Picture Postcards of the Golden Age: A Collector's Guide by Tonie Holt; Valmai Holt - 1971-10-11

Hardback. Acceptable.

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Hardcover. Very Good. Jacket, now in Mylar cover) has a two inch closed tear at spine. Book looks unused.

MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. purple end-papers; A classic work on postcard collecting. Very well illustrated by 32 pages of half-tone pictures & eight pages in colour. The authors' primary concern is to give practical advice to the collector: where to find cards and how to go about starting a collection, how to restore and classify, how to value and date. All the major types of postcard are covered-topographical, commemorative, First World War, portrait, political. humorous, heraldic, silk embroidered and others. Many little-known facts are given about the development of the official postal stationery card which preceded the picture postcard itself, and about individual picture postcard artists and publishers. The appendix includes a chronology of historical events featured on postcards, lists of publishers and their trademarks, a chart of the main issues of 'officials', lists of today's postcard… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

MacGibbon and Kee, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!