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WORLD CATALOGUE OF INSECTS VOLUME 14 COLEOPTERA: ELMIDAE AND PROTELMIDAE
Written by Manfred A. Jach; Jan Kodada; Michaela Brojer; William D. Shepard; Fedor Jr. Ciampor.
Stock no. 1323031
Published by Brill. Very good condition.

A complete list of subfamilies, tribes, subtribes, genera, subgenera, species and subspecies, and their synonyms described before 2015. Pictorial boards. Colour frontis. 318 pages. ISBN: 9789004291768. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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PARRY THOMAS DESIGNER-DRIVER
Written by Hugh Tours.
Stock no. 1823851
Published by B.T. Batsford. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Biography of the car designer and racer (Full name John Godfrey Parry Thomas). Spine browned, browning to rear board. Minor foxing to text block. Previous bookseller's rubber stamp to lower edge of front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, lightly browned to spine and just a little scuffed.

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AWFUL AUNTIE
Written by David Walliams. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1323023
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. 1st 2014. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Do you have an awful Auntie? However awful your auntie might be, she will never be in the same league of awfulness as Aunt Alberta. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 410 pages. ISBN: 9780007453603. Slight bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn/creased.

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THUNDER IN THE PARK
Written by Tom Wheatcroft.
Stock no. 1823846
Published by Live Wire. 1st 2005. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 5000. The story of Tom Wheatcroft and Donington Park. 280 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 0954286057. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. This is copy 4130 of 5000. A lovely, clean copy.

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DIRECTORY OF CLASSIC PROTOTYPES AND GRAND TOURING CARS
Written by Anthony Pritchard.
Stock no. 1823842
Published by Aston Publications. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 212 pages. ISBN: 0946627290. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication), signature also to half-title page - could be the author again or someone else... Lower edge of text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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FLYING AND SOLDIERING
Written by R.R. Money.
Stock no. 1823837
Published by Ivor Nicholson & Watson. 1st 1936. Good condition.

Pale blue cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Spine faded and creased with a nick to top edge. Boards discoloured, corners worn. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Some foxing present. Some hinges pulled but binding tight. Plate facing page 214 detached but present.

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THE VIVID AIR
Written by Alex Revell.
Stock no. 1823832
Published by William Kimber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gerald and Michael Constable Maxwell. Fighter Pilots in both World Wars. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0718303857. Contents browned. Slight musty odour. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, faded to spine with a few grubby marks.

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SPITFIRE VS BF 109 BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Written by Tony Holmes.
Stock no. 1823827
Published by Osprey Publishing. 2013. Fine condition.

An account of machines of war pitted against each other, and the combatants who operated them. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 9781846031908. 8th impression. A very nice, clean copy.

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IN CLOUDS OF GLORY: AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO FLEW WITH THE BRITISH DURING THE GREAT WAR
Written by James J. Hudson.
Stock no. 1823825
Published by The University Of Arkansas Press. 1st 1990. Very good condition.

A study of American air aces who flew only with the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force during World War I. Blue pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and folding map. Lengthy appendix of name, rank, date of service, as well as casualties. ISBN: 1557281246. Corners lightly rubbed. Old price label inside front cover. Text block lightly browned. Appendix of service has been ticked in pencil against many names and also annotations to same.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving; Shirley Goulden. Illustrated by Nardini.
Stock no. 1323019
Published by W. H. Allen. 1st thus 1965. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Splendour Books series. Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed. Tape marks to pastedowns and facing endpapers. Some surface paper damage to endpapers. Contents clean. Original film dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and has tape marks to flaps where it was stuck down to pastedowns of book at one time. Removal of tape has left sticky residue.

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WHEN THE COMICS WENT TO WAR
Written by Adam Riches.
Stock no. 1323017
Published by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.. 1st 2009. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A colourful authoritative history of the British war comic-book genre from the 1860s to the mid-1980s. Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781845965549. Nasty (but small) dent to top edge of front cover. Old pencil price to front free-endpaper has been partially erased. Contents otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Everett Shinn.
Stock no. 1323016
Published by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.. Circa 1939. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour plates plus green and white text illustrations/surrounds. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed. Tiny booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Small label to verso of front free-endpaper. Pencil doodles to verso of half title-page. Contents generally clean.

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