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AERODATA INTERNATIONAL No. 6: REPUBLIC P-47D THUNDERBOLT
Written by John B. Rabbets.
Stock no. 2135032
Published by Vintage Aviation Publications Ltd.. Circa 1978. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0905469453. Spine is faded.

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THE LIGHTPLANE SINCE 1909
Written by John W. Underwood; George B. Collinge.
Stock no. 2135030
Circa 1975. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. From Santos-Dumont's Demoiselle to the Bede 5 Jet. ISBN: 0911834079. Spine is faded with a few marks. Inscription in ink to first page.

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ERF 'THE WORLD'S BEST OIL ENGINED LORRY'
Written by Peter Davies.
Stock no. 2135025
Published by Roundoak Publishing. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Sixty Years of Truck Building. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 1871565189. Bumping to spine, corners and a couple of cover edges. Browning/foxing to outer page edges. Inscription in ink, partially scribbled out to rear pastedown. Wrapper is edge-creased with tear hole and a little loss to spine.

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LIVING LONDON: BEING ECHOES RE-ECHOED
Written by George Augustus Sala.
Stock no. 2135017
Published by Remington and Co.. 1st 1883. Fair condition.

Leather spine and corners, gilt title to spine; marbled boards. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib. with some usual ink stamps, markings and stickers to spine. Front cover is nearly detached; large split to rear of spine; scuffing to covers; chipping and heavy wear to covers. Some marks to contents, but generally still good. A reading copy.

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IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON SOCIAL LIFE
Written by E.S. Nadal.
Stock no. 2135015
Published by Scribner Armstrong And Company. 1st USA 1875. Good condition.

Red/brown cloth with gilt title to spine. With Other Papers. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping and loss to top and tail of spine. Stitching has broken in a couple of places (especially between pages 48-49), so contents are starting to come loose. A reading copy only!

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HAYNES RESTORATION MANUAL: TRIUMPH SPITFIRE GT6, VITESSE & HERALD
Written by Lindsay Porter; Peter Williams.
Stock no. 2134994
Published by Haynes Publishing. 2008. Almost very good condition.

Covers all Triumph Spitfire, GT6, Vitesse & Herald models. With the aid of more than 900 illustrations and text aimed at the do-it-yourselfer. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. 311 pages. ISBN: 9781859608678. Reprint. Light shelf wear to spine & corners. Damp stain along inside edge of front cover, going through to front endpaper. Page edge browning. Contents clean.

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LORDS & LADIES (NMN 17)
Written by C.T. Prime. Illustrated by Robert J. Jones.
Stock no. 2134984
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Monograph series no. 17. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis, 6 b/w photos plus line drawings and diagrams. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Pale foxing/browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine with a few foxspots; closed tear to one corner.

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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES VOL. X PARTS 1 - 5 (5 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward Wedlake Brayley.
Stock no. 2134981
Published by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe. Circa 1810. Very good condition.

Leather spines and corners; raised bands to spines, with gilt titles; marbled boards. Many b/w plates. Leather spines have faded; browning to covers with some spotting. Page edge browning, with some foxing to pages internally from age. A few small page corners torn off. Overall still a very good set.

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MAZDA RX-8
No author listed.
Stock no. 1822120
Published by Delius Klasing Verlag. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Mazda - the only company that has used and still uses rotary engines ever since they were invented. The RX-8 is one of the fastest rotary-engined production cars ever. Large format. Red cloth boards, blind titles. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 376881498X. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed. Contained in publisher's pictorial slipcase which is also scuffed and is bumped to corners, lower rear corner starting to split. Overall, slipcase is in very good condition.

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SUZUKI TWO-STROKES
Written by Roy Bacon.
Stock no. 1822117
Published by Niton Publishing. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

All Two-Stroke Singles, Twins and Triples (plus RE5) 1952 to 1979. B/w photos. Originally published by Osprey Publishing Limited in 1984. ISBN: 1855790327. Spine and corners rubbed. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY: SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE
Written by Jonathan Wood.
Stock no. 1822112
Published by Haynes. 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The history of the famous Rolls-Royce motor cars including those which have carried the Bentley badge, majoring on the post-war years. Haynes Classic Makes Series. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 185960692X. Reprint. Top & tail of spine lightly bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is very faintly scuffed, spine slightly faded.

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THE GREENSHANK (NMN 5)
Written by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson.
Stock no. 1822109
Published by Collins. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. New Naturalist Monograph no. 5. A few pale marks to boards, gilt title is dull. Front pastedown has evidence of a damp stain (spillage?). Text block browned. Contents crinkled as if from damp but no staining except the front pastedown. Pictorial dustwrapper is strengthened to verso with brown paper at folds, a few grubby marks especially to rear panel, spine is browned and repaired to top where a small piece of loss has occurred.

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