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Prichard, H. Hesketh; Gathorne-Hardy, G. M.
Through Trackless Labrador
Hardcover, good condition. Boards are marked with stains to the spine and rear. Minor bumps to the corners and spine ends. Internally the front hinge is cracked and the frontispiece is loose. No other loose pages; binding remains solid. Minor foxing throughout but the text is bright and clear. Author's signature (G. M. Gathorne-Hardy) with a dedication on the front pastedown. DP Used
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Murari, Timeri N.
Limping to the Centre of the World: A Journey to Mount Kailas
Paperback. Very good condition. Spine foot is scuffed and page block foot has a few marks. Signed by the author on title page. Minor crease along half-title page. Pages are sound and text is bright and clear. TA Used
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Harrod, W.; Linnell, C. L. S.
Norfolk: A Shell Guide
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, first edition, very good condition. Jacket has some minor nicks to the edges and slight tanning to the rear and spine. Boards are very slightly bowed but remain very clean and a few of the early page are slightly warped. Internally the pages are sound and clear. A very good clean copy. DP Used
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Piper, John
Oxfordshire (not including the City of Oxford): A Shell Guide
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, revised edition, very good condition. An exceptionally clean copy with only minimal shelfwear to the jacket and slight tanning to the front leading edge. Small section of jacket missing at spine head. Internally excellent throughout. DP Used
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Bone, Stephen
The West Coast of Scotland: A Shell Guide
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, first edition, very good condition. Jacket has some wear with minor surface marks, small tears to the spine head and rear bottom edge and minor bumps to the corners. Boards are slightly bowed. Internally no issues, all content is bright and clear. DP Used
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Pawlowska, YOI
A Year of Strangers
Hardcover (no jacket) - first edition. Boards are slightly marked, with worn extremities. Page block and endpapers are tanned. Previous owner's bookplate over previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Slight chipping to two or three page edges (production fault during cutting). Content is clear throughout. TS Used
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Fages, Jean
Cartographic Handbook of French Polynesia
Staple-bound paperback (English language). Societe Des Oceanistes Dossier 19. Covers are a little creased and worn. Content is clear throughout. Maps drawn by Madeleine Fages. Good to very good. TS Used
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Baddeley, M. J. B.
The English Lake District (Thorough Guide Series)
Hardcover in very good condition, without evidence of being used 'in the field'. No jacket. Seventh edition, thoroughly revised. With fifteen maps, general and sectional by Bartholomew. Boards are lightly marked. Spine is sunned. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Tear across spine head. Spine foot is nicked. Page block, early and closing pages are tanned and marked. FEP and first 'tourist tickets' page are detached from binding. Previous owner's name (A.K. Carlyon, 1897) inked on reverse of FEP. Pencilled notes and sketches on reverse of BEP and 'Notes' pages. Nicks and light creases on a few pages. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used
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BREHIER, Louis
Les Provinces FRANCAISES: L'auvergne
Hardcover, no jacket; printed boards, very good condition. Spine ends and corners are slightly bumped and the top corners are slightly nicked. Pages are tanned but all content remains bright and clear. Text in French. DP Used
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Kerridge, Roy
Roy Kerridge in the Deep South
Hardcover. First edition. Unclipped jacket is lightly worn along upper edge. Page block head is foxed. Content is clear on clean, sound pages. TS Used
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Sit, Victor F. S.
Beijing: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City
Hardcover without jacket; printed boards. Very good condition. Spine ends and leading corners of boards are bumped and a little scuffed. Spine is very slightly cocked. Pages are clean and sound, text is bright and clear. TA Used
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Schneebaum, Tobias
Wild Man
Hardcover. First printing. Unclipped jacket is faintly marked and shelfworn. Interior is very good: clean and sound throughout ('File Copy' slip laid in). Illustrated by the author. TS Used
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Saville, Malcolm
Malcolm Saville's Seaside Books
Hardcover. Jacket is slightly worn, with a few minor nicks around spine head; one or two insignificant imperfections on boards beneath. Page block is tanned. Pages remain clean and sound. With numerous plates, most in colour; line-drawings at chapter headings; all content is clear. TS Used
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Kennedy, Emma
The Tent, The Bucket and Me: My Family's Disastrous Attempts to go Camping in the 70s
Paperback. Very good condition. Creases along spine and crease to front cover at upper leading corner. Pages are clean and text is clear. TA Used
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Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
Delightsome Land
Hardcover. 1947 reprint (originally 1945). Jacket unclipped, though lightly marked; shelfworn, with a few nicks, and one or two small areas of loss. Minor wear to two or three page corners; no further significant faults to hardcover. Pages are clean and sound; text and illustrations are clear. TS Used
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Clarke, Albert N.
