Shell guide (29 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. 7 pages. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Support the Gandalf Six / In the Shell pf the Old Italy's Social Centres / Women Of The Waterfront / Back On The Move A Quick Guide to MOVE / Germany censors radicals on the Internet (SL#125/15).

Illustré. Broché. 16 pages.

Size 7.0 x 9.25 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering top the spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (d/w; Scruffs to the edges, Spine is faded, Not Price clipped.). Inside pages clean and tight. 64pp.With b/w photographs. 2 coloured maps.

Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. In green cloth covers with green/yellow to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Minor rubbing to edges,price clipped).Minor foxing to front endpaper, A clean and tidy copy. 198pp.With b/w photographs and 2 coloured maps. "The original Shell guide of Wiltshire by the late Robert Byron appeared in 1935. The gazetteer of parishes was revised by David Verey in 1956. The present work is longer and fuller and has been rewritten except for relevant parts of Mr.Byron?s inspired introduction.".…

First edition. DW. Ex library, usual stamps. 192pp. Maps to rear. Text in three columns. B/w photographs throughout incl. end-papers. Outer edges slightly rubbed o/w a clean copy. Boards becoming detached.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. The information contained in this guide was written and compiled by Jock du Preez and the irectorate of Nature Conservation and is published as a Shell Guide by Shell Oil SWA Ltd. in the interest of promoting Nature Conservation and Tourism in SWA/Namibia. It is hoped that this guide to the animals of Etosha will contribute towards the preservation of the natural heritage for future generations. ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: 6" X 8".…

Size 7.0 x 9.25 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering top the spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (d/w; Rubbed along edges with nicks and splits to corners. Larger pieces missing from ends of spine. Some foxing spots to rear cover. Crease marks to front cover. Not Price clipped. In protective cellophane wrapper.). Ends of spine and corners rubbed. Inside pages clean and tight. 64pp.With b/w photographs. 2 coloured maps.…

Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering top the spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (d/w; Scuffs to the edges, Spine is faded, minor marking to the covers,Not Price clipped.). Inside pages clean and tight. 64pp.With b/w photographs. 2 coloured maps.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. Very good+ condition for age of the book. Soft cover in very good condition. Spine has been rebound with plastic comb binder. Evidence of rubbing and bumping on edges and corners. Minor rip on bottom spine back edge. Internal pages overall in very good condition and clean. Evidence of tanning and spotting on external page edges. Illustrations in black and white. 46pp. Overall very good+ condition.…

Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. In red cloth covers with green lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In good condition with a good dustwrapper (dw; Minor rubbing to edges,Creasing to front cover, Slight Markings to the cover, some chipping and rubbing,Not price clipped). Slight shelf wear to the edges. Inside bright and a clean and tight copy. 143pp. 4 colour maps.and numerous B&W photographs. …

In green cloth covers with blue lettering top the spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Covers marked near spine. Else very good in good dustwrapper (dw: Scruffs to the edges, slight tear to the back and front, Not Price clipped). Booksellers sticker on inside front cover, shelf wear to the edges of the cloth, inside very bright, clean and tidy Num.photographs. 8 col.maps. 64pp.…

Soft cover. Etat : 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.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - the uncommon casebound issue. Small 4to. 192pp. Dark blue cloth with blue lettering to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Extensively illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs by John Piper, Edward Piper, Peter Burton et al. In fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, heavily sunned at spine panel as is so often the case with this production, else very good. The last of the Shell Guides, and particularly scarce in this casebound format (although reputedly 2000 thus copies were produced). …

Soft cover. Etat : 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.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd Edition. The Faber reissue (originally issued by Batsford a year earlier). Small 4to. 45pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. White cloth with an internal wire spiral binding, blocked in orange at the spine. Illustrated with two full-page colour maps, and scores of photographs, many full-page or double-spread, predominantly taken by the author who also contributes a series of drawings of Minster Lovell. The boards lifting a fraction at the fore edge, and with a trace of very light toning to the leaf margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked at the upper edge with several tiny fractions of loss, with two or three short edge-creases and a little toning to the spine panel. The Faber re-issue of the eleventh title in the series and the only one written by Piper alone (Faber acquired series shortly before the publication of the thirteenth title and reissued the entire run up to that point between March and April 1939).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second issue, and first casebound edition, published here by Faber from the sheets of the original 1935 Architectural Press edition (which was only issued in wrappers with a wire spiral binding). Small 4to. 63pp. An internal spiral wire binding within white cloth boards, blocked in orange at the spine. With photographic endpapers, two colour maps and scores of photographs and reproductions, many presented full-page or double-spread, plus essays by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Rev. Miles Sargent, the Dean of Rochester and Arthur Waugh (on Charles Dickens and Kent). Includes a full-page Edward Bawden Shell advertisement. Top edge lightly spotted, and with a minor wave to the paperstock. A very good copy in slightly dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed at the upper edge with a single tiny fraction of loss and some internal taped reinforcement.…

