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STEEPLE MORDEN STRAFERS 1943-45
Written by Ken Wells.
Stock no. 2136277
Published by Egon Publishers. 1ST 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A remarkable story of courage and dedicaton, with many individual combat reports, the stories of escape and evasion also show the courage of Resistance fighters who helped downed airmen. A fascinating social documentary on the impact of war on a handful of tiny rural viallages, their inhabitants and of a lifestyle which has now almost vanished. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. Fold out site plan of Steeple Morden at rear. ISBN: 0905858913. Knocks along cover edges. Inscriptions in ink to title page - one covered with white labels. Page edge browning. Wrapper has some fading to spine.

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BAGNALL: A NARROW GAUGE LEGACY
Written by Alan C. Baker.
Stock no. 2136272
Published by Narrow Gauge Railway Society. Very good condition.

Green pictorial paperwraps. B/w photos. A celebration of preserved Bagnall steam locos and an investigation into the locos built to government order in the first world war. ISBN: 0950716987. Spine has some fading.

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FLYING LIVES WITH A NORFOLK THEME
Written by Peter B. Gunn.
Stock no. 2136267
Published by Peter B. Gunn. 1st 2010. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 9780954277017. Fading to spine, with half inch tear to base. Creasing to rear cover.

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BROTHER, BABY AND I
No author listed. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1322249
Published by Grosset & Dunlap. Circa 1947. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A collection of 44 favourite poems and rhymes of childhood, selected and illustrated by Doane. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers edge rubbed. Spine split at top and tail. Small mark to front cover. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and browned, splits at spine ends with loss at base.

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THE BOOK OF GNOMES
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy.
Stock no. 1322248
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1903. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Brown cloth spine, pictorial front board. 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations throughout. A story told in verse. Spine bumpe and rubbed, cover edges rubbed. Some slight scuffing/wear to covers. Small tear to lower margin of title-page. Title-page browned. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally a nice copy of a scarce Nister book.

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KENSINGTON RHYMES
Written by Compton Mackenzie; J.R. Monsell. Illustrated by J.R. Monsell.
Stock no. 1322245
Published by Martin Secker. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, brown boards. Gilt title to front board and spine. Colour plates and b/w chapter headers. Page edges untrimmed. 87 pages. 10 x 7.5". Covers are browned and edge worn, spine browned and bumped. Endpapers and half title-page lightly browned.

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HURRAH FOR THE O-POM-POM
Written by Agnes Grozier Herbertson. Illustrated by George Morrow.
Stock no. 1322243
Published by T. Nelson & Sons Ltd.. 1931. Very good condition.

The Story of a Little Man. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Four colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 104 pages. Spine and corners bumped, covers slightly grubby. Gilt to spine and front has rubbed. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Grubby fingermarks to some page margins and textblock. Heavy foxing to a few pages.

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TICK TICK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh.
Stock no. 1322240
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Circa 1914. Good condition.

Rag Book no. 174. 12 cloth pages with colour illustrations. Clock to front has metal hands. Covers and pages are grubby. Metal clock hands although stiff and rusty do still turn. A good copy of a rare rag book.

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TITUS IN TROUBLE
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1322237
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1959. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial paper boards with yellow spine. Colour illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Covers are edge worn and slightly foxed, small splits to top and tail of spine. Some foxing to contents.

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JAMAICA AND ITS BUTTERFLIES
Written by F. Martin Brown; Bernard Heineman. Illustrated by Marjorie Statham Favreau.
Stock no. 1823231
Published by E.W. Classey Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Beige cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 10 colour plates to rear plus colour frontispiece. ISBN: 0900848448. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby/scuffed.

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CHRISTOPHER'S RAINY DAY BOOK
Written by Merula Salaman. Illustrated by Merula Salaman.
Stock no. 1322232
Published by Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Red cloth spine, white pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations accompany text. Slight wear to corners. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and torn with tape repairs on verso and also a bit grubby.

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