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Exhibition of Science. South Kensington. A Guide to the Story it tells

Festival Of Britain

London. H. M. Stationery Office. 1951
The guide to the Exhibition of Science at the 1951 Festival of Britain, with a striking cover design incorporating the iconic festival emblem by Abram Games.
pp. 56 (xxviii). 4to. Richly illustrated with colour and black and white imagery throughout. Original publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers.
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