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CITY OF GOLD AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Written by Peter Dickinson. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1813291
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 10 x 7 ins. 24 full page colour illustrations and b/w textual illustrations throughout. A highly unusual rendering of 33 Old Testament stories by the author, who has fused the individual stories into an account of the development of the scattered Tribes of Israel, who were to build the Temple in Jerusalem; suffer a decline, culminating in the destruction of the City of Gold. Each story is re-told with vigor from a different contemporary perspective, as would have been the case in the earliest oral traditions before these stories were written down. A Carnegie Medal winner. ISBN: 0575028831. Minor foxing to top edge of text block and endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn.

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THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82)
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 2122362
Published by Collins. 2nd 2005. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 82. Second Edition. Colour and b/w photos. The behind-the-bookshelf story of the New Naturalist Library. With bibliography. ISBN: 0007197160. A lovely copy!

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THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82)
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 2122323
Published by Collins. 2nd 2005. Nearly fine condition.

New Naturalist No. 82. Second Edition. Colour and b/w photos. The behind-the-bookshelf story of the New Naturalist Library. With bibliography. Card wraps. ISBN: 0007197152. A couple of small marks to covers.

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NATURE CONSERVATION (NN 91)
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 2122319
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition.

New Naturalist No. 91. A review of the conservation of wildlife in Britain 1950-2001. Pictorial card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0007113064. Spine is faded with bump to top.

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ENGLAND'S NATIONAL NATURE RESERVES
Written by Peter Marren. Illustrated by Ruth Lindsay.
Stock no. 1208626
Published by T. & A.D. Poyser. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The 140 national nature reserves of England. Looking at the background and philosophy of National Nature Reserves and the role they play in protecting wildlife and landforms. Colour photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0856610836. Very slight bump at base of spine.

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A NORTHERN SCHOOL
Written by Peter Davies.
Stock no. 1608701
Published by Redcliffe Press Ltd.. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Lancashire artists of the twentieth century. B/w and colour illustrations. ISBN: 0948265736. Spine and corners bumped. Inscriptions in ink to front pastedown. Wrapper edge creased.

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NEPOMUK OF THE RIVER
Written by Roger Pilkington. Illustrated by Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1506210
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1962. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A story set in Bavaria featuring the Branxomes, their cruiser the Dabchick and a valuable carving. Red boards with blue titles, vignette of Dabchick on front cover and small spire on spine. B/w illustrations. 224 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Tiny hole to spine in author's surname. Child's writing to page 138 and one word to publisher's page. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn, spine is faded. Pale blue stains to bottom of rear panel, small mark to front panel and tiny amount of surface paper damage. Revised price label to front flap.

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THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE WAR TO END ALL WARS
Written by Peter Simkins; Geoffrey Jukes; Michael Hickey.
Stock no. 2121483
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth with silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781472808301. Heavy bump to lower front corner, slight bump to top of spine. Contents fine. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased.

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STEPNEY THE BLUEBELL ENGINE
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by Gunvor Edwards; Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1405496
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1963. Very good condition.

Railway Series No 18. Blue boards, white title and vignette to front board. Small, oblong format. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners a little bumped. Small mark to side of text block otherwise contents are clean.

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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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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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UNCLE PENNYWISE AND PETER
Written by Margaret Baumann. Illustrated by Clifford Lees.
Stock no. 1208555
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Good condition.

Peter is six and goes travelling for his summer holiday with his Perverse Uncle Mr Peter Pennywise. Red cloth, black titles. B/w text illustrations. 144 pages. Covers grubby and rubbed. Spine bumped, corners slightly worn. Light foxing to prelims. Contents very good.

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