SHELL GUIDE. Anthony West. — Gloucester. A Shell Guide.

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of this most uncommon Shell Guide, the first new title issued in the series following Faber's take-over. Small 4to. 61pp. Cloth boards with internal wire spiral binding. With two colour maps and over sixty photographs including five contributed by John Betjeman. A touch of spotting to cloth and top edge and a tiny scuff to the head of the half-title (which serves as the free endpaper and also exhibits a little light spotting). A very good copy in the scare non-price-clipped dust wrapper, featuring a Nineteenth century engraving of the interior of Gloucester Cathedral, just a little tanned, spotted and chafed with several tiny slivers of loss. A super copy of one of the scarcest titles in the series., Very Good, Very Good