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C.S. Hammond & Company, Published 1956. Hardcover, 384 pp.; 22 cm; illustrated with 64 pages of full-color maps, over 150 black-and-white photographs, Flags of Leading Nations in full color, city street maps, and country-by-country air distance and travel tips tables. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Trade edition (not a Book Club Edition), in the original dust jacket with the $7.50 retail price intact on the front flap. Red cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine; mild edge and shelf wear. Binding tight; mild toning to endpapers. Otherwise unmarked. Pictorial endpapers reproduce Hammond's "Major Airlines of the World" map (front) and "Major Airlines of the United States" map (rear), both showing TWA routes overlaid in red. Dust jacket has one jagged 1-inch tear, two further jagged 1-inch tears to the paper at the top edge of the front cover, several smaller chips and tears, creasing along the edges, mild shelf wear with some color loss along the edges, and toning to the spine; not price-clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Compiled by C.S. Hammond & Company for Trans World Airlines at the height of the postwar Constellation era, this combined world atlas and travel guide pairs Hammond's full-color cartography with TWA's promotional vacation copy on every country then served by international air travel. The destination articles cover Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America, North America, Central America, the West Indies, and the United States, with city street maps for major tourist destinations and reference tables on climate, currency, tipping, hotels, drinking water, and entry requirements. A period piece capturing mid-1950s mass-market international tourism as the jet age was about to begin.Contents - Maps: The World; Europe and Individual Countries; Africa; Asia and Individual Countries; Australia and New Zealand; Pacific Ocean; South America; North America and Individual Countries; United States; Flags of Leading Nations. Contents - Vacation Guide Articles: Introduction; Europe (Great Britain and Ireland, France, The Low Countries, Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece); Africa (French North Africa, Egypt, Central Africa, Union of South Africa); Asia (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus, Iran and Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, India and Pakistan, Ceylon, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Burma and Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines); Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Fiji Islands); South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina); North America (Alaska, Canada, Mexico); Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama); West Indies (Bermuda and the Bahamas, British West Indies, Cuba and Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, Curacao); The United States; Travel Tips; Airline Distances between Principal Cities of the World; Index.
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