principal technical editor (2 résultats)

Etat : Very good. - Thick large octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spines. The books are housed in a gray paper covered slipcase with a printed orange label mounted around the panels & spine. The covers are very lightly rubbed with the spines slightly sunned. The slipcase is chipped with the top partially detached & the label soiled. xlviii & pages 1-816; and viii & pages 817-1699. The pages are printed in 2 columns. Black-and-white photographic illustrations & diagrams. Very good in a good box. "Fully revised edition".

Hardcover. xlviii, 816, viii, 817-1699, two volumes in 9.5x7 inch matching dark blue cloth boards titled in gilt and red, each part 2.5 inches thick, enclosed in an exceptionally thick cardstock box. Plates of course, b&w reproductions on glazed inserted stock, a few in color, nice paperstock throughout the text, faintest edgewear to casings, no soil whatsoever, no markings of any sort, perfectly sound, the closest we see to a flaw is a very faint fade to spine panels (of volumes exposed to sun where facing out of box). The box itself does have slight damage: outer seams of both bottom and top margins are split, so exposing layered papers that had held components super-securely; box still holds its contents secure but is no longer aesthetically perfect. Otherwise, this is an excellent set of what appears to be the most substantial of "Focal Encyclopedia's" publications.