For many, many years the only sewing book I owned was "McCalls Sewing, in colour" dated 1964. Colour meant a handful of colour plates, mostly of different types of fabric, and a single spot-colour on a lot of the diagrams, and it doesn't assume the sewing machine will even have zig-zag; and overlockers are not mentioned - things of the future. It explains all the info on pattern envelopes, fitting alterations and shows all the various construction methods. A good solid foundation
I think it's
this but mine lost it jacket years ago.
The seam finishes shown are: pinked, edge stitched, pinked and edge stitched, zig-zagged, hand overcast, turned and stitched, bound, hand rolled.