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

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.