Blair, May: Once Upon the Lagan - The Story of the Lagan Canal; The Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1994 reprint. Softcover, landscape format. Remainder mark in rear card. AS NEW/nj£12.00+P&P hig

Blue Guide - Paris
Edited by L. Russell Muirhead

Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1960. With tipped in foldout maps. Metro map in front endpapers and graphical index to map in rear endpapers. Other maps and diagrams throughout text body.GOOD+ book with GOOD dustjacket (minor edgewear and chipping)

£5.00+P&P

The East-Dorset Coast (Ward Lock's Red Guide): Ward Lock, London, copyright 1963 2nd edition. DJ has 1.5 inch tear to front and some small tears to rear, GOOD++/FAIR. £5.00+P&PTRAVEL/TOPOGRAPHY DINE

Ingrid Holford - British Weather Disasters

Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, copyright 1976. Hardback, 127 pages with black and white illustrations/photographs, weather maps, charts, diagrams. Approx 7 by 10 inches. VERY GOOD/GOOD+ condition. Jacket has about half-inch tear at top and bottom of front edge. £8.00+P&P


meteorology meteorological meteorologist
hig

£8.00+P&P

 CONTENTS Author's Note 4
Acknowledgements 4
Blow winds and crack your cheeks 5
Hatfield 1957/Ferrybridge 1965/Tay Bridge 1897/ Sea Gem 1965 Sheffield 1962

2The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever 24 But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather Glasgow 1927/Glasgow 1968

3 The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind 24 , Wlsley 1965/Berkshlre 1950/Wldecombe-m-the-Moor 1638

4 Now the great winds shoreward blow 29 Royal Charter storm 1859/The Great Storm 1703

5 The rain descended and the floods came 38 Mossdale 1967/Norwood 1964/Surbiton 1973/Norwich 1912 /Molesey 1968

6 What dreadful noise of water in mine ears 52 South-east Scotland 1948/Louth 1920/Devon and Somerset 1968 Lynmouth 1952/Devon and Somerset 1960

7 Snow on snow in the bleak mid winter 69 Snowdon 1972/Cairngorms 1971/Snowdon 1972/ Southern England 1891/Ross Cleveland 1968/ The winter of 1962-3/London 1814

8 Like an army defeated, the snow hath retreated 85 Lewes avalanche 1836/Glazed frost 1940/River Till flood 1841 /Snow thaw floods 1947

9 Have I not heard the sea puffed up with winds rage like an angry boar 96 London 1928/Scotland 1953/East Coast floods 1953

10 The heaven is shut up and there is no rain 117 Fire of London 1666/London smog 1952/Motorway pile-up 1971

Bibliography 124

Index 126

Lambert, Sam (ed.): London Night and Day; Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. A guide to where the other books don't take you. London, Architectural Press, Eighth edition revised 1960. 104pp. Papercover. Not in jacket. GOOD. £3.50+ P&P DIN TRAVEL (no. 0021)

London: Valentine & Sons Ltd, Dundee. nd mid-fifties?. Small guide-pamphlet. Illustrated throughout: photographs appear to be hand-tinted, also pen and tint illustrations. Information on 'typical' London tourist spots. GOOD+/no jacket, pictorial card covers. £7.00+P&P hig

London Transport: Country Walks Book Two 1973 edition; London Transport, London, 1973. Card covers. Walks around the outskirts of London. Areas reachable by public transport. Maps and photographs. Chances are the scenery has changed a little since this book was written! More of a history reference now. Takes in uxbridge, cowley, peachey, iver, little chalfont, jordons, chalfont st peter, chalfont st giles, chorleywood, chesham, latimer, chenies, rickmansworth, great missenden, little kingshill, spurlands end, little missenden, little boys' heath, watford, whippendale woods, kings langley, huntonbridge, clarenden park, potters bar, south mimms, north mymms, water end, epping, epping forest, epping upland, ongar, greenstead, toot hill, north weald, bexley, stonehill green, swanley, wilmington, dartford, bromley, mottingham, eltham, kingswood, colley hill, chipstead, cheam, epsom, epsom wells, chessington zoo, leatherhead, polesden lacey, west humble, box hill, mickleham, norbury park, staines, eastly end, thorpe, egham, hanwell, brentford, old islesworth, richmond lock, kew, alexandra palace, queens wood, highgate, archway, northwick park, harrow school, south harrow, GOOD++/nj
£5.00+P&P hig

Massingham, H J: English Downland - The Face of Britain Series B. T. Batsford Ltd., Malvern Wells, Second Edition, Revised, 1942-3. 120 pages, approx 6 by 8.5 inches. 'Pinch' bump to top edge of boards. Other edges have minor bumps. Endpapers show maps of chalk downs. Frontis piece showing the South Downs above Singleton, Sussex, from a painting by George Henry, R.A. Black and white photographs throughout. Some minor foxing on edges and prelims. GOOD. No jacket. £6.00+P&PTRAVEL (SB)


nb any 'patterns' on picture are caused by scanner

Arthur Mees Worcestershire
The Garden in the Hills
with 118 places and 132 pictures

GOOD+ Hardback in GOOD jacket, with small tears to corners. There is no date, but states "Special Edition by arrangement with Hodder and Stoughton Ltd". Original price is 15s net as shown in flap on dustjacket. Publisher on title page shown as Caxton. Fold out map at rear. Kings England series.
£15.00+P&P

Morton, H.V.: In Search of England; Methuen, London, 1931 (16th edition). Blue boards with small gilt floral motif and spine titles. GOOD/no jacket. £4.00+P&P TRAVEL bt(SB)

Palin, Michael: Full Circle; BBC, London, 1997, 4th reprint. Hardback, 8 by 10 inches, 320 pages. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. £7.00+P&PTRAVEL RT

Theroux, Paul: The Great Railway Bazaar. By Train Through Asia; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1975 (reprint in same year as 1st) GOOD/GOOD+ £12+ P&P TRAVEL RM

Whiteman, Robin (text) and Talbot, Rob (photos): THe English Lakes; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, copyright 1989. 'Landscape' format softback. Covers have soft creases and bumped corners. GOOD/no jacket £5.00+P&P

MISC REF WUM

Yee, Chiang A Chinese Childhood Methuen & Co. London, 1946 3rd. Ed. Good+ condition/DJ Good, small piece missing at top of spine.£12.00+P&P(no. 2005) BIOG AM

Yee, Chiang.: SILENT TRAVELLER IN OXFORD; London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1946. 3RD. 183 pgs. Color & black & white plates + black & white text drawings by the author. Cream cloth with red title and pictograms. Some minor foxing/spotting on plates. GOOD+/With poor dustjacket (stained and badly torn).£10.00+P&P(no. 2000) BIOG AM


Click for larger image		 Yee, Chiang: The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland; London, Country Life Ltd. 1949 reprint (1st 1937). Landscape painting in Chinese style by the author. Book is GOOD+. Dustjacket has small tears to edges. There has been an attempt to repair these tears with sellotape on top edge inside DJ. Slight spotting. Otherwise good.£11.00+P&P(no. 0024) BIOG AM