Small 8vo. Illustrations, advertisements, original cloth, dust-jacket, some minor edge wear and creasing but overall very good.
BBC Handbook (The) The B.B.C. Handbook 1933.
£100
First edition.
London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1933.
One of the wonderful BBC Handbooks, in attractive dust-jacket.
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