📚 Guidebooks

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Printed local knowledge: Baedeker and Murray’s standards, the blue-list tradition, and what guides teach about a country.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject guidebooks in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Queer places	Elisa Rolle	2016	105
Michelin Green Guide	Michelin	1978	68
Wallpaper City Guide	Editors of Wallpaper Magazine	2006	68
Mobil Travel Guide	Mobil Travel Guide	2001	67
Michelin Green Guide (Green Tourist Guides)	Michelin Travel Publications	1985	63
Let's Go	Harvard Student Agencies	1986	62
Let's Go 2003	Let's Go, Inc.	2002	55
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland	Adam and Charles Black (Firm)	1842	42
Guias Visuales	DK Publishing	1999	29
Born to Shop	Suzy Gershman	1987	28
AAA Spiral Guide	American Automobile Association	2002	23
Insight Guides	Insight Guides	1986	22
Guide through the district of the lakes in the north of England	William Wordsworth	1835	20
London and its environs	Karl Baedeker (Firm)	1879	20
Mathematics for the practical man	Howe, George	1911	20
Let's Go 1999	Let's Go, Inc.	1998	20
Italy	Karl Baedeker (Firm)	1867	18
The Western India States Agency	India	1932	18
Europe	Stephen Birnbaum	1979	18
Bhutan	Françoise Pommaret	1984	18
South America	Stephen Birnbaum	1979	17
Fodor's Road Guide USA	Fodor's	2001	17
Ohio Off the Beaten Path	George Zimmermann	1983	16
A handbook for travellers in Japan	Basil Hall Chamberlain	1899	15
Rick Steves' Istanbul	Lale Surmen Aran	2008	15
A guide to the antiquities of Upper Egypt	Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall	1910	14
Here's England	Ruth McKenney	1950	14
The companion guide to Florence	Eve Borsook	1966	14
Venice for pleasure	J. G. Links	1966	14
Hawaii, the big island revealed	Andrew Doughty	1997	14

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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