Devon Guide by John Betjeman (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Large octavo. Spiral bound. 54 pages. Maps, illustrations, Edward Bawden cartoon ad., all complete as called for. Bump to the top the left hand corner of the book, with small crease and cracking to four of the punched holes, else very good.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1sty 1936 HB Faber/Architectural Press; in unclipped jacket; jacket has several closed tears and small losses; book has wear and some discolouration to boards and slight losses to some page edges; previous owner stamp to ffep verso.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No date but assumed first edition hardback with metal spiral binding and dustjacket. DJ is darkened and has a couple of small tears to edges. Previous owners bookplate inside front board. Some darkening to cream board edges. Internally clean. Very good - / good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. White boards and spine, the latter with a blue lettered rectangle. Wear to top and lower edges of jacket, showing foxing and tanning. Spiral binding. Internally no faults.

First edition, first printing. Very good spiral bound paperback with a small stain to the first few pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. The Faber re-issue of this Shell Guide, published three years after the original Architectural Press edition. A bookplate to the front pastedown states that this copy was bequeathed to the Library of the Royal Empire Society by Flying-Officer R.T.E.Latham, August 1944 and two ink stamps confirm that it was subsequently withdrawn from stock. These two stamps, plus two neatly inked sets of numerals, one to the front pastedown and one to the index page are the only indications of former library ownership. Small 4to. 54pp. Original white publisher's cloth with internal wire spiral binding, blocked in blue at the spine. Illustrated with four colour maps and thirty-eight photographs. Some staining to the cloth at head of the upper and lower boards, and half a dozen small spots of foxing to the backstrip spine. Internally a very crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, which is a little dust soiled and chafed, with a little creased to the top edge and a single tiny area of loss.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, 1936.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 54 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations, 4 maps (colour) ; 24 cm. Series: Shell guides. Notes: Caption title. Includes index. Illustrations on endpapers. Hardback with enclosed spiral binding. Subjects: Devon (England) ; Guidebooks; Devon (England) Description and travel; England Devon. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 54 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations, 4 maps (colour) ; 24 cm. Series: Shell guides. Notes: Caption title. Includes index. Illustrations on endpapers. Hardback with enclosed spiral binding. Subjects: Devon (England) ; Guidebooks; Devon (England) Description and travel; England Devon. 1 Kg.…

First edition. Spirally bound paperback. Black and white photographs to covers. Edward Bawden illustrated advert to the inside of rear endpaper. Patterned endpapers, sepia and b/w photographs, 4 pages of coloured maps and engravings in text. Some wear to upper panel and rubbing to edges of covers and along holes for spiral binding, small crease to top corner o/w VG+. SCARCE.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated throughout, with photos and maps, including a full page EDWARD BAWDEN design for Stoke Gabriel. Architectural Press, N.d. (1936). Spiral bound illustrated wrappers, with short closed tear to upper panel and some creasing to corners, otherwise very good. …

8vo. First edition. Original ring binding with card covers. Two page colour map of the county and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Very slight creasing and rubbing to the extremities of the covers. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine. A lovely copy.