Purbeck Shop: A Stoneworker's Story of Stone by Eric Benfield - 1948

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. U.S. Edn.* Impression: 1st. 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.* Date of Publication: 1993 * Publisher: Random House Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated colour cover, Black title to beige spine. No bumps or rubs, some minimal shelf wear and dents to back board, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper (probably as issued).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Glossy colour photo-prints within text throughout.* Pages: 29 pp. text.* Description: Trevor the Traction Engine enjoys living in the vicarage orchard on the island of Sodor. Edward the Blue Engine once helped to save him from being turned into scrap, so now Trevor lives at the vicarage and the two engines are great friends?.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*

Cambridge University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Reprint. 172 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Sunning to spine. Damp staining to front board.

Cambridge at The University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1940. No edition remarks. 172 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over brown cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

Hyperion Books, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 172pp. Introduction by Professor A. E. Richardson A.R.A., F.R.I.B.A. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very good with a small ink mark and faint offsetting on the front pastedown in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with chips and tears.