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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. soft binding with dust coverall CONTACT issues now £10 from this seller - multiple discount may be available.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. excellent copy in the acclaimed Contact series. hardback with dust cover, good condition. Other Contyac t editions also available.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. hardback with dust cover, very good condition. fifth nin nthe Contact series, finely illustrated post war compendium.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. hardcover, very good condition. VG copy of this sought after post war publication. see listing for other Contact titles available.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Soft Cover, very good condition acclaimed seventh in Contact series with superb illustrations - other titles also available.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1947 1st edition. 104pp + 45pp of adverts front and rear. Very Good condition All CONTACT issues available at 12.00 each - discount for multiple buys.

Condizione: Fair. Original boards, illustrations in colour and b/w, 92,XXXIp., folio.; Edges cover/spine worn/damaged.'title written on spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1947 1st edition. 104pp + 45pp of adverts front and rear. Very Good/None. Hard decorative boards with minor rubbing to edges/spine, minor soiling, spine a little darkened. Contents clean and tight but for very minor browning, very slight soiling. Illustrated endpapers. B&W and 2-tone illustrations throughout. Some attractive advertisements front and rear. The 8th book of 11 in the 'Contact' series. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. 'Contact' books were magazine type books containing articles concerning current affairs and the arts in post-War Britain. According to the introduction to this volume its contents 'range widely over the contemporary scene, but the emphasis is on stock-taking and re-assessing Britain's important new role in the world today'. Contributors include Woodrow Wyatt, I Deutscher, RHS Crossman, PO Wadsworth, John Midgley, Shevawn Lynam, VS Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Enid Marx, Margaret Lambert, Gerard Fay, Herman Schrijver, Peter Ustinov and Clarissa Churchill. As well as political items, it includes a beautifully illustrated article on 'Street Literature in England', and articles on 'Pubs Around Ariel', 'The Past & Present of Pantomime' and 'Window Dressing'. The cover art is by Hans Tisdall. Other artists include Feliks Topolski and David Knight. Includes adverts (many full page and in colour) for Player's Navy Cut cigarettes, Morris Motors Ltd, Yardley, Trans World Airline, Austin Motor Co, Myers Rum, Lockheed Aircraft Co, Jaguar Cars, Imperial Leather soap, Gold Flake cigarettes, Moss Bros, Chanel No 5, Philips Electrical, Nescafe Coffee, Peek Frean biscuits, Crawford biscuits, British Insulated Callenders Cables and Remington Rand. Topolski, Feliks / Knight, David / Tisdall, Hans (illustratore).…

First Edition. Pp. xl+96(including advertisements), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, patterned endpapers; demy 4to; printed papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, the back panel lightly soiled and browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Contact Publications, London, 1948. First edition. *Contributors include Lesley Blanch, Hugh Casson, and Philip Toynbee. The dust wrapper design is by Charles Mozley. The ninth book in the Contact International series, which aimed 'to provide its readers with reports and reflections on contemporary events in Britain and all parts of the world, the emphasis falling on the changes which are gradually transforming our society in its political, industrial, social and cultural aspects' [wrapper blurb].…

Hardback. 124pp illustrated throughout, 4to. London (1948) Very good in worn dust jacket.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 26 x 32cm 100pp fair hardback, once cream oards, now browned, head and base of spine slightly damaged. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. A collection of articles on world events, affairs, political and cultural. Drawings and design by Edward Bawden. Three decorated initials by John Minton. Also contains interesting advertisements. "This book is a miscellany of essays and reports loosely connected by their bearing, in varying degrees of relevance, on the main theme of BRITAIN BETWEEN WEST AND EAST. It does not purport to be an exhaustive volume, but only offers glimpses into, and behind the scene of, the life, work and thought in Britain and in the spheres of her two giant neighbours in the West and in the East. There are three main sections in this book, each dealing with a group of subjects. ACTION covers some aspects of the material, the industrial and labour background to the political, human and artistic scenes which are the subject matter of the section RELATIONS. In the third part THOUGHT, the main emphasis shifts from factual reporting to ideas and opinions.".…

Paperback. 108pp many illustrations, card covers, 4to London 1949. Very good copy in slightly dust-marked dust jacket.