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Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1943. No Edition Remarks. 47 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white and Colour illustrations throughout. 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. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Britain in Pictures Series. 48 pp., color illustrations. Photos on request.

Collins 1943 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. Numerous books available in this series. Five general descriptions of condition. The first category has boards in generally good, bright condition. Contents bright and undamaged. Books in series normally have 8 colour plates, some with a combination of colour and sepia plus between 23 and 30 black and white illustrations. Dust wrappers good clean condition with bright spines. Very little or no scuffing to edges of spine. Top and bottom of spine generally good. 2nd category similar except spines of dust wrappers are scuffed at edges, clearly legible title with more damage to top and bottom of spine than the 1st category. 3rd category similar to 1st and 2nd but spines of dust wrappers less bright and more damage and or slightly less clean than categories one and two. 4th category damage as described. 5th category are books in generally good condition without dust wrapper. Size: 6.5" - 9" Tall

Used-Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket. 2nd impression, 1943. Gift inscription and a few light spots of foxing on front free endpaper. Light foxing also on page edges and rear endpapers. Dust jacket yellowed on and around spine with light wear. Britain in Pictures series.

Stated third impression bound in pink and white decorated boards. Part of the 'Britain In Pictures' Series. A VG+ copy in a Good dust jacket. The book has mild edge rubs. Light fading to its spine. Tanning to t he endpapers. The dust jacket has rubs to its corners and spine tips. Heavy rubbing along its rear spine edge. The jacket's spine is faded. Fading to the panels' margins. Small tears to the upper edges. Dusting and tanning to the rear panel.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1

48pp good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) owner's bookplate

Illustrated with 8 Plates in Colour and 19 Illustrations in Black & White. 48 pp. Slight foxing to end pages. Wear and tear to D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.)

For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. Numerous books available in this series. Five general descriptions of condition. The first category has boards in generally good, bright condition. Contents bright and undamaged. Books in series normally have 8 colour plates, some with a combination of colour and sepia plus between 23 and 30 black and white illustrations. Dust wrappers good clean condition with bright spines. Very little or no scuffing to edges of spine. Top and bottom of spine generally good. 2nd category similar except spines of dust wrappers are scuffed at edges, clearly legible title with more damage to top and bottom of spine than the 1st category. 3rd category similar to 1st and 2nd but spines of dust wrappers less bright and more damage and or slightly less clean than categories one and two. 4th category damage as described. 5th category are books in generally good condition without dust wrapper. This is a 3rd category. Buying more than one book will save on postage costs. We have split our books into 70 + categories. Size: 6.5" - 9" Tall

First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Good condition, light foxing to endpapers, to which all this series is prone, top edge flecked, interior very clean, in a Good dustjacket, some wear to edges and spine. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own). Are you outside UK? Then unless you arrange shipping 'Via Alibris' we WILL cancel your order; this is due to the derisory shipping allowance that Alibris.

Collins, London, 1947. Good., Hardcover, Octavo, 48. Pink and white printed paper over boards. 48 pages. Edges rubbed. Light stain in bottom margin of last 3 pages, not affecting text. Eight color plates, 19 b&w illustrations. Third impression, 1947. Packed and shipped with care.

Rose colored hard cover in the jacket as shown. Jacket matches book cover. Third printing, 1947. 8 colored plates and 19 black and white illustrations. From the Britain in pictures series. A very good copy, bright, tight and clean, totally unmarked. There is a brown pattern on the blank end papers where the jacket flap caused shadow, and the paper is age tanned, but still very nice. Jacket is also very good, without tears Shelf O

Britain in Pictures.

1943-01-01. London : William Collins. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ acceptable. Foxing.

Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages; 47 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; English diaries - History and criticism. Diarists - Great Britain. Biography. Series: Britain in Pictures - The British People in Pictures. 1 Kg.

Book Condition: Very good. Clean interior pages and tight binding. Illustrated in 8 Color and 19 B & W plates. Slight rubbing to edges of cover boards.

Collins. London, 1947. Cloth. 8vo. Book is Fair. D-j is Fair. 48 pages.

8vo, pp. 48. Eight plates in color, 19 illustrations in black and white. Paper over boards. Good only. A commentary on the diaries of a number of English notables. O'Brien notes that "...the best English diaries have been written by bores..., " among whom, evidently, were John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys, John Wesley and Fanny Burney.