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STAFFORDSHIRE: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Henry Thorold.
Stock no. 1826296
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Terracotta cloth boards, white title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571105165. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards else boards lovely and bright. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly scuffed.

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KENT: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Pennethorne Hughes.
Stock no. 1826294
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, navy blue title to spine. Colour frontis, b/w photos. ISBN: 0571090915. Boards nice and bright. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is creased on front flap, faded to spine, lightly rubbed at corners and light remains of a label to front panel.

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EAST SUSSEX: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by W.S. Mitchell.
Stock no. 1826293
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571107516. Light rubbing to lower board edges, minor pale marks to rear board. Foxing to prelims. Half-title page has a grease stripe (pale) about 2" wide from top to bottom at gutter edge. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is lightly marked on front flap (again, very minor) and lightly scuffed.

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THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Stephen Bone.
Stock no. 1826292
Published by Faber & Faber. 2nd 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Skye to Oban. Green cloth. B/w photos. Colour maps to rear. Second edition - no mention of this within the book but carries the later dustwrapper, being a b/w photo with green and blue title background, blue rear panel with list of Shell Guides ending with South-West Wales. Boards nice and bright, light rubbing to lower edges. Name in ink to verso of free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears which have been repaired to verso with clear tape (no loss), top & tail of spine rubbbed with loss of surface paper and minor chipping. Slight musty odour present.

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KENT: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Pennethorne Hughes.
Stock no. 1824395
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, navy blue title to spine. Colour frontis, b/w photos. ISBN: 0571090915. Text block browned. Some foxing to contents. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and faded to spine.

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SOMERSET SHELL GUIDE
Written by C.H.B. Quennell; Peter Quennell.
Stock no. 2137638
Published by The Architectural Press. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition.

Spiral bound, card wraps. B/w photos. Some browning to covers. A bit of creasing/wear to cover edges and corners. Surface paper damage with a bit of loss to front cover. Contents are still very good - just odd margin mark.

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THE SHELL GUIDE TO WALES
Written by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas; Alun Llewellyn.
Stock no. 1823159
Published by Michael Joseph. 1977. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive guide. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0718140192. Third impression. Board corners lightly rubbed. Pale foxing to top edge of text block. Contents otherwise clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, diagonal crease to rear flap.

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DEVON: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Ann Jellicoe; Roger Mayne.
Stock no. 1822363
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The authors have made an intensive exploration of the county for their re-writing of the Shell Guide to Devon. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571048366. Light mottling & scuffing to boards. Text block browned. A few foxspots present. Dustwrapper is browned and edge-rubbed with slight loss of surface paper to corners, small pen mark (writing) to top of front flap.

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SOUTH-WEST WALES A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Vyvyan Rees.
Stock no. 1817308
Published by Faber & Faber. 2nd 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Edition. B/w photos. Part of Dyfed The Old Counties of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0571048102. Text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut.

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SOMERSET SHELL GUIDE
Written by C.H.B. Quennell; Peter Quennell.
Stock no. 1201226
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1939. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Spiral bound inside white cloth covers. B/w photos, also b/w photos on pale green paper plates. Covers lightly browned at edges. The following words have been punch stamped as holes at the bottom of the title page 'Complimentary Copy Not for Sale' else contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is a little edge-chipped. A very nice copy of the first Faber edition.

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