Buy this book on-line ANON. WARD LOCK PICTURE BOOK : Rat Tat Tat. My Friend the Postman. With Many Plates in Full Colour and Nearly Fifty IllustrationsNo date (c.1930)
Ward, Lock & Co. London. No date (c.1930). Slim annual format with grey paper spine and paper covered boards with coloured illustration to front cover. Tinted coloured illustration to title page of circus elephant delivering the post. 14 tinted plates, many others in b/w plus illustrations to endpapers. Pages foxed to outer edges, slight signs of wear and use otherwise a remarkably clean and sound copy. Illustrations include some extraordinary examples of postal systems around the world. Catapault plane launched from ships to arrive at shore before the liner.Skating, skiing, cycling, horse-riding, rowing, flying postmen, automatic pick-ups by train, rope pick-ups from small planes, airships, post offices in caves... plus there was a time in the UK when telephone boxes doubled up as post boxes and dispensed stamps. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ANON. WARD LOCK PICTURE BOOK : Rat Tat Tat. My Friend the Postman. With Many Plates in Full Colour and Nearly Fifty Illustrations. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, libri rari, antiquarian books, libri antichi and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |