William Collins - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

harpercollinspublishers william collins imprint first printing, first uk or simultaneous first edition
simultaneous with william collins imprint yp/b first printing from signatures of the same print run

dedication: for lucy

cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited
cover (d-j) price £20
416pp. including fourteen unpaginated pp. titles, indicia, b+w frontispiece, maps, table-of-contents (chapters) etc, 56 end pp: 26pp notes, 11pp. selected bibliography, 3pp. acknowledgements, 15pp. index, 1p photo credits, 1 blank p, plus two 8pp. sections of photograph plates= 443pp. over-all; perfectbound onto a flexible strip and bound with orange endpapers between black cloth-covered boards, with title, author, imprint & decorative design on spine in copper

elsewise unexplained printing number "1" above copyright notice date on indicia page