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BLACKIE'S BOYS' ANNUAL
Written by J.G. Fyfe; Percy F. Westerman; et al. Illustrated by W. Edward Wigfull; H.M. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1324972
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition.

Front cover shows boy hurdling over a gate. First story is 'Paid' by Fyfe. Colour and b/w plates. 287 pages. Spine slightly shelf-worn at top and bottom. Cornerss rubbed and worn. A few light scratch marks and grubby marks to boards. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock, prelims and page margins.

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR GIRLS 10TH YEAR
Written by Bessie Marchant; C. Bernard Rutley; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Thora Stowell; et al. Illustrated by C.E. Brock; Joan Griffith; Mary Strange Reeve; M.A. Peart; et al..
Stock no. 1324967
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1928. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pictorial front cover shows two young ladies in cloche hats carrying Christmas presents. Pictorial spine. Orange and grey endpapers showing an Arabian scene. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Cover edges rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers partly browned. Foxing to contents and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some loss to top edge of rear panel, foxed on verso with some light foxing showing through to front panel.

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BLACKIE'S GIRLS' ANNUAL
Written by Margaret Middleton; Florence Harrison; Angela Brazil; et al. Illustrated by M.D. Johnston; C.E. Brock; Gordon Browne; et al..
Stock no. 1324962
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cream cloth spine with blue title. Pictorial front board shows girl with tennis racquet. Colour plates. B/w text illustrations. First story is "One Crowded Hour" by Margaret Middleton. Covers edge worn. Spine bumped and grubby. Rear cover is slightly grubby. Name plate to front pastedown. Title page is slightly torn at inner margin. Foxing to contents, mainly textblock.

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SEAWEED BIOLOGY NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO ECOPHYSIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND UTILIZATION
Written by Christian Wiencke; Kai Bischof.
Stock no. 1324959
Published by Springer. Circa 2012. Slightly better than very good condition.

Ecological Studies 219. Green boards. ISBN: 9783642284502. Minimal bumping to spine. Still in original shrinkwrap, although there are a few small tears to this.

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ANAPHORA IN CELTIC AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
Written by Randall Hendrick.
Stock no. 1324956
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

This book examines the major syntactic structures of two Celtic langues, Welsh and Breton, emphasizing their significance for current views of Universal Grammar. Cream boards. 284 pages. ISBN: 1556080662. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small dent to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Pencil annotations to some pages.

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DOUBLE HAPLOID TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 2: HOT TOPICS, APIACEAE, BRASSICACEAE, SOLANACEAE
Written by Jose M. Segui-Simarro.
Stock no. 1324953
Published by Humana Press; Springer. 1st PB 2021. Very good condition.

Methods in Molecular Biology no. 2288. The latest hot topics in DH technology; protocols to produce DHS in four Apiaceae, caraway, fennel, dill, and carrot; DH production in different brassicaceae including Brassica napus, Brassica rapa, and Brassica Carinata; and techniques to produce DHs by different androgenesis-based methods in several numbers of the Solanaceae family suc as eggplant, pepper, tobacco, and potato. Green cardwraps. Colour photos, b/w diagrams. A physical print-on-demand copy, printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN: 9781071613375. Covers are edge rubbed, a couple of small marks to front cover. Some slight creasing to corner tips of prelims.

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PALM OIL DIASPORA: AFRO-BRAZILIAN LANDSCAPES AND ECONOMIES ON BAHIA'S DENDE COAST
Written by Case Watkins.
Stock no. 1324951
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2021. Very good condition.

A comprehensive account of palm oil's ecology, economy, and culture in Brazil. Green boards. 347 pages. Printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN: 9781108478823. Spine and corners bumped. Dent top top edge of rear cover. Slightly sticky mark to rear cover from removal of a label.

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THE ROLE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Written by Angel Acros-Vargas.
Stock no. 1324939
Published by Springer. Circa 2021. Nearly fine condition.

Explains the technological and social developments leading to the wide-scale use of electric vehicles, addresses the environmental and economic impacts of the transition to electric vehicles and combines contributions from experts in various disciplines to present a comprehensive overview. Glazed boards. ISBN: 9783030506322. Lower corners bumped else a fine copy still in shrinkwrap.

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THE LITTLE DUKE OR RICHARD THE FEARLESS
Written by Charlotte M. Yonge. Illustrated by T. Cuneo.
Stock no. 1324913
Published by The Sheldon Press. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth with black titles and illustrations to front and spine. 160 pages. Colour frontis. 16 page catalogue to rear. Spine very slightly bumped. Neat name in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers browned. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss.

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DUNDERPATE
Written by Margaret Baker. Illustrated by Mary Baker.
Stock no. 1324903
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Dunderpate is a boy who has a head so full of daydreams there is no room for anything else. One day he decides to go to town to seek his fortune... Striking silhouette pictures throughout. Orange cloth with black titles and vignette. 8.5 x 6.6". ISBN: 0631001603. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Light foxing and fingering to contents. Ex-Libris plate (school) to verso of title-page, no other school markings.

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THE ROAMING DOLL
Written by Margaret Baker. Illustrated by Mary Baker.
Stock no. 1324902
Published by Basil Blackwell. Very good condition.

Victoria Josephine is a rather spoiled doll who is rejected and yet finds her way back to a loving home in a rather surprising way. Orange cloth, black titles and vignette to front cover. Striking black silhouette illustrations throughout and on orange endpapers. 8.25 x 6.25". Unpaginated. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Light foxing to textblock. Some light marks to page margins.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1324901
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. Circa 1910. Fair condition.

Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Large pictorial onlay to front. Decorated endpapers. 12 colour plates with tissue-paper guards. Numerous b/w text illustration. Top edge gilt. Covers are very worn and badly dampstained. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in ink to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint cracked between endpaper and half-title, showing webbing beneath. Some light fingering but contents generally clean.

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