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FERRARI DINO 206GT, 246GT & GTS PININFARINA V6 ROAD CARS (OSPREY AUTOHISTORY)
Written by Ian Webb.
Stock no. 1823978
Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Purple boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour. 135 pages including index. ISBN: 0850453658. A nice, clean copy with price-cut pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

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ITALIAN HIGH-PERFORMANCE CARS
Written by Anthony Pritchard; Keith Davey.
Stock no. 1823976
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maserati, Lancia, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo - the leading Italian sports cars of the time are the main subject of this book. Blue cloth boards, silver titles. B/w photos. 374 pages including index. Minor mark to rear board. Minor fading to top & tail of spine. Text block lightly browned. Endpapers & prelims lightly browned. A few minor foxspots to contents else clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is repaired at top corners with now browned tape, corners lightly rubbed, spine and rear panel a little grubby. Musty odour present.

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MORE CHIMNEY CORNER STORIES
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Pat Harrison.
Stock no. 1323283
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1st thus 1955. Very good condition.

Blue boards, black title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Fading to cover edges. Ink stamp to front free-endpaper. A few light page corner creased and a couple of tiny margin tears.

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EARLY DAYS FOR 1878
No author listed.
Stock no. 1323274
Published by Wesleyan Conference Office. 1878. Almost very good condition.

Third Series. Vol II. Cream bards with colour picture to front (girl sniffing a flower). 190 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Colour chromolithograph frontis. Spine and corners worn, covers edge rubbed. Covers grubby. Large but neat inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Some fingering and foxing but generally contents clean.

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HOW TO RECOGNISE GARDEN FLOWERS
Written by . Illustrated by Will H. Stevens.
Stock no. 1323271
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Young Naturalist series. 101 of the most popular garden flowers in colour. Beige boards with brown cloth spine. 31 numbered pages, colour illustrations. Endpapers partly browned and foxed. Price-cut wrapper is foxed, slightly edge rubbed and grubby.

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THE BOMBARD
Written by Henry Treece. Illustrated by Christine Price.
Stock no. 1323269
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

King Edward III and his son struggle against the French, the Welsh and the Scotts. Dark red boards, gilt to spine. B/w text illustrations. 187 pages. 8 x 5.25". Minimal bumping to spine. Rear endpapers are browned. Foxing to textblock. Old pencil price erased from front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby to rear panel, browned to spine and slightly worn at head of spine.

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PETER PAN'S POSTBAG
No author listed. Illustrated by Albert Rothenstein.
Stock no. 1323259
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Good condition.

Letters to Pauline Chase when she was playing the part of Peter Pan. Brown pictorial cloth with white titles. Fold-out map of Never Never Land to rear of book. Colour frontis. Spine is browned and title to spine has rubbed away. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. SIGNED by Pauline Chase to lower margin of frontis. Frontis has been removed from original position and taped in between title-page and introduction page (old tape marks to margins of these pages and to margin of frontis). Foxspots to contents. Biro annotation marks to the last letter (page 63 & 64) and map at rear is creased and torn with old tape marks. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few small, light marks to page margins and one hinge is cracked showing webbing beneath.

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BIGGLES WORKS IT OUT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323256
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette. 8 yellow and black illustrations. 191 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, preliminary pages and to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, slightly faded to spine and rear panel is very slightly grubby. The wrapper is slightly foxed.

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BIGGLES GETS HIS MEN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323254
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, dark titles and vignette. B/w illustrations. 189 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Tiny brown spot to front cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown (covered by wrapper flap). A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss and rear panel is grubby.

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BIGGLES AND THE BLACK RAIDER
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323252
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Black vignette of aeroplane to front. 8 colour plates. Endpapers are maps. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed on flaps, is slightly edge worn and creased with a tear to front panel, rear panel is grubby.

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RHYME BOOK FOR ADAM
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 1323239
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rhymes for nursery children (or older). Small format. Yellow pictorial boards. 42 pages. Small b/w text illustration to title page. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed and edge chipped with a few small tears.

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TIMOTHY'S CONJUROR
Written by Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Mary Clark.
Stock no. 1323238
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1942. Good condition.

Small format. Yellow cloth, red title to spine and small rabbit vignette to front cover. 118 pages. B/w illustrations. Covers are grubby and damp stained, spine bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing to textblock else contents clean.

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