1961 Reader’s Digest Great World Atlas – First Edition, Vintage Large Format

📖 Description

A stunning first edition of The Readers Digest Great World Atlas, published in 1961. This oversized atlas is a true mid-20th-century classic, featuring some of the most advanced mapmaking of its time.

Publisher: Readers Digest Association

Year: 1961 (First Edition)

Binding: Dark green hardcover with gold-embossed world design on the cover and gilt spine lettering

Size: Large coffee-table format (approx. 45 cm tall)

Condition: Very good for its age binding solid, pages clean and bright, minor shelf wear to cover edges (see photos).

Highlights:

Over 200 pages of beautifully detailed relief maps, thematic charts, and illustrations.

Maps reflect the Cold War era USSR, divided Germany, colonial Africa, and other now-changed borders.

Exceptional cartographic quality with relief shading, making geography visually striking.

A fantastic display piece and conversation starter, as well as a collectible reference work.

Why collect this atlas?

It captures the political and geographic landscape of the early 1960s.

Sought after by collectors of vintage maps and books.

A handsome decorative piece for libraries, offices, or studies.