The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It? With ... plates ... General editor: H. Golding by Golding, Harry

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: Late 1930?s* Publisher: Ward Lock & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated paper boards, black title & sea-horse design to olive grey green cloth spine strip. Front cover shows two children watching a screen and the words "Strange But True". Patterned gilt to back cover. Considerable shelf wear to boards and rubbing to edges and corners. GOOD.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. B/w cartoon illustrations to end papers. Clean, crisp and tight with light reading wear, no marks to text, single small index mark ?No 109,? to prelims, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Eight coloured plates & nearly three hundred other monochrome illustrations.* Pages: 256 pp. text.* Description: There are many things to marvel at in "The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It?", the fascination of insects' eyes, the largest plants and fastest creatures, to the tales of dinosaurs and denizens of the deep, and not least the wonderful collection of fascinating facts covered. Coupled with this, each article is written in a gloriously rich and warm 1930's style of crafted sentences and beguiling turns of phrase.* An ACCEPTABLE TO GOOD copy with considerable shelf wear but no dust jacket.*