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MRS ARMITAGE AND THE BIG WAVE
Written by Quentin Blake. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1320430
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1997. Nearly fine condition.

Mrs Armitage and Breakspear the dog go surfing! Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0224046292. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. A tiny indentation to rear cover. Contents fine.

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FAVOURITE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Frank Adams.
Stock no. 1320429
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1935. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Illustrated boards, cloth spine. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations depicting well known nursery tales. First story - Dick Wittingham, last story - The Little Match Girl. Unpaginated. 10.25 x 8". SPine and corners bumped and worn. Stain to rear cover. Some foxing to page margins.

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THE STORY OF MR KORAH
Written by Christabel Aberconway. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1320428
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby.

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TEN TALES WITHOUT A TITLE
Written by Edith Carrington. Illustrated by W. Weekes.
Stock no. 1320425
Published by Griffith Farran & Co.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing a variety of animals looking at Raven on fence. 10 colour (chromolithograph) plates plus b/w text illustrations. 212 pages. Professionally re-backed, new spine bumped at head and tail. Covers are worn and grubby, some surface paper loss. New endpapers. Grubby fingermarks and foxing to contents. Lower corner of last page torn off (no text missing).

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A CHECK LIST OF BRITISH INSECTS
Written by Georeg Sidney Kloet; Walter Douglas Hincks.
Stock no. 1821268
Published by T. Buncle & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Red suede limp boards, gilt title to spine. All edges gilt. Printed on thin tissue paper. lix and 483 pages including subscribers list to rear. Spine slightly faded, boards a little grubby. Minor nibble to lower corner of text block. Book plate to front pastedown. Front hinge starting to pull but binding tight.

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MOSAICS IN ROMAN BRITAIN: STORIES IN STONE
Written by Patricia Witts.
Stock no. 1821250
Published by Tempus. 2007. Nearly fine condition.

The stories illustrated in mosaics graphically link us to the world of the Romans. Roman culture, the passing of time, and the evocation of protection and prosperity were popular themes along with scenes from the arena and the hunt. This book identifies the figures of known mosaics from Roman Britain and explains what they would have meant to a contemporary viewer and discusses their significance. White pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and a few colour. ISBN: 9780752434216. Reprint.

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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO
Written by Helen Bannerman. Illustrated by Helen Bannerman.
Stock no. 1320378
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Pink cloth, black titles. Colour illustrations. Covers are faded at spine and edges. Name in ink to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is grubby, browned to spine with slight loss at top of spine.

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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK QUASHA
Written by Helen Bannerman. Illustrated by Helen Bannerman.
Stock no. 1320377
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Good condition.

Small format. Yellow cloth. Colour illustrations to every other page. Pages not numbered. Spine bumped, covers a little grubby. Child's name in crayon to front pastedown. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents. Dustwrapper is foxed, grubby and edge worn with loss to spine and corners.

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NORTH EASTERN RECORD VOLUME 3
Written by J.M. Fleming.
Stock no. 1821205
Published by Historical Model Railway Society. 1st 2000. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. A survey of Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway. 31st July 1854 - 31st December 1922. B/w and colour photos. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0902835203. Slight fading to dustwrapper spine. Otherwise a fine copy.

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THE EARTH'S DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
Written by W. Kenneth Hamblin.
Stock no. 1320366
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co.. 1989. Very good condition.

A Textbook In Physical Geology. Focusing on the two major energy systems that make the earth a dynamic planet - the Hydrologic system and the tectonic system. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 576 pages includes index. photos. 5th edition, revised. ISBN: 002349381X. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Contents clean.

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STATION PLANS OF THE SCARBOROUGH-WHITBY-SALTBURN & PICKERING-SEAMER BRANCHES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320364
1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red spiral bound paperwraps printed in landscape format. Large format. Slight wear to cover edges.

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TRAITE DES FONCTIONS ELLIPTIQUES ET DE LEURS APPLICATIONS
Written by G.H. Halphen.
Stock no. 1320363
Published by Gauthier-Villars. 1888. Almost very good condition.

Leather spine and corners. Raised bands to spine. Text in French. Title roughly translates: Deals with elliptical functions and their applications. Part Two. Applications to mechanics, physics, geodesy, geometry and integral calculus. Book has been rebacked, with original leather spine laid down. Possibly new endpapers. Ex-lib. with a few stamp markings. Foxing.

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