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FIRST CAST
Written by Terry Lampard.
Stock no. 1329881
Published by Fsh. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Carp fishing. Charting the author's journey through someof the landmark waters fished and the successes and failures encountered along the way. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 0955140609. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Base of spine is slightly bumped.

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FISHING WITH THE FAMOUS REVISITED
Written by Bob Buteux; Kevin Clifford. Illustrated by Tom O'Reilly.
Stock no. 1329880
Published by The Little Egret Press. 1st thus 2015. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Limited Edition to 350 copies. Brown boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 159 pages. SIGNED and numbered (30) by Wayne Cryer to publishers page. Limited edition sticker to half-title page. There is a card included with the book which has space for each contributor to sign, only Buteux, O'Reilly and Cryer have signed it.

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THE BROTHERS GRIMM - POPULAR FOLK TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm; Brian Alderson. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1329879
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w throughout. Illustrated endpapers. 192 pages. 10 x 7". ISBN: 0575024461. SIGNED by the artist to title-page. Spine very slightly bumped. Slight evidence of some pencil erasure to verso of front free-endpaper.

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HEINRICH VOGELER DAS GRAPHISCHE WERK
Written by Hans-Herman Rief. Illustrated by Heinrich Vogeler.
Stock no. 1329878
Published by Worpsweder Verlag. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition.

A catalogue of b/w works with text in German. Lovely decorated cloth with white title-label to front cover and to spine. ISBN: 3922516343. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Small mark to edge of title-label on front cover. Some evidence of erased pencil markings to front free-endpaper and a neat annotation note to the publishers page else contents fine.

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DARTMOOR: A STATEMENT OF ITS TIME (NN 111)
Written by Ian Mercer.
Stock no. 1830000
Published by Collins. Circa 2009. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 111. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780007184996. Still in original shrinkwrap which has a couple of minor splits.

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LAKELAND: THE WILDLIFE OF CUMBRIA (NN 92)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1829996
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series no. 92. The story of the whole region of Cumbria from the perspective of its natural history, and from the personal view point of the author. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 384 pages including index. ISBN: 000711303X. A lovely copy, looks and feels unread! Very light scuffing to dustwrapper. Spine is NOT faded (as is often the case).

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THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 1329874
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1910. Good condition.

Lilac covers with gilt titles and vignette to spine. Embossed decoration to front cover. 6 coloured plates and numerous illustrations. xv and 369 pages. 7.5" x 5". All edges gilt. Covers have faded to white (a normal problem with this volume!). Gilt still bright. Covers grubby and spine bumped. Both free-endpapers are missing. There is some foxing to the prelims and the last couple of pages. The b/w plate opposite page 6 has been coloured in neatly. All other plates are present and untouched.

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THE TOLKIEN DIARY 2000
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Illustrated by Ted Nasmith.
Stock no. 1329872
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Includes quotations from Tolkien's famous books. ISBN: 0261103903. Spine sunned and corners slightly bumped. Contents unused.

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1329871
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1955. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream pictorial cloth, colour onlay to front cover. 64 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. All edges green. Very slight mottling to cloth else a lovely, bright copy. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher (with 'new' price sticker), is very slightly edge rubbed, lightly foxed and very lightly browned to spine (it is a nice dustwrapper!).

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TEN-MINUTE TALES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1329869
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 10th 1943. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

29 varied stories for children. Small format. Grey cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 185 pages. Minimal shelf buming to spine and corners. Circular nameplate to front pastedown is covering an inscription (some of which has been tippexed over). Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with minimal loss to spine and corners and some slight creasing to front flap.

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THE SLY OLD CAT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1329868
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An intriguing tale of an unusual tea party, where the hostess is a sly old cat and the guest an unassuming rat. Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated this story in 1906 and now for the first time it appears as a book. Foreword by Leslie Linder. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 34 pages. ISBN: 0723214204. Foxing to covers and dustwrapper and also to some page margins. White dustwrapper is slightly browned.

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DRAGONFLIES (NN 106)
Written by Philip S. Corbet; Stephen J. Brooks.
Stock no. 1829992
Published by Collins. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 106. A fascinating outlook on the natural history of dragonflies. Green cloth boards. Colour photos, charts, b/w illustrations and distribution charts. Green endpapers with repeating New Naturalist logo. xvi and 454 pages. ISBN: 9780007151684. Very slight grubbiness to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly grubby to edges of rear panel and is NOT faded to spine (as is often the case).

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