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BIG SUR
Written by Jeff Norman.
Stock no. 2121104
Published by Arcadia. 1st USA 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Images of America Series. Card wraps. Large format. B/w photos. Big Sur is a river and a region on California's Central Coast. ISBN: 0738529133. Spine is faded.

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WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE GEOMETRY OF KNOTS
Written by A.A. Ball.
Stock no. 2121093
1972. Very good condition.

Large format. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Submitted by A.A. Ball for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of East Anglia October, 1972. Privately produced thesis. A few marks to covers. One or two ink amendments to pages. A couple of pages are uncut.

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VISUAL MOTION OF CURVES AND SURFACES
Written by Roberto Cipolla; Peter Giblin.
Stock no. 2121091
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial covers. In this book, the authors describe recent research aimed at recovering the three-dimensional shape of surfaces from image sequences of their 'outlines'. ISBN: 052163251X. Light bumping to top and tail of spine.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 2005
Written by James Henderson; Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1608048
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 2005. Very good condition.

No. 70. Front cover shows Rupert skating on ice with Zeph holding onto his scarf. ISBN: 085079305X. Spine bumped. Inscriptionin ink to front pastedown. Colouring competition completed.

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PRIMES AND PROGRAMMING
Written by Peter Giblin.
Stock no. 2121083
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

An introduction to number theory with computing. Pictorial card wraps. ISBN: 0521409888. SIGNED by author, with dedication to a previous owner to half-title page. Light creasing to a couple of corners.

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LITTLE FOLKS 1879
Written by W.H.G. Kingston; et al.
Stock no. 1505858
Published by Cassell Petter & Galpin. 1879. Slightly better than good condition.

Brown cloth covers with black and gilt decoration, onlay of small girl to front. B/w illustrations. 380 pages plus book list. Serial stories are Two Fourpenny Bits, Harry Maxwell; or Schoolboy Honour and Over the Rocky Mountains. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby and bottom corner of rear cover damp stained. Yellow tape stuck down full length of front joint, rear joint cracked. One hinge badly cracked. Name in pen and pencil writing about contents to front endpaper. First couple of gatherings pulled. Contents generally clean with some light foxing and browning.

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OLDER PEOPLE AND PETS
Written by Jo-Ann Dono; Elizabeth Ormerod.
Stock no. 1208590
Published by Society For Companion Animal Studies. 1st 2005. Fine condition.

An insight into how companion animals improve health, provide social support and enhance the quality of life for older people in different settings, those living in the community as well as those in sheltered housing and residential care homes. Pictorial card wraps. A few colour photos. 206 pages. ISBN: 0954800117. A fine unused copy.

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LITTLE FOLKS VOL 106
Written by John Mowbray; Nancy M. Hayes; Eveline M. Williams; et al. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson; Harry Woolley; C.E.B. Bernard; Harry Rountree; S.B. Pearse; Harold Earnshaw; et al..
Stock no. 1505855
Published by The Amalgamated Press Limited. 1927. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine with black titles and vignette, pictorial front cover shows boy in jester's outfit, advert to rear cover. 13 colour plates plus b/w photos and illustrations. 416 pages. Serial stories are Feversham's Fag, The Guides at Calamity Hill and The League of Adventurers. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine slightly darkened. Dent to outside edge of front cover. Covers slightly grubby. One hinge cracked. Some foxing and light browning. Contents generally clean. All plates present.

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JANE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1405379
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1964. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue covers, gilt title and stripes to spine. B/w frontis. 211 pages. Spine bumped and a little faded. Small bump to top of front board. Endpapers lightly browned. Light damp marks to rear endpaper. Foxing mainly to paged edges and margins otherwise contents are generally clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn with several tears which have been mended on verso with tape. Rear panel is grubby.

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BILLEDHOGGER HILDE MAEHLUM
Written by Hilde Maehlum; Maaretta Jaukkuri; Arve Bringaker.
Stock no. 1208581
1st 2004. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The works of the artists and sculptor Hilde Maehlum, best-known for her sculptures of masks and faces. Colour photos. Text in Norwegian and English. 56 pages. ISBN: 8230302847. SIGNED by author with an inscription on front endpaper "Form is emptiness and emptiness itself is form." A fine copy in blue dustwrapper which is a little grubby.

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REMEMBERING WORCESTER
Written by Ron Shuard.
Stock no. 1208579
Published by Peterson Publishing Company Limited. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A picture postcard panorama of the city scene from the 1890s to the 1950s. Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Packed with b/w photos. 124 pages. ISBN: 0904702030. Wrapper has some faint marks with a small closed tear at top edge repaired on verso.

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THE CHEERY CHICKS BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Harold Earnshaw.
Stock no. 1405368
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. circa 1925. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing three children, one on a scooter and two on roller skates with a cat and a dog. 6 colour plates. Two tone illustrations. 10" x 8". Spine bumped, rubbed and faded. Corners bumped and very worn. Boards are grubby. Inscription in ink in belongs to box some of which has transferred to opposite page. Paint marks to train on first page. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Some light fingering. A few small margin tears.

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