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1946 Wheels
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
A scarce first edition.
The work of Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall.
Illustrated with twenty full colour plates, and a small number of vibrant vignette illustrations.
An informative children's discussion of the wheel throughout time, beginning with the potter's wheel, but including gears and carriage wheels.
With former owner's inscriptions to head of front free endpaper, and title page head.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Significant handling marks to boards, with pencil inscription to head of rear board. Hinges lightly strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper head, and title page head. Internally, binding lightly strained. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark.
Good
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