Hertfordshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper covers. Black and white photographs throughout. Near fine. Issued simultaneously in hardback and paperback.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper covers. Black and white photographs throughout. Near fine. Issued simultaneously in hardback and paperback.
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.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Spine gilt dulled. Light foxing to endpapers. Neat ink presentation on front pastedown. Near fine. #109 in The World's Classics.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1941. Original navy cloth, gilt. Near fine.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935. Folio. #89 of 675 copies. Greek blue quarter vellum by Bain, decorated with gilt wavy lines, over blue cloth. Edges untrimmed. Top edge gilt 'on the rough'. Prospectus loosely inserted. With nine wood engravings by V. Le Campion and a series of new maps by.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935. Folio. #478 of 675 copies. Greek blue quarter vellum by Bain, decorated with gilt wavy lines, over blue cloth. Edges untrimmed. Top edge gilt 'on the rough'. With nine wood engravings by V. Le Campion and a series of new maps by T. Poulton. Spine.....
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1920. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original 'Sultan-red' limp leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers a bit rubbed. Neat ink ownership on fly. Very good +. #16 in The World's Classics. The 'Sultan-red' limp leather binding.....
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. Pott 8vo. Reprint. Reset. First published in this series in 1902. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine a little faded. Near fine. #16 in The World's Classics.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. First impression reset from the edition by F. W. Moorman. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Neat ink ownership, dated 1940, on fly. D/w tanned on the.....
London: Grant Richards, 1902. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spine tanned and ends rubbed. Blind stamp of W. H. Smith to fly. Slight foxing to edges and endpapers. Very good. #16 in The World's Classics. Issued before Oxford University Press took over the series.....
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1903. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers a bit rubbed and dulled. Good +. #16 in The World's Classics.
London: The Cresset Press Ltd, 1928. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Limited edition. #494 of 750 sets. Original full parchment, gilt on spines. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Printed in Fell type on mould-made paper at the University Press, Oxford. Decorations, including a coloured frontispiece in each volume, by Albert Rutherston.....
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1930. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition. #331 of 1060 numbered copies (60 for presentation). Quarter grey cloth over patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. 13 coloured pochoir plates. 6 illustrations in text. Endpapers with aerial views of Kew.....
Swindon: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1996. 4to. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with some folding plans. Fine in fine d/w. Includes, amongst many others, Drayton House, as featured in the film 'Saltburn'.
New haven & London: Yale University Press, 1990. 4to. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Architectural photographs by Richard Cheek. Fine in fine d/w.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w faded on the spine and with light rubbing along the top edge. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Clipped d/w a little faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, 1985. 8vo. First edition. Paperback original. (A signed limited edition of 112 copies by André Deutsch followed in 1986.) Spine creased but firm. Pages tanning as usual. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Near fine. 'This King Penguin Original brings together for the.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 8vo. First US paperback edition. First published in hardback in the UK by André Deutsch and by OUP in America. Original wraps in jacket. Presentation in black ink on the half-title, 'J. P. Griffin with the good wishes of Geoffrey Hill 7.xi.85'. Back panel.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1979. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1978. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Signed and dated in black ink on the title page. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and parts of the front panel. There is a nick to the top edge of the back panel.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Two maps including one folding at the end showing Lincolnshire. Black and white plate section at the back. Top edge lightly spotted. D/w a little rubbed and slightly foxed in places. Near fine in very good.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section and four maps. D/w spine a little faded and edges very slightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Fine in near fine d/w. The last volume of Hill's quartet, following Medieval Lincoln (1948), Tudor.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 8vo. First edition, second issue. Original off white cloth, overprinted in blue on the spine, with ring binding inside. Two page colour map of the county and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden.....