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DUMPY BOOK FOR CHILDREN
No author listed. Illustrated by Peter Fraser.
Stock no. 1317888
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1937. Almost very good condition.

Grey pictorial boards. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. First story 'Little Pink Pig and His Three-Legged Stool'. Spine and corners bumped. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Joint between frontis and title-page is cracked. Light foxing to contents.

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GILL'S EARLY STEPS IN DRAWING AND READING
No author listed.
Stock no. 1317879
Fair condition.

Series D. 24 cards contained in a box. Drawings to one side with write-up on the other. For example, card one shows 'The Water Can' and has a write up about Water. The box is very worn and split. The cards are grubby. Unfortunately card 17 is MISSING from this set.

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MARTIN HYDE
Written by John Masefield. Illustrated by T.C. Dugdale.
Stock no. 1317878
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1910. Slightly better than good condition.

The Duke's Messenger. Brown pictorial cloth. 16 b/w plates. 303 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Browning to endpapers, textblock and some page margins. Some foxing and other marks to contents.

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FUN IN THE FROZEN NORTH
Written by Molly B. Thomson. Illustrated by Molly B. Thomson.
Stock no. 1317874
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition.

A Kiddie Kut Book. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations with peep-through windows. Covers and pages shaped at top edges. Staples slightly rusty. Some light edge creases. Contents clean.

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THE BABY'S BOUQUET
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1317861
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. pre 1919. Good condition.

A fresh bunch of old rhymes and tunes, with music. A Companion to the 'Baby's Opera'. Brown cloth spine. Green and cream pictorial boards. Colour pictures printed by Edmund Evans. Covers edge worn and scuffed. Some light foxing else contents clean.

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LITTLE FOLKS VOL 26
Written by Mrs. Molesworth; Edward S. Ellis; et al.
Stock no. 1317860
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. Circa 1887. Almost very good condition.

New and Enlarged series. Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board showing girl looking out window towards a dog. 3 colour plates plus b/w illustrations throughout. 380 pages. Serial stories are Aunt Clotilda's Guests and The Boy-Hunters of Kentucky. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge worn, a little grubby and scuffed. Rear joint cracked. Foxing to contents. I can only see two colour plates in this volume so possibly one is missing?

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MODERN WILDFOWLING
Written by Eric Begbie.
Stock no. 1817962
Published by Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The history of the sport, quarry species, guns and equipment, gundogs and cooking the bag are all covered in a clear and concise manner. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Colour illustrations of wildfowl. ISBN: 0904558762. Corners bumped. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Top edge of text block browned. Couple of colour illustrations are annotated to show the wildfowl is protected. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear.

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FIFTY YEARS OF RACING AT CHEPSTOW
Written by Pat Lucas.
Stock no. 1817956
Published by H.G. Walters. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 090190614X. Top of spine bumped. Heavy browning to contents but clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is heavily scuffed.

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SAILPLANES 1920 - 1945
Written by Martin Simons.
Stock no. 1817933
Published by Equip. 2nd 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

Describing and illustrating more than 120 types of sailplane, designed, built and flown in many countries during the quarter century following the first organised gliding competition on the Wasserkuppe in 1920. Large format. B/w pictorial boards. B/w photos and colour diagrams throughout. ISBN: 3980677346. 2nd revised edition. Fading to spine and spine edges.

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HUNGARIAN EAGLES: A MAGYAR KIRALYI HONVED LEGIERO 1920-1945
Written by Gyula Sarhidai; Gyorgy Punka; Viktor Kozlik.
Stock no. 1817913
Published by Hikoki Publications. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Hungarian Air Forces. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations. 62 pages. ISBN: 095198991X. Slight creasing to card covers. Contents clean.

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WAR INVENTIONS AND HOW THEY WERE INVENTED
Written by Charles R. Gibson.
Stock no. 1317852
Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.. 1917. Almost very good condition.

Science For Children series. An interestingly written description of the many appliances and weapons used in war, and how they work, told in simple language. Green pictorial cloth. B/w plates, diagrams and text illustrations. 255 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Slight light speckling to cloth. Name and date in green ink to front pastedown, some other writing blotted out with blue ink. Foxing to contents. One page has ragged edges where it has been torn open after the binding process.

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THE ABBEY GIRLS IN TOWN
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1317833
Published by Collins. 1946. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, silver titles. Colour frontis. Top edge red. Spine slightly bumped, a few faint spots to covers. Inscription in black biro to half-title page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and ever so slightly grubby to rear panel.

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