The Island Race
Reprint Society, London, 1966, hardcover. An excerpted work from A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES. A massive coffee table book of 9.5 x 12 inches, profusely illustrated with photos and period artwork, much in colour. 312 pages, bound in bright green cloth sides with dark green buckram spine stamped in gold. The illustrated green dustwrapper is plastic coated and very prone to cracking. The Reprint Society is a variant of the Cassell edition with Reprint Society on the title page and World Books on the spine of the DJ. Not mention by Cohen or Langworth, the spine is now black leather rather than dark green. Book is clean with shiny gilt titles, no names or markings, binding tight, light spots on page edges. Dustwrapper is unclipped, wer and small losses along edges. (A138ca.4). Item #36858
Price: $8.00