Shell Guide Christopher Hobhouse (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 63pp. Pictorial card wrappers with a wire spiral binding. With a double-spread colour map and black and white photographs throughout. Wrappers creased and a little chafed a corner tips and with a short tear to the fore edge of the rear wrapper. A small area of surface abrasion to the base of two adjacent plate leaves. A somewhat worn copy, but still quite crisp internally. The original Matlock entry in the gazetteer has been pasted over with an alternate description, as is invariably the case. The third volume in the Shell Guide series, and one of the more uncommon.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 63pp. Pictorial card wrappers with a wire spiral binding. With a double-spread colour map and black and white photographs throughout. A little light surface creasing to the wrappers, and some spotting to one unprinted leaf. A very good copy. The original Matlock entry in the gazetteer has been pasted over with an alternate description, as is invariably the case. The third volume in the Shell Guide series, and one of the more uncommon.…

First Faber edition. Small quarto. 64 pages. 30 illustrations, many of them full-page, 2 coloured maps. Spiral-bound pages bound into full white cloth covers.Covers bruised at head and tail of spine and at outer edge of upper boards. Very good in very good dustwrapper torn and creased at edges. One of the scarcest of the Shell Guides.…