Northumberland Durham Guide by Sharp Thomas (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 55 pages. Red spiral comb binding with one external crack. No marks of previous ownership. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Assumed first this editoin hardback. No dustjacket, white cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Slightly darkened to spine. Metal spiral binding. Previous owners bookplate to endpapers otherwise internally clean. Very good - condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Small diagonal corner missing from rear cover, card covers with red comb binding which is cracked in three places, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owner's name to verso of front endpaper. Light foxing in places. Spiral hinge rusted. Spine worn and split along rear joint. Some tanning to cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo. 56 pages. 4 maps. Music scores and lyrics. Illustrations from photos and drawings. Errata slip. Dust jacket not price clipped and loosely protected with film cover. Spiral bound under cloth boards. Presentation inscription to verso of front free endpaper. A very good example in a very good jacket with light edge wear.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1939. Good condition with no wrapper. Metal spiral binding encased in white cloth boards with title to spine. Colour maps and b/w photos and illustrations. 54 pages. Boards grubby and marked, spine browned and worn at top & tail. Small piece of surface paper loss to front pastedown. Front endpaper missing and possibly a page after the illustrations list (not sure about this.). Light crinkling of contents to lower margins. Light page browning. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

First edition, first printing. Very good spiral bound paperback with metal spiral covered with a red comb (with a single crack). Front page detached.

SPIRAL BOUND. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black and white cover with bird on cover, red plastic spiral bound, minor cover soil and wear, internally clean and sound. Previous owners name inside cover dated as March 1942. Seems to be uncommon. Other Shell Guides lists 9 books through Wiltshire. 4 single sided color maps just after title page. Clean and sound.

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 230mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 54pp + maps. 4 colour maps. THE FABER REISSUES (March/April 1939) Shortly before the publication of Gloucestershire, Faber took on the Shell Guides and republished the existing titles using a spiral binding for the text but bound in cream boards with red, blue or black printing to the spine. These reissues are very scarce. Print runs are unknown. Light grey hardback cloth cover with internal spiral binding.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First UK Edition Thus. Four page colour map at the front of the book. Inside there are eight plates on cornflower blue paper and numerous black and white photographs. Publisher's plain white cloth covers with white lettering on black background on the spine. Photographic-style D/W priced 3s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The book is bound internally with a metal spiral hinge which is a bit rusted. Decorated end-papers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne showing the seat of the Honourable Sir William Blackett, Baronet. Errata leaf bound in. A bookseller's ticket to the front paste-down and a touch of discolouration to the edges of the boards, overall a VG or slightly better copy. The D/W has a touch of wear at the spine tips and a couple of short closed tears (with associated creases) to the rear panel. There is a small chip in the D/W at the top right hand corner of the inside flap. Overall the D/W is also VG indeed. Surprisingly uncommon this is widely perceived as the Best Edition of this Shell Guide. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Faber edition. Small 4to. 54pp including 4 page colour map at front. 8 plates on pale blue paper + numerous bw photos. Publisher's plain white cloth covers, yellow lettering on black area on spine. White dw, black lettering, bw sea bird sitting on rock on front, not price clipped 3s 6d net. Internal metal spiral hinge. Original bw decorated eps. Errata leaf bound in. Covers : faint shelf knock rear top corner else occasional faint browning marks edges else very clean. Contents : slight faint fox marks rear outside edge one plate else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. F-/F-.