Castles

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Small 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xii, 229 (3) pp, tissue protected color frontis; preface; list of 105 b&w photographs, 67 drawings, 5 plans, 2 color plates, and 2 maps; Introduction; Part I. English Castles: The Thames Valley and Its Castles; Castles of Wesex; Castles of the West Midlands; Devonshire and Its Castles; Cornwall and Its Castles. Part II. Castles of Wales, and of the Marches: Introductory; Castles of Shropshire and Herefordshire; Castles of Monmouthshire and Brecknock; Castles of Glamorgan and Gower; Castles of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire; Castles of North Wales; to the reader, index. First Impression, 1926. "This book is the result of two most interesting, if rather laborious, journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, on in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; the other in 1925, devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. I was accompanied throughout by my son and his camera, to which about the illustrations, large and small, in the volume are due. The object of this book is to explain the historical and architectural interest of each castle, so that the visitor may appreciate its meaning." from the Preface. Not Price Clipped. 1"x1/2" chip art top edge and 1/4" chip along bottom edge dj with smaoo chips very small chips at fore-edge corners, and 1 1/4", a 3/4" and a few very small closed tears to edges, age-toned spine, and lightly soiled panels of same. Inked name on half-title with only the faintest age-toning to bottom and fore- edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, maroon top text block edge, and illustrated endpapers..