Piper john editors (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Fine copy. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Fine copy. No additions. A few fox spots. Dustwrapper well torn and some small losses. Presentable in new plastic overwrapper.

John Murray, 1949. Hardback, d/j, 4to, xii,163pp, illust, folding map. Owner name, d/j worn and torn with major loss. A fair copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition First Printing. London: John Murray, 1949. Publisher's original orange cloth binding lightly rubbed along the edges. Dust jacket in poor condition, price clipped, open tears/ losses. Pages are mildly foxed and age stained. Otherwise contents are complete, clean, tight and free from annotations or inscriptions. This is an architectural guide to Berkshire, giving an introduction to the county and exploring the houses and places of architectural interest. With a folding map of Berkshire and one hundred and twelve pages of photographs. The second volume in Murray's Architectural Guide series, and the last edited by Betjeman and Piper.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Two first edition architectural guides from the Murray's Guide series edited by Betjeman and Piper, with illustrations throughout. Two volumes. The Murray's Architectural Guides series. First edition. These volumes provide an historical perspective to the changes of style and material used in architecture across Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. With individual and comprehensive information about buildings of all periods and their decoration, in every parish of each county. Edited by Sir John Betjeman, an English poet, writer, and broadcaster, and his close friend John Egerton Christmas Piper, an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. Betjeman was a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. This set contains: Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide, 1948. With one hundred and sixty-six photographs and a folding map. Collated complete. Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide, 1949. With one hundred and seventy-two photographs, six line drawings, and a folding map. Collated complete. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original unclipped dust wrappers are sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Two 1" closed tears to the front panel of Buckinghamshire with a 2" closed tear to the rear panel. Minor sunning to the extremities with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…