Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. First five volumes only (of a fifteen volume set): 496pp., 524pp., 585pp., 475pp., 506pp. Very good with minimal ex-library markings on the titles and glue residue on endpapers in very good dustwrappers with spines lightly tanned. Inscribed to Melville B. Grosvenor by Reingold in the first volume with Grosvenor's decorative bookplates laid in all five volumes. Melville B. Grosvenor was the president of the National Geographic Society and editor of National Geographic Magazine from 1957 to 1969, and grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. Scarce.

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