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Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R320110580: VERS 1952. In-8. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos fané, Intérieur frais. 192 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. E.T. Compton; E. Harrison Compton; John Fulleylove; A. Heaton Cooper; Amedee Forestier; George F. Nicholls (illustrator). A smart eight volume set of fantastically illustrated travel books on destinations in Europe, with coloured plates and sketch maps. An eight volume set. From Black's New and Popular Series of Colour Books. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings. A set of copiously illustrated travel books on Europe, with plates and sketch maps. All volumes collated, complete. Comprising: (1924) Greece. By J.A.M. M'Clymont. The second edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. Illustrated by John Fulleylove. (1927) Sweden. By Dudley Heathcote. The first edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. Illustrated by A. Heaton Cooper. (1928) Denmark. By Clive Holland. The first edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. Illustrated by A. Heaton Cooper. (1928) Norway. By S.C. Hammer. The first edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. Illustrated by A. Heaton Cooper. (1928) Belgium. By George W.T. Omond. The second edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. Illustrated by Amedee Forestier and George F. Nicholls. (1930) Germany. By Gerald Bullett. The first edition. With a chapter on German tourism and mountaineering by Anthony Bertram. With a coloured frontispiece, thirty one coloured plates, and a folding map. Illustrated by E.T. Compton and E. Harrison Compton. (1931) Austria. By J.D. Newth. The first edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and twenty three coloured plates. Illustrated by E. Harrison Compton. (1932) England. By Ronad Carton. The first edition. With a coloured frontispiece, and thirty one coloured plates. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings. Externally, light fading to spines, with slight bumping to the heads and tails. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper of 'Germany' and 'Greece'. Light spotting to fore edges. Occasional offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with very light spotting to the front and rear. Ink inscription to first blank of 'Denmark'. Very Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Leigh, Conrad; Inns, Kenneth; Sutcliffe, Norman; Gillett, F.; Forestier, A.; Peddie, Tom; De Walton, John; Carruthers, G.P.; Board, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Cowes, Dudley S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue.