The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 4th Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1996 (1976)* Publisher: Antiques Collectors Club.* Binding and cover condition: Royal Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated jacket showing a number of antique watches. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £35.00. Black titles to spine and face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge & to head of spine. Some shelf wear to front of cover. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. Coloured & illustrated endpapers showing the works of a watch in blue on a grey ground. No annotations, seems lightly read. No visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawings and photos throughout. 8 Colour plates.* Pages: 325 pp. text. xii pp. Index and blank pages at rear.* Product description:- This reprinted edition contains improved black and white photographs and a revised preface which comments on the market and the changes in it since the previous edition was published in 1976. Few collecting subjects can offer such a rich range of choice. There are thousands of watches available to the collector and by no means all are expensive. What the collector required, and this standard work (now re-edited and with a fine chronology of illustrations added0 is perhaps the only book to provide it, is a text which takes the beginner through the development of the watch in a lucid and un-pretentious style, provides an easily understood glossary of technical terms and answers the type of questions which a dealer learns to expect from the collector.* This is a FINE text copy of the 1st/4th with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG.* Now in a clear un-attached protective jacket.* This is a heavy volume weighing in at 1678 gms.*