BBC Year Book by British Broadcasting Corporation - 1949

BBC, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned.

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. Illustrative jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Small brown marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Some tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

London: BBC, 1947. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 152pp., frontis., b/w plates, With contributions by Rose Macaulay & Louis MacNeice

London: The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Unnamed. A scarce first edition copy of the BBc's year book for the year 1947. Thoroughly illustrated and in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, a scarce volume. The BBC Year Book of 1947, interestingly the year in which the Royal Charter of the BBC came into operation. Covering every aspect of the Corporation's work: from the leading article by the Director-General, Sir William Haley, to the last page of the Reference section, it is packed with information and discussion. Illustrated throughout with forty pages of photographs. With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally lovely with only minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is unclipped and smart with slight shelfwear and edge wear. Spine to wrapper is slightly sunned. internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and… Read More

London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1931. . First and only edition; 8vo (190 x 130 mm); numerous illustrations, advertisements; publisher's orange cloth,a little worn and rubbed at extremities, original dust-jacket with design by Dora Batty to upper panel, advertisement to upper flap and Moorfield's Eye Hospital donation form to rear inside flap, shot closed tear to upper flap fold, rubbed and dust-soiled, small stain to top edge of upper panel; 463.[1] pp. The third of the famous BBC Handbooks, published annually from 1928 until 1987, chronicling the exciting development of radio & television broadcasting in Britain since its heyday and serving as a guide & record to the British Broadcasting Corporation's technological progression and the broadcasted programmes themselves. This is first edition to be referred to as 'Year Book', the previous two were 'Handbook'.Dora Batty (1891-1966) was one of the most prolific female artists commissioned by the Underground and London Transport to… Read More

London: The British Broadcasting Corporation 1931. 8vo.Illustrated. 464 pp. Orange hardcover with black lettering to spine and front cover, in an illustrate dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w. Wonderful jacket illustration by D. M. Batty, very much of the period. A couple of small tears and a small piece missing from the rear panel . Very Good. Hardcover. 1931.

London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1947. . First and only edition; 8vo (190 x 130 mm); contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1947; numerous illustrations, advertisements; publisher's blue cloth, very mild rubbing to extremities, original dust-jacket with wraparound design by Edward Bawden, B.B.C. advertisements to flaps, short closed tear to upper edge of rear panel, mildly rubbed and chipped to spine ends, spine darkened, otherwise very good. The famous BBC Handbooks were published annually from 1928 until 1987, chronicling the exciting development of radio & television broadcasting in Britain since its heyday and serving as a guide & record to the British Broadcasting Corporation's technological progression and the broadcasted programmes themselves.Edward Bawden, (1903 –1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he… Read More