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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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Cummins, Peg (compiled by)
A History of Kawhia and Its District
Oversized paperback with watermarks along lower edge of rear cover and along lower page edges. Minor edgewear to covers, no other notable flaws. Clean throughout. AD Used
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Andersson, Axel
A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
Paperback in like new condition. New shop stock with minor shelf-wear, no faults. TA Used
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Leslie, George Dunlop
Our River (The Thames)
Paperback in good condition. Reproduction of a work published prior to 1923. Pages scanned from a copy once held by the New York Public Library. Small scuff to page block head, light marks to page block and light wear to cover lower edges and lower leading corners. Binding is sound and contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Rosano, Flavia ARAGON; SANCHEZ, JOSE Antonio LOPEZ (eds.)
Historias de Viajes: Una Perspectiva Plural, Volumen 1& 2 (Espacios Literarios En Contacto, 14)
Paperbacks in like new condition, volumes 1 and 2. Text in Spanish. New shop stock with minor shelf-wear and bump to spine head of volume 2, no other faults. TA Used
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Glazebrook, Philip
Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia
Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to jacket spine and light wear to jacket edges. Light foxing to page block. Boards excellent, contents clean. AD Used
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Administration of Wester Samoa
Handbook of Western Samoa
Hardcover without dust jacket. Printed illustration to front board, many b&w plates and a fold-out map. Spine and rear board tanned, board edges rubbed and corners lightly bumped. Spine is sound and contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Avery, Gillian (ed.)
Unforgettable Journeys: An Anthology
Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped, plastic wrapped, dust jacket designed by John Verney. Jacket is shelf and edge-worn with a few light marks and small tears along edges. Board edges rubbed and slight bump to board spine foot. Contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Rothwell, Catherine
Ports of the North West
Paperback in very good condition. Light shelf and edgewear to covers, no other faults. AD Used
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Morath, Inge (photos); Miller, Arthur (text)
In Russia: A Studio Book
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Signed and dedicated by both Morath and Miller on FEP. Jacket is worn at edges with a couple of small edge tears, 3cm tear and hole to front and creases to rear and to inner front flap. Board edges are rubbed and there is a faint mark to front board. Page block lightly tanned. Spine is tight, text is clean and illustrations are all bright. AD Used
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Moseley, Charles
Latitude North
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Slightest of wear to jacket edges, no other faults. Very good condition. AD Used
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
North to the Orient
Paperback in good condition. Shelf and edgewear to covers, tanning to page block and page edges. Small tear to half-title page at spine head and glue residue along front hinge. No other faults. AD Used
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Reeves, William Pember; Harrop, A.J.; Shaw, George Bernard
The Long White Cloud: Ao Tea Roa
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. 4th edition with additional chapters by Harrop and a comment by Bernard Shaw. Jacket is tanned at spine and worn at edges including a couple of small tears. Orange cloth boards have gilt decoration to front and gilt printing to spine. Foxing to page block, endpapers and prelims. Previous owner's name penned to FEP. Includes colour frontispiece, 23 illustrations and a fold-out map at rear of book which is in excellent condition. Spine slightly cocked and board edges lightly rubbed. Text is clean and binding is sound. AD Used
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Guthrie-Smith, H.
Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
Hardcover without dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration and printing to front, gilt printing to spine. 444pp, including 23 full-page illustrations, over 100 illustrations in text, and 17 maps - some of which are fold-outs at end of book and in excellent condition. Boards are lightly worn at corners and edges. Endpapers and prelims are lightly foxed. Faint marks and light scores to page block. Contents clean and binding sound. AD Used
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Ackroyd, Peter
Venice: Pure City
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Minor shelfwear to jacket and light tanning to page block head, no other faults. AD Used
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Andersson, Axel
A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
Hardcover in like new condition. Unused shop stock with minor shelfwear, no faults. AD Used
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Gerardi, Guadalupe
Writing Travel: The Work of Roberto BOLANO and Juan JOSE Saer (Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity, Volume 10)
Paperback in like new condition. Unread shop stock with minor shelf-wear, no faults. TA Used
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Andruschenko, Nikolay; Arthur, Paul; Bazhanova, Tatiana; Cordova, Carlos
Crimean Chersonesos: City, Chora, Museum and Environs (Institute of Classical Archaeology)
Paperback in good condition. Edgewear to covers and slight crease to front lower leading corner. Light scores to rear cover. No other faults. Spine is tight and contents clean. AD Used
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Al-Hajri, Hilal; Bassnett, Susan (intro.)
British Travel-Writing on Oman: Orientalism Reappraised
Paperback in like new condition. Unused shop stock with minor shelfwear, no faults. AD Used
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Ward, Michael
In This Short Span: Himalayan Mountaineering and Exploration
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor shelf and edgewear to jacket and tanning to jacket inside. Boards and pages excellent. AD Used
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Mead, W. R.
Pehr Kalm - His London Diary: A Finnish Visitor to England in 1748 while on his way to North America
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Gilt lettering to board spine and name printed to FEP. No notable flaws. TA Used
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Mead, W.R.
An Experience of Finland
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed and dedicated by author on title page. Very minor edgewear to jacket and faint creases to upper corners of first few pages, no other faults. AD Used
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Roerich, Nicholas
Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas
Paperback in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers, no other faults. Clean throughout and binding tight. AD Used
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