Historic Sydney and New South Wales
Hardcover and jacket with minor exterior wear; a hint of foxing on page block head. Pages are clean and sound. Second revised edition. TS Used
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Dolci, Danilo; Cowan, Antonia
For the Young
Hardcover - first edition in English - in unclipped jacket in removable plastic protection; both in excellent condition. A very well-cared for copy with no notable faults. TS Used
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Henry, Thomas R.
The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica
Hardcover. Undated, and not published in 1900. Jacket is marked and worn, with extensive, though professional and neat, taped repairs to nicks and an area of loss at spine head; now with removable plastic protection. Boards are lightly bumped at spine ends. Page block is foxed. Small abrasion and previous owner's plate on FEP. With eight photographic plates and a frontispiece map; all content is clear. TS Used
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Napier, Eloise
Spas: Exceptional Destination Around the World
Hardcover in dust jacket, very good condition. Clean and crisp throughout. AD Used
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Book of World Travel (The Reader's Digest)
first inner hinge split; pages 3-6 detached but intact. Clean Copy
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Ogrizek, Dore (ed.)
France (McGraw-Hill Pocket Travel Guides)
hardcover Clean Copy
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Sir Gray, Albert
A New Voyage Round the World
Rubbing / wear to edges of DJ.
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Waldman, Michael
Planet Ustinov: Following the Equator with Sir Peter Ustinov
Accompanying the Channel 4 TV series, this text follows (100 years later) Mark Twain's bestselling account of his journey around the globe. The traveller is Sir Peter Ustinov, who sticks closely to Twain's original route, from luxurious cruise liner to the meat train from Bombay. Clean Copy
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Kelly, Lawrence Ed.
Istanbul : A Travellers' Companion
Jacket is a little rubbed at top edge and has one small mend, fep is signed and inscribed by owner. Clear, bright and tight. Used
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Elon, Amos
Jerusalem: City of Mirrors
Paperback. Very light shelfwear on covers. Page block is tanned. Name of previous owner on FEP. Private blind stamp on FEP/BEP. Penned marginalia on a few random pages throughout, not affecting text. Page edges are slightly tanned. Contents are sound. BW Used
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Marti, Franz; TRUB, Walter
Bahnen Der Alpen
Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Text in German, French and English. Slight sunning to spine. Creases to upper corners of four internal pages. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Belfast in Its Regional Setting: A Scientific Survey
Printed covers with green cloth spine, the whole showing slight wear, particularly at corners. Many maps, plates, diagrams in text; one of these detached, paperclipped in at rear. Contents generally good, sound condition. Used
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Black, R. F.; Reed, E.C.
Guidebook for Field Conference C: Upper Mississippi Valley
Sound publication (fomr the international Association for Quaternary research: VIIth Congress) with clean pages and clear content. Light sunning of spine.
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Porter, S. C.
Guidebook for Field Conference J: Paciofic Northwest
Sound publication (fomr the international Association for Quaternary research: VIIth Congress) with clean pages and clear content. Light sunning of spine.
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Bradley, W. C.; Smith, A. W.
Guidebook for One-day Field Conference: Boulder Area, Colorado
Sound publication (fomr the international Association for Quaternary research: VIIth Congress) with clean pages and clear content. Light sunning of spine.
