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AERONAUTICAL GLOSSARY GERMAN - ENGLISH - FRENCH
No author listed.
Stock no. 1707118
Circa 1944. Very good condition.

Small format. Blue cloth, gilt title to front cover. Covers creased and scuffed.

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SILLY SILLY
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1501108
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Mouse and Duck are arguing about which of them is the sillier... ISBN: 0862647401. Spine slightly bumped with small nick at bottom. Very pale page edge browning otherwise contents excellent.

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THE HISTORY OF THE SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY (PRINCE ALBERT'S) 1914-1919
Written by Everard Wyrall.
Stock no. 2109024
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Cloth covers. With 29 portraits, 7 other illustrations and 21 maps. Large format. Heavy wear to top of spine. Damp marks/browning to covers. Front joint is cracked and therefore prelims detached. Some foxing. A little pen annotation to a couple of pages; damp to some page edges. Creasing, browning and a few tears to fold-out plans. All illustrations and plans are present.

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ELEMENTARY BOTANICAL PLATES
Written by Robert John Thornton.
Stock no. 2109001
1810. Very good condition.

Very large format. Modern binding; green cloth spine; grey covers with printed title label stuck to front. Illustrative of the science of botany....but more particularly intended to illustrate botanical extracts; or the philosophy of botany. Made up from sections of the author's work: A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus. Contains 44 engraved plates; mostly showing specimens viewed under the microscope. Some light wear to cover edges; a bit of damage to home made title label. First 2/3rds of pages have been trimmed, especially to bottom edge; others are uncut; some pages look longer internally than others. Foxing and some grubby margin marks spread to page throughout the book. Damp staining to corners and a couple of edges of pages.

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CHEPSTOW PACKETS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 2108995
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1983. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Limited to 195 copies. 140pp inc.index. Numerous b/w illus. throughout. Pull out map of Chepstow as it was. 9 x 5.75". ISBN: 0906134218. A little fading/foxing to wrapper spine with light edge-creasing.

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MR NOAH AND THE SECOND FLOOD
Written by Sheila Burnford. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 2108969
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

"Mr and Mrs Noah, true descendants of the original Noah, live on an isolated mountain-top. They are visited once a year by their Bank Manager who brings them a gold bar, a years supply of The Farmers Monthly, and a cake from Mrs Bank Manager wrapped up in an old Sunday Newspaper". Oblong format. Burgundy boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0575015667. Browning to page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with closed tear to front panel; repaired to verso with tape.

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THE YOUNG MAN OF CURY AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Charles Causley. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1501092
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0333538129. Spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Odd fox spot to contents. Wrapper is foxed on verso and a little edge creased with tiny split near top of spine.

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NO LONGER AN ISLAND
Written by Alfred Gollin.
Stock no. 2108896
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index). ISBN: 0434299022. Some browning to cover edges. Binding is starting to become a little weak. Wrapper has large closed tear to base of spine; creased with nicks to corners.

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FIRST OF THE MANY THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT FORCE, RAF
Written by Alan Morris.
Stock no. 2108891
Published by Jarrolds. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. The Story of an Independant Force, RAF. ISBN: 0090873602. Fading to spine. Wear to cover edges. Wrapper is price-cut with browning; creasing and chipping; a little loss.

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THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF 1918 YEAR OF VICTORY
Written by Malcolm Brown.
Stock no. 2108875
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson. 1ST 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0283063076. Bumping to base of spine and a couple of cover edges. Browning to page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing.

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THE LIFE OF JOHN MYTTON ESQ. OF HALSTON SHROPSHIRE
Written by Nimrod. Illustrated by H. Alken; T.J. Rawlins.
Stock no. 1707044
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1869. Fair condition.

M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry with his Hunting, Racing Shooting, Driving and Extravagant Exploits. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. 18 hand coloured plates. Two (of 18) plates MISSING. Covers unevenly faded. Edges worn and bumped. Some foxing. Plate margins a little grubby but otherwise bright.

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THE PROBLEM OF WALES AND OTHER ESSAYS
Written by J.F. Rees.
Stock no. 1806712
Published by University of Wales. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown/red cloth with gilt title to spine. Endpapers browned, lower edge of boards bumped. Contents clean. Wrapper is edge-worn, browned and grubby.

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