Lands and Peoples 7 Volume Set
Vols 1-5 1929, vols. 6 & 7 1930. Purple cloth (may be bonded leather) over boards with gilt-stamped titles, decorations, etc. on spine; pictorial embossed front cover shows scene from content of each individual volume. Top edges gilt. Printed on glossy paper which is remarkably free of aging in all volumes.

Volume 1: British Isles and Western Europe
Cover edges and hinges worn with some chipping of leather-like surface exposing cloth underlayer at head and tail of spine, along hinges, along bottom edges and at corner tips. Endpapers faded along margins. Pages clean. Binding tight.

Volume II: Baltic States and Central Europe
As Volume one, but chipping less evident and confined to head and tail of spine and bottom edges.

Volume III: The Near and the Middle East
As Volume one, with chipping confined to head and tail of spine and bottom edges.

Volume IV: Southern Asia and the Far East
As Volume two.

Volume V: Africa Australia and Southern Islands
As Volume two.

Volume VI: Canada and the United States
Somewhat heavier but very similar wear to Volume one; front cover lightly soiled; boards have a barely discernible concave to rear warp. P.o.n. rubber-stamped to top of ffep else clean. Binding tight.

Volume VII: Latin America and General Articles
As Volume three.

Author: Taylor, R. Bruce, Editor

These volumes provide the man with any imagination with a way of escape. They take him into a wider and more colorful world, and they may do something more than this. They may excite rebellion among the prisoners of routine. They may send the soul still possessed of curiosity and wonder away from the comfortable, safe, deadening thing into a world that has uttered in so many different ways its thoughts on arts, on letters, on the family and on the state.
Profusely illustrated in mostly black and white, but also with many colour plates that bring to mind old hand-tinted photographs, this set provides a wonderful period glimpse into cultures still relatively free of 'western' influences. A very engaging, well preserved set of lasting significance to the armchair traveller.

Book Price: $200.00