Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few tears, patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, (quite) severe foxing, numerous marks, patchy browning (including to spine), pushing/bumping to corners, browning/foxing/few small marks to reverse (white side), creasing/rubbing/browning to front/back inner flaps, is a little fragile and is in only fair condition. Flora Poste is back from page 1! As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35. The size of this paperback-sized book in inches is 7.5 x 5.0 and it weighs 0.23 kg. The book has 166 numbered pages but no illustrations. The dust-jacket is an old fashioned thin plastic protective sleeve but it has worked well as the paper used for the jacket in 1949 Austerity England is very thin. The cloth on the spine however is unaffected and the titles are in still bright silver gilt. The book's cloth bound covers show fading of their dyed colour not in a uniform way but in a modern art blotchy approach. The pages of text have survived over 70 years extraordinarily well and are certainly in 'Near Fine'.

Both book and dust-jacket are in strong 'Very Good' condition - please refer to our photographs. This First Edition and first printing hardback was published by Longmans in London in 1949.

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