The Shell Country Alphabet

by Geoffrey Grigson

Michael Joseph, 1966, [First Edition], photographic colour and black and white plates, photographic endpapers (maps), hardcover with photographic boards

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“This book aims to illustrate or explain things we come across in the countryside, chiefly things due to our ancestors or the last five thousand years, the artificial objects and phenomena which caught their fancy and still appeal to ourselves- emphasising England.”