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Zustand: Fair. Original boards, illustrations in colour and b/w, 92,XXXIp., folio.; Edges cover/spine worn/damaged.'title written on spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Dust jacket is age-toned and marked from shelving and handling, notable tears to edges with areas of loss and wear; card covers are age-toned, corners curled and creased; binding is tight; pages are unmarked with colour and black and white illustrations. ; 8.75 x 0.3 x 11.2 inches; 80 pages.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. Dust jacket is age-toned and edgeworn with marks from shelving and partial loss at upper spine, price unclipped; boards are age-toned and bumped; binding is tight; pages are age-toned but crisp and unmarked, off-setting on front and rear endpapers. This is a nice copy with such articles as 'The Republican Party' by Alistair Cooke and 'The Lure of Scotland Yard' by Ilsa Barea. ; 8.75 x 0.4 x 11.5 inches; 104 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1947 1st edition. 104pp + 45pp of adverts front and rear. Very Good/None. Hard decorative boards with minor rubbing to edges/spine, minor soiling, spine a little darkened. Contents clean and tight but for very minor browning, very slight soiling. Illustrated endpapers. B&W and 2-tone illustrations throughout. Some attractive advertisements front and rear. The 8th book of 11 in the 'Contact' series. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. 'Contact' books were magazine type books containing articles concerning current affairs and the arts in post-War Britain. According to the introduction to this volume its contents 'range widely over the contemporary scene, but the emphasis is on stock-taking and re-assessing Britain's important new role in the world today'. Contributors include Woodrow Wyatt, I Deutscher, RHS Crossman, PO Wadsworth, John Midgley, Shevawn Lynam, VS Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Enid Marx, Margaret Lambert, Gerard Fay, Herman Schrijver, Peter Ustinov and Clarissa Churchill. As well as political items, it includes a beautifully illustrated article on 'Street Literature in England', and articles on 'Pubs Around Ariel', 'The Past & Present of Pantomime' and 'Window Dressing'. The cover art is by Hans Tisdall. Other artists include Feliks Topolski and David Knight. Includes adverts (many full page and in colour) for Player's Navy Cut cigarettes, Morris Motors Ltd, Yardley, Trans World Airline, Austin Motor Co, Myers Rum, Lockheed Aircraft Co, Jaguar Cars, Imperial Leather soap, Gold Flake cigarettes, Moss Bros, Chanel No 5, Philips Electrical, Nescafe Coffee, Peek Frean biscuits, Crawford biscuits, British Insulated Callenders Cables and Remington Rand. Topolski, Feliks / Knight, David / Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. The cover has wearing to the corners, edges and spine including tanning, small bumps, minor chips and rubbing. The inside covers have library stickers in place. There is a stamp on the contents page. There is a hinge break on page 2, none of the pages are loose. The text and illustrations are all clean, bright and tight. Ex - Library, Usual Stamps.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

No dust jacket. Hardcover with paper wrapper across centre of front board. 25,5 x 32 cm 96 pp + xxx pp. I.a. articles on/by: Toynbee. Condition: spine and cover with imperfections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Other People's Lives - The Tenth Contact book, faces the issue of 'Class' in Britain and abroad. Contains black and white plates and illustrations. Pages have tanning and mild foxing; has shelf wear and wear on the corners; the dust jacket is rubbed, and has wear on the corners and two tears, one on the back, one on the spine; the book itself has a tear at the top of the spine (see photos); binding is fair.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Remarkable 1947 account of post-war Britain, recorded in photographs and essays by key writers and commentators of the era, including Mass-Observation, Kingsley Martin, Douglas Jay, Hugh Casson and Harold Nicolson. Splendid contemporary coloured adverts, stylistically anticipating the Festival of Britain four years later. Good hardback; no dust jacket Copyright © Contact Publications.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Slight wear, slight chip at head of spine, otherwise very good indeed.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback in good condition. Wear and tanning to spine and mark to spine foot. Nick to spine head and leading corners of covers are a little dog-eared, also affecting upper corners of first few pages. Tanning to edges of covers and scores to front cover. Shelf-marks to covers and faint foxing and marks to page block. Faint tanning to edges of pages; pages are sound and contents are clear throughout. TA. Used.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xii, 104, (xiii)-xxiv. Original publisher's printed boards. Copiously illustrated in colour and black & white throughout. Dust jacket illustration by H. A. Rothholz. Neat name to front endpaper. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp xvi, 80, (xvii)- xxviii. Original grey wraps with yellow dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in black & white throughout. Very good in a slightly worn and used dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp xx, 104, (xxi)-xxxvi. Original publisher's illustrated boards. Copiously illustrated in colour and black & white throughout with superb jacket design by John Farleigh. Neat name on front endpaper. Very good indeed in slightly used, very good dust jacket with slight edge wear.…

Hardback. 124pp illustrated throughout, 4to. London (1948) Very good in worn dust jacket.

Zustand: Good. 4to. 96 pp. Hard Covers. Very Good. B&W and Color Plates.Included: Slip with volume information.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Quarto. xxviii, 104, (xxix)-xlv. Original illustrated hardback. Slight wear to illustrated boards otherwise near very good indeed in a dust, torn and chipped, good-plus, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 26 x 32cm 100pp fair hardback, once cream oards, now browned, head and base of spine slightly damaged. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. A collection of articles on world events, affairs, political and cultural. Drawings and design by Edward Bawden. Three decorated initials by John Minton. Also contains interesting advertisements. "This book is a miscellany of essays and reports loosely connected by their bearing, in varying degrees of relevance, on the main theme of BRITAIN BETWEEN WEST AND EAST. It does not purport to be an exhaustive volume, but only offers glimpses into, and behind the scene of, the life, work and thought in Britain and in the spheres of her two giant neighbours in the West and in the East. There are three main sections in this book, each dealing with a group of subjects. ACTION covers some aspects of the material, the industrial and labour background to the political, human and artistic scenes which are the subject matter of the section RELATIONS. In the third part THOUGHT, the main emphasis shifts from factual reporting to ideas and opinions.".…

Paperback. 108pp many illustrations, card covers, 4to London 1949. Very good copy in slightly dust-marked dust jacket.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Cover slightly worn and rubbed with slight tearing at spine, otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Contributions from Fitzroy Maclean, Mass Observation, Peter Quennell, Hugh Casson, Clive Bell, et al.