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London: A & C Black, 1908 20/- series with 77 colour plates.
A little wear to the spine extremities and a small separation of the front board near the base of the spine. Hinges are starting. End papers heavily yellowed. Boards are nice and bright.
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A&C Black, 1908-01-01. Hardcover. Good. vii, 390 pages, : color illustrations, map. Bound in publisher's black cloth. Gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Belgium's seal embossed on front board. Orange and yellow colored border. Hardcover. Pages clean, unmarked. Gutters cracked. Bookplate on front end page. Chipping/rubbing to front board and spine. Beautiful Belgium street scenes and farm life illustrated inside.

Waverley Book Co., c. 1923. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue grained cloth (small split at edge of spine). Pp. xix + 263, illus with b&w plates and maps (prelims spotted; previous owner's inscription on front pastedown).

Adam & Charles Black, 1908. Book. Illus. by Forestier, A.. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Slip laid in indicating this copy is for"editorial purposes". which would indicate it is a review copy. Light wear to cloth..

London, A & C Black 1908.. x+390pp. 8vo. Original illustrated buckram, slightly bumped on corners. Ffe and half-title page browned. Some foxing on foredge. Gift inscription on title-page. A very good copy.. First edition. With numerous colour plates by A. Forestier.

Illustrated by A.Forrester. Adam and Charles Black. London. 1908. 8vo, XXVI, 390pp. Hardcover with no d/w in good condition but with some insect scouring over all surfaces as well as minor shelf wear with front board and the sound spine elaborately embossed in gold and orange with no light damage, text in very good condition with all seventy-seven detailed colour illustrations and their annotated tissue guards present and in excellent condition, tanning of the front and rear endpapers is present but there is only one neat signature of a prior owner evident and the foldout map at the rear is intact and undamaged. This is another of the famous 20/- A & C Black Colour Books published between 1901 and 1921 apparently in competition with the Baedecker Guides of the time but this copy is not a first edition with the title page bearing a red, not a black, heraldic shield declaring it was one of many reprints that first year of publishing. Number 5 in the Inman Collector's Guide nevertheless it is a… Read More

LONDON. ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1908. 1ST EDITION.ORIGINAL BLUE DECORATED CLOTH. 77 COLOUR PLATES PLATES BY A. FORESTIER. VERY GOOD ORIGINAL BLACK BOARDS.

A. & C. Black, 1908. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. A. and C. Black; London, 1908. Hardcover. A Very Good, black cloth binding with yellow lettering and Belgian emblem on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, fold-out map in rear present and intact, tissue-protected color illustrations throughout, some rubbing to board and spine edges, rub mark bottom text block corner, heavy discoloration to endpapers, some age toning to pages, few small soiled specks on fore-edge, top text block edge stained in a tan color with some blemishes and some fading, few small dog-eared pages, bit biblichor, some age spotting/foxing to board buckram, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear with few tears and chips along edges, chip top spine, sunned spine and verso, crease top rear flap corner, open tear bottom spine, moisture stain verso bottom spine and verso bottom rear panel, Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or… Read More

1908. First edition. A. & C. Black, London. 1908. Dark brown cloth illustrated in yellow and orange with gilt type to spine. 390 pages + colour plates and fold-out map + 8 pages of publisher's ads. Slight water-staining (?) to cloth; gift inscription.

0 Published by A. & C. Black, London 1908. 77 Illustrations by Amedee Forester plus Sketch Map. No marks or inscriptions.Tight Binding. Foxing to endpages and page edges. Very Clean and bright cloth covers.