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WIZZIL
Written by William Steig. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1327309
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Wizzil is a bored witch. So she turns herself into a common housefly and sets off to Frimp Farm to cause a little trouble. ISBN: 0747550328. SIGNED by the illustrator to title-page.

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THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EAST COAST JOINT STOCK
Written by Ken Hoole.
Stock no. 1827704
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The passenger carriages used on the East Coast Route (London-Edinburgh). Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and sketches of carriages. ISBN: 0860934306. A lovely copy.

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A STORY ABOUT DUCKS
Written by Jack Townend. Illustrated by Jack Townend.
Stock no. 1327308
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Small, oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light sellotape(?) mark to fore-edge of front cover. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still tightly bound.

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HISTORIC HASTINGS
Written by J. Manwaring Baines.
Stock no. 1827703
Published by Cinque Port Press Ltd.. 1st thus 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Amended and revised edition. Red boards, gilt titles. 438 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0948869003. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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A WAY OF LIFE: GLIMPSES OF TODMORDEN PAST
Written by Roger Birch.
Stock no. 1827702
Published by E.J. Morten. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An insight to life in Todmorden as recorded by the early camera. Brown mottled cloth boards, dark brown title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0901598585. Spine and horizontal board edges lightly browned. Text block lightly browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to contents and pale foxspots to endpapers. Else contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is browned and lightly edge-worn.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND THE WIZARD OF OZ
Written by Lewis Carroll; L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger.
Stock no. 1327307
Published by North-South Books. Circa 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two classics illustrated by Zwerger. Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0735813426. 2nd printings. Spines and corners are slightly bumped. Ex-libris plate to rear pastedown of Wizard of Oz (covering a patch of surface paper damage). Contents are otherwise fine. Slipcase is just a little grubby/marked and slightly bumped/rubbed at corners, crease to one panel at top edge.

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SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAYS: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
Written by Adrian Gray.
Stock no. 1827701
Published by Middleton Press. 1st 1998. Very good condition.

Two feuding Kent railway companies are united in an uneasy marriage. The story of a railway company and the people who ran it at a pivotal point in British railway history. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1901706087. Spine faded. Boards a little scuffed. Contents clean.

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PETER PAN & WENDY
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson.
Stock no. 1327306
Published by Robert Frederick Ltd.. 2003. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. A Treasury of Stories Series. Colour illustrations and one tone illustrations. ISBN: 0907789145. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A couple of small foxspots to lower edges of front endpapers else contents clean.

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THE CUCKOO CLOCK AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Edna Cooke.
Stock no. 1327305
Published by Grosset & Dunlap. Circa 1940. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth, blue titles to front cover and spine. 8 colour plates. 353 pages, top edge blue. Spine and corners bumped. Some fading to cover edges and dust at spine gutters. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers and page margins browned. Some neat colouring to the illustration on the rear free-endpaper. Pencil scribble to lower edge of textblock. Contained in a good quality PHOTOCOPY dustwrapper.

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RAILWAY CLEARING HOUSE ATLAS OF ENGLAND & WALES 1904
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827700
Published by Ian Allan. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition.

This atlas is a direct facsimile of the 1904 original - and any errors present are therefore reproduced as such. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour maps. ISBN: 0711027781. A nice, clean copy.

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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF N.E.R. LOCOMOTIVES
Written by Ken Hoole.
Stock no. 1827699
Published by Haynes Publishing Group. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and drawings. 254 pages. ISBN: 0860933237. Couple of minor knocks to both lower horizontal board edges. Lower corner of rear board has been mis-bound so that it appears folded over (not bad). Gift inscription and name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents fine. Green pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed.

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THE CORAL ISLAND: A TALE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Written by R.M. Ballantyne. Illustrated by Ethel Larcombe; Harold Copping.
Stock no. 1327304
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

Blackie's Crown Library series. Blue decorated cloth (Ethel Larcombe binding). B/w frontis by Copping. 262 pages plus publication list to rear. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Foxing to prelims, last few pages and text block (affecting some page margins) else contents clean.

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