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THE GREEN BOOK FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Charles Dickens; Angela Brazil; Bessie Marchant; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; et al. Illustrated by John Campbell; Lilian A. Govey; C.E. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1325450
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine and green decorated boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates. B/w text illustrations. First story is "The Magic Fish Bone" by Charles Dickens. Spine and corners bumped and worn, cover edges rubbed. Spine browned. Contents are browned with heavy foxing to textblock (some to margins). Some hinges cracked.

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"DESPITE THE ELEMENTS": THE HISTORY OF NUMBER 115 SQUADRON 1917-1982
Written by M. Barnes.
Stock no. 1825816
Published by The Nettlebed Press. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition.

Blue cardwraps. Staple binding. B/w photos. 35 numbered pages. Light browning to spine edges. else a nice copy, contents clean.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT BA100 - BZ999
Written by James J. Halley.
Stock no. 1825812
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 2nd 2006. Nearly fine condition.

Second edition. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851303145. A nice, clean clopy.

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MYSTERY MINE
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Terry Freeman.
Stock no. 1325441
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2011. Nearly fine condition.

The 12th Lone Pine story set in the Yorkshire moors. Cardwraps. 278 pages. Some b/w photos. ISBN: 9781847451200. Minimal rubbing to corners and a tiny mark to textblock else a fine copy.

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THE ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK
Written by William Mavor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325430
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1885. Almost very good condition.

Accompanied by a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons. Pictorial boards. B/w text illustrations. 108 pages. Covers are a little grubby and worn. Circular cup(?) mark to front cover. Endpapers are lightly browned. Contents are clean.

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QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEE GARLAND
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325429
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1887. Good condition.

Small, oblong format. Cardwraps held together with a silk ribbon. 4 colour plates. Covers are grubby. Silk ribbon has been replaced with silver paper(?). Some grubby marks inside covers but plates still bright and clean.

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DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS
Written by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325425
Published by George Allen. 1st 1885. Good condition.

A Humorous Tale Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Brown cloth, gilt vignette & title to front. 22 woodcuts. With new illustrations by Greenaway. 3rd issue of first edition. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers scuffed and marked. Front joint is cracked, hinges pulled showing stitching beneath but binding still tight. This is a well loved edition and the pages are quite grubby in places.

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RAIDERS FROM THE BUSH
Written by Wilfrid Robertson.
Stock no. 1325421
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1937. Good condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour frontis. 96 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Rear cover slightly grubby. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing throughout.

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POOR UNCLE HARRY
Written by Raymond Jacberns. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.
Stock no. 1325420
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Circa 1915. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. 6 colour plates. 275 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Spine is slightly browned and there is a light damp(?) stain to edge of front cover. Inscription in pencil to half title-page. Foxing to contents. Some hinges slightly pulled.

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PAGE, SQUIRE, AND KNIGHT: A ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY
Written by W.H. Davenport Adams.
Stock no. 1325411
Published by The Book Society. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. 113 b/w illustrations. 326 pages. The base of the spine mentions W. Mack but inside the book it says published by The Book Society. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers are faintly damp spotted. Light page browning to contents.

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MAILED FIST: 6TH ARMOURED DIVISION AT WAR, 1940-1945
Written by Ken Ford.
Stock no. 1825795
Published by Sutton Publishing. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Eyewitness accounts, Unit war diaries, and unpublished sources combine to provide a first history of the British 6th Armoured Division. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0750935154. Text block slightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, slightly scuffed to rear panel and has a tiny nick in surface paper to lower spine edge of front panel.

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PIKE FEVER
Written by Jens Bursell; Theis Kragh; Rasmus Ovesen; Soren Beck; Frederik Hansen; Henrik Olsson.
Stock no. 1325404
Published by Bursell. 1st 2019. Nearly fine condition.

A practical guide to all types of Pike fishing. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 375 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9788799842322. Minimal bumping to spine and cover edges. Contents fine.

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