, original pictorial wraps with cloth spine, pratical information and advertisements for the tourist and the sportsman visiting Rhodesia written by a 'frequent visitor'. With numerous black and white illustrations and four tipped in coloured maps, three of which are folding. Table of contents lists 5 maps, but the 5th one has been crossed out and is not present. This copy has worn edges and foxing to rear board. FEP, the binding is a little loose and the first two pages have come away but are still present. Small tears to edges of a couple of pages. Gift inscriptions on second end page reads "To Edie. BERT 1913." This is a rare first edition with clean pages throughout. AD Used
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Margrie, W. "The Sipper" (ed.)
The Pickwicks of Peckham: Being the Book of the London Explorers' Club, An Account of the Real Exploits, Achievements, and Discoveries of a Group of Adventurous Londoners
Hardcover, first edition, in unclipped original dust jacket. Front board is creased at lower leading corner and endpapers are tanned. Page block and some pages internally are foxed. Otherwise, copy is in very good condition. DJ is worn at extremities, chipped at spine and foxed on inside. Pages are clean, spine is tight. AD Used
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Veyne, Paul; Fagen, Teresa Lavender (transl.)
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Former copy of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, with their stamps to page block and bookplate remnants to FEP. Very good condition throughout. AD Used
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Schlesinger, Max; Wenckstern, Otto
Saunterings in and About London
Hardcover in very good condition for age, gilt decorated board and printed spine, no dust jacket. Tissue protected frontispiece. Previous owner's name penned to half-title page and taped repair to page 290. Light foxing to page block and endpapers. Spine is tight and text is clean and clear throughout. AD Used
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Schlesinger, Max; Wenckstern, Otto
Saunterings in and About London
Hardcover in good condition, first edition, 290 pp. Frontispiece and decorative title page, 6 black and white plates, bound in olive green cloth with blindstamped and gilt decorations and gilt titles, yellow endpapers. Backstrip worn and torn with a little loss, corners bumped cloth faded and marked, a few spots to pages, former copy of Trinity Church Library and with their bookplate to front pastedown. AD Used
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Ward, F. Kingdon
A Plant Hunter in Tibet
Hardcover in good condition, no jacket. First edition with fold-out map. 1cm x 2cm piece of cover missing at spine front side. Edges and corners of boards are worn and leading corners are bumped. Partially removed sticker on front board and note penned on FEP. Binding cracked between title pages, stamp to rear pastedown and annotations in pencil on the same and REP. Light foxing and marks to page block and minor foxing to title pages. Pages remain sound and contents are clear throughout. TA Used
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Balneaves, Elizabeth
Mountains of the Murgha Zerin: Between the Hindu Khush and the Karakoram
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Edgewear to jacket and minor bumps to board spine ends. A few minor scores to jacket and pen mark to FEP. Text is clear. TA Used
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Marlowe, John
Four Aspects of Egypt
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition in good condition jacket. 2cm tear to jacket front at upper edge, small tear to jacket rear at upper edge and small indent to jacket front at spine. Edgewear and shelf-marks to jacket. Pen mark to FEP, otherwise pages are sound and clean throughout. TA Used
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Lawrence, T.E.; Lawrence, A.W. (ed.)
Oriental Assembly
Hardcover without dust jacket. Former copy of the Royal Automobile Club Library with their bookplate to front paste down, penned date to FEP and stamps to FEP, title page, foreword page, illustrations page, page block head and REP. Spine is sunned and board edges are rubbed. Pages are clean and text is unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Mr. Marshall
Minutes, Experiments, Observations, and General Remarks, on Agriculture, in the Southern Counties; a New Edition to Which is Prefixed a Sketch of The Vale of London, and an Outline of Its Rural Economy - Vols. I & II
Two volume set; two hardcovers (no jackets) - full leather. v.1: xxiii, 414pp + [2]; v.2: xi, 387pp +[5]; five fold-out plates, one fold-out map and one fold-out table across both volumes. Gilt design on each board. Boards and spines are worn with age and rubbed at points, with a few scuffs and scores, and nicks at spine ends; two noticeable gouges on rear board of v.1, seemingly repaired by affixing the piece of cover back on. Speckled page blocks are slightly tanned and marked. Foxing and age-related marks in both volumes, though nothing unexpected or severe; Occasional creasing to corners and very few pages; some faint pencilled crosses in margins of v.1. Overall, a solid and well-maintained set for age. TS Used
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Weidenfeld, A. G.; Nicholson, Nigel (eds.)
