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1951. No Edition Remarks. 715 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened.

1951. No Edition Remarks. 715 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates are moderately tanned. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Boards are slightly bowed.

Second printing, April 1951. Navy cloth with gilt spine titles, showing light shelf-wear and edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Small contemporary bookseller's ticket at lower front paste down. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.

1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge blue (lightly faded at edges-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor-heavily creased and torn with sellotape repairs-in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 714, illus with 46 b&w photos and 16 charts (faint spotting on endpapers; no inscriptions).

Used-Good. Good hardback in fair dust jacket. Faint foxing on page edges and endpapers. Gift inscriptions on both front endpapers. Binding tight. Pages internally bright. Minor scuff marks on blue cloth boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped; losses to front panel upper corner and top edge of rear panel, with long tear along front joint and other chipping and creasing; protected in removable clear film.

1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge blue (lightly faded at edges-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor-heavily creased and torn with sellotape repairs-in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 714, illus with 46 b&w photos and 16 charts (faint spotting on endpapers; no inscriptions).