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DUCK AND THE DIESEL ENGINE
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1328528
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Railway Series No 13. Red boards, gilt title and vignette to front. Colour illustrations. Small, oblong format. Books is nice and clean (covers and contents). Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and creased with small tears and piece missing to top of spine edge on front panel. Printed price on front flap has been crossed out with pink felt-tip pen, 'new' price written in same pink pen.

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MOUNTAIN ENGINES
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by Gunvor Edwards; Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1328527
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Railway series no. 19. Small oblong format. Blue boards, white titles and vignette to front. Colour illustrations. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and creased with small tears, printed price on front flap has been crossed out with pink felt-tip pen, 'new' price written in same pink pen.

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FOUR LITTLE ENGINES
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by C. Reginald Dalby.
Stock no. 1328526
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Railway series no. 10. Small oblong format. Black boards, gilt title and vignette to front. Colour pictures. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher (with 'new' price printed above). Light rubbing to wrapper edges and a couple of small edge tears.

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SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE MK.XII (ALLIED WINGS)
Written by Phil Listemann.
Stock no. 1828723
1st 2007. Nearly fine condition.

No.1 in Allied Wings Series. White cardwraps. Staple binding. B/w photos, colour illustrations. 46 pages. ISBN: 9782952638142. A lovely copy.

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THE VIKING, VALETTA AND VARSITY
Written by Bernard Martin.
Stock no. 1828717
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1975. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial card wraps. Staple binding. B/w photos. 46 pages. ISBN: 0851300383. Covers are creased and scuffed. One staple is missing meaning contents move a little. Minor foxing to centre pages. List of aircraft to rear marked with red biro to aircraft of interest to previous owner of book. Otherwise, contents clean.

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WARWICK THE KINGMAKER
Written by Paul Murray Kendall.
Stock no. 1828716
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as The Kingmaker. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis, a few b/w plates and foldout pedigree. 135 pages including index. Top edge red. Second Impression. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, browned to spine and worn at top of spine, rear panel is a little grubby and browned.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Written by Lewis Carroll.
Stock no. 1328507
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover - Alice with the Mad Hatter, White Rabbit and King of Hearts. 4 colour plates and b/w illustrations. Cloth spine. 140 pages. Covers edge worn. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Small margin tear to one page. Some pale brown stains to contents.

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JANE'S AMERICAN FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Written by Captain John Moore.
Stock no. 1828709
Published by Studio Editions. 1st thus 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited and foreword by Captain John Moore. Compiled from the American sections of Jane's All the World's Ships. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine.B/w photos and illustrations. 319 pages including index. ISBN: 1851707379. Light rubbing to board corners. Contents clean. Pictorial dustgwrapper is lightly rubbed at top & tail fo spine, small score mark to top of spine, a little scuffed to rear panel.

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BABAR'S FAIR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff; Olive Jones.
Stock no. 1328502
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

First published under the title 'La Fete de Celesteville'. Translated from French by Jones. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416933807. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Slight cracking to spine edges. Contents clean.

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EASTER EGGS
Written by Christoph Von Schmid. Illustrated by M.V. Wheelhouse.
Stock no. 1328501
Published by George Bell & Sons. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial boards with red titles. Lovely colour plates with paper guards plus b/w text illustrations. By the author of "A Basket Of Flowers". Covers are slightly worn and grubby. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Page browning to rear endpapers. Foxing to textblock.

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THE WHITBY, REDCAR AND MIDDLESBROUGH UNION RAILWAY
Written by Ken Hoole.
Stock no. 1828705
Published by Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1986. Very good condition.

The WRMU railway was a small company with a line only 16.5 miles long, promoted privately to give Whitby an outlet to the north along the coast. Large oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. Staple binding. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 0860670651. Second impression. Covers a little creased and rubbed at corners. Very faint dampstain to top gutter edge corners of covers (only visible from inside). Staples starting to rust. Contents a little creased but clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1948 - THE RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1328498
Published by Daily Express. 1948. Very good condition.

Pictorial paper wraps. Front cover shows Rupert running with a little dog on a lead. A rainbow is in the background. 1st story is Rupert and Jack Frost. 120 pages. 9.5 x 7 inches. Covers are edge rubbed. Tiny amount of loss to top and tail of spine. Lower corner tips slightly creased. Neat name in ink to belongs to box. NOT price cut. Binding error which sees a large vertical crease to page 33/4. Some page browning and some light fingering. Puzzle pages clean.

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