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Book Condition: Used
Seller: The Antique Map & Bookshop

United Kingdom
About Item: London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1920 (1st.).. 5 Volumes. Hardbacks, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In leather fine bindings; Quarter bound black leather spines and corners, with raised banding and gilt decorations, gilt lettered red leather spine labels, gilt 'Admiralty' crests to blue cloth boards, blue marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good conditions. Presentation bindings. Some minor rubbing and handling marks to cloth on boards, spine labels faded on vols 1-3. Some minor rubbing to corners. Presentation bookplates to endpapers "Presented by The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to A.A. Duff, for Meritorious Work. Summer 1935." Inside pages all very clean and tight, plates all clean and bright. A couple of small minor light foxing spots to some pages edges (mostly nr small gaps by maps.) Else a very clean and tight set. 5 Vols: Text volumes complete with 46 folding coloured maps, and 5 loose large folding maps in pockets of vol.2. A.A. Duff, (Sir Antony Duff, 1920–2000) joined MI5 as its Director… Read More
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