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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF POSTAGE STAMPS
Written by Anthony S.B. New.
Stock no. 1831388
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1967. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Observer book No. 42. With 16 plates in full colour and 402 b/w illustrations. Book affected by damp to top horizontal edges of boards with damp staining to top margins of contents. Otherwise contents are clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded, rubbed at edgtes, damp stained at top and scuffed/grubby to rear panel.

STAMP COLLECTING
Written by Ian F. Finlay.
Stock no. 1831362
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 633. Pink pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0721402356. Boards a little grubby. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Damage to the paper covering the rear boad at the vertical edge (looks like a ragged blade dut but no loss). Name in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Tally 230.

THE TOBY BUDGET VOLUME III
Written by Gunby Hadath; E. Talbot; Nancy M. Hayes; Leslie Wood; Bessie Marchant; Percy F. Westerman; et al; Stanley Phillips. Illustrated by H.M. Talintyre; Donald R. Sexton; et al..
Stock no. 1830611
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1927. Good condition.

Yellow/orange cloth boards with pictorial onlay depicting galleons. a man overboard and boy with shark. This volume is page 561 (Vol 6 No. 1 July 1926) to page 856. Stories, puzzles, articles on stamp collecting. Boards are grubby and marked, corners worn, base of spine has split in cloth and some wear to top of spine. Front and rear joint cracked and feeling fragile but holding at time of writing. Inscription in ink to top of front pastedown. Text block browned, margins browned and grubby. Two coloring competitions completed. Page 561-604 cust shorter than the rest of the contents. Contents foxed/browned. A good working copy, front joint is liable to split.

THE YOUNG COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK
Written by E.C.R. Hadfield; C. Hamilton Ellis.
Stock no. 585784
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1940. Almost very good condition.

From birds eggs to stamps and tickets. B/w illustrations. Contents very good. Stain to front cover.

STAMPS! A YOUNG PHILATELIST'S GUIDE
Written by Brenda Ralph-Lewis.
Stock no. 318551
Published by Simon & Schuster. 1990. Very good condition.

A great starter for any stamp collector. Photos and illustrations throughout. Contains two of 'the stanley gibbons collection' packages. 95pp. 11.25 x 8.5".

WONDERS OF THE WORLD
No author listed.
Stock no. 326407
Published by Nestle And Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.. Very good condition.

'This album has been prepared in order that the stamps found in Nestle, form when completed, a permanent record of interesting facts'. Pictorial boards with black spine. Small tipped in stamps to contents. Large format. Belongs to plate to front endpaper. Contents otherwise bright and clean.