Viaggi e geografia

A Guide to Trust Houses

NO AUTHOR · 1951 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Trust Houses and Surrey Public House Trust. 1951, Twenty-fourth Edition. Soft cover. Book, Small paperback, 112 pages, list of tariffs in pocket at back, loosely inserted leaflets of early holidays and late additions. Some foxing, corners worn. Good/No Jacket.

A Warm Welcome to Royal Tunbridge Wells

NO AUTHOR · 1954 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells Council. 9999, Not Known. Soft cover. Book, Local guide book to Tunbridge Wells, grey card covers creased on edges, worn at ends of spine. B/w illustrations, 43 pages of local adverts. No date, but from internal evidence 1954. Folding map at ba...

A Wanderer in the West Country

E. W. MARTIN · 1951 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Phoenix House. 1951, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Heather Copley & Christopher Chamberlain. Ex-Library, Grey cloth, gilt decoration. Drawings by Heather Copley & Christopher Chamberlain, endpaper map drawn by Hugh Ryder. History & folklore from Cornwall, Devon & Som...

A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Bideford, Woolacombe, and North-west Devon

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 1919 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Ward, Lock. 9999, Ninth Edition. Cloth. Book, Frontispiece map missing, map of Barnstaple torn. No date but adverts say 1919-20 series. Red cloth. Includes Morwenstow in Cornwall. Illustrations complete. Cloth worn; plan of Ilfracombe loose, some foxing and marks. Lots...

The Children of Europe

R. J. FINCH · 1925 · Marion Pitman Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

London, Evans Brothers. 1925, Second Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blue cloth, titles in black with knotwork design border. Twenty five chapters, each with a nice full page drawing with initials PJI. Front hinge weak, a little foxing, cloth worn and dull; stamp on flyleaf Glaisdal...

Rural Rides

WILLIAM COBBETT · 1967 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1967. Soft cover. Book, Edited, with an introduction, by George Woodcock. Corners bit creased. Good/No Jacket.

The Fortunate Islands, the story of the Isles of Scilly

E. L. BOWLEY · 1957 · Marion Pitman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Reading, UK, Bowley Publications. 1957, Fourth Edition. Paper Covered Bds. Book, Illustrated from photographs by J. Gibson, St. Mary's. Ends of spine bumped. Original address of publication, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, is overstuck with Reading address. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Scott's Last Expedition, the Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R. N., C. V. O., on his Journey to the South Pole

ROBERT FALCON SCOTT · 1936 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, John Murray. 1936, Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Ex-Library, Biographical introduction by J. M. Barrie, preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. 19 illustrations, map endpapers. Front hinge cracked, cloth worn & faded, ends of spine frayed. Binding has been wrapped in some kind...

The New Outlook Geography: Book 1, How People Live

W. C. BROWN & P. H. JOHNSON · 1919 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, George G. Harrap. 1919. Pictorial Cloth. Book, Part 1 The British Isles, Part 2 Outside the British Isles. Greenish cloth with picture of a liner. 252 pages. Illus. from photos & drawings. Spine split front joint top & bottom; marks on spine & back board; corners worn;...

Falmouth, the Lizard, Truro and South Cornwall

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 1940 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Ward, Lock. 9999, Eleventh Edition. Cloth. Book, Ward Lock Illustrated Guide Books. No date, appears 1940s. Eleventh edition. 168 pages plus adverts. "A pictorial & descriptive guide to Falmouth, The Lizard, Truro, St. Austell, Fowey, Looe, and South Cornwall, with a s...

I Chose Caviar

ART BUCHWALD · 1957 · Marion Pitman Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Victor Gollancz. 1957, First. Hardcover. Book, Foxing edges & prelims; spine faded. Humourous essays. Good/No Jacket.

Mihloti

MIRIAM TLALI · 1984 · Marion Pitman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Johannesburg, Skotaville. 1984, First Edition. Paperback. Book, Title is Shangane for "tears" Short pieces by the author of Muriel at Metropolitan and Amandla. Skotaville series No.2. Cover photos Ralph Ndawo & Gideon Nhlapo. Introduction by Richard Rive. New Journalism; Trave...

Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the priest

GEORGE BORROW · 1913 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, John Murray. 1913, New Edition. Cloth. Book, New edition, containing the unaltered text of the original issue; some suppressed episodes; ms. variorum, vocabulary & notes by the author of the Life of George Borrow. Frontispiece. Spine faded; some staining front board; e...

Domesday Book - 3 - Surrey

JOHN MORRIS (EDITED) · 1975 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Chichester, Phillimore. 1975. Paperback. Book, Edited from a draft translation prepared by Sara Wood. History from the Sources. With notes, indexes, glossary of technical terms, map. Original text interleaved with translation. Corners a little worn. Good Plus/No Jacket.

The "Come to Cornwall" Guide

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 1950 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, County Associations Ltd. 9999, Nineteenth Edition. Soft cover. Book, No date, guess 1950s - after 1945 and before Dr. Beeching massacred the railways. Hotel terms quoted in guineas. Incorporating The Cornish Guide. Introduction by A. Browning Lyne. Illustrations & maps...

The Church of St. Augustine, Brookland

ANNE ROPER · 1959 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Brookland, Kent, St. Augustine's Church. 1959, Eighteenth Edn. Paper Covers. Book, 23 page booklet published in aid of church funds. Frontis. picture of the church, with detached wooden belfry; also picture of font. Edges a little darkened, part of front cover & back of fronti...

The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People

GREY OWL · 1937 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Lovat Dickson. 1937, Seventh Printing. Cloth. Book, Red cloth, illus. 2 photos & numerous drawings. Spine faded, some foxing of fore-edge. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Official Handbook of Burns' House, Dumfries, and other memories of the national poet

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Dumfries, Robert Dinwiddie and Directors of Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. 9999, Not Known. Soft cover, 8.5" x 6". Ill.: Ian D. Stewart. Book, Foreword by Sir James Crichton-Browne. 40 pages, half ordinary paper, half thin paper; many drawings. Card covers tied with ribb...

Guide to Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Dunblane & District

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 1929 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Stirling, Eneas Mackay. 9999, Not Known. Soft cover. Book, No date, possible 1929. Tartan paper covers with thistle-shaped vignette of title & views. 104 pages plus adverts. 15 halftone plates. Fold out map at front. Lovely period adverts. A little darkening & wear on spine, s...

The Paris Spy, a discreet guide to the city's pleasures

RAYMOND RUDORFF (EDITED) · 1969 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Anthony Blond. 1969, First. Hardcover. Ill.: Kaffe Fassett. Book, Illus. line drawings by Kaffe Fassett. A substitute half-title page has been inserted, printed at the base of which is "With best wishes for a happy holiday, December 1970, CBS Records, 28/30 Theobalds R...