Search Results: British Travel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: Collins/published for the Festival of Britain Office. 1951. 92pp. illus. pictorial hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good dj [couple of tiny nicks in cover paper; ink name & address on title p.; else VG+; dj = few tears @ extremities; else VG] One of 13 guidebook volumes depicting a region of the British Isles published for the 1951 Festival of Britain and sponsored by the Brewers' Society. This volume is a nice period guide to Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (except Holland), Rutland, Corby area of Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1950 1st ed. 224pp. maps. paperback: a cover faded & age browned but clean & complete reading copy of this old period guidebook.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd.,  1954 reprint. lxxii, 656pp., blue cloth 16mo: about Good in a worn dj now stabilized in a poly cover [hinges are cracked but holding; age browning; else a complete copy] A fat little guide to a vanished and vanishing England with 72 maps and plans, including some folding maps. Two sewn-in marker ribbons.

London: Reservations Limited. undated [ca. 1937]. 125pp. illus. hardback 8vo: about Good/no dj [blue cover paper is faded & spotted on back cover; rear hinge is cracked but firm; else a complete & tight copy] Includes a folding map of the Coronation Route. An interesting guidebook and souvenir for travelers attending the coronation of King George VI. Lots of period advertisements, many for accommodation.

London: Phaidon, 1996 reprint. 167pp. illus. + folding map. slim paperback 8vo: Fine [large publisher's rem. stamp on half-title p.; else F] An illustrated architectural guide to London's rejuvenated Docklands.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1999 1st ed. 160pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj [top corners lightly bumped; else nrF; dj = foxing on the unseen inside; else F] The places the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53) knew and loved, beautifully captured in photographs.

Bradt/UK Globe Pequot/USA Publishers, 2000 1st ed. 242pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine.

London: Collins. 1937 1st ed. 272pp. illus. blue cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [blue cloth is faded; endpp are age browned; edges are age foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Includes 11 author illustrations, three in color.

London: Robert Hale. 1981 1st ed. 208pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [a tiny fore edge spot; else F] A useful description of some of the easier walks in the Lake District of England with altitudes not exceeding 2,000 feet.

Nature's Face Publications, 2015 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by both author & photographer. 153pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine.

New York: E. P. Dutton. undated.  224pp. illus. red cloth sm 8vo: Good+/no dj.

New York: Dorset Press, 1991 1st Am. ed. 218pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [dj = p-c; else F]

London: Batsford. 1949 4th ed. SIGNED by author on half-title p. under a personal but unnamed inscription. 120pp. illus. tan cloth 8vo: about Good/no dj [rear hinge is cracked but firm; foxing; couple of corner bumps; else a complete copy with folding color map tipped to rear pastedown]

Worcester, UK: The Worcester Press, undated [ca. 1949]. 76pp. illus. blue cloth 12mo: Good+ in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [endpp are age browned; a photographic plate following p. 16 is torn with loss; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An interesting period guide to Dublin for the immediate postwar British holiday maker by the prolific garden and cricket writer William Roy Genders (1913-85).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1982 1st ed. 284pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Good+ dj [a bump @ fore edge of front cover bd.; else VG; dj = rubbing @ extremities & a few edge tears; else G+]

Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007 1st ed. 278pp. brown cloth 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

London: Constable, 1987 1st ed. 299pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [tiny fore edge spot; else F] London afoot by the English science journalist and travel writer Hillaby (1917-96).

London: Chapman & Hall. 1948 1st ed. 240pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a worn but not tattered dj [bit of age browning; else VG] Over two dozen individual essays depicting various aspects of the English Lake Country.

London: Anaya Publishers, 1990 1st ed. thus. 224pp. illus. paperback 4to: near Fine [spine and part of back cover are sun faded; else a nice crisp copy] An attractive large volume featuring over 200 illustrations with 120 in full color.

Countryside Publications, UK. [1987]. 48pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [brief ink inscription inside front cover; small tear @ spine head; few numerals in page margins; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An account of various strange events and unusual features about the Northwest of England: human skulls, rituals, miraculous water, sacred stones, holy relics, etc. for the collector of "curiosities of [the English] countryside."