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MONTREUX
Written by Francis Gribble. Illustrated by J. Hardwicke Lewis; May Hardwicke Lewis.
Stock no. 2137077
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles and small decorations. 20 colour plates. Top edge gilt. A few marks to covers. Page edge browning; light foxing. All plates present.

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WILLIAM CALLOW R.W.S., F.R.G.S.
Written by William Callow; H.M. Cundall.
Stock no. 2137057
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1908. Almost very good condition.

An Autobiography. Green cloth with gilt title to spine, black title to front cover and red/brown decorations. Edited by Cundall. A. & C. Black 7/6 series. Spine is browned. Corners are bumped. Cracking to joints. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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WINCHESTER
Written by Telford Varley. Illustrated by Wilfrid Ball.
Stock no. 2137056
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1910. Good condition.

24 tissue-guarded colour plates. 2000 copies printed. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth, gilt titles and coat of arms to front cover. A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. Covers are heavily marked and faded. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some pages internally. Some plate pages are starting to become detached. A reading copy.

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WAR IMPRESSIONS
Written by Dorothy Menpes. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Stock no. 2137055
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1903. Good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. 216mm x 153mm. xiv, 254 pages. Folding chart. 99 tissue-guarded colour plates. 3000 copies printed. An A. & C. Black Colour Book. Damp staining to bottom corner of front cover. Split to top of spine at front; to about half way down the book. Marks to covers. Corners are bumped. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and margins. Tear to fold-out page. A working copy ONLY!

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FRANCE
Written by Gordon Home. Illustrated by Gordon Home; et al..
Stock no. 2137053
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1914. Fair condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Fascination of Europe Series. 32 colour plates + a sketch map. Spine is bumped and browned. Scuffing and wear to covers. Front endpaper may be missing; front joint cracked. Heavy foxing to free front endpaper. Rear joint cracked. Plates opposite pages 187 + 192 are MISSING! Pencil to plates by pages 171 + 161 + Frontis. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. A working copy ONLY!

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YORKSHIRE
Written by Gordon Home. Illustrated by Gordon Home.
Stock no. 2137009
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1905. Good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and small motifs. 32 tissue-guarded colour plates plus map. Top edge gilt. A & C Colour Book 7/6 series. Booklist to rear. Spine is bumped and worn with browning. Some fraying/chipping to cloth at top and tail. Marks to covers. Browning and foxing, especially to outer page edges. Plates to pages 50 + 142 are inserted elsewhere. Looks like one page to prelims has been reinserted. Joint broken to page 137. Tissue guard to page 134 is torn. Tissue guards and plates are worn. This is a working copy ONLY! All plates present. Booklist to rear is dated 1905.

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SOUTH DEVON
Written by Chas R. Rowe. Illustrated by C.E. Hannaford.
Stock no. 2136979
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. 24 colour plates. A & C Blacks 6 shilling series. Spine is faded. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some throughout. Plate pages 72, 104 and 120 have been reattached.

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WORLD PICTURES
Written by Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes.
Stock no. 2136948
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Good condition.

A & C Black 20 Shilling Series. 9 x 6.5 ins. Red cloth with black and gold decorations to front board. 50 colour and 50 black and white plates. Joints are broken! 1" split to cloth at base of spine; some chipping and nicks with fraying to cloth on spine and corners. Heavy bump to bottom corner of rear cover. Remains of bookplate to front pastedown. Front endpaper is nearly detached, browned and torn. Page edges are browned. All plates present.

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JOHN HALIFAX GENTLEMAN
Written by Dinah Maria Murlock; Gordon Home. Illustrated by Oswald Moser; G.F. Nicholls.
Stock no. 2136946
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st thus 1912. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth with gilt titles, black and cream decorations. 20 Colour plates. Introduction by Home. A and C Black 7/6 Series. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Front cover is a little bowed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Damp staining to top margin of front pastedown and front endpaper. Creasing to tissue guard of frontis. Plate opposite page 161 has slightly grubby margin. Page edge browning and some foxing.

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HISTORICAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
Written by O.S. Nock.
Stock no. 1820328
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Colour frontis. B/w photos. Light rubbing to board edges. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, faded to spine and heavily scuffed to rear panel.

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LONDON UP TO DATE
Written by George Augustus Sala.
Stock no. 2133854
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1895. Good condition.

Essays describing scenes and characters by 'an authority on London streets'. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red titles and decorations to front cover. 378 pages. Spine faded and worn with tear in cloth at top. Corners bumped and rubbed. A few faint marks to covers. Newspaper cutting featuring Sala stuck to front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Pages lightly browned.

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AESOP'S FABLES
Written by Aesop. Illustrated by Charles Folkard.
Stock no. 2126385
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1912. Very good condition.

The De Luxe limited edition of 250 copies. Cream pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Large format. 12 wonderful tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue-guards plus b/w text illustrations. 209 numbered pages, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Burgundy silk page marker. SIGNED by Publishers. This is Copy No. 184. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Darkening/browning to spine. A few grubby marks to covers. Yellow stain to one corner of rear cover. Front joint is cracked. Foxing to pages in varying degrees; some pages just have foxing to outer page edges. All colour plates are present and in excellent condition!

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