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5 Larger images. MAKE YOUR OWN FARM PART ONE Trix, . No illustrator listed. Stock no. 630115 Penguin. 1st ed 1945. Fine condition. A Puffin Cut-Out Picture Book (Picture Puffin no. 41). Pictorial card wraps. Farm animals to cut out and make. Colour pictures. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean and unused. Price: £150.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book

6 Larger images. NUMA QUINTA INGLESA Gardner, James. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 630125 Penguin. 1st ed 1942. Nearly fine condition. A Portuguese Puffin Picture Book (On The Farm) PPS4. Colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial paper wraps. A very nice, clean copy. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book

5 Larger images. THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS Poe, Edgar Allan. Illustrated by Dulac, Edmund. Stock no. 817051 Hodder & Stoughton. 1st ed 1912. Nearly fine condition with no wrapper. Grey-green cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. All-over gilt Dulac design of clusters of bells to front cover. Same design in gilt on endpapers. 28 colour plates each surrounded by green border, protected by tissue guards. 10 black ink headpieces on tan backround and Poe's portrait on title page. Corners just very slightly rubbed. Small faint mark to rear cover. Base of spine lightly bumped. All plates present. Overall a beautiful copy. Price: £290.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book

3 Larger images. NICHOLSON'S CAMBRIAN TRAVELLER'S GUIDE IN EVERY DIRECTION Nicholson, George & Nicholson, Emilius. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 817054 Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1840. Very good condition with no wrapper. Containing Remarks Made During Many Excursions in the Principality of Wales Augmented by Extracts From the Best Writers. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected by His Son the Rev. Emelius Nicholson. Dark green embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. xii + 668 pages + 8 page booklist. No map present (may never have been one in the 3rd edition). Corners, top and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Price: £100.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book

5 Larger images. WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS IN NORTH WALES Roscoe, Thomas. Illustrated by Cattermole, G. & Cox, D. & Creswick, T.. Stock no. 817056 C. Tilt and Simpkin and Co.. 1836. Very good condition with no wrapper. 10 x 6 inches. Full burgundy leather binding. Embossed decorations to boards. Gilt title to spine. 51 b/w plates. All edges gilt. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper, all plates present. Corners bumped and rubbed. Spine edges rubbed. Spine faded to brown. Contents generally bright. Price: £130.00 Add to Basket or Enquire About This Book