Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Cornwall.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2014. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
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North Wales. A Shell Guide. Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1971. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w slightly faded on the spine and with the laminate lifted from the bottom corner of the front panel. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
North Wales. A Shell Guide. Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w is worn with small loss at the spine ends. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper.
North Wales. A Shell Guide. Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1971. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
North Wales. A Shell Guide. Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w had stuck along the bottom edge of the back panel to the cloth leaving a stain to the jacket and residue to the cover. Very good + in very good.....
North Wales. A Shell Guide. Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Fine in fine d/w.
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.
Ghastly Good Taste. Or, a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1933. Small 8vo. First edition, first issue. Original quarter blue cloth, with printed paper label to spine and pink printed paper boards. Errata slip tipped-in at page 1. Spare paper label for the spine tipped-in at the back. Spine darkened. Covers faded, rubbed and little.....
An Oxford University Chest. Comprising a Description of the Present State of the Town and University of Oxford with an Itinerary Arranged Alphabetically.
London: John Miles, 1938. 4to. First edition. Original quarter black buckram, gilt, with marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in line and half-tone by L. Moholy-Nagy, Osbert Lancaster, the Rev. Edward Bradley and others. Near fine.
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. Ring binding twisted. Front cover partially detached, very worn and wrinkled. Back cover missing.....
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.....
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Essex.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2007. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Small mark on flyleaf. Top edge of d/w a little rumpled. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Suffolk: East.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2015. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Suffolk: West.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2015. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2019. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
The West Coast of Scotland - Skye to Oban. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. 8vo. Second edition. No indication in text that this is a revised version of the 1938 first edition. Original green cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w has slight rubbing along the top edge. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The only part of Scotland.....
The West Coast of Scotland - Skye to Oban. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, [1939]. 8vo. First edition, later issue. Original off white cloth, printed in black on the spine, over metal spiral binding. Four colour maps and black and white photographs throughout. 'Seventeen large photographs depicting Highland life and Scenery' in magenta tone. Unclipped jacket has a couple of.....
The West Coast of Scotland - Skye to Oban. A Shell Guide.
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original red plastic comb binding with 'West Coast of Scotland' gilt. Four colour maps and black and white photographs throughout. 'Seventeen large photographs depicting Highland life and Scenery' in magenta tone. The comb is split towards the middle. Edges a bit.....
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2014. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
Buildings of County Antrim, County Armagh and North County Down.
Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society and the Ulster Historical Foundation, 1996-2002. 4to. 3 volumes, set. First editions, except for volume one which is a reprint from 1997. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Corrigendum - page 269 loosely inserted into volume 3 at the relevant place. With photographs by Michael O'Connell (volumes.....
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: North and West.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England: Worcestershire.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2007. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black rexine, gilt Colour photographic plate section. Fine in fine d/w.
The Architectural Outsiders. Introduction by Kerry Downes.
London: Waterstone and Company, 1985. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine d/w. Subjects include Sir Roger Pratt, John Vardy and Ernest Newton.
Shell Guide to Wiltshire. A Series of Views, of Castles, Seats of the Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities, &c.
London: Faber and Faber, [1939]. 8vo. First edition thus. Originally issued in limp covers by The Architectural Press in 1935. Original ring binding in cloth boards. Illustrated throughout in black and white and sepia tint with a double page colour map of the county. Advertisement for Shell on the Road.....
Wiltshire. A Shell Guide.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 8vo. Reprint of the third edition of 1968. Original green cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. D/w is a little tanned. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.