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More, Jasper
The Land of Italy
Hardcover in plastic protected unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Inscription penned on half title page by previous owner. Jacket and boards worn at extremeties. Light foxing to page block. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Maggio, Theresa
Mattanza: Love and Death in The Sea of Sicily
Hardcover, 1st edition in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Minor scuffs to jacket edges and spine ends. Some light scoring to jacket. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Bec, Serge; Sioen, GErard
Le Luberon
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Dedication to previous owner penned on FEP. Pages are sound and contents are bright and clear. AD Used
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von Richthofen, Christa; Benn, Oliver
Germany: Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, Gardens
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Jacket lightly scuffed along edges and spine ends, pages are clean and crisp throughout. AD Used
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Porter, Darwin
Austria and Hungary, 1991-92, Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide
Marks on the page edges Used
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Gloaguen, Philippe
The Rough Guide French Hotels and Restaurants 1999-2000
Paperback Used
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Crew, Anna & Ludlow, Nicholas
The Moneywise Guide to North America
Ex-library sticker and stamps on the FEP and on the page block, Twenty ninth Edition Ex-Library
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Discover North America
Beautifully illustrated with colour photos on every page, including the Manhattan Skyline with the World Trade Center intact. Sections on The Majesty of Nature (National Parks, Grand Canyon, etc.), The Place and its People, Living with Extremes (California's ever-impending earthquake and weather extremes throught North America), The Riches of a Continent (The Lumber industry, Chicago Markets, Midwest, etc.), The Heart of North America (Highways, Media, the Suburbs, Casinos, etc.), Life in the City (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, etc.), Culture and Folklore (Memphis, Nashville, Broadway, etc.); The New Frontiers (McDonald's, Silicon Valley, etc.) Also includes Maps, Fact and Figures.
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Cooke, G.A.
Walks Through London; or, A Picture of the British Metropolis...... being a complete guide to the casual visitor, or constant resident.
Hardcover in good condition, no dust jacket. Offers architectural descriptions of the buildings of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their environs. Full information concerning the public, the trading, the charitable, and the literary institutions; places of worship and of entertainment. Boards are scuffed at spine ends, edges, corners and spine hinge. Corners are bumped and a few marks to front and rear boards. Previous owners' name penned to front paste down. Foxing to page block and some internal pages. Spine is tight. AD Used
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Kornitzer, Louis
Trade Winds
First Penguin paperback edition, good condition. Features advertisements for Jif shaving stick (rear cover) and Eno's fruit salt (inside front cover). Lightly scuffed at spine ends and lightly sunned at spine. Slight foxing and tanning to page block. Very nice copy, clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Ackerley, J.R.
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
First Penguin edition, paperback, acceptable condition. Cover is scuffed and marked, lightly tanned. Spine ends are coming away from binding and rest of spine is creased and sunned. Page block is tanned, internal pages are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Chapman, Olive Murray
Across Lapland with Sledge and Reindeer
First Penguin edition, paperback, good condition. Sunning to spine and light scuffs at spine ends. Page block is tanned and lightly scuffed at lower leading corner. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Perham, M.; Simmons, J.
African Discovery an Anthology of Exploration
First Penguin paperback edition, Acceptable condition. Scuffed at extremities, scuffed at spine ends and sunned at spine. Cover is coming a little loose at spine hinge. Crease to back cover and tanning to page block. Internally clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Pack, S.W.C. (ed.)
Anson's Voyage Round the World 1740-1744
First Penguin edition, paperback in good condition. Sunning and creases to spine, creases to front and rear covers. Scuffed at edges and spine ends, page block is tanned. Internally clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Bullen, Frank T.
The Cruise of the 'Cachalot'
First Penguin edition, paperback, good condition. Features advertisements from Jif shaving stick and Norvick shoes. Spine is creased and lightly sunned. Page block is lightly foxed and lightly tanned. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Pitman, C.R.S.
A Game Warden Among His Charges
First Penguin paperback edition in very good condition. Features advertisement for Jif Shaving Stick on rear cover. Spine is creased and sunned. Staples visable on half-title page and light scuffs along upper edge. Page block is foxed and tanned. AD Used
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Morris, Jan
Last Letters from Hav
Hardcover first edition in unclipped dust jacket, very good -gift quality -condition. Sunning to jacket spine. Clean and unmarked throughout. Used
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Prince, Hugh (ed.); et al.
Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 to 4, 1984
Library-bound in unmarked stiff green cloth, gilt title on spine. Bookplate and barcode on FEP; accession and withdrawn stamps. Contents otherwise in very good condition, clean and sound throughout. TPW Ex Library
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Prince, Hugh (ed.); et al.
Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 12, Nos. 1 to 4, 1986
Library-bound in unmarked stiff green cloth, gilt title on spine. Bookplate and barcode on FEP; accession and withdrawn stamps. Contents otherwise in very good condition, clean and sound throughout. TPW Ex Library
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Robinson, David J. (ed.); Heffernan, Michael (ed.); et al.
Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 27, Nos. 1 to 4, 2001
Library-bound in unmarked stiff green cloth, gilt title on spine. Inkstamps on edge of page block; bookplate and barcode on FEP; accession and withdrawn stamps on front matter. Contents otherwise in very good condition: clean, sound, and bright throughout. TPW Ex Library
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