Animals in Staffordshire Pottery (The King Penguin books 68) by Bernard Rackham - January 1953

Penguin Books, 1953. Book. Illus. by Black & White Illustrations. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Moderate Shelf Wear. Moderate Shelf Wear To Dj. .

London: Penguin Books, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Peggy Jeremy. Pictorial covers in a pictorial dust jacket. 12mo, 32pp. plus 16 color plates.

Penguin Books, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. First Edition. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over identical paper covered boards. Colour illustrated plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1953. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No 68 in the King Penguin Series. Coloured, pictorial cloth boards; slightly bumped corners & slight wear round edges; title in red & black with Series Name in black on front cover in a white box; title in black in a white box on spine; Penguin logo & No in Series on spine. Cut edges slightly foxed. Pdeps clean, feps slightly foxed; tiny cracks to gutter facing title page; 2 tiny cracks to back hinge. Text block tight; pages clean; book contains a number of b/w drawings in text and 16 colour plates by Peggy Jeremy at end of book; annotation to plates at end of book. Unclipped, coloured, pictorial dust jacket is chipped & torn at both ends of spine & flap creases but otherwise intact & protected by a plastic sleeve; intro to book on front flap; selected list of King Penguins on back flap.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/G to Vg. Hardback, Spine and boards covered in colour printed paper, with unclipped dw, 16 coloured plates, 4 b/w in-text illustrations, 32 pages of text. The examples discussed in this book date from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Originally the potters chose their subjects from their own fields and woodlands but later travel books led them to work on wild beasts from foreign shores. DW has been repaired.

GB: Penguin King Penguin, 1953. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT endpapers quite heavily spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 1st Edition. Hardback. nrVG/nrVG DW. Illus. by Peggy Jeremy.

London, Engalnd: Penguin Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A decorative Hardcover in Near Fine condition, tight, bright & unmarked. A matching DJ, unclipped, with light wear to the spine ends and covered with a protective clear palstic. 16 colored photographs of animals in art. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages .

King Penguin, London, 1953.. /Dust Jacket Included. 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, small 8vo, 32pp , 16 colour plates, some scattered foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, printed boards, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, wrapper spine slightly broaned .

DW. Not price clipped Some light foxing to Fore and end papers.