Description

Hardcover, Collector’s Lifetime edition bound in genuine tan leather lettered and decorated in gold. All edges gilt. 330 pages. Appendices include Glossary of Conchological Terms, Bibliography , Some Eastern Shell Clubs, et alia. Index. Bound-in silk ribbon marker, smyth sewn binding and archival quality paper mark this as quality Eastern Press book. Illustrated with numerous color and black and white photographs. Fiftieth Anniversary edition, first printing thus, reissued from the third edition edited by William J. Clench. Special blank, unused Easton Press book-plate, especially produced for this edition, tipped in loose. No previous ownership marks. Corners sharp, gilt bright and undamaged and covers tight and sound. A clean, fresh, like new copy. Fine.