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KING Arthur
The House of Warne. One Hundred Years of Publishing. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 fine coloured plates and very numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text; pictorial ivory cloth blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, yellow top, a near fine copy. Includes the firm's associations with Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott and (perhaps most significant commercially) Beatrix Potter.
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YORKE Malcolm
Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frntispiece and numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth. Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996. With a complete list of the Society's Publications. Edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Effectively a bibliography of the Society's First and Second Series, with invaluable summary description of each volume's contents and coverage. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 183.
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CRUTCHLEY Brooke
Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge. Printed for his Friends by the University Printer, Christman 1968. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, plates, and several mounted type specimens at end; patterned boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CZECH Dr. Kenneth P.
An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999. [Second and Best Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 16pp of coloured plates; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably expanded version of the first edition of 2000. In addition, the terminal date is extended from 1950 to 1999.
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PEARSON Neil
Obelisk. A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a bibliography of Obelisk Press titles.
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DORNBUSCH C.E.
Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces and United States Air Force History. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch and Lawrence J. Paszek [respectively]. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Anniversary reissue of the original edition of 1958.
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LAW Derek G.
The Royal Navy in World War Two. An Annotated Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Indispensable English-language reference with valuable assessments.
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PERKINS Roger
Regiments of the Empire. A Bibliography of their Published Histories. Compiled by Roger Perkins. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DORNBUSCH C.E.
Unit Histories of the United States Air Forces , including Privately Printed Personal Narratives. Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch. GOOD, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-faded else a good, clean copy.
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.
Catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects Library. Volume I: Author Catalogue of Books and MSS. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., original grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy . Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat stamp on title verso (only). Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1937.
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HUTNER Martin
A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. [Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text;blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York.
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DYSON PERRINS C.W.
[Sale Catalogue of] The Dyson Perrins Collection. Illuminated Manuscripts. Part 1 (THIS PART ONLY). With an Introduction by Professor Francis Wormald.. 9 December 1958. Sale Code: CAROLUS BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WITH PRICE LIST
8vo., First Edition [Unillustrated Issue]; original printed wrappers, covers lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH THE PRINTED LISTS OF PURCHASERS AND PRICES REALISED LOOSELY INSERTED. The calaogue lists 50 lots.
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WARNER Oliver
Chatto & Windus. A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development. Updated by P.J. Turner and Others. [Updated Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Updated version of the original edition of 1973.
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AVERY Gillian
Children and their Books. A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie. With a Foreword by Iona Opie. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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HODGES Sheila
Gollancz. The Story of a Publishing House 1928-1978. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8 and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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FOTHERGILL Brian
Beckford of Fonthill. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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QUAYLE Eric
Old Cook Books. An Illustrated History. Photographs by Gabe Monro. [First US Edition.] FIRST US EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles throughout; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GILL Evan R.
The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill. An Inventory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and 16 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled, and unevenly browned at backstrip and rear panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINS Michael
Printing at Gregynog. Aspects of a great Private Press. Translated by David Jenkins. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in English and Welsh, with coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; original printed wrappers, small mark on lower wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published on the occasion of the 1976 Gregynog Press Exhibition.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War and the Aftermath. [Complete set]. Vol.I: 1939-1974; Vol. II: 1975-1987. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (red/black respectively); gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Near fine set of an indispensable English-language reference to 1987. Includes invaluable index of invididual titles.
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CLEVERDON Douglas
Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933. 230 COPIES WERE PRINTED: MICHAEL HARVEY'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in brown and black, and plates; original marbled wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 230 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 108). THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SUBSCRIBER MICHAEL HARVEY: LOOSELY INSERTED ARE A P.L.s FROM CLEVERDON AND A PROOF LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Printed for the subscribers [list included] and for presentation to Cleverdon on his eightieth birthday. The text is based on a talk given to the Double Crown Club, the Wynkyn de Worde Society and on several other occasions.
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DICKSON Robert
Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and numerous full-page facsimiles (all original tissue guards present) in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 352).
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PARTRIDGE Walter
Journeyman. A Printer's Impressions through Eighty Years in a rapidly changing World. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KEHR Helen
The Nazi Era 1919-1945. A Select Bibliography of Published Works from the Early Roots to 1980. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison 1889-1967. A Radio Portrait compiled from Recollections by T.F. Burns, Arthur Crook, Francis Meynell, John Carter, Brooke Crutchley, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde. 800 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, upper board blocked in silver, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 800 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 116).
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DE WAAL Ronald Burt
The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A Classified and Annotated List of Materials relating to their Lives and Adventures. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, with frontispiece; brown tweed cloth, black back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an invaluable standard reference.
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HURLIMANN Bettina
Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe. Translated and edited by Brian W. Alderson. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations anf facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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NIJHOF Drs. P.
Molenbibliografie. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., text in Dutch, green faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Lists over 3000 titles with comprehensive indexes.
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GREENWOOD John
The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South Western England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAMPTON] [J. F.
