SHELL GUIDES. – John PIPER. Oxon. London: Faber and Faber, [1939.] First Faber edition, 8vo (231 x 173mm.) Two coloured maps, photographic illustrations and Edward Bawden illustration to rear. (Toning.) Original spiral-bound cloth-covered boards, dust-jacket (creasing and small tears to spine ends). – And a further sixteen volumes, thirteen of them Shell Guides (including, edited by Robert Byron, the ‘Shell Guide to Wiltshire’, 1935, and, edited by John Betjeman, ‘Cornwall’, [1939], the revised second edition, 8vo, and, edited by John Betjeman, ‘Devon’, [1939], 8vo, and, compiled by Paul Nash, ‘Dorset’, [1939], 8vo, and John Rayner’s ‘Hampshire’,1937, 8vo, and John Nash’s ‘Bucks’, 1936, 8vo, and  John Piper’s ‘Oxon’, [1938], published by B.T. Batsford, 8vo, and, edited by Christopher Hobhouse, ‘Derbyshire’, 1935, 8vo, and, edited by Lord Clonmore, ‘Kent’, 1935, 8vo, and, compiled by Thomas Sharp, ‘Northumberland & Durham’, [1937], 8vo), and, by John Piper and John Betjeman, ‘Murray’s ‘Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide’, signed by John Betjeman, 1948, 8vo) (17).