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LANCASHIRE AUTHORS A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Written by John Randal Swann.
Stock no. 2125700
1924. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles. B/w photos. SIGNED by (and dedicated to) R.W. Kenyon - designer of the Ewbank carpet sweeper. Spotting and wear to covers. Corners are bumped. Foxing.

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THE ABBEY GIRLS AT HOME
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 2125678
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Circa 1932. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth with black titles and vignettes to spine and front cover. Colour frontis. 276 pages plus book list. Fading to spine and cover edges. Bumping also to spine, with some wear. Ink writing to front pastedown. Some foxing and page browning.

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THE COCKPIT FLYING ADVENTURES FOR YOUNG PILOTS
Written by W.E. Johns; Arch Whitehouse; Rudolf Stark; et al. Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw; Howard Leigh.
Stock no. 2125672
Published by John Hamilton Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Flying Adventures For Young Pilots. Large format. Blue cloth with dark blue titles and vigette of a plane to front cover. Eight coloured plates by Bradshaw, other illustrations by Leigh. Johns story is "The Ace of Spades". Spine is bumped and faded with browning. Front cover is a bit bowed, with fading to edges. Rear cover also has fading to edges. Page browning.

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JOSEPHINE KEEPS HOUSE
Written by Mrs. H.C. Cradock. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 2125664
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition.

Buff paper-covered boards with cream cloth spine. Colour onlay to front cover. 8 exquisite colour plates plus 16 b/w illustrations. 64 pages. Damp/splash mark to top corner of front cover and along top of rear cover. Spine is grubby. Some foxing. All plates present.

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AN EXILED KING GUSTAF ADOLF IV OF SWEDEN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Sophie Elkan.
Stock no. 2125659
Published by Hutchinson & Co.. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

Purple cloth with gilt titles to spines. B/w plates. Spines are both faded and bumped. A few marks to covers. Some corners are bumped. Foxing. Some uncut page edges.

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THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Written by Francis Turner Palgrave. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Stock no. 2125650
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1928. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth with black titles. 12 beautiful tipped-in and tissue-guarded colour plates. Darkening to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning to endpapers. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. All plates present. Wrapper is price-cut with browning; edge-tears and chips; a bit of loss to top edge and some corners.

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'MEN WHO ARE DETERMINED TO BE FREE': THE AMERICAN ASSAULT ON STONY POINT, 15 JULY 1779
Written by David C. Bonk.
Stock no. 1816177
Published by Helion & Company. 1st 2018. Fine condition.

From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 No.16. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781912174843.

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'WE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO DO OUR DUTY': GERMAN AUXILIARIES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY 1793-95
Written by Paul Demet.
Stock no. 1816174
Published by Helion & Company. 1st 2018. Fine condition.

From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 No. 20. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations and b/w maps. ISBN: 9781912174966.

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REMINISCENCES 1808-1815 UNDER WELLINGTON: THE PENINSULAR AND WATERLOO MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HAY
Written by William Hay; Andrew Bamford.
Stock no. 1816173
Published by Helion & Company. 1st 2017. Fine condition.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo and, after 1815, to Canada. Introduced and annotated by historian Andrew Bamford. From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 No. 3. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781911512325.

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DE HAVILLAND DH.60 MOTH THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL LIGHT AEROPLANE
Written by Stuart McKay.
Stock no. 2125604
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 2005. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 1857802128. Bumping to spine and corners. Some light fading along cover edges. Contents are excellent. Wrapper edge-creased.

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MIQUEL BARCELO: ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO
No author listed. Illustrated by Miquel Barcelo.
Stock no. 2125558
Published by Matador. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. In these series Barceló paints without paint, instead using bleach and soot, which he applies to black paper and canvases. The bleach "develops" the image by removing its background. ISBN: 9788492841745. Still in original shrink wrap - Unopened!! Some creasing to corners.

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