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WITHIN THE STREAMS
Written by John Hillaby.
Stock no. 1822291
Published by Harvey And Blythe. 1st 1949. Very good condition.

An angling career from a home town canal to the Hebrides. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w chapter headers. Text block lightly browned. Boards nice and clean albeit slight (very slight!) fading to top front edge.

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THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
Written by John Marshall.
Stock no. 1822283
Published by David St John Thomas; David & Charles. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 223 pages. ISBN: 0946537453. A fine copy in yellow pictorial dustwrapper which is slightly faded to spine.

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BREAKFAST IN PERIGORD
Written by William Russell Flint. Illustrated by William Russell Flint.
Stock no. 1822281
Published by Charles Skilton. 1st 1968. Slightly better than very good condition.

Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with favourite quotations decorated and enlivened with 60 illustrations & devices. Large format. Black leather spine with gilt title. White boards with black vignette to front. Top edge gilt. Limited edition of 525 signed and numbered copies. SIGNED by the author to rear. This is copy 147 of 525. A few minor grubby marks to white boards. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has a large bookplate to one side and is lightly shelf scuffed.

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THE SPIDER'S PALACE
Written by Richard Hughes. Illustrated by George Charlton.
Stock no. 1321637
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1931. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Orange cloth, gilt titles, gilt whale vignette to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some light darkening to cover edges. Grubby erasure mark to front free-endpaper. Foxing to contents. Light tobacco smell to contents. Remains of dustwrapper is foxed and browned with some stains.

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ROLAND THE MINSTREL PIG
Written by William Steig. Illustrated by William Steig.
Stock no. 1321630
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st UK 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0241890144. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Dustwrapper has tears at edges with some tape repairs on verso and is lightly browned on rear panel.

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MINI MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OKLAHOMA INDIANS
Written by Lu Celia Wise. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1321627
Published by Oklahoma State Department Of Education. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 64 pages. Covers are edge rubbed and lightly scuffed. Some loss of paper covering to top and tail of spine. Pencil erasure mark to front pastedown. Contents clean.

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MAXIE'S MICE
Written by Marlene Reidel. Illustrated by Marlene Reidel.
Stock no. 1321615
Published by MacMillan. 1st UK 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White pictorial boards. Full-page colour pictures. Minimal text. Large format. ISBN: 0333235452. Spine slightly bumped. Browning to covers. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is browned and torn at edges with tape repairs on verso.

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LUCY & TOM'S A.B.C.
Written by Shirley Hughes. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 1321614
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1984. Very good condition.

Oblong format. White glazed pictorial boards. Delightful colour pictures. ISBN: 0575033983. Spine and corners bumped. One gathering is pulled causing contents to be a little loose.

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MERCENARIES AND THEIR MASTERS: WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
Written by Michael Mallett.
Stock no. 1822242
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Concentrating mainly on fifteenth century, a period when standing armies emerged in Italy and when the 'modern' trends were just as discernible here as elsewhere in Europe. Also looking back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century and then forward to the Italian Wars (1494-1530) when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0370105028. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block lightly faded. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned to spine and top edge, slightly grubby.

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HOW THE WHALE BECAME
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 1321607
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A collection of stories about the days when the world was brand new, and the animals were still making up their minds just what they wanted to be. Blue mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 72 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers partly browned with a few light foxspots. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with slight loss to base of spine, crease and tear to lower corner of rear panel and slightly grubby on rear.

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MR. BONZO COMES TO TOWN
Written by G.E. Studdy; George Jellicoe. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1321603
Published by John Swain & Son Limited; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Good condition.

Small format. Pictorial cardwraps. Full-page colour illustrations. Covers very creased, also causing light creasing to contents. Staples rusty. Grubby marks to rear cover.

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COLT & CO. IN THE VALLEY OF GOLD
Written by J.E. Macdonnell. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1321595
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Light foxing to endpapers and text block. Small black spot to fore-edge of text block. Dustwrapper is price-cut and edge rubbed, rear panel is slightly grubby.

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