Cornwall a Shell Guide by Betjeman John (18 results)

Hardback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. John Piper, et al (illustrator). Both hinges cracked with webbing still holding, page edges tanned, else textblock is in good condition, front endpaper has a large corner clipping; cover is worn and marked with heavy rubbing to corners and damage to spine extremities.No wrapper. Reading copy only.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 143 pages. 4th impression. Very nice jacket. H.23cm W.18cm D.1.5cm.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Impression of 2nd Editrion. decorated endpapers, colour frontispiece, black & white images within, 4pp colour maps at rear, pages clean and crisp, binding sound, red cloth, black spine lettering, unclipped dust jacket A VERY GOOD COPY Size: 8vo. Shell Guides.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. 4th impression. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Previous owner inscription. 230mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 143pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The first printing of this newly revised edition. Small 4to. 142pp + four colour maps. Red cloth lettered and blocked in green at the spine. With a colour frontispiece and over 100 monochrome photographs (including nearly forty contributed by John Piper). The cloth somewhat marked, dusty and occasionally chafed. Binding cracked and a little tender at the title page. A good bright copy, no dust wrapper. The revision of the Cornwall Shell Guide was somewhat reluctantly taken on by Betjeman after refusals from Geoffrey Grigson and S.P.B.Mais and two unsatisfactory drafts submitted by local journalist H.J.Wilmott (the last of these described by John Piper as "dull, wordy and commonplace").

1965 3RD IMP JACKET WEAR /TEAR REPAIRED O/W VG/G++.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third impression, 1965. 144 pages. Illustrations and map. Original cloth. Dust wrapper. Very Good copy.

First edition, fourth printing thus. Near fine with a small ownership inscription to the front endpaper in red cloth boards in very good price clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback lacks dustjacket, cream boards with red title to spine. Some darkening to cloth at spine and a mark to front. Metal spiral binding is a little rusted. Previous owners inscription otherwise internally clean. Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition paperback with metal spiral binding. Pictorial cover is creased with name to front. Internally clean. Fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Dustwrapper has minor wear, including slight fraying at head spine, but unfaded, unclipped and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Many illus. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Size: 144pp; 23 x 18cm. No ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs and coloured maps throughout. (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Edition not stated, possibly the third edition, Nd. c. 1939. Profusely illustrated throughout and with coloured maps. Spiral bound underneath white cloth which is slightly yellowed along the edges and down the spine. The dustwrapper is very slightly rubbed and slightly darkened. The dustwrapper is not chipped or price clipped. Generally a very good plus copy. Difficult to find in this condition. One of the iconic pre-war shell guides. 62 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 19cm), pp.142; [10]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in blue to spine, photographic endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s net to front flap. Inscribed with a doodle by the author to Jonathan Stedall to the half title page. Internally clean, one final leaf creased, dust-jacket a little rubbed and chipped to extremities. An attractive copy with an excellent association. Very good. The recipient Jonathan Stedall was a documentary filmmaker who had a long professional relationship with Betjeman and made a number of his best loved programmes. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Faber edition. Small 4to. 62pp including colour map at front. 8 plates on pale paper + numerous bw photos. Publisher's white cloth covers, red shadow lettering on spine. White dw, black lettering, bw photo man sitting in chair smoking pipe on front, not price clipped 3s6d net. Internal metal spiral hinge. Original bw decorated eps. Covers : very slight shelf knock bottom of spine else very clean & bright. Dw : faint rubs top corners else very clean. Contents : very outside edge of fep offset onto inside front cover at top corner, faint foxing to leading outside edges of pages else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. F-/F-.

First edition, first printing. Spiral bound. Very good. Creased to the covers.

First edition, first printing. Spiral bound. Very good in slightly creased covers. An excellent copy.

Condition: Very good. 1965, London, Faber and Faber, third impression, pp144 + three colour maps, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, coral cloth in dustwrapper.