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THE NEW POLY-OLBION: TOPOGRAPHICAL EXCURSIONS
Written by Andrew Young.
Stock no. 1828622
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Andrew Young is well known not only as a poet of unquestioned stature but also as a weriter with a great love for the British countryside. In this book, he takes us on a leisurely, affectionate journey through an England that is rapidly disappearing. A gently, lyrical guide to pastoral Britain, written in prose with the vision of a poet. Small format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 95 pages. Text block foxed with some foxing bleeding on to the margins (minor). Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE TRAVELLER'S HANDBOOK FOR NORMANDY & BRITTANY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1828621
Published by Thos. Cook and Son. 1914. Almost very good condition.

Dark red cloth, gilt titles. Folding colour map of Normandy and Brittany to front, b/w maps and plans, some folding. Cook's Guide. viii and 288 pages including index plus 68 pages of advertisments to rear. Spine rubbed at front & rear edge, text block grubby. Endpapers browned. Small piece of loss to top corner of front endpaper. Writing in ink to rear endpapers. A few grubby & age related marks present. All maps present. Some hinges pulled. Overall, a nice working copy.

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AIRCRAFT AND SUBMARINES
Written by Willis J. Abbot.
Stock no. 1828620
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st 1918. Good condition.

The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. Green pictorial endpapers. 8 colour plates plus 100 b/w other illustrations and plates. xiv and 388 pages including index plus publisher ads to rear. Spine worn at top & tail with fraying, a few holes to front edge, faded. Boards a little marked. Lower rear corner of board worn. Text block browned. Joints pulled. A little pencil annotation to contents. A few marks to contents. Hinges a little pulled but binding is tight. Sold with all faults, a good reading copy.

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THE ART OF THE FIRST FLEET & OTHER EARLY AUSTRALIAN DRAWINGS
Written by Bernard Smith; Alwyne Wheeler.
Stock no. 1828619
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Smith & Wheeler. In 1788, the First Fleet landed in New South Wales, and European settlement in Australia began. Among those on board the eleven ships of the fleet were artists who recorded their impressions of the land, its indigenous people, its flora and fauna, and incidents or events which they considered significant. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage and from the early years of settlement. Large format. Pale grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 256 pages including index. ISBN: 0300041187. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded, mainly to front panel.

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WINDSWEPT: LIFE, NATURE AND DEEP TIME IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Written by Annie Worsley.
Stock no. 1828616
Published by William Collins. 1st 2023. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The author trades a busy life in academia to take on a croft on the west coast of Scotland. Black cloth boards, white title to spine. Colour photos. 284 pages. ISBN: 9780008278373. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little worn with surface paper loss to lower front corner (very minor) and just lightly scuffed.

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THE ROAD: A STORY OF ROMANS AND WAYS TO THE PAST
Written by Christopher Hadley.
Stock no. 1828615
Published by William Collins. 1st 2023. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. A mesmerising journey into two thousand years of history only now giving up its secrets. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 353 pages including index. ISBN: 9780008356699. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few tiny closed tears, a little scuffed.

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MATILDA: HER LIFE AND LEGACY
Written by Joyce Stevens Smith; Joyce Savidge.
Stock no. 1828611
Published by Matilda And War Memorial Hospital. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of Matilda L. Sharp and the hospital she founded in Hong Kong. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 166 pages. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to title page. Top edge of text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, slightly faded to spine, stained to rear panel. There is a second dustwrapper beneath the outer which is clean.

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CHAGALL: LOVE AND EXILE
Written by Jackie Wullschlager.
Stock no. 1828610
Published by Allen Lane. 1st UK 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An elegantly written biography giving a full and true account of the Chagall the man and the artists and of a life as intense, theatrical and haunting as his paintings. Fuchsia cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w plates. 582 pages includes index. ISBN: 9780713996524. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Pictorial dustwwrapper lightly rubbed at edges and scuffed.

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LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.

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MAUD MULLER
Written by John Greenleaf Whittier. Illustrated by George F. Carline.
Stock no. 1828597
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Circa 1885. Fair condition.

A Ballad. Brown cloth boards with bevelled edges, no title to spine, gilt title to front with vignette. Floral endpapers. Colour plates. Corners of boards rubbed and worn, boards browned. Front joint has been amateurishly repaired with glue. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Joints pulled. Foxing and age related marks throughout. Binding is holding but feels fragile to touch.

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UNIFORMS OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1828596
Published by John Player & Sons. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition.

Cardwraps. Illustrations to inside covers. 24 pages with spaces for two or three cigarette cards to each page. Staple binding. Covers browned and foxed. Spine is worn and lower staple has rusted through to detach from cover. All cards present and glued in place neatly. Contents foxed and bleeding from staples.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1828595
Published by Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A board book for young children. Front cover shows young child in highchair wearing a blue gown and eating snacks, yellow background. Blue cloth spine. 12 colour illustrations with text below plus full pages of text. Text in green. Undated. Front board lightly rubbed at edges, rear board grubby and rubbed at corners. Spine a little browned and slightly worn at top & tail. A few grubby marks to contents but generally a nice example.

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