People on the Move: The Fourteenth Contact Book
Paperback in good condition. Wear and tanning to spine and mark to spine foot. Nick to spine head and leading corners of covers are a little dog-eared, also affecting upper corners of first few pages. Tanning to edges of covers and scores to front cover. Shelf-marks to covers and faint foxing and marks to page block. Faint tanning to edges of pages; pages are sound and contents are clear throughout. TA Used
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Savory's Visitor's Guide to Cirencester: With Descriptive Account of the Ancient and Modern Town, Parish Church, Public Buildings, Cirencester Park & House, Museum, Royal Agricultural College, Notices of the Bathurst and Master Families
Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Front board has been taped to spine, boards are generally shelf and edgeworn. Marks to FEP and page block foxed. Internally, pages are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Miller, William
Travels and Politics in the Near East
Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes tissue protected colour frontispiece and many further illustrations but no map. Gilt page block head. Jacket has had an extensive repair to front involving tape and extra paper, further tape repairs to spine and edges, jacket in acceptable condition. Boards are sound. Foxing to endpapers and page block. Spine is tight and text is clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Vowles, Alfred, F.R.G.S.
Wanderings with a Camera in Mesopotamia (Babylonia)
No dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes 60 illustrations and map. Penned dedication on front endpaper. Boards are faded around edges, with one or two very small surface marks. Spine is very faded, with one or two light stains. Both sides of spine head are torn, and both spine ends are worn and damaged. Leading corners are very bent. Pages are rough-cut. Small tear to upper edge of front endpaper. Pages are lightly foxed throughout. Leading edges of two or three pages near end of book (these pages are unnumbered) are damaged. Back hinge is cracked and binding is a little loose towards end of book. Contents are clear. AF Used
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Naipaul, V.S.
India: A Million Mutinies Now
Hardcover, first edition, with plastic protected unclipped dust jacket. Flat signed by author on title page. There are a few faint marks to page block, otherwise all excellent condition. AD Used
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Munro, M.
Geology of the Country Around Aberdeen: Memoir for 1:50 000 Sheet 77 (Scotland) - British Geological Survey
Paperback in very good condition. A few small marks to covers and minor edgewear. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Grindrod, Muriel
Italy
Hardcover, 1st edition in plastic protected unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Jacket lightly scuffed along edges and on back cover. Foxing to upper page block and scuffs along board spine. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Dallaway, James
Etchings of Views in the Vicarage of Leatherhead
Hardcover (no jacket, presumably as issued; gilt decorations on boards). Facsimile of the 1821 edition, with an introduction by Francis W. Steer; published in a limited print run of 500, this hand-numbered #194. Minor imperfection on page block; one slightly creased page corner; otherwise fine. A very good copy with clean pages and clear text and images. TS Used
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Hayward, R. L.
We Were the Foreigners: Experiences with British Boys on Tour in Corsica, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Atlantic Isles, Spain, Majorca
Hardcover in very good condition, in good condition clipped jacket. Signed and dedicated by author in pen on FEP. Tanning to jacket spine and edges. Foxing to jacket interior and exterior and small tear at spine foot. Rear board is faded near spine, corners are bumped. Foxing to page block and lightly to endpapers and pastedowns. Pages and binding are sound, contents are clear throughout. TA Used
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Lowther, Kenneth; Hammond, Reginald
Sussex
Paperback (A Ward Lock Red Guide). Minor sunning and shelfwear to the cover; faint creases along the spine. All text and images are clear. CM Used
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Goodsall, Robert H.
The Ancient Road to Canterbury: A Progress Through Kent
Hardcover. First General Edition (following the Subscription Edition of 1959). Unclipped jacket is slightly worn, with one or two minor nicks, and a lightly marked rear. Page block is a little foxed. Pages are clean and sound - very good in good jacket. With 59 half tone illustrations and a folding map. TS Used
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Griffiths, Wynne M. (ed.)
Aspects of Edenbridge, Number Three
Staple-bound paperback; 56pp, illustrated. Front cover is slightly marked; interior remains clean, with clear content throughout. TS Used
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Backshall, Cyril J. (ed.)
