Piper John Guide (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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).

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.