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MILE BY MILE ON BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS
Written by S.N. Pike.
Stock no. 1327487
Published by Aurum Press. Circa 2013. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The LNER, LMS, GWR and Southern Railway as They Were in 1947. A detailed account of every mile of the journey. Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w maps throughout. ISBN: 9781845136123. 8th printing. Some foxing. Spine very slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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THE VITAL GUIDE TO FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Karen Leverington.
Stock no. 1327486
Published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Specifications, Profiles and Summaries of the Major Combat Aircraft of WWII. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos, colour illustrations. ISBN: 1853105864. Spine is slightly faded. Contents fine.

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CAPTAIN SLAUGHTERBOARD DROPS ANCHOR
Written by Mervyn Peake. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1827765
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A swashbuckling pirate fantasy. Large format. Blue paper boards, Black title to spine and illustration to front. Green endpapers. Colour illustratoins. ISBN: 0744581222. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, a little scuffed to rear panel.

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THE LAST YEAR OF THE RTs and RFs
Written by N.J. Eadon-Clarke.
Stock no. 1327485
Published by DTS Publishing. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Colour Scene Snapshot 2. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos. London buses. ISBN: 9781900515375. Slight mark to rear cover where a label has been removed. Spine bumped, minimal rubbing at corners. Small mark at inner margin of front endpapers else contents fine.

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THE MEDIEVAL FENLAND
Written by H.C. Darby.
Stock no. 1827764
Published by David & Charles. 1st thus 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The classic study of the economic development and geography of the 1300 square miles of Britain's Fenland. Originally published in 1940. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps and photos. ISBN: 0715359193. Text block lightly browned. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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CARAUSIUS AND ALLECTUS: THE BRITISH USURPERS
Written by P.J. Casey.
Stock no. 1827763
Published by Yale University Press. 1st USA 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Between A.D. 286 and 296, the Gallo-Roman military commander Carausius and his successor Allectus ruled Roman Britain, forming a renegade government there that threatened the stability of the Roman Empire. Using literary, archaeological, and numismatic evidence, the author brilliantly pieces together this little-known but extraordinary episode in the history of Roman Britain. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0300060629. Base of spine bumped else a lovely copy. Blue dustwrapper is a little scuffed.

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THE CLEOBURY MORTIMER AND DITTON PRIORS LIGHT RAILWAY
Written by M.R.C. Price.
Stock no. 1827762
Published by The Oakwood Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition.

Locomotion Papers 21. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. Covers lightly browned and a little grubby. Contents clean.

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WARSHIPS OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY 1869-1945
Written by Hansgeorg Jentschura; Dieter Jung; Peter Mickel.
Stock no. 1327484
Published by Arms & Armour Press. 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Square format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. B/w photos. 284 pages. ISBN: 1854095250. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly marked (marks also to wrapper spine on verso). Contents fine. Wrapper edge rubbed.

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BATTLE OF THE BULGE THROUGH THE LENS
Written by Philip Michael Vorwald.
Stock no. 1327483
Published by Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd.. 2nd 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. Retracing the fields of battle in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany which were once bitterly contested killing grounds in the struggle to halt Hitler's final gambit in the West. The b/w wartime photographs have been matched up with present-day b/w comparisons. Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 1870067231. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge creased with a couple of small tears at corners.

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30 CORPS IN GERMANY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827761
Almost very good condition.

Who we are; where we are; why we're here and what happens next. Oblong format. Cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. Colour map to rear. Undated, approx 1945. Covers grubby and marked, corners lightly rubbed. Page browning throught and some foxing, otherwise contents clean.

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MOONSHADOW
Written by Angela Carter. Illustrated by Justin Todd.
Stock no. 1327482
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1982. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cream glazed pictorial boards. A magical hide-and-seek book, find Tom's moonshadow cat and lot more besides. Vivid colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0575030267. Spine bumped. Heavy foxing to contents.

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TRUMPETS IN GRUMPETLAND
Written by Peter Dallas-Smith. Illustrated by Peter Cross.
Stock no. 1327481
Published by Walker Books. 1st PB 1990. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. Bright colour pictures. Podd and his friend Livingstone rescue a damsel in distress from the evil Grumpet, Havoc. ISBN: 0744507677. Covers edge rubbed and slightly creased. Name in black biro to to margin of title-page. Light foxing to textblock.

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