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ATLAS OF FERNS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by A.C. Jermy; H.R. Arnold; et al.
Stock no. 1828965
Published by Botanical Society Of The British Isles; British Pteridological Society. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Large format. Yellow cardwraps. B/w distribution maps. 101 pages. ISBN: 0901158011. Covers grubby and lightly worn to corners, small split to base of spine. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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THE ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLOW-FLY (MUSCA VOMITORIA LINN) A MONOGRAPH
Written by Benjamin Thompson Lowne.
Stock no. 1828964
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1870. Good condition.

Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Ten hand-coloured plates. vi and 121 pages. Boards a little marked, rear board has a small nibble to lower edge exposing board, rear edge of spine has slight loss of cloth. Stop & tail of spine shelf-worn. Corners lightly bumped. Joints starting to crack. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Plate I is detached. All plates are present. Foxing throughout and a few grubby marks. A few annotations.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Christopher Logue. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1328650
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Wonderful full-colour pop-ups. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0224013009. Spine and corners slightly rubbed. Foxing else contents clean. Pop-ups in excellent working order.

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THE DRAGONFLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Written by Cyril O. Hammond. Illustrated by A.E. Gardner.
Stock no. 1828959
Published by Curwen Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive illustrated work on the British Odonata. Enlarged illustrations of all the British species in colour and an illustrated key to the aquatic larval stages. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w distribution maps. 115 pages including index. ISBN: 0902068067. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Occasional foxspot to contents. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and scuffed.

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FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN
Written by Raymond Briggs. Illustrated by Raymond Briggs.
Stock no. 1328648
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Revolting! Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows Fungus coming in the window. Colour illustrations throughout with the text. ISBN: 0241895537. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers lightly browned. Dent to edge of rear cover. Name plate to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to top edge of textblock.

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INDEX OF COLLECTORS IN THE WELSH NATIONAL HERBARIUM
Written by S.G. Harrison.
Stock no. 1828958
Published by National Museum of Wales. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

This list of collectors whose specimens are represented in the Welsh National Herbarium is intended to provide details of sources for the specimens on herbarium sheets, in boxes or packets, or in bound volumes (the old-fashioned hortus siccus). It does not include most of the cultivated material, carpological and seed collections, timbers, slides, economic and spiritual collections, and miscellaneous curiosities. Brown cardwraps. 140 pages. ISBN: 0720002958. Covers unevenly faded. Rear cover a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell; Chris Beetles. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1328647
Published by Pavilion; Michael Joseph. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. A tribute to Attwell's enduring talent and style with biographical summary, colour illustrations and bibliography. ISBN: 1851452826. Slight bumping to spine. Foxspots else contents fine.

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SIXTEEN STRING JACK AND THE GARDEN OF ADVENTURE
Written by Tom Pow. Illustrated by Ian Andrew.
Stock no. 1328646
Published by Birlinn Limited. 1st 2015. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Where Peter Pan began. Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781780272269.

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GRANDFATHER'S PENCIL AND THE ROOM OF STORIES
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1328645
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

As a little boy sleeps, his pencil begins to write... Cream glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862644577. Spine is slightly faded, and a little fading to front spine edge. Contents fine.

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ROMANY WOOD
Written by Beshlie; David Walser. Illustrated by Beshlie.
Stock no. 1328644
Published by Hart-Davis Educational Limited. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Beshlie lives the life of a gypsy, roaming the countryside in a caravan and studying nature at first hand. She transfers her observations into pictures which are an absolute delight. Pale green boards. Unpaginated. 10 x 7.5 ins. ISBN: 029812047X. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale browning to page edges. Dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE LONELY TEDDY
Written by Barbara Jo Sullivan Holst. Illustrated by Diane Elson.
Stock no. 1328643
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1982. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0437513157. Some light browning to spine and spine edges. Light foxing to endpapers.

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IN SEARCH OF UNICORNS
Written by Susannah York. Illustrated by Wendy Hall.
Stock no. 1328641
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0340179333. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some light vertical marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and top edge of textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is browned and discoloured to rear panel.

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