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Bates, H.E.. Fawley Achievement/The new Esso Refinery. Esso Petroleum Company, London, 1951.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. One of the scarcest books from this author (H.E.Bates) in very good condition. Very clean copies. Both come in a tatty plain folder "From the Directors of Esso etc." Priced for both in folder. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. Fawley Achievement. Esso Petroleum Company, London, 1951.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the scarcest books from this author in very good condition, just slight rubbing on the spine.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. Fawley Achievement. Esso Petroleum Company, London, 1951.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of the scarcest books from this author in excellent condition. Comes with a copy of the opening ceremony for the new Esso Refinery at Fawley and a copy of The New Esso Refinery, Fawley, Hampshire: A Photographic Survey. These three items are housed in a chipped presentation folder.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$525.15 + shipping
Description: 4to., First Edition, with 12 tinted illustrations (8 full-page) and a double-page plan in the text; original red wrappers printed in yellow, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip very lightly rubbed at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy housed in a customer-made solander case. Sold from an institution with small press-mark and label scar on front free endpaper. The wrappers have been neatly laminated. A near fine copy of the wire-stitched booklet 'UK Petroleum Industry Statistics relating to Consumption and Refinery Production 1956 and 1957' is loosely inserted. Arguably the scarcest of all Bates' work, this charmingly illustrated booklet commemorates the opening on 14 September 1951 of the Esso Refinery at Fawley in Hampshire. 'It is intended as a tribute to the vision, skill and energy of all those who helped to plan and build it' (Eads). A fresh, clean copy now safely preserved for the future. Rare. Eads, A73
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom