London: Cassell, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. A comprehensive guide to the practice and principles of modern journalism; with more than 200 illustrations / introduction by Viscount Kemsley. Hardback, VG+ (no dustwrapper). Tan cloth with gilt lettering to spine enclosed in a red box. Minor tanning to endpapers; front pastedown has a bookseller's sticker from Foyles, London. Foxing to upped edge of text block, the other edges clean. xv, 423pp. + pp. xvii-xlvi comprising Advertisers' Announcements at the end. Contents clean and bright. A very nice copy indeed. Ian Fleming contributes a nine-page article 'Foreign News' - his FIRST BOOKFORM APPEARANCE. This book would definitely take a dustwrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.

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Bookseller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 355490722038
Title: The Kemsley Manual of Journalism
Author: Kemsley, Viscount [Fleming, Ian]
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cassell
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1950

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