AKIMOTO, SHUNKICHI.

THE LURE OF JAPAN.

Tokyo, Japan. Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways, 1934., Ex Reference library. "Presented by Japanese Government Railways." is typed on library bookplate. 371 pages. 40 b./w. photographs on 32 pages. Folded map at end of book. The paper over endpages has split at hinges but lining underneath is still intact. Ends of spine are bumped. Library reference number on spine, & ocasional small library stamps in margins of pages, otherwise very good.. 1934

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Book number: 7525

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Japan Japanese Tokyo Akan Yokohama Kobe Osaka Kyoto Kirishima Fuji Nikko

ALLEN, BOB.

A DALES WALK. A Long-Distance Walk Through England's Most Beautiful Scenery.

London. Michael Joseph, 1997., 178 pages. Describes 6 walks starting with Leyburn to Aysgarth, ending with Reeth to Richmond, plus 3 circular walks, illustrated with colour photographs & sketch maps. Cover & contents near fine, no inscription or marks, Near fine d./w., priced £16.99. ISBN 0718141350. 1997

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Book number: 7981

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: walks Dales Yorkshire Kirkby Stephen Keld Reeth Richmond Hawes Thwaite Aysgarth Leyburn

ALLEN, CHARLES.

RAJ. A Scrapbook of British India. 1877-1947.

London. Book Club Associates / Andre Deutsch, 1977., 142 pages, with old photographs, newspaper cuttings, advertisments, prints in black & white and sepia on almost every page. 10¼" x 8". Near fine except for previous owner's name & date on bottom of half title page. D./w. is slightly faded on spine o./w. near fine. 1977

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Book number: 3154

Catalogue: Travel & Topography / History

Keywords: India Raj Curzon

ALLISON, J. E.

SIDELIGHTS ON TRANMERE.

Birkenhead. Birkenhead History Society & Countryvise, 1976., Softback. Anecdotes & memories of the town of Tranmere, on the River Mersey near Birkenhead, on Wirral. 99 pages. 22cm. x 15cm. 23 b./w. photographs & illustrations. Priced on back cover £4.95. Very good, no inscription or marks, but one page sticks out, and although all pages are intact & not loose at all I think in the future this book will need careful handling. It won't be able to stand being bent back. In its favour its not a common book. ISBN 0907768830. 1976

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Book number: 6966

Catalogue: Travel & Places

Keywords: Tranmere Mersey Wirral Cheshire Birkenhead Cammel Laird Rock Ferry Merseyside

ANON.

THE AUSTRALIAN COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES.

Melbourne, Australia. The Sun News Pictorial, Colorgravure Publication, undated c. 1950, Although not dated, the clothes, the cars, and the words "but in 1947" in a sentence narrow it down to arrive 1950! 240 pages. 24 photographs and pictures in colour, and over 300 in gravure. Contents clean & near fine, no inscription or marks. D./w. is worn & torn, repaired on inside with sellotape which is now old & yellowed. 24cm. x 18.5cm. 1950.

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Book number: 7620

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Australia Victoria Queensland New South Wales Tasmania

ANON.

BESANCON et les Sites pittoresques du Departement du Doubs. Guide Du Visiteur.

Besancon, France. Librairie Alexandre Brocandel Succ', undated., Slim, 64 page guide book, in French. 30 b./w. photographs. From the photographs it was probably published about 1920. Besancon is about 406 kilometres from Paris by train. Contents clean but stiff card cover has some small ink spots.

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Book number: 7701

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: Besancon France guide book Alexandre Brocandel

ANON

THE BROADS and RIVERS OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. A Ward Lock's Red Guide

London. Ward Lock, 1952, Hardback. Undated, but one advertisments is dated 1952, & it has a price label of 7/6. 176 pages + 7 pages in the front & xiii pages in the back of advertisments. 7 folded maps & plans. 24 b./w. photographs on 16 pages. No d./w. 17.25cm. x 11.25cm. 1960

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Book number: 9160

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Great Yarmouth Lowestoft Gorleston-on-Sea Bungay Norwich Burgh Castle Fritton Lake Barton Broad The Broads Rollesby

ANON

LE MIRACLE SUISSE.

