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London 1938. Sm.8vo., 142pp., photo plates, hardcover. Numbers at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. VG, no DJ. .

George Routledge and Sons 1938 Hardback First edition. Faded red covers with slight wear at spine ends and corners. Foxing on page edges and title pages. A sound copy. Looks at the problems of defence against bombing and the lessons to be learned for London from the attacks on Barcelona in March 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Includes a number of B & W photos of the damage. 142 pages plus plates. Wt 0.4 Kg Good

Routledge,, 1938. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates (one double-page); newly bound in red cloth, gilt back, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of one of the earliest illustrated public reports of the results of full-scale air attack on a populous city (in this case Barcelona, 1938). Very much the harbinger of things to come. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.