Hampton's Angling Bibliography 1881-1949. Revised & compiled, with much new Information by Ken Callahan and Paul Morgan. Illustrated by Paul Cook. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS ON BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A continuation of Westwood & Satchell, Hampton's 'Modern Angling Bibliography' was first published in 1947. This is the first subsequent edition, considerably revised and enlarged with over 140 pages of new material.
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LINDSEY C. F.
Windmills. A Bibliographical Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a bright, clean copy.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the First World War. Books in English 1914-1978. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on top and title. Includes invaluable index of invidual titles.
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MAGGS BROTHERS
The Alan Clodd Library. Part I: Dolmen, Heaney, Yeats and others. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FORDHAM H. G.
Studies in Carto-Bibliography, British and French, and in the Bibliography of Itineraries and Road-Books. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and 3 facsimiles in the text; terracotta faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce Clarendon edition of 1914.
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GRETTON John R.
Essays in Book-Collecting. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., Sole Edition, with 10 plates; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 146). Very useful collection of ten essays including the only modern checklists of Vita Sackville-West and Henry Williamson. Also includes essays with checklists of A.N.L. Munby, R.W. Ketton-Cremer, Victorian and Edwardian Gardening Books, Rhodesiana, and Black's and Murray's Handbooks.
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ELKIN MATHEWS, Ltd.
A Catalogue of Books by or relating to Dr. Johnson and Members of his Circle. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Catalogue No. 5. 'A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKSELLING': NEAR FINE COPY IN BOARDS
8vo., First Edition; modern boards, backstrip with printed paper label, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. Listing 619 entries, this outwardly humble catalogue boasts a bibliophilic importance far beyound its printed wrappers. 'The effective beginning of what was to become within five years one of the widest and deepest movements of taste in the whole history of bibliophily' (John Carter, 'Taste and Technique'). 'This catalogue is a milestone in the history of bookselling, for in it appeared books priced from ten shillings to two guineas which had never appeared in any West End catalogue before' (W.S. Lewis). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BLYTHMAN Guy
British Windmills. A Bibliographical Guide. Second [and Best] Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Second Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Bright copy of the standard bibliography.
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COX Harold
The House of Longman with a Record of their Bicentenary Celebrations: 1724-1924. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and plate, free endpapers faintly spotted; original grey boards, holland back, backstrip with paper label (brown and worn), uncut, boards lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With spare printed label tippedin at front free endpaper.
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CLAPPERTON Robert Henderson
Modern Paper-Making. [Third Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and charts (a number folding); blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DRAKE QUATERCENTENARY
Drake 400. [Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Historic Maps and Printed Books from the Robert H. Power Collection. 6 August - 11 September 1977. City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text, some very minor occasional annotation; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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GASELEE Stephen
The Spanish Books in the Library of Samuel Pepys. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, covers lightly browned else a near fine copy. Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, No. 2.
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES.
Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Persian, Arabic and Hindustani. Compiled by Herman Ethe. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. [Dustwrapper not shown in image.]
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TERRY Charles Sanford
The Rising of 1745. With a Bibliography of Jacobite History 1689-1788. New [Second] Edition (with revised and enlarged Bibliography). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), large folding facsimile and 7 folding maps and plans (one coloured in outline), free endpapers lightly browned; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, ribbon marker, a near fine copy. Scottish History from Contemporary Writers No. 111. First published in 1900. The bibliography is one of the most comprehensive and detailed to date. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. See Pargellis & Medley p.406.
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DUC DE BERRY
Les Belles Heures de Jean Duc de Berry. [Introduction by Millard Meiss. Commentaries by Millard Meiss and Elizabeth H. Beatson.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with many fine full-page reproductions throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
[Catalogue of] An Exhibition of Early English Children's Books. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 107 entries.
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SUTCLIFFE, ed. Victor
The Sandler Collection. An annotated Bibliography of Books relating to the Military History of the French Revolution and Empire in the Library of John Sandler. [Foreword by Donald D. Horward.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. An invaluable bibliography, listing over 3500 titles with relevant annotation and multiple indexes.
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BATSFORD Brian Cook
The Britain of Brian Cook. Foreword by Sir Hugh Casson. Preface by Ian Logan. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and many fine coloured and monochrome repdiuctions throughout; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Comprehensive assembly of Cook's wonderful dustwrappers enhancing most of the iconic Batsford series of the 1930s-1950s. Includes a valuable (inevitably incomplete) Collector's Checklist of the several topographical series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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KIRKUS A. Mary
Robert Gibbings. A Bibliography. Edited by Patience Empson and John Harris. With a chronological Check List and Notes on the Golden Cockerel Press. 975 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 8 plates of facsimiles, full-page plan and numerous illustrations in the text; marbled boards, upper board blocked in gilt, grey cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 975 COPIES.
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HARRISON Frederic
A Book about Books. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 30 plates and numerous illustrations ( a number full-page) in the text; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, backstrip lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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