Tour Devon Cornwall, Used (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition paperback pictorial laminated cover, no DJ. 65 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. Aarea maps and black and white illustrations.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. New Edition. Edited & introduced by Roger Jones. Cover a little yellowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Main text block is in good condition, both hinges slack and paper is split to front one, cover has some mild shelfwear and a few minor marks. No wrapper. Possibly signed by author on dedication page: 'To ?Birby. From Bill. June 2nd. 1946.'. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some foxing to page edges and half title page, previous owner's sticker on inside front cover, cover a little grubby, else in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Completely Revised. Good condition book pictorial cover no DJ. A few minor creases to front cover, one crease lower left hand corner at the back. 64 pages. Completely revised by Harry Loftus. A black and white picture of the village of Portloe, another of Hartland Point etc and many maps all through the book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. 39p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Scattered pencil notes in margins. Minor dog-earing. Small corner chips on cover.

Wrappers. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Wrappers. Stapled. 52 pages. Main tour; alternative routes; fold-out tour map; town maps etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Revised 1979 Edition. Slight shelfwear to extremities. Appears very little used with pages in excellent condition. Very nice tight copy. In most instances books sent by first available post 6 days a week. 145/1.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R320093003: 1959. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 15 pages agrafées augmentées de nombreuses photos en noir ert blanc dans le texte et dessins monochromes. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R320093004: 1959. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 15 pages agrafées augmentées de nombreuses photos en noir ert blanc dans le texte et dessins monochromes. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 30 grams.

Approx. 80pp ms. on both sides of oblong folio leaves, written in a neat legible hand in black ink, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Oblong 4to. An entertaining manuscript journal of a bicycle tour in Devon and Cornwall taken during the summer of 1904. Compiled by the otherwise unnamed G.A.C. ('My unworthy self'), whose companions for the trip are named as Sydney G. How ('Syd') and Robert W. Mace ('Jim'), the journal forms a fascinating commentary on rural and coastal life in the two most south-westerly English counties. The excursion begins with an overnight train from Paddington to Teignmouth, in a compartment as comfortable 'as a 3rd Class G.W.R. carriage would allow'. The intrepid cyclists then take in a leisurely tour of the Devon coast, visiting Maidencombe, Torquay, Paignton ('a little disappointing') and Brixham, before heading inland on a steamer up the river Dart, to Totnes, Buckfast Abbey, and Dartmoor. From Dartmoor they head west through Princetown, home of the infamous Dartmoor Prison, to the banks of the Tamar River, where the party crosses into Cornwall. Several days are spent meandering the Cornwall-Devon borders, before heading back up the North Devon coast to to Lytham, Lymington, Barnstaple (via the now defunct narrow-guage Lynton & Barnstaple Railway) and Ilfracombe. Several interesting events occur over the course of the trip. In Clovelly, for example, the author notes, 'we have discovered that Earl Russell was staying in the village, and later we saw his motor A.1. the first registered car in London.'. On the Ilfracombe stretch of their journey they reach 'the little seaside village - made famous by Marie Corelli - Coombe Martin'. G.A.C. notes, 'At "The Dolphin" we put up for lunch and lunched in the room where the famous authoress wrote the greater part of "The Mighty Atom"'. Many of the observations are of a topographical nature, and often accompanied by relevant photographs taken by members of the group. Syd, Jim and G.A.C. feature in many of the snapshots, always impeccably attired in their tweed cycling attire and boater hats. The tour ends on the 18th of August, with the party retracing their steps and returning to Paddington. The author concludes, 'we had the jolliest tour of our lives (to this statement we all agree) in the famous West Country'. Contemporary half maroon morocco album, brown morocco-grained cloth boards Approx. 80pp ms. on both sides of oblong folio leaves, written in a neat legible hand in black ink, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Oblong 4to.