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.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd Edition. The Faber reissue (originally issued by The Architectural Press in 1936). Small 4to. 46pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Cream cloth with an internal wire spiral binding, blocked in red at the spine. With two full-page colour maps, and scores of black and white photographs. The cloth somewhat toned and discoloured, with a tiny trace of wear to the head of the spine. A good bright copy, very crisp internally, and housed in a good example of the dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little toned and dust soiled, with a little edge-creasing and several tiny slivers of loss. The Faber re-issue of the seventh title in the series, this one edited by the father-and-son duo Charles and Peter Quennell (Faber acquired series shortly before the publication of the thirteenth title and reissued the entire run up to that point between March and April 1939). …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd Edition. The Faber re-issue of this Shell Guide, published three years after the original Architectural Press edition. A bookplate to the front pastedown states that this copy was bequeathed to the Library of the Royal Empire Society by Flying-Officer R.T.E.Latham, August 1944 and two ink stamps confirm that it was subsequently withdrawn from stock. These two stamps, plus two neatly inked sets of numerals, one to the front pastedown and one to the index page are the only indications of former library ownership. Small 4to. 54pp. Original white publisher's cloth with internal wire spiral binding, blocked in blue at the spine. Illustrated with four colour maps and thirty-eight photographs. Some staining to the cloth at head of the upper and lower boards, and half a dozen small spots of foxing to the backstrip spine. Internally a very crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, which is a little dust soiled and chafed, with a little creased to the top edge and a single tiny area of loss.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 62pp. Pictorial card wrappers featuring a photomontage designed by Lord Berners, with a metal spiral-binding. With a double-spread colour map and scores of monochrome photographs, several full-page or double-spread. A little minor creasing to the front wrapper, else a very good copy of the second in the Shell Guide series, one of the scarcer titles.…

In green cloth covers with blue lettering top the spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with a good dustwrapper (dw: 1st state has some scruffs to the edges, slight tear to the back and front, Spine is rubbed with some tears. Not Price clipped, in protective cover). shelf wear to the edges of the cloth, inside very bright, clean and tidy 64pp. Illustrated with 8 colour map plates, and numerous B&W photographs.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of this most uncommon Shell Guide, the first new title issued in the series following Faber's take-over. Small 4to. 61pp. White boards with internal wire spiral binding. With a colour map and over sixty photographs including five contributed by John Betjeman. Cloth a little discoloured from handling and with some unsightly water-staining to base of upper and lower boards, also affecting the pastedowns, endpapers and a tiny portion of the base of the title page, although the remainder of the leaves are spared. Water-staining aside this is a nice, bright copy of an uncommon Shell Guide, complete with non-price-clipped dust wrapper depicting a 19th century engraving of the interior of Gloucester Cathedral, dust marked, chipped with some loss to head and base of spine panel and tips of several corners, and with evidence of water-staining. This unfortunate staining aside, this is quite a crisp copy of one of the scarcest titles in the series.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. The uncommon Faber re-issue of this Shell Guide, which was originally published by Batsford just a year earlier. Small 4to. 44pp + iv colour maps. White cloth with an internal wire spiral binding. Photographic endpapers and with sixteen pink-tinted leaves of photographs, and further monochrome photographs throughout, including several by the author and one by his father, Sir Muirhead Bone. Spine ends bumped and two small indentations to the upper board. A touch of rusting to the spiral binding resulting in just a trace of offsetting to the front endpapers. Neat former owner name inked to a blank preliminary leaf. A very crisp and pleasing copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, correspondingly bumped at spine ends resulting in several short but ragged tears and a little further chafing to corner tips.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. The revised second edition, which was allegedly restricted to 1230 copies with only 250 copies initially bound. Small 4to. 63pp. White cloth with an internal wire spiral binding, blocked in red at the spine. Photographic endpapers. Illustrated with four colour maps and thirty-seven photographs, several double-spread. Indication of removal of tiny sticker from the corner of the front pastedown. A very good copy of an extremely scarce volume, in tanned and slightly dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed and creased at the head of the spine panel but with no loss. Faber replaced The Architectural Press as publisher of the Shell Guide series in 1939 and republished all of the existing titles in cloth with internal spiral wire binding. These 1939 Faber re-issues are the scarcest volumes in the Shell cannon.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of this most uncommon Shell Guide, the first new title issued in the series following Faber's take-over. Small 4to. 61pp. Cloth boards with internal wire spiral binding. With two colour maps and over sixty photographs including five contributed by John Betjeman. A touch of spotting to cloth and top edge and a tiny scuff to the head of the half-title (which serves as the free endpaper and also exhibits a little light spotting). A very good copy in the scare non-price-clipped dust wrapper, featuring a Nineteenth century engraving of the interior of Gloucester Cathedral, just a little tanned, spotted and chafed with several tiny slivers of loss. A super copy of one of the scarcest titles in the series.…

Paperback, Ringbound. 9 x 7 inches. B&W photo covers with red ring binder to spine, lettered in silver. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and corners of cover, some rubbing to lettering on spine ring. 7 perforations torn at bottom end of spine on front cover. Errata slip at p.5 Intro. Some minor light foxing spots to edges of a few pages, one or two minor handling marks, pencil ticks next to towns in Gazetteer. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 55pp. 4 colour maps.…

n,d., text, plates and ill. d156.

First edition, written and illustrated by John Piper. Pp.45 plus 16 pages of plates. Illustrated throughout with 58 photographic illustrations and two reproductions of white line illustrations by John Piper and Maurice Beck, apart from 2 old photographs. Sm. 4to., original spiral bound photographic covers, title in red on yellow spiral binding. Some spotting to spiral binding and a little light creasing to covers but generally a very good copy of a delicate item. Shell Guide no. 11 and one of the best with Piper's writing, design, collage endpapers and many of his own photographs as well as two full page reproductions of his drawings. He lived at Fawley Bottom on the boundary between Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire so he was well placed to produce this guide.…