Travel - Britain from Goldring Books

London: New Holland, 2005. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page with amusing wording. 160 pages. Illustrations in the text. When Martin Gurdon set out on a whirlwind publicity tour for his book 'Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance', he took with him his suitcase, his hectic itinerary and a chicken. This is the story of their travels around… Read more

London: Little Brown, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume in pictorial laminated boards. The perfect companion for everyone who enjoys exploring the countryside by car. The book features 15 one day and half-day drives through the breathtaking landscape of one of the most varied and beautiful regions… Read more

London: Michael Joseph, 1983. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 304 pages with illustrations in the text by William Freeth. Map endpapers. The radio broadcaster and cook's book is about a summer bicycle ride diagonally across Britain - over 600 miles of Roman roads from Topsham in Devon to Musselburgh near Edinburgh.… Read more

Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. Colchester is the oldest recorded town in Britain, important in Roman times, it is thought by some to have been Arthur's Camelot before the Saxons prevailed. The book reveals, in a profusion of carefully selected and well captioned illustrations, Colchester as it was in… Read more

London: Robert Hale, 1974. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which has a taped repair. 221 pages. 27 illustrations and 8 maps. The real nature of a place sometimes becomes obscured by the simplified images of it which tradition somehow builds up. South Wales differs radically from its conventional image, and the author sets out to reveal the richness… Read more

London: Bracken Books, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is price clipped. First published in 1885, this is a facsimile of the original in which two clergymen travelled around Victorian England, and their writings provide a delightful perspective of that age, as they conduct the reader on a tour redolent of biographical, literary and historical associations. 165… Read more

London: Robert Hale, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has a wrap around pictorial and a small mark to iiner front flap and is not price clipped. 65 illustrations by Bill Wright and 1 map. An evocative and carefully researched guide to Devon - 'The English Riviera' - portraying the contrasts of picturesque villages, seaside resorts and… Read more

London: Robert Hale, 1980. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1980. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. Oblong format. In a series of carefully planned chapters the reader is taken along the roads and rivers of Surrey and through its towns and villages, along the way farm houses, cottages, churches and stately homes… Read more

London: J.M. Dent, 1924. Red title and thistle and lion motifs on cream cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a very small neat name to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked - a Very Good+ copy. Map endpapers with 16 half tone plates and 36 line drawings. A most delightful small volume… Read more

London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930. Black title on blue boards which has some dulling to a portion of lower front and a small mark to spine else clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. Map endpapers. An interesting series of rambles in or adjacent to the Home Counties,… Read more

London: Oliver & Boyd, 1962. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket which has foxing to the reverse. A coloured photographic tour with descriptive text and history which celebrates England's most popular holiday area. 27 full size plates. A very well kept copy. A1A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾"… Read more

London: Hutchinson, 1972. A near Fine unmarked copy with a little dust marking to top edge with VG+ dustjacket. In the book the author has related places to people, thus she went to Bedford for Bunyan; to Lichfield for Dr. Johnson; to St. Ives for the potter Bernard Leach; to Nottingham on a D.H. Lawrence pilgrimage; Lindisfarne for the… Read more

London: B. T. Batsford, 1954. Gold title and ruling on orange boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is complete with some chipping to top. Foreword by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Long essays by Moray McLaren accompany the 32 artistic colour photographs of A.F. Kersting. A… Read more

London: Fourth Estate, 2000. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. In the last summer of the 20th century a large man got into a small boat and went out to discover England, on it's canals and rivers, from the Thames to the Trent, from Camden Lock to Skipton, David Aaronovitch fumbled for the pulse… Read more

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is price clipped. 209 pages. 1 map. The author is famous for her marathon bicycle rides along the Himalayas, to Jerusalem and down the Nile. In the summer of 1988 she turned her attention to her home country to explore Britain and she writes vividly… Read more

London: Jarrolds, 1995. A collection of the eccentric and the bizarre in the towns of England and Wales covering buildings, monuments, tombs, bridges, landmarks and many more curiosities together with their history. Profusely illustrated throughout with specially commissioned colour photographs and line illustrations with handy reference maps. A very unique travel guide. A1A. Soft Cover. Very Good/No… Read more

London: Frederick Warne, 1928. Black titles and pictorials of a young Queen separating the Lion and Unicorn from fighting to front and a pixie and maypole to spine on blue cloth boards. A little light wear to spine head and tail and a few light marks to boards, internally clean and unmarked with coloured pictorial endpapers of gardens, coloured pictorial… Read more