Full Titles: Philips Honderd: een industriële onderneming, 1891- 1991 (in Dutch) & Philips: A century of enterprise (in English) (both in their original slipcase)
Condition Continued: Brave to produce a very white dust jacket. And somehow it is perfectly clean. It is also free of any conspicuous wear. The flaps too are perfectly clean and free of wear. Not to be outdone, the white covers of the second book, Philips: A Century of Enterprise, appear to be in perfect condition. Again no soiling, no wear that I can see. The spine looks straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are pristine. Semi-glossy paper again, no toning, nicely bright. Perfectly clean. I'm not finding any soiling. Here it is almost all text. I'm not finding any creasing on any of the pages. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Here is where it should get difficult: the slipcase, but it too is exceptionally clean. I don't see any soiling. And I don't see any conspicuous wear, maybe there is a very slight crease on the rear cover, but just as likely what I am looking at was just the way it was produced. Terrific looking slipcase, and very solid.
Probable first editions (NAP). So, as I relate in the title there is a hardcover book in its dust jacket, written in Dutch, with 205 numbered pages. Then there is a softcover, written in English, with 97 numbered pages. And then there is a very solid slipcase that they both fit nicely into. I haven't found any other seller with both books or with the slipcase.
From the Introduction of Philips: A Century of Enterprise: 'This book is being published in 1991. Philips's centenary year. It provides a picture of a firm that has grown to become one of the world's top ten companies in lighting engineering and electronics. The four editors have a combined total of 125 years of service with Philips. They therefore have a deep sense of involvement with both the successes and the problems of the company. As such, their intention was not so much to produce a festive publication, but rather a book which would do justice to a hundred exciting years of enterprise by one of the world's most fascinating companies.'