Illustrated with a frontispiece, 27 drawings and 17 photographs.
First edition. 8vo. [230 x 155 x 32 mm]. xii, 264 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, housed in original illustrated dust jacket with a mylar protective sleeve. (Binding firm, dust jacket slightly rubbed with minor loss to the head of the spine and a few short closed tears, price clipped, lightly soiled with a water mark, otherwise bright and pleasing).
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1953
Text block, illustrations and photographs all clean, overall a very good copy. Small bookshop label belonging to Foyles located on the front paste down.
A charming and handsomely illustrated book, it was well received and a revised edition was republished in 1974.
Stock no. ebc9262
Illustrated with a frontispiece, 27 drawings and 17 photographs.
First edition. 8vo. [230 x 155 x 32 mm]. xii, 264 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, housed in original illustrated dust jacket with a mylar protective sleeve. (Binding firm, dust jacket slightly rubbed with minor loss to the head of the spine and a few short closed tears, price clipped, lightly soiled with a water mark, otherwise bright and pleasing).
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1953
Text block, illustrations and photographs all clean, overall a very good copy. Small bookshop label belonging to Foyles located on the front paste down.
A charming and handsomely illustrated book, it was well received and a revised edition was republished in 1974.
Stock no. ebc9262