Zurich. Inter Verlag, 1947., Softback. 256 pages of black & white photographs of Switzerland. Its lovely scenery, architecture, industries, craftsmen & women at work, snow in winter, & children in summer meadows, all are quite charming & some are very beautful. Given to its customers by the firm " La Baloise' Compagnie D'Assurances Contre Les Risques De Transport, Bale Suisse, fondee en 1864." . Text and captions in French, English & German. 9½" x 8½". Near fine but inside of front cover & title page are slightly brownish or a bit foxed? . 1947

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Book number: 2242

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Switzerland Geneva Zurich Alpine Rhone

ANON.

PICTURESQUE WIRRAL. Illustrated in a Series of 31 Views from Original Photographs.

Liverpool. Henry Young, 1913., Second edition, revised and enlarged, published January 1913. First published October 1912. Pages not numbered, but about 62. Black & white photographs. Contents clean & near fine but previous owner's name & date of 1920 on f.e.p. Cover has publisher's clear wrapper & is near fine but its back is marked with 5 spots of ink. 22.75cm. x 15cm. 1913

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Book number: 7718

Catalogue: History / Travel & Topography

Keywords: 5716a Wirral Bidston Birkenhead Caldy Eastham Greasby Hooton Poole Hall

APSE, ANDRIS. (PHOTOGRAPER)

NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPES.

Nelson, New Zealand. Craig Potton Publishing, 2001., Reprint, first published 1994. Introduction by Andy Dennis. 120 pages, illustrated in colour throughout, with some stunning colour photographs. Landscape format, 24.5cm. x 33.75cm. Near fine cover but bottom of spine slightly bumped, contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w. but bottom of spine is worn & small tear front bottom edge. ISBN 0908802234. 2001 ISBN: 0908802234

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Book number: 7946

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: New Zealand Urewera National Park Fiordland Coromandel Kaipo Valley Otago Rakaia Wairarapa

ARDAGH, JOHN

FRANCE TODAY. A New & Revised Edition of FRANCE IN THE 1980's.

London. Penguin Books, 1995., Reprint of revised edition published 1987, first published 1982 by Secker Warburg. 647 pages including bibliography & index. Contents near fine. Near fine card cover, priced on back £8.99. 7.75" x 5". ISBN 0140251855. 1995

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Book number: 6516

Catalogue: Travel & Topography / Socialogy

Keywords: France French de Gaulle Paris Brittany Mitterrand Barre Malraux Giscard D'Estaing

ARMAJANI, YAHYA.

MIDDLE EAST PAST AND PRESENT.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall, 1970., 432 pages, including a chronology of important events, selected bibliography & index. Illustrated with black & white photographs & some maps. 23.5cm. x 15.5cm. Contents near fine, clean, no inscription or marks. Near fine cover except corners slightly bumped. No. d./w. ( Possibly SBN 135815797 ) 1970

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Book number: 7562

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Middle East Islam Ottoman Safavid Arabs Arabic Persian Turks

ARNOLD, GUY.

MODERN NIGERIA.

London. Longman, 1977, Paperback. 192 pages including index. Near fine but corners bumped, and page edges slightly dusty. 20 b./w. photographs. ISBN 058264643X. 1977

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Book number: 5633

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Nigeria Daisy108 Africa Obasanjo

ASBURY, HERBERT.

THE BARBARY COAST. An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld.

London. Jarrolds, 1934., 314 pages. 21 b./ w. photographs & prints on 18 pages. Contents clean, except some faint foxing on the half-title, title page & following 2 pages, also some very faint foxing on the end pages. Cover is a bit grubby. No d./w. 1934

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Book number: 7872

Catalogue: History / Travel & Topography

Keywords: Barbary Coast San Francisco Forty-Nine Gold-Rush California Yeba Buena Arthur Putnam

ASHTON, STEVE.

CLASSIC WALKS IN WALES.

London. Promotional Reprint Co., 1995., Teithian Cerdded Clasurol yng Nghymru." First published 1990 by Oxford Illustrated Press. 40 walks in Wales chosen by Ashton, divided into 10 sections. Each walk has a sketch map and some very good colour & b. & w. photographs. 143 pages, including a glossary of Welsh place names. 10" x 8¼". Fine condition, no inscription or marks. D./w. is near fine except its price clipped. ISBN 1856482103. 1995

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Book number: 619

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: Welsh Wales walking mountains Snowdon Snowdonia Brecon Beacons Llangollen Cambrian mountains Llugwy Anglesey