Journey through Britain
HILLABY, John
IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Constable, [1968]
Stock code: 49677
Price: £434.00
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Hillaby's engaging and highly personal account of his tramping odyssey from John O'Groats to Lands End in 1966. A modern travel classic with significant additional value as a social study of Britain in the sixties.