The Loch Ness Monster
PUBLISHER
Geoffrey Bles, London.
BINDING
Yellow cloth boards with red lettering.
BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn, with scuffing, bumped corners and some cracking at ends of spine. Discoloured, especially spine, with various marks and scratches, and a 1 cm white paint splash on back cover. Hinges a little weakened, but binding secure. Browning and faint foxing mainly affecting block edges and outer leaves. Map inside front cover looks like it has had a previous sticker removed at top. A few pencil notes. Text and images are largely clear and little marked.
DUST JACKET
No.
EDITION
First edition 1934.
DESCRIPTION
An early investigation in to the Loch Ness Monster, written after an outbreak of public interest. Analyses evidence and possible explanations, with records of sightings to date. Also includes a chapter on recently washed up unidentified large marine carcasses elsewhere. Illustrated with eight monochrome photographic plates plus many small drawings and sketch maps. Map of Loch Ness on endpapers. 228 pp. Octavo.
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