Travel from lobstabooks

Duckworth London 1929 VG/Fair (dj with one large tear and few small tears upper edge with small areas of loss back cover and head of spine, few grubby marks front cover and discoloured top edges, clean blue cloth lightly discoloured head and tail of spine, patch of light shadow browning free endpapers else very clean tight and crisp with no… Read more about this item

Collins London 1980 VG/VG . dj is sunned to spine. no inscriptions. price-clipped. quarto. 224pp illustrated throughout, partly in colour. In November 1940 ten large mahogany cabinets of butterflies - 22,000 specimens - were delivered to Norwich museum together with a Japanned box and instructions not to open it until 1978. When the time came it revealed the diaries… Read more about this item

Cape London 1930 VG (original green cloth, a little shelfworn, no dj. sunned to spine) The life and letters series No 4. Octavo 320pp two illustrations

Ure Smith 1953 Vg (no dj, dark blue cloth with gilt title on spine, a little faint spotting endpapers and small neat annotation front free endpaper, contents clean tight and bright without fault) 12mo 112pp. First UK edition. Written as Australia was calling out for new settlers, telling of some of the peculiarities of the continent. Birds, insects,… Read more about this item

Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc Toronto 1996 Fine (no dj, pictorial card covers, as new) large octavo 192pp. An account from letters, diaries and newspapers, re-capturing the days when muddy Yonge Street (now the longest street in the world) was the backbone of pioneer Ontario. Illustrated with the author's drawings.

Tom Stacey London 1971 Vg/Vg (book and dj both no fault) octavo 335pp. Vivid account of investigation of the human tragedy of the Amazon Basin, of the results of centuries of bloodshed where tribe after tribe has been reduced to pitiful remants or exterminated completely, and of the humanitarian work now being carried out in the hope that the… Read more about this item

Rigby Adelaide 1972 VG/VG (dj slightly part-faded and very slight isolated edgewear, gift inscription on pre-title) Octavo. 64pp showing 29 landmark buildings and structures

Harcourt Brace and Company New York 1935 Vg (no dj, tan cloth lightly worn and faded spine, tan paper title plate on spine and cream paper plate front board, a very good tight clean copy with previous owner's inscription front free endpaper, pages are clean and bright but foxing at one early hinge at gutter and page tops,… Read more about this item

Hodder and Stoughton London 1989 Near fine/fine (not price clipped, small pencil mark has been erased from front endpaper, light browning page edges else book and dj both no fault) octavo 256pp. First edition. The author's Caribbean journey off the beaten track, full of strange encounters with local characters. Maps to endpapers and line drawings by the author.

London: the travel book club 1941 VG/VG. dj has some edgewear at spine, but green boards are crisp with bright gilting. Minor rounding to the corners. No foxing to ffeps or to text block edges, and no inscriptions. pp 234 with photographs. The author accounts his travels through France, with a highly readable style.

Picador London 1996 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj) Octavo 367pp A tour across the USA visiting nine towns with a large Irish community Travels in Irish America

: New York: Dial Press, Inc, 1931, VG no dj . dark purple boards with embossed figure on a lion to front cover. gilt tiling to spine is very dulled/sunned, so faint to read. boards are clean and tidy with a slight touch of edge rounding - but no loss. both ends of spine are rounded and with wear.… Read more about this item

london michael joseph 1989 VG/ VG First edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Unprice-clipped. Small octavo 3248pp . An account of a journey from Ne Orleans to Tennessee, Texas to Louisiana, and a humourous and affectionate study of the unique culture of the "South".

George Allen and Unwin, London, 1974 VG/VG near fine. not price-clipped. no inscription. inside text is clean and tightly bound . . This is an account of the five years the author and her husband Eric spent in the Solomon Islands - and their christian faith

Weidenfeld and Nicolson London 2001 Fine/fine (no significant faults with book or dj) Octavo 246pp illustrated. In 1704 Alexander Selkirk, a mariner, was marooned on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. He was not rescued until 1709

Victor Gollancz Ltd London 1951 Vg/G (dj worn and chipped round edges, blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine and few small light spots back cover, pages clean and bright) octavo 303pp. Third impression. Experiences in Japan, Indo-China and Bali. Maps to endpapers.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson London 2001 Fine/fine (no significant faults with book or dj) Octavo 246pp illustrated. In 1704 Alexander Selkirk, a mariner, was marooned on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. He was not rescued until 1709

Duckworth and Co London 1906 G (no dj, there is quite heavy patchy fading across the whole of the back board and also a patch 5" x 1" on the front board, otherwise the cloth is clean and the gilt titles and gilt palm tree on front board are unaffected and bright, light wear to edges but cloth not… Read more about this item

Hamish Hamilton London 1962 VG/GOOD+ DJ is a little careworn with some small edge creases, chips and minor loss. there are some spots/tarnish marks to right hand edge, with sunning to dj over the spine , and to most edges. internally no faults with book, no inscriptions or marginalia. DJ. not price clipped.

Macmillan and Co London 1935 VG no dj. blue cloth rounded both ends of spine. neat inscription to reverse of front board. 1st A three months visit to America.