ALDER, LORY

Paris Is Fun - a Bilingual Guide

London, Pelham. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0720702259). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket which is plastic protected. Map endpapers and 23 photographs. A marvellous bilingual guide to Paris, different from the guides of today, replete with fascinating and unusual information such as where to find toy soldiers, when to expect fireworks, special children's theatres and art clubs etc. but generally where and how to have fun. 11. Near Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: 0720702259

ANDERSON, PATRICK

First Steps in Greece

London, Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth board which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has small piece removed and some tears and chipping but not affecting the illustration. 212 pages. 59 illustrations. An endearing travelogue of Greece and it's islands in the late 1950's before the advent of mass tourism. Made colourful by the characters he met and his wonderful style of writing, a wonderful read. C3A. Very Good/Fair.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Greece, Greek Islands

ANONYMOUS

Baedeker's Autoguides - Benelux - Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg

Stuttgart, Baedeker. 1958. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy vinyl bound with VG dustjacket. 256 pages. 22 maps and plans including a large fold out Benelux road map. 52 sketches. The volume is divided into four parts - Part A contains a general survey, including articles on geography, history, and art, and all the essential practical notes for the journey and one's stay. Part B contains detailed descriptions, compiled from personal experience, of all roads that are of importance for tourists, with everything they shoul know about road conditions, the character of the scenery, and the places of interest on or near the road. Part C is a gazetteer with descriptions of the larger towns and tourist resorts and their environs. Part D is devoted to a list of hotels, inns and restaurants, their localities being arranged in alphabetical order. 50. Fine/Very Good.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Baedeker Autoguide, Benelux, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, 1950's European Road Map

ARDAGH, JOHN

Writers' France - a Regional Panorama

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1989, First. (ISBN: 0241123518). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 319 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Mayotte Magnus. John Ardagh, well known for his authoritative studies of France, extends his range to give a picture of the French regions as seen in literature. He explores the many places that have inspired the work of writers both French and foreign - the towns, villages and landscapes that they have described in their work and where in many cases they lived. The book is enlivened by some 250 revealing extracts from their writings, and by numerous photographs specially taken by Mayotte Magnus, well known for her work with landscapes. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.125 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1F. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Literary France, Regional France in French Literature, French Authors, Literary Travel 0241123518

AYYILDIZ, UGUR

Istanbul

Istanbul, NET Turistik Yayinlar. 1988, First. (ISBN: 9754790426). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Card covers are clean and unmarked internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Fine copy. 132 pages printed on glossy paper. illustrated. throughout with colour photographs. A most wonderful guide to Istanbul which covers its history, monuments, museums, historic mosques, palaces and pailions together with its market places, Bosphorous and Prince's Islands. 50. Fine/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Turkish History, Istanbul Guide 9754790426

MAIS, S.P.B. AND GILLIAN

Dutch Holiday

London, Alvin Redman. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy with a little light foxing to endpapers and to closed edges with complete dustjacket. The travel writer and his wife, their appetites whetted by a Christmas visit to Rotterdam, return for a complete tour of the country and describe their experiences in two complementary diaries, and record in gay, entertaining, informative detail every aspect of their splendid, novel, friendly and comprehensive holiday. Excellent illustrations enhance this very entertaining book. NOT EX LIB A1B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Travel, Holland, Netherlands

BARTLETT, VERNON

Central Italy

London, B. T. Batsford. 1973. (ISBN: 0713401648). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good + copy with inscription to front endpaper else very clean and unmarked with VG + price clipped dustjacket. An excellent travelogue on central Italy which is no mere guide with it's aim to call the reader's attention to some of the places and events that have increased the author's affectionate interest in this land of his adoption. He knows Italy intimately and has written several very successful books about the country and here provides an informative and diverting account of the towns and villages, history, landscape, people and customs. 25 plates. NOT EX LIB A1E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Travel, Italy 0713401648

BIE, MADELEINE (TEXT)

The Chateaux of the Loire

Paris, JI Editions Sun. 1968. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold titles on grey cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and just a tinge of fading to spine head and tail. Internally there is a small stamp on front endpaper of the Chateau de Chambord VG+. Coloured photographic dustjacket has a few chips but is complete. Illustrated throughout with 77 colour photographs and a map. The revised edition. A splendid coverage of the beautiful Chateaux of the area. 16. Very Good/Very Good.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Loire, France, Chateaux

