SHELL GUIDE. John Piper. — Oxon. [A Shell Guide].

Faber, London [1939]., 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)., Very Good, Good