Thomas somerfield illus (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1937. First Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with decorations. Contains black and white illustrations with colour frontispiece. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown, endpaper and text block edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed.…

Book Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. pp80. Approx 10" x 12". Loose hinges. Young juvenile full colour cover does not do justice to contents which describe the full role of the Royal Mail/Post Office in the period 1911-1914 joining the Empire. Many line and full colour illustrations of everything from the Mount Pleasant sorting office through a packet ship attacked by pirates to an OAP collecting his pension. If the account is correct then the letter sent from England to the Bay of Bengal cost only 1 old penny in total. How very different from today. Intended as a child's book, this is much, much more. …

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 319. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered black on spine and illustrated on the front cover showing the Terribore beaming a search light on two motorcyclists. In Bleiler: fantastic plot and inventions. Colour frontispiece by Reginald Mills showing the the Terribore being circled by aircraft and set alight. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. Slight handling wear, otherwise clean, very good plus.…