World Travel & Culture from Dodman Books

Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1960. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good guide to the mapping of Majorca. Label residue to first blank and some staining to first page of introduction, but thereafter all is in VG+ clean and bright internal order. Card covers spotted and toned. Best regarded as a… Read more about this item

Madrid: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas, 1953. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Well illustrated study in VG+ clean and bright internal order. Pages uncut. Light wear and marking to stiff card covers, a little dulled to spine. Spanish language. 8vo. xxxii, 379pp + plates

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing of first edition. Stock lightly toned and some spotting to edge of block, but internally all is generally clean and bright. Attractive nautical bookplate to front pastedown. Pale turquoise cloth lightly worn and a little dulled to edges… Read more about this item

Instituto De Estudios Gerundenses, 1949. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Study of the Catalonian village of Torroella de Montgrí and its historic rulers. Stock lightly toned but otherwise all in VG internal order. Addenda and corrigenda from 1950 laid in to rear. Paper covers to this and the main… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With 24 photographs by the author. VG colour fold-out map to rear. Occasional minor foxing, but in general all is in VG internal order. Former owner's stamps to front endpapers. A little light marking and minor wear to blue cloth… Read more about this item

London: Saunders, Otley, And Co, 1862. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. To give it its full title: "The History of Gibraltar and of its Political Relation to Events in Europe; From the Commencement of the Moorish Dynasty in Spain to the Last Morocco War. With Original and Unpublished letters… Read more about this item

Palma de Mallorca: Privately Published, 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three papers on Mallorca's contribution to the history of pharmacy, delivered by apothecary and bibliophile Vich at conferences of the Sociedad Farmaceutica del Mediterraneo Latino in 1960, 1962 and 1964 and published between 1960 and 1968. All… Read more about this item

London: Christopher Johnson, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Entertaining travelogue from Dorien, whose career seems to be the perfect hack writer amalgam of romance, mystery and travel books. Endpapers toned and dust spotting to top of block, but otherwise all in VG order. Light wear only to pale green… Read more about this item

Barcelona: Editorial Augusta, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Charming guide to 1920s Majorca, with extensive section of illustrations and two fold-out maps - the island to front and Palma street plan to rear. Printed on cheap stock, but given that, all in VG internal order, with toning to endpapers but otherwise clean… Read more about this item

New York: Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, published without introduction by Ralph Adams Cram seen in US first. Well written hymn of praise to the island and its history. Well illustrated with numerous photos. All in VG clean and bright internal order bar… Read more about this item

London: Alston Rivers, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Warwick Lendon. Attractively illustrated by Lendon. Map rear endpapers. A little foxing to edge of block but this rarely intruding onto pages which are clean and bright. Smart dark blue boards, a little shelfworn, with bright gilt titling to… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Excellent history and guide, notable for 256 photo plates following text. Heavy foxing to endpapers and sporadically, to text, but plates are generally clean and bright throughout. Former owner's attractive nautical bookplate to front pastedown. Smart red cloth,… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mallorca lies like a fallen sector of paradise on the pavement of azure sea," says Ralph Adams Cram in his introduction, setting the tone for this well written hymn of praise to the island and its history. Well illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Skeffington & Son, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. In which Lady Sheppard provides a well written and illustrated first hand account of life in the Balaerics in the early 20th century. 17 full page photo plates. Some foxing to edge of block and internally, and stock a little toned, but in general all is… Read more about this item

Col-Legi Oficial D'Arquitectes de Balears, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First English language edition. Excellent illustrated guide, with useful map section to rear. All in VG+ clean and bright order throughout. Minor wear only to boards. 8vo. 257pp

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In good internal order, with five plates and fold-out map as required. Stock a little toned with occasional spotting, but generally clean and bright. Dampstain to corner of frontispiece but this not replicated elsewhere. Two small closed… Read more about this item

Winston-Salem: John F Blair, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition of this well written guide and coastal history with a great deal to interest any visitor to the area. Schoenbaum was closely involved in the protection from development of key parts of the coast and writes on these… Read more about this item

London: Alvin Redman, 1953. Hardcover. Good. Hard to find in d/j. Revised second edition. Well illustrated with photos. Revised second edition. Stock toned and occasional minor spotting, but otherwise in general good order internally. Pale apricot boards a little worn and marked. Front board leads slightly. G- unclipped d/j worn to edges, marked and toned. 12mo. 208pp +… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Slightly misleading title as, alongside Rome, much of northern Italy is covered as well as Sicily. Stock toned to page edges but otherwise all in good internal order bar very occasional minor spotting. No inscriptions. Map endpapers. Blue cloth lightly shelfworn, a little marked and… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. In which Pratt is posted to post-war India to assist with the repatriation of British troops as a welfare officer. Stock toned, with some spotting to edge of block and early/late pages, but otherwise all in good internal order. Red boards a little marked and worn… Read more about this item