This second edition of the book is full of B & W illustrations complimented by 16 colour plates.The latter do not repeat the colour subjects of the first edition but are complimentary to them
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Destination, rates & speedsSeller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Cloth, colour vignette on front board, 4to, 30 cm, xii, 241, [16] pp, ills, facs, From the blurb: Near Very Good in a used, price-clipped and edgeworn dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-57082
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Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Oversized cloth. Hint of shelfwear else tight and square. Tiny pencilled number to ffep else unmarked. Block edge faintly toned. ; 11.0 X 9.0 X 1.0 inches. Seller Inventory # 40063
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Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Tan cloth, gilt on red lettering on spine panel, black on red device on front cover with border in gilt. Minimally ex-library with a few institutional stamps, "discard" stamp and removed circulation apparatus on rear endpapers, appears to have circulated only slightly and thus shows very little actual wear. Cloth lightly soiled. Firm binding, clean interior beyond library stamps. xii,241 pp., illus., some color. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 029813
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Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 4to., xii, 241 pp., illustrated with b&w and color photographs, text drawings and plates. Tan cloth in white dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge wear. The board's tips are bumped. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 34490
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dustwrapper slightly crinkled at upper cover panel. US issue of the second, revised edition, inscribed by the author, "Iain Bain from his friend and admirer and occasional neighbour Ruari July 1985"; with Bain's (Reynolds Stone) bookplate and, loosely inserted, four Christmas cards/sheets of greetings, 1968, 1982, 1989 and 1996, all printed with McLean's fanciful drawings of home interiors (life at Carsaig, deer - and Penguins - in the garden, Antonia looking startled, Ruari with a tax form or writing to The Times &c) and all inscribed by the author/artist, a printed invitation to a launch reception at Heffers, Cambridge, for McLean's Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper, 1983, and A Riddle, a birthday poem by Anne Ridler and printed by Vivian Ridler, single sheet folded, for McLean's 70th birthday, 1987 - "My first is in print, and typography too. / My second's in Mull, but never in brew. / In dearest Antonia look for the third; / The fourth's hyperborean, region preferred. / In birthday the true explanation appears, / For RUARI's our toast and his seventy years.". Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # BBC100208
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Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1972. 4to, cloth, dj., in an acetate cover. 241 pp., illus. Seller Inventory # S31891
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Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 241 pp. Profusely illus., incl. 16 color plates. Cloth. Seller Inventory # 72
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