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TRAVELLER'S JOY
Written by Beshlie. Illustrated by Beshlie.
Stock no. 1830574
Published by Granada; Gallery Five Ltd.. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some of our most beautiful wild flowers illustrated and accompanied by fascinating text in which Beshlie draws on her experiences as a Traveller to describe the characteristics of the flowers and in particular their local names. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. Not paginated. ISBN: 0246112468. Boards clean, insignificant knock to lower edge of rear board. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly grubby/scuffed.

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JANE'S COUNTRY YEAR
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bernard Bowerman.
Stock no. 1330227
Published by George Newnes Limited. 3rd 1953. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Third (Crown Octavo) Edition. Pale blue cloth, dark titles. Endpapers are A Plan of MoorEnd Farm drawn by Richard Herrick. B/w illustrations. Jane spends a whole year in the country on a farm. Month by month as the seasons unfold, Jane discovers the fascination of country lore, the ways of animals and birds, the beauty of trees and wild flowers, and the satisfying rhythm of seed-time and harvest. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Endpapers partly and lightly browned. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and a little grubby to rear panel.

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THE ADVENTURES OF MADALENE AND LOUISA
Written by L. Pasley; M.S. Pasley. Illustrated by L. Pasley; M.S. Pasley.
Stock no. 1830108
Published by Collins. 1st 1980. Very good condition.

Pages from the album of L. and M.S. Pasley, Victorian entomologists aged 12 and 16. Yellow glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations to text. ISBN: 0002162733. Board corners lightly bumped, boards lightly scuffed. Foxing to text block and page margins.

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A SECOND BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1329937
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1954. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some browning to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Fingering to contents. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, is edge rubbed/worn and a little marked to rear panel.

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BUTTERFLIES IN BRITAIN
Written by Richard Chopping. Illustrated by Richard Chopping.
Stock no. 1329646
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1945. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 29. Pictorial paperwraps. Staples are rusty. Last title listed inside front cover is Famous Ships (39).

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MY SECOND NATURE BOOK THE SPELL THAT WENT WRONG AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1329592
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black titles, blue and black vignettes. Two-tone illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing to textblock and page margins. Dustwrapper is price-cut and edge worn/chipped with loss to base of spine.

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HOW TO SEE INSECTS
Written by Eric Fitch Daglish. Illustrated by Eric Fitch Daglish.
Stock no. 1329189
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

The Children's Nature Series. Beige boards. Black titles and small vignette. B/w illustrations. Spine and cover edges browned. Lower front corner bumped. Top 2" of front free-endpaper has been neatly cut out. Some light foxing to contents. Remains of dustwrapper is tucked into the back of the book (the wrapper is in two pieces and the spine is missing).

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MOTHER NATURE'S QUEER CREATURES
Written by Jane Lucas. Illustrated by Dorothy Fitchew.
Stock no. 1329167
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Mother Nature Books. Cream boards, green titles and vignette to front cover. Colour and b/w plates and b/w illustrations. 64 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly foxed/browned. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and lightly foxed on verso.

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FARAWAY LOOK ONE
Written by Peter Scott; Philippa Scott. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1329149
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. A natural history book for children. SIGNED by the authors to half title-page. Foxing to contents, heavy foxing to wrapper flaps and verso of wrapper. Slight rubbing to wrapper edges.

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FARAWAY LOOK TWO
Written by Peter Scott; Philippa Scott.
Stock no. 1329148
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book tells of Peter and Philippa's travels and of the animals and birds they met in the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Panama and the Galapagos Islands. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photo illus throughout. 120 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Spine and corners bumped. Heavy foxing to contents and to dustwrapper. Wrapper is slightly edge rubbed and faded to spine.

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STONY STREAM
Written by Kathleen M. Sully. Illustrated by Rene Cloke.
Stock no. 1329134
Published by Edmund Ward. Circa 1946. Good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Truth In A tale series. Small format. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour illustrations. Foxing to covers. Fading to edges. Neat inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is worn, torn and grubby with slight loss to rear panel and large section of loss to lower edge of front panel.

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BABIES OF THE PONDS AND STREAMS
Written by Marla Tyrrell. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1329088
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format 6 x 4.75", pictorial boards. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. 60 pages. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut and very lightly foxed.

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