BORSOOK, EVE

The Companion Guide to Florence

London, Collins. 1979. (ISBN: 0002162458). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 400 pages. New edition, comprehensively revised. Eve Borsook, an American art historian, describes in this guide with the insight of one long resident in Florence not only what is to be seen but why it is there. She is professionally engaged with Florentine monuments and with their origins in the life of that unique city, and aided by maps and diagrams as lucid as her descriptions, she presents a study of the ideas, events and personalities of Florence yesterday and today. Full page photographs illustrate the breadth and detail of her range. B2C. Fine/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Florence 0002162458

BRODRICK, ALAN HOUGHTON (EDITED BY)

Paris

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1950, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt motifs and titles on red cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Organised by the 20 Arrondissements, there are numerous maps specially prepared by A. Spark and 180 photographic illustrations. xxii + 478 pages. The third volume in the People's France Series. A comprehensive guide to the history, places of interest and much much more for the visitor in excellent condition. A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Buchzahl: 000711

Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Paris France, History, Guidebook

CASSIDY, SHELLEY-MAREE

The Hotel Book - Great Escapes Europe

Cologne, Taschen. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 3822858897). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A very large format volume of 400 pages. A luscious picture book of interiors and a guide to some of the most spectacular getaways in Europe. Featuring a selection of the most unique hotels and guesthouses from Sweden to Turkey. The book mixes gorgeous colour photographs with directions, contact and other information. Unique hotels featured include: the Icehotel in Sweden, Amhuinnsuidhe Castle in Scotland, Chateau de Bagnols in France, and many others in Norway, Ireland, England, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, France. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey. PLEASE NOTE: A VERY LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 2.74 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 5. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Luxury Hotels in Europe, Icehotel Sweden, Amhuinnsuidhe Castle 3822858897

DEBRAYE, HENRY

Touraine and Its Chateaux

London, The Medici Society. 1928, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt titles on quarter calf with leather labels to spine, four raised bands and five compartments with small gilt designs on brown calf leather with marbled paper sides. There is just a little light wear to spine and to board edges and a small mark to back. Internally there are marbled endpapers and pages are very clean, tight and unmarked with age darkening to map bound in at rear. Bellegarde printing in France. First published in France in 1926, this luxury edition is the first English one rather than the more common cloth bound. 156 pages and map with coloured extra title page. Illustrated throughout with beautiful sepia tint photographs. Uniform with 'The Picture Guides' series. 3. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Chateaux, Travel, France, Touraine, Loire, Angevin, Indre, Vienne, Sologne, Chaumont, Orleans, Cher

DILKE, CHRISTOPHER

The Road to Dalmatia

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DEDICATION BY AUTHOR 'To Charlotte from the author, Christmas 1964' to front endpaper. Gold title on purle cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but does have a pinprick hole to spine side. Internally there is a strip of age darkening to endpapers else a clean and tight copy. Dustjacket has a pinprick hole to spine side and is not price clipped. 25 illustrations and 4 maps. A fascinating trip to Dubrovnik, traversing Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and part of Italy, including Venice and Trieste. As he was travelling with his family, and slept both in hotels and under canvas, his lively account of the journey will find an echo with many different types of traveller. The author died in 1973. B2B. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia

ENFIELD, EDWARD

Downhill All the Way

London, Bloomsbury. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747516324). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Introduction by Harry Enfield (his son the comedian). What makes a man in his sixties want to cycle across France, sleeping in a tent at campsites from the Channel to the Mediterranean? His son put it down to a second childhood. His wife thoughtfully gave him a self-inflating sleeping mat and his friends and neighbours rallied around to launch him with nervous applause. In this winningly witty and informative account of his journey, Edward Enfield takes the reader onto the handlebars of his shiny new bicycle to recount his adventures - complete with sound practical advice based on past failures. Illustrated with drawings. NOT EX LIB A1E. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Mediterranean, France, Bicycle Journey, Harry Enfield 0747516324

GIBBON, MONK

Austria

London, B.T. Batsford. 1953, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean and tight copy in orange cloth boards with dustjacket which has a one inch closed tear to frony and a little wear to edges and is not price clipped. 258 pages. 98 illustrations including a coloured frontispiece of Salzburg. The poet, autobiographer and travel writer provides a compelling account of Austria and its history, with its many historic towns and cities, its scenery and its baroque buildings. The photographic illustrations are a feature of the book. NOT EX LIB B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Buchzahl: 007769

Katalog: Travel - Europe

Sonstige Stichworte: Austria, Baroque Buildings, Salzburg, Vienna, Salzkammergut, Tyrol, Dolomites, Schonbrunn, Kremsmunster, St. Florian