Published by Collins, London,, 1946
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 368pp., with 48pp. of colour plates, 24pp. of monochrome plates, maps and many diagrams likewise. Mild wear; slightly shaken; spine extremities softened; some general bumping to the boards; toning to the text block edges; light offset to the endpapers and preliminaries; previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown; some internal marks. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel faded and extremities lightly chipped; light chipping to the flap-turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Collins, London,, 1947
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 317pp., with 40pp. of colour plates, 32pp. of monochrome plates, maps and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; slightly shaken; spine mildly sunned and extremities softened; light sunning to the board edges and upper mildly bent; toning and spotting to the text block edges; light offset and some minor marks to the preliminaries; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with scraping along the hinges; spine panel well sunned and extremities chipped (no loss of text or images); a small tear to the top edge of the lower panel; light chipping to the flap-turns; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.