Eastbourne Official Guide: Jubilee Year 1883-1933
Paperback in good condition. 1933 city guide with many advertisements and information regarding attractions, hotels and restaurants. Covers are worn with tears and pieces missing, light foxing to front and rear and staples in binding are showing rust. Creases to corners on some pages. Contents are clean and illustrations are bright. AD Used
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Thomas, Lowell
European Skyways: The Story of a Tour of Europe By Aeroplane
Hardcover without dust jacket. First UK edition. Includes mapped Endpapers and numerous b&w illustrated plates. Spine is tanned and marked, board edges and corners are rubbed. Page block, endpapers and page edges are foxed and previous owner's name penned to FEP. Text is clean throughout. AD Used
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Morton, H.V.
In the Steps of the Master
Hardcover, first edition, 4th printing. No dust jacket. Includes mapped endpapers, frontispiece and 23 further full-page illustrations. Boards bumped at upper leading corners, along leading edges and at spine ends. Faint marks to covers and to spine and gift inscription penned to FEP. Page block tanned and lightly foxed, hinge break at FEP. Contents are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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China, Mongolia and Korea (Countour-Coloured World Map Series)
Map of China, Mongolia and Korea printed on durable cloth. Very good condition. Red marker circles to some of the major cities and minor crease to rear cover. Colours are bright and clear, very good condition. AD Used
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Wedgwood, Iris
Fenland Rivers: Impressions of the Fen Counties
Harcover in clear acetate dust jacket; good condition. Board edges are rubbed and corners are worn. Former library copy with stamp to copyright page, bookplate remnants to front pastedown and mark to rear pastedown. Endpapers and page block tanned and there is a hinge break at FEP. Illustrations are bright and clear, text is clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Dew, Josie
The Wind in my Wheels
Paperback - Sphere reprint 2009. Signed and dedicated, with a doodle, by the author. Faint diagonal crease and vertical score on the rear of the cover. One or two other slight signs of exterior shelfwear. Light traces of foxing on the page block and some page edges. All text is clear and the binding is sound. CM Used
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Royle, Julie; Sparks, Jon
50 Walks in Shropshire
Paperback in very good condition. Light scores to rear cover, otherwise like new. AD Used
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Auden, George A. (ed.)
A Handbook to York and District. Prepared for The 75th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1906
Hardcover with decorated boards, no dust jacket. Front and rear boards marked, edges rubbed, corners scuffed. Endpapers tanned, small creases to a number of lower leading page corners. Fold-outs in very good condition. Pages clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Gibb, Lorna
Lady Hester: Queen of the East
Hardcover (first printing). Negligible wear at one or two points on unclipped jacket. Content is clear on clean, sound pages. A very good copy. TS Used
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Maxtone-Graham, John
The Only Way to Cross
Hardcover. Unclipped jacket folds out to show a chart of the principal Atlantic ocean liners. Spine is lightly worn; sparse foxing on page block head; previous owner's label on rear pastedown; small mark on FEP. Remains a very good copy - pages are clean and sound. With numerous B&W photographs. TS Used
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Bracciolini, Poggio; de Varthema, Ludovico; Winter Jones, John (trans.)
Travellers in Disguise: Narratives of Eastern Travel
Paperback - Bracciolini's 'The Indies Rediscovered' and 'The Itinerary of Ludovico de Varthema', revised and with an introduction by Lincoln Davis Hammond. Spine is lightly creased and sunned; negligible wear to corners. Page block is slightly foxed. Small penned serial on inside front cover. Text is clear on clean pages. TS Used
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Frank, Andrew & Kuhn, Werner
Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS. International Conference, COSIT '95, Semmering, Austria, September 21-23, 1995, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 988)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 988; Ex-Library. Library catalogue sticker inside front cover. Faintly bumped spine head and rubbed corners. Foot of page block slightly grubby and marked due to age. Sound, clean book with tight binding. ADG. Used
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Beck, Stephan; Paniagua, Narel; Preston, David (eds.)
Historia, Ambiente y Sociedad En Tarija, Bolivia
Paperback in very good condition. Text in Spanish. Covers are shelf and edgeworn, corners lightly split, small surface scuff to front cover. Upper leading corners of pages lightly creased. Contents clean, binding sound. Includes fold-out map in excellent condition. AD Used
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De Mierre, H. C.
