Stanley Rubenstein (2 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Peddler Peddling England).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition ( 'First published 1968', Peter Owen= first published (year) ). Fairly uncommon book. You can see the blue covers in the photos. They are exceptionally clean. I don't see any soiling. The design on the front is very bright and in excellent shape. Same goes for the gilt lettering on the spine. There is no rubbing on either the cover edges or cover corners. There are a number of little dents along the middle edge of the rear cover. They can be seen as well from the rear cover as the edge is shared by it. They have no impact on any of the pages. There's also a bump/crease below or above all four corners. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The inside covers and their end papers form the same illustration, a labyrinth of London. They are all in very good condition. There is a small pen zigzag on a white part of the front inside cover, not very conspicuous. There is no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. There are a great many illustrations. Three pages near the front of the book identify each of them, including the frontispiece which is described as ' 'The Monuments of Mr. John Stow; now standing in the Parish Church of St. Andrew Undershaft.' From John Strype's Survey of London. ' The interior of the book is in very nice condition. The pages exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I haven't found any instances of soiling. The impact of the cover corner bumps is fairly minimal. There is a tiny crease just above the tip of the bottom corners of a number of early pages and a light crease below the top corners of a number of later pages, none of which come anywhere near the print. The much greater number of pages in-between are free of creasing. There aren't any placeholder creases. There aren't any markings. There aren't any attachments. And, as mentioned, no writing on any the pages. All of the illustrations are in excellent shape. The dust jacket looks pretty good. There is a little wrinkling at the top edge of the spine and a small scuff (removing the blue) just adjacent at the top edge of the rear cover. The bottom corner of the rear cover has a similar, smaller scuff. The flaps are in good shape, clean. There is a little bit of crinkling at the top edges of both. There is a small rectangular tan shadow over the price of the bottom edge of the front flap, not obscuring it. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos of scanned. From the dust jacket: 'To all those who are interested in collecting old books and artifacts about London and Londoners, Stanley Rubenstein's researches and rear finds will provide many fascinating revelations. Now that parts of London are rapidly disappearing under masses of pre-cast concrete, such a survey of both rare and available topographical and historical works is invaluable, both to the amateur ends of the serious collector.'.