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Burns, Wilfred.
British Shopping Centres: New Trends in Layout and Distribution.
Publisher: Leonard Hill [Books] Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1959
Stock Code: 8357
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. [14], 129, [1]. 80 illustrations to plates; 14 figures in-text. Publishers’ grey cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Ex-library copy. Cover cloth a little rubbed, with number label at tail of spine. Withdrawn stamp and others to front paste-down, ffep and title page; pocket to front paste-down; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket scuffed, nicked and creased with significant loss at front joint (approx 7 cm x 5 cm) and small loss to edge. A Very Good copy in Fair jacket. Fascinating analysis of shopping trends and development and the emergence of the pedestrian precinct, by civil engineer and planning officer Wilfred Burns. £50.00