Clipper Ships to Ocean Greyhounds
Good condition, cover has some slight wear to edges/corners, top and tail of spine is bumped and nicked, clear, bright and tight throughout. Ex-library with minimal stamps. No jacket. Ex-Library
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Hiss, Tony and Meier, Christopher
H2O : Highlands to Ocean
A first close look at the outstanding landscapes and waterscapes of the New York/New Jersey region. Only the minimum of light wear. Slight scuffs where the price has been erased on the fep. K. Used
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Petsalis, Yiannis
Corfu Depicted in Yesteryear's Postcards, Book II: Achillion
Hardcover (no jacket; printed boards). Bilingual text in Greek and English. Slight dent on spine; otherwise in very good condition throughout. TS Used
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Auchterlonie, Paul (compiler)
Yemen: Revised Edition (World Biographical Series, Volume 50)
Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Bumps to rear board at leading edge, light score to front board and faint marks to page block. Contents are clean throughout and spine is tight, very good condition. AD Used
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Labrucherie, Roger A. (text and photos)
Images of Puerto Rico
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket and sunning to board edges; gift dedication penned to FEP. No other notable flaws. Illustrations bright, pages crisp and spine tight. AD Used
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Ramchandran, Sudhir (photos); Nair, Anita (text)
Kerala: A Magical Odyssey
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is edgeworn and has a 3cm tear at front upper edge. Boards are bumped at cornes and along edges, with small nicks to both front and rear lower edges. Spine is lightly cocked and there is a surface tear to FEP. Contents are clean and bright throughout. AD Used
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Whiteaker, Stafford
The Good Retreat Guide: Over 300 Places to Find Peace and Spiritual Renewal in Britain, Ireland, France and Spain
Paperback in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers, faint marks to page block foot and tanning to page edges. Clean throughout. AD Used
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Winner, David
Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
Hardcover, first impression of first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Newspaper clipping review laid-in. Jacket is lightly edgeworn and has a few light scores to front and rear. Boards excellent, pages clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Godfrey, J. H.
Western Arabia and the Red Sea (B.R. 527, Geographical Handbook Series)
Hardcover without dust jacket. Originally produced and printed for offical purposes during the war 1939/45. Includes hundreds of illustrations, text-figures and maps, plus a large fold-out full colour map in rear pocket in excellent condition. There are perforations at the rear of book suggesting that some pages have been removed. Green cloth boards are sunned at spine, edgeworn, marked both front and rear and bumped at corners. Page block is lightly tanned and faintly foxed. Minor creases to upper leading corners of initial few pages. Spine is tight and contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Hagen, Toni; Wahlen, Friedrich Traugott; Corti, Walter Robert; Charleston, Britta M. (trans.); Osers, Ewald (revised by)
Nepal: The Kingdom of the Himalayas
Oversized hardcover with clipped dust jacket. First UK edition. Includes 42 colour plates in offset printing and 42 monochrome plates in letterpress printing, plus 24 sketch maps. Jacket is worn at edges and corners with a few scores to both front and rear. Sticker remnants to inner front flap and faint white marks to FEP. Page block head slightly tanned, page block foot is lightly scored and faintly marked. Board corners lightly bumped. Spine is tight, fold-outs are excellent, illustrations bright and text unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Davis, Scott C.
The Road from Damascus: A Journey Through Syria
Paperback in very good condition. TS Used
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Worsley, David; Aga, Ole J. (ed.)
The Geological History of Svalbard: Evolution of an Arctic Archipelago
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket and a few light marks and slight bumps to board edges. Spine tight and contents clean. AD Used
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Verhoeff, Stijn
Lapon D'Une Renne - Voyages into the Arctic Regions
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Text in Dutch and English. Jacket is worn and creased along edges and has a 3 cm tear to rear lower edge. Score to jacket front. Boards excellent and contents clean. AD Used
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Godwin, Fay; Healey, Edna (intro.)
The Secret Forest of Dean
Paperback in very good condition. Sunning to spine and to front lower edge. Minor edgewear to covers and mark to page block foot. Spine is tight and contents clean. AD Used
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McConchie, Jack; Winchester, David; Willis, Richard (eds.)
Dynamic Wellington: A Contemporary Synthesis and Explanation of Wellington
Oversized paperback in very good condition. Crease to rear cover and light edgewear to front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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