This Is New York; This Is Rome; This Is Edinburgh; This Is Venice; This Is San Francisco; This Is Israel; This Is Cape Kennedy; This Is Hong Kong; This Is Greece; This Is Texas; This Is the United Nations; This Is Australia; This Is Historic Britain.

SASEK, Miroslav.

Item Number: 4409

New York & London: The MacMillan Company & W.H. Allen, 1960-1974.

First editions of thirteen volumes of Sasek’s This Is… series. Quarto, 13 volumes. Includes: This Is New York; This Is Rome; This Is Edinburgh; This Is Venice; This Is San Francisco; This Is Israel; This Is Cape Kennedy; This Is Hong Kong; This Is Greece; This Is Texas; This Is the United Nations; This Is Australia; This Is Historic Britain. Each are near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. A nice group of first editions.

Czech author Miroslav Sasek originally intended hi This Is... series to be trilogy, however, because of the immense popularity of This is Paris, This is London, and This is Rome, he ultimately extended the series to 18 books. Four of the This is books were adapted into movie shorts by Weston Woods in the early 1960s: This is New York, This is Venice, This is Israel, and This is Ireland.