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A JOURNAL OF A THREE MONTHS' TOUR IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN, AFRICA
Written by The Marchioness Of Londonderry.
Stock no. 1827124
1st 1843. Almost very good condition.

'The object in publishing this Volume is to contribute the Profits towards the projected erection of an Infirmary, on a small scale, at Seaham Harbour, in the County of Durham.' Pink cloth boards with gilt title to front and embossed decoration to front and rear. Plain yellow endpapers. A few b/w plates. Lengthy subscribers list (31 pages). Spine browned, boards very grubby, corners bent. Name in ink to front endpaper. Joints just starting to split. Page browning, some foxing, one page has vertical edge crease. Small damp stain to prelims at lower gutter edges. A scarce item.

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THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE VOLUME I: FROM THE APPROACH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE SUEZ CRISIS (WHITEHALL HISTORIES)
Written by Michael S. Goodman.
Stock no. 1827122
Published by Routledge. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition.

Whitehall Histories: Government Official History Series. Matt pictorial boards. ISBN: 9780415841047. Light scuffing to rear board and a small slightly sticky mark.Text block slightly grubby. Front pastedown has an air bubble (created during binding process). Contents clean.

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BIGGLES & CO.
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1326481
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Good condition.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 256 Pages. Spine and corners bumped, spine faded. A few small marks to covers. Small split to base of spine. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing throughout, heavy to textblock.

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THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN AND THE CHANNEL TUNNEL (WHITEHALL HISTORIES)
Written by Terry Gourvish.
Stock no. 1827121
Published by Routledge. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Whitehall Histories: Government Official History Series. Presenting the first official history of the British Government's evolving relationship with the Channel Tunnel project from the early 19th century to 2005. Black cloth boards, silver titles. ISBN: 9780415391832. A nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed to rear panel.

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MOTS D'HEURES: GOUSSES, RAMES
Written by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten.
Stock no. 1827119
Published by Angus & Robertson. 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The d'Antin Manuscript. The rhymes of your childhood in the accents of Moliere and De Gaulle! Edited and annotated by Luis d'Antin van Rooten. ISBN: 0207949913. Text block lightly browned else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and scuffed to rear panel.

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VENICE AND ITS LAGOON
Written by Giulio Lorenzetti.
Stock no. 1827118
Published by Edizioni Lint Trieste. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprint from the 1961 edition. Small format. Cream cloth boards, blue titles and black illustration to front. B/w photos. Folding maps. Text block a little grubby. Tiny crease to tip of top corners, light diagonal crease to top corner of prelims. Else a clean copy. Blue dustwrapper is lightly scuffed and has a biro mark crossing out to rear panel (price?).

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THE FOURTH WAS FUN FOR PHILIPPA
Written by Nancy Breary. Illustrated by Drake Brookshaw.
Stock no. 1326480
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w text illustrations. 206 pages. Spine bumped. Faint discolouration and foxing to covers. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Dustwrapper is foxed, grubby to rear panel and slightly edge worn, there is a small biro scribble to the front panel (not too obvious).

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THE BOOK OF TOYTOWN AND LARRY THE LAMB
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1326477
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Illustrated in b/w & colour, colour plates are from the TV series. 7 of the original stories plus a biographical note by Hendrik Baker. ISBN: 0245534571. Spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is foxed to flaps, faded to spine and front panel, edge creased with tears (repaired on verso).

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HOW THE JUST SO STORIES WERE MADE
Written by Rudyard Kipling; John Batchelor. Illustrated by Rudyard Kipling.
Stock no. 1326476
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The brilliance and tragedy behind Kipling's celebrated tales for little children. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 224 pages. B/w illustrations and photos. ISBN: 9780300237184. Minimal bumping to spine. Wrapper is very slightly rubbed at edges and has a light vertical crease to front flap.

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PINOCCHIO
Written by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.
Stock no. 1326475
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gold coloured cloth with red title to spine. 265 numbered pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780007339693. Minimal bumping to spine. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine.

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THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL
Written by Donald Caskie.
Stock no. 1326473
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Abridged for young readers. Red boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears at corners and a tiny patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front panel (a small label has been removed).

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ONCE UPON A LEGEND
Written by Ben Miller. Illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
Stock no. 1326472
Published by Simon & Schuster. 1st 2023. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

From somewhere deep below came a low, rumbling groan. The ground beneath Marcus's feet began to judder and shake and shift.... Purple boards, silver title to spine. 275 numbered pages. Orange endpapers. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 9781398515871. Base of spine is ever so slightly bumped. Wrapper edges are very lightly rubbed.

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