NORTH AMERICAN BINOCULAR THINGS OBSERVED IN CANADA THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO ( SIGNED COPY )

LANCE SIEVEKING (Lancelot De Giberne Sieveking, D.S.C 1896-1972)

Verlag: SYLVAN PRESS, LONDON, 1948

Beschreibung

Red cloth boards with white titles to spine and white blocked image of a North American Binocular to front board, 215 x 140 mm approx. 206 pp + 16 pp of glossy plates with 41 monochrome images as called for. Quirky but very readable and enjoyable travelogue - the author's afterthoughts sum this up - Please see our images. The author served with the Royal Navy Air Service in WWI and won the D.F.C. prior to being shot down over the Rhine and being held P.O.W. He made his name with the B.B.C. and dramatised C.S.Lewis' The Magician's Nephew for broadcast on the Radio. He also designed the eight squared drawing intended to assist B.B.C. Radio commentators and listeners to follow football commentary on the wireless. (Wikipedia). The copy offered by us is double signed by the author- firstly on the title page in blue ink and secondly as L de Giberne Sieveking under the author photo plate xxxv. Good no d/j (Book - cloth a little faded to extremities and small liquid splash to front. A little general shelf wear. Ink gift insc. to free front end paper -Christmas 1948. Light sporadic foxing to end papers and prelims. Binding sound). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 125433

Bibliografische Details

Titel: NORTH AMERICAN BINOCULAR THINGS OBSERVED IN ...

Verlag: SYLVAN PRESS, LONDON

Erscheinungsdatum: 1948

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition