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BILLY BUNTER THE HIKER
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1330650
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Slightly better than good condition.

Blue boards, white titles. Colour frontis plus full-page b/w drawings. 215 pages. Spine faded and slightly bumped. Marks to front cover. Light page edge browning and foxing else contents clean.

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BUNTER THE SPORTSMAN
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1330649
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 214 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Tiny dent to edge of front cover. Foxing to textblock and page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly grubby with foxing on verso and circular drink rings to rear panel.

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LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR (3 VOLUME SET)
Written by Richard Barber. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev.
Stock no. 1208987
Published by Folio Society. 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited and Introduced by Richard Barber. Three titles: Arthur, The Holy Grail, and Tristan. Green cloth spine, gilt titles. Green pictorial paper boards. Green endpapers. B/w illustrations. Second printing. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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GLENCOE & CULLODEN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by John Prebble. Illustrated by Harry Brockway.
Stock no. 1208986
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two volumes. Dramatic grey and black pictorial cloth. B/w engravings. Very slight browning to spines, Culloden volume has crinkling to the top of a few pages, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some shelf-scuffing.

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Siegfried Sassoon; Alan Lascelles. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1208985
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Re-issue. Three volumes: Sherston's Progress; Memoirs of an Infantry Office; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. Olive green pictorial cloth, red title label and gilt title to spines. B/w illustrations. Top edge red. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some scuffing to base and a thin edge of white paint to top along with faint foxspots.

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WAR AND PEACE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Leo Tolstoy; Rosemary Edmonds. Illustrated by Feliks Topolski.
Stock no. 1208984
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reduced format. Translated and with an introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Brick red spines with gilt titles. Cream/beige covers with line drawings. B/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has a little scuffing, especially to the base.

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JEEVES & WOOSTER (6 VOLUMES)
Written by P.G. Wodehouse. Illustrated by Paul Cox.
Stock no. 1208983
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Very good condition.

Titles are: Ring For Jeeves; The Mating Season; Joy In The Morning; The Code Of The Woosters; Thank You Jeeves; Right Ho, Jeeves. Attractive pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf scuffed and has foxing to top end.

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WESSEX NOVELS (SIX VOLUMES)
Written by Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by Peter Reddick.
Stock no. 1208982
Published by Folio Society. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contains: The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native; Far From The Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the d'Urbervilles. All different colour cloths, with corn dolly motif to front covers. B/w illustrations. Some title blocks to spines slightly scuffed, small mark to base of spine of Tess, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase with some scuffing, especially to the base.

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A CENTURY OF CONFLICT 1848-1948 (5 VOLUMES)
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1208981
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contains: The Struggle for Mastery In Europe Volumes I (1848-1878) and II (1878-1914); The First World War and its Aftermath 1914-1919; The Origins of the Second World War 1919-1939 and The Second World War and Its Aftermath 1939-1948. Top edge of text blocks very, very slightly dusty with a couple of tiny spots, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf-scuffed, especially to bottom, also some bubbling of the surface paper (not bad).

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR (6 VOLUMES)
Written by Winston S. Churchill.
Stock no. 1208980
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

6 Volume set. Starting with The Gathering Storm and ending with Triumph and Tragedy. Cloth spines, pictorial front boards. A lovely set contained in 2 slipcases produced by the publisher. Slipcases are shelf-scuffed, quite heavily on the bottoms, 1" split to top edge of slipcase containing volumes 1-3, tiny piece of surface paper lifting to rear of second slipcase.

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AUDELS CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS GUIDE (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Frank D. Graham; Thomas J. Emery.
Stock no. 1830854
Published by Theo. Audel & Co., Publishers. 1951. Very good condition.

"The Audel's Guides to the Building Trades" are a practical series of educators on the various branches of Modern Building Construction and are dedicated to Master Builders and their Associates. Designed to give technical trade information in concise, accurate, plain language. For Carpenters - Joiners - Builders - Mechanics - and All Wood Workers. Small format. Navy blue cloth boards with yellow titles and rule & hammer vignettes. B/w illustrations. All edges red. A few minor scuffs to boards. Name stamped in ink to top edge of front fly-leaf. Page edge browning present. Else contents clean. A decent set.

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WELLINGTON'S ARMY: THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER, 1812-1815
Written by Philip Haythornthwaite. Illustrated by Charles Hamilton Smith.
Stock no. 1830853
Published by Greenhill Books. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Full colour illustrations of British Military Uniforms from the the Peninsular War and Waterloo, drawn from life and completed in 1814, covering all the branches of service, including general officers and staff of the army; line infantry; light infantry and rifles; heavy and light cavalry; artillery and engineers; cadets and veterans; and foreign regiments. Very large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1853675016. Rubbing to base of spine. A few tiny white marks to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is damp stained.

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