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BEECHAM'S PHOTO-FOLIO VALLEY OF THE WYE, HEREFORD TO CHEPSTOW
No author listed.
Stock no. 2127008
Published by Thomas Beecham. Almost very good condition.

Small oblong format. Card wraps. 24 Choice Photographic Views. Looks like spine has been 'repaired' - white tape to it. Some creasing and browning.

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BETJEMAN'S BRITAIN
Written by John Betjeman; Candida Lycett Green.
Stock no. 2125433
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1999. Fine condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine, front board has five images in b/w imprinted. B/w photographic endpapers. Full of b/w photos. Contained in almost very good slip case that has some bumping to corners and wear and scuffs at edges. One edge has couple of inch split, now repaired with magic tape.

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THE WORTHIES OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
Written by Hartley Coleridge.
Stock no. 1208783
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

Being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces. Red embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. Portrait frontis plus one other b/w portrait plate. 480 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped. Covers soiled. Names and dates in ink on verso of front endpaper. Prelims very browned. Some margin marks and foxspots but contents generally clean.

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BRITAIN'S RARE FLOWERS
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 1814319
Published by T. & A.D. Poyser. Circa 1999. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poyser Natural History. Colour photos. ISBN: 085661114X. Title page is MISSING (half-title page present). Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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A NOBLE THING: THE NATIONAL TRUST AND ITS BENEFACTORS
Written by Merlin Waterson.
Stock no. 1814253
Published by Scala Publishers. 1st 2011. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781857596694.

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OFFA'S DYKE
Written by J.H. Hewlett.
Stock no. 2119733
Published by Simpkin, Marshall. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Beige cloth spine and brown boards. B/w photos. Browning to covers and pages. Wrapper is badly torn and chipped, with loss and scuffing and foxing.

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THATCHING AND THATCHED BUILDINGS
Written by Michael Billett.
Stock no. 2116989
Published by Robert Hale. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0709172052. Foxing/brown marks to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is price-cut with some foxing to flaps; faded to spine, with edge-creasing.

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THE GREATER ABBEYS OF ENGLAND
Written by Abbot Gasquet. Illustrated by Warwick Goble.
Stock no. 2116754
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth covers. Gilt decorative and text. A fascinating insight into the English monastic life exquisitely illustrated in colour. Top edge gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine, with a couple of chips to cloth at top. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing. A few page edges have tears, with a bit of loss, where at one time pages were uncut and they have not been cut neatly.

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THE SPAS OF BRITAIN THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH SPA FEDERATION
Written by Humphrey Rolleston; R. Fortescue Fox.
Stock no. 1810845
Published by Pitman Press Bath. Circa 1930. Very good condition.

Compiled from the Reports of the local Medical Committees for the use of the Medical Profession. Introduction by Fox. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. Boards a little marked and worn at corners. A few grubby marks to contents.

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OLD MANOR HOUSES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1314100
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1923. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

12 tissue-guarded colour plates plus tinted illustrations. Colour pictorial endpapers. Grey cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine. Spine bumped. Some light foxing otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped and creased with some loss, patch of surface paper damage to front panel.

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RACECOURSES ON THE FLAT
Written by John Tyrrel.
Stock no. 2113084
Published by The Crowood Press. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A description of every British course and a true sense of character for each, from the stands and straights, the paddocks and prize-monies and the personalities who played a part in the creation of a unique collection of sporting venues. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. 251 pages plus index. ISBN: 1852232684. Spine slightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is price-cut with grubby mark to rear and light creasing at top edge.

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