Come to Holland: Series 606G, 1971 (numbers on cover)

There were just 3 books in the 606G ‘Come to’ series – and this is the last of them.  This book was written by Betty Scott Danielland all three were illustrated by John Berry.  They were produced at a time when foreign travel was much less common and so when fairly close European neighbours still held fascinarion ans mystique.  Artist John Berry wasn’t sent abroad to illustrate them; his pictures are based on whatever reference pictures he could find in press-cuttings, travel books and postcards.  As a result, some of his illustrations – though beautiful and as realistic as you’d expect,  look a bit out of date for the 1970s.

This matt copy would be in very good condition inside and out but for some numbers wrotten at the top of the cover and a number on the front pastedown.  Wear to the spine and back cover and the pages are nice and clean. It dates to the 1970s and has the original price of 15p on the back.  In short, not a perfect copy – but a hard-to-find title.