Travel from Clearwater Books

W.H.Allen, London, 2021. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 350pp. Blue boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. With colour map-illustrated endpapers, two further maps, and thirty-five black and white photographs and reproductions. A hint of wear to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of… Read more about this item

Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 385pp. Salmon-coloured boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, a photographic frontispiece, one multi-panel folding map, and various other photographs, reproductions and maps as plates and in the text. A small area of discolouration to the head of the backstrip where… Read more about this item

Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Tenth edition. 8vo. xviii, 487pp + [iv], viii publisher's advertisements. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth, re-backed with new endpapers, but retaining the original backstrip cloth. With a folding colour frontispiece map, and a large multi-panel folding colour map housed in a rear pocket (this second map with… Read more about this item

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, complete in two volumes. Rebound into green smooth-weave cloth with new plain green endpapers replacing the original map-illustrated examples. The first volume bound without the half-title. Times Book Club inkstamps to the base of both rear pastedowns, suggesting that this binding, which is slightly cheaper than the… Read more about this item

The Hogarth Press, London, 1926. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. viii, 181pp. Two-tone patterned cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-two photographic plates, most of which were taken by the author. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, and some spotting to the edges and throughout. The free endpapers browned… Read more about this item

Duckworth & Co., London, 1908. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus (first printing), complete in two volumes. 8vo. xx, 309 and x, 297pp. Green cloth lettered in black at the spines. Top edges gilt. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece to the first volume, and a frontispiece drawing to the second. Backstrip ends gently bruised, and with a… Read more about this item

Little Brown, London, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint - this copy inscribed by the author at the head of the title page and dated the year of publication. 4to. 223pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs, including many presented full-page and double-spread. In fine state with fractionally lifting dust… Read more about this item

Ernest Benn, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, in apparently a later state binding with the spine lettering in gilt not black. 8vo. xiii, 224pp. With eight black and white photographs and one map in the text. Fore edge untrimmed. A strip of partial toning to one blank preliminary leaf, and also to the final text… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 448pp. Dark blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with fifty-two photographs and two holograph manuscript reproductions. Contemporary former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A… Read more about this item

Hutchinson, London, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Fred - (who?) - sorry, John - a memento of our talks about sea travel and its demise - and an appalling error. But even so - All best wishes from Gavin Young"… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 230pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's facsimile signature gold-stamped to the upper board. With a frontispiece self-portrait sketch and various wood-engraved decorations by Reynolds Stone. Endpapers lightly browned, and with some offsetting of the lettering from the wrapper… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Purple boards lettered in silver at the spine. A short tear to the head of a single text leaf, impacting no text. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with perhaps a shade of fading to the spine panel. A hefty… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 274pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. The top edge very slightly soiled, and with some toning to the leaf margins as invariably seems to be the base. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A selection of thirty-nine essays… Read more about this item

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo. xv, 522pp and ix, 566pp + xxxii publisher's advertisements (dated April 1878). Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt- and black lettered at the spine and upper boards with a double rule and brown and gilt stamped topographical design. With a different… Read more about this item

John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Tamara, to show I haven't forgotten her! Ever affectionately Ethel Mannin Oct. 1952". 8vo. 190pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 290pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and one map. The fore edge and free endpapers lightly spotted. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little creasing to the base of the spine panel.… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through, and with her affectionate contemporary presentation inscription to her great friend Brendan [Lehane] inked to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 282pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 317pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece, a multi-panel folding colour map and twenty-seven black and white photographs. A touch of very light chafing to the cloth at several extremities, and some spotting to the endpapers and… Read more about this item

Macdonald, London, 1962. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 214pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With a frontispiece and 25 plates of photographs and illustrations. A strip of moisture marking to the head of the boards, and some spotting to the free endpapers. A good copy in lightly spotted, rubbed and dust marked… Read more about this item

John Murray, London, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 224pp. Yellow cloth lettered in white at the spine and with a white-stamped decoration to the upper board. With two-colour script-decorated endpapers, a title page design, eight colour plates, one map, five full-page line drawings and various illustrations in the text. Board margins and text… Read more about this item