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2nd edition thus. Signed binding. Dark green calico-texture cloth over boards, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with pictorial scene with seated woman under tree and floral designs; all edges gilt; dark brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece; tan and black pictorial title page; binder's diamond shape ticket on rear pastedown at inner corner 'Bound by | Burn | & Co'. Bright, clean covers and spine (no edge wear); tightly bound; frontis tissue somewhat age darkened; frontispiece and title page slightly age darkened at edges; clean interior with slight age darkening at page edges. Over 100 illustrations by Caldecott. 12mo, 284 pp.
Shropshire - A Shell Guide by Piper, John & Betjeman, John - 1951
by Piper, John & Betjeman, John
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Shropshire - A Shell Guide
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London: Faber & Faber, 1951. First edition. Well illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 68, very clean internally, with the errata slip tipped in at the end, mustard-coloured cloth with blue spine lettering, the corners very slightly bruised but otherwise in extremely clean condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and lacks a small piece of the rear cover near the top but oterwise is only slightly used and marked. A very bright copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.
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