Shropshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. 8vo. New edition. First edition published in 1951. Original brown cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w a bit rumpled and dust-marked. Near fine in very good d/w.
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Shropshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Covers a little marked and slightly rubbed at the spine ends. Bookplate of Neil Piercy on the front pastedown. Contents clean. Near fine. The first post-war Shell Guide and a high point of.....
Rutland. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, lettered in red on the spine. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w is worn at the spine ends, with tiny loss, and rubbed along the top edge. Fine in very good + d/w. Uncommon.
Oxfordshire (not including the City of Oxford). A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. 8vo. Second edition. Originally published in 1938. Original brown cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Small mark to the bottom corner of the front cover. Unclipped d/w a little worn at the spine ends. Near fine in very good + d/w. Revised and rewritten, this.....
The Norfolk Guide.
London: The Alastair Press, 1988. 8vo. Fifth edition. First edition thus. First published in 1958. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w slightly rumpled along the top edge. Fine in near fine d/w. A Shell Guide in all but name. Uncommon.
Lincolnshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Ink presentation on front free endpaper. Price-clipped d/w is rubbed at extremities, a bit dust-marked, and slightly faded on the spine. Very good + in good + d/w.
Leicestershire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Kent. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. 8vo. First edition thus. Original red cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. D/w slightly faded and tanned. Near fine in very good + d/w. This bears no resemblance to Lord Clonmore's guide from 1935.
Hertfordshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Cloth slightly faded towards the bottom of the spine. Clipped d/w is a bit rumpled at the spine ends. Near fine in very good + d/w.
Herefordshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w is worn at the spine ends and corner tips. The laminate is partially lifted on the back cover and a bit dust-marked. Near fine in very good d/w. In the second state.....
Devon. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 8vo. First edition thus. First edition by John Betjeman in 1935. Original burgundy cloth. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Small patch of Tippex to the top corner of the half-title. D/w a bit rubbed and dust-marked with slight fading to the spine. Very good.....
Derbyshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. D/w very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Cambridgeshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper covers. Black and white photographs throughout. Covers a bit rubbed. Very good. Issued simultaneously in hardback and paperback.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland: Stirling and Central Scotland.
London & New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Buildings of Scotland Trust, 2002. 8vo. Reprint. First published by Penguin Books in 1984. Original blue rexine hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section. Slightly shaken. Near fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow.
London: Penguin Books in association with The National Trust for Scotland, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue rexine hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w. In print (from Yale University Press) at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh. Medieval buildings by Christopher Wilson.
London & New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Buildings of Scotland Trust, 2003. 8vo. Reprint. First published by Penguin Books in 1984. Original blue rexine hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Scotland: Borders.
London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 8vo. First edition. Original blue rexine hardcovers, gilt. Photographic plate section in colour. Fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd.
London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Photographic plate section in colour. Fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan. (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan).
London: Penguin Books, 2001. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1995. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.
London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 8vo. First edition. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Photographic plate section in colour. Fine in fine d/w. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Northumberland. Industrial buildings by Stafford Linsley.
London: Penguin Books, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Photographic plate section. A little shaken. Contents clean. No d/w. Near fine. In print at £60.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England. (Revised by Bridget Cherry, Judy Nairn, Charles O'Brien, Simon Bradley, et al.).
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002-2022. 8vo. 55 volumes, set. Original black rexine hardcovers, gilt. Together with Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Yale University Press, 2010). Photographic plate sections. Contents clean with no ownership marks. All volumes at least near fine in near fine d/ws and most of them are fine/fine. Oxfordshire.....
Devon. A Shell Guide.
London: The Architectural Press, [1936]. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two page colour map of the county and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Very slight creasing and rubbing to the extremities of the covers. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine. A lovely copy.
Shell Guide to Derbyshire. Castles, Seats of the Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities, &c.
London: The Architectural Press, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two page colour map of the county and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Covers a bit creased and rubbed. Map section slightly foxed. Contents clean. Very good. This volume uses the same endpapers as Robert.....
Cornwall Illustrated. In a Series of Views, of Castles, Seats of the Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities, &c. [A Shell Guide].
London: The Architectural Press, 1934. 8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Four coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Both covers creased and rubbed and very partially detached from the spiral binding. There.....