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THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY CITY OF BATH IN 1900
No author listed.
Stock no. 576675
Published by E.R. Blackett. 1900. Very good condition.

Large format. Dark blue cloth. A list of names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, ordered by parish. 274 pages. Corners worn, top and tail of spine chipped. Each entry is annotated, possibly by a canvasser, and shows people too ill to vote, dead, in prison or in South Africa (Boer war). A fascinating document. REDUCED FROM £125.

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DAUGHTER OF WYEDEAN AND KERNOW: NOTES FROM A WEST COUNTRY CHILDHOOD
Written by Jessie M. Stonham.
Stock no. 576515
Published by Thornhill Press. 1st 1978. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Autobiography. The author's childhood in Ross on Wye, her move to Weston Under Penyard, her visits to the Forest of Dean. Her long periods in Cornwall. ISBN: 0904110648.

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A MYSTERY OF THE BROADS
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by E.A. Cox.
Stock no. 576484
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1930. Slightly better than very good condition.

Light brown and orange pictorial cloth. 4 b/w plates. 223 pages. SIGNED by author. Corners lightly bumped. Overall a very bright copy. Rare with Westerman's signature. All plates present. Reduced from £350

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MORE WILLIAM
Written by Richmal Crompton. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
Stock no. 732891
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1929. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Red cloth with black titles to spine and front cover. 254 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers and outer page edges lightly foxed. Wrapper is just slightly edge chipped, but otherwise complete. Some small closed tears to outer edges, 1" closed tear to spine. Brown paper reinforcements to outer edges of verso. Overall, wrapper is grubby with small stain to front panel. Still a desirable copy of a very scarce wrapper.

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AN EXCITING TERM
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by Francis E. Hiley.
Stock no. 732923
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1936. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Light grey cloth, blue titles and vignette of girl to spine. Four b/w plates. 255 pages. Spine bumped. Slight darkening to cover edges. Erased pencil name to front endpaper. Some light foxing and fingering to page margins. Dustwrapper is worn and creased with 2 x 1" loss to lower edge of front panel, some darkening at edges and grubby on rear panel and spine. Tape repairs on verso of dustwrapper edges.

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GRAND PRIX DATA BOOK 1997
No author listed.
Stock no. 485435
Published by Duke Marketing. 1997. Fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. 567 pages. ISBN: 0952932504.

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ACHIEVEMENTS LAND, SEA AND AIR: A CENTURY OF CONQUEST
Written by Richard Graves.
Stock no. 485438
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 1998. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w and colour photos of all forms of transport. ISBN: 0747537712.

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DIE SAMMLUNG SCHLUMPF
No author listed.
Stock no. 485446
Published by Jean Cauwel. 1st 1987. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour photos. The story of the fantastic Schlumpf car collection. Text in German.

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GRAND PRIX RACING: THE ENTHUSIAST'S COMPANION
Written by Anthony Pritchard.
Stock no. 485453
Published by Aston Publications. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Compiled by Anthony Pritchard. A panorama of Grand Prix motor racing from the pioneering road races in France in the 1890s, through the Edwardian years, the bleak twenties, German domination in the 1930s to the early post-war years of Italian supremacy and the gradual rise of the British Racing Green. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour photos. 255 pages. ISBN: 0946627797. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.

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GOING TO EGYPT
Written by Helen Dunmore.
Stock no. 426618
Published by Julia MacRae Books. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Colette dreams of going to exotic places - but the only holiday she's going on this year is to Weston with her dad! ISBN: 1856811034. Top of spine lightly bumped. Some light browning to pages. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut with a few tiny chips to edges and some edge-creasing.

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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN CAMBRIDGE AND ELY
Written by Edward Conybeare. Illustrated by Frederick L. Griggs.
Stock no. 576336
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1910. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brick-red cloth. Paper title label to spine. Large paper edition limited to 250 copies. B/w illustrations. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers foxed. Extensive inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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