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GIANTS OF THE SKY: THE BIGGEST AEROPLANES OF ALL TIME
Written by Bill Gunston.
Stock no. 2134096
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1852602589. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Small knocks along cover edges. Browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

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BRITISH AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS SINCE 1908
Written by Gunter G. Endres.
Stock no. 2134095
Published by Ian Allan. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

An outline history of the many aircraft manufacturers of both civil and military aircraft. B/w photos. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 128 pages. ISBN: 071102409X.

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LUFTWAFFE OVER THE NORTH
Written by Bill Norman.
Stock no. 2134092
Published by Leo Cooper. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. Episodes in an air war 1939-1943. ISBN: 0850522331. Light page edge browning. Wrapper a little edge-creased with fading to spine.

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HEROIC FLIGHTS
Written by John Frayn Turner.
Stock no. 2134091
Published by Leo Cooper; Pen & Sword Books. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The First 100 Years of Aviation. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850529700. Wrapper spine is very slightly faded.

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CLOSE TO THE SUN: HOW AIRBUS CHALLENGED AMERICA'S DOMINATION OF THE SKIES
Written by Stephen Aris.
Stock no. 2134089
Published by Aurum Press. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The history or Airbus Industrie, the builders of the Airbus family of airliners, is a dramatic story involving high politics, billion-dollar gambles in high technology and a life-and-death struggle between the European planemakers and the giants of the American aerospace industry. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 1854108301. Wrapper spine is slightly sunned.

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TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH
Written by Barbara Goolden.
Stock no. 2134079
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Maroon cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. Bumping and wear to spine. Marks and spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chips and nicks; grubby marks to rear panel.

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PIERCE EGAN'S FINISH TO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, IN THEIR PURSUITS THROUGH LIFE IN AND OUT OF LONDON
Written by Pierce Egan. Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank.
Stock no. 2134072
Published by John Camden Hotten. Circa 1872. Very good condition.

Modern binding - green leather corners and spine; raised bands to spine; gilt titles. Marbled boards. 36 Hand coloured plates. Large paper edition. New endpapers. Some wear and rubbing to edges of leather. Page browning and some foxing. Margin marks in some places.

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LONDON (ILLUSTRATED) A COMPLETE GUIDE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134070
Published by Henry Herbert, Publisher. 1875. Almost very good condition.

To the places of amusement, objects of interest, parks, clubs, markets, docks, principal railway routes and leading hotels: Also A Directory, in a concise form, of First Class Reliable Houses in the various Branches of Trade. Fourth year of publication. Large format. Green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; fraying/tearing to cloth with a bit of loss to spine and corners. Marks and spots to covers. Joints are cracked. Publisher information plate pasted to front pastedown. Damp marks to edges of some pages. Some foxing and margin marks.

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THE LONDON APPRENTICE AND THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER OF THE WEST CHEPE;
Written by Pierce Egan.
Stock no. 2134069
Published by W.S. Johnson. 1st 1852. Good condition.

Volumes 1, 2 and 3 complete and bound together in dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Fold-out frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine is browned with chipping/fraying to cloth along edges. Damp stain to rear cover. Other marks to covers. Tape to front joint. Inscription in ink and pencil inscription to front endpaper. Rear joint cracked. Page edge browning; some foxing. All parts and plates are present, including frontispiece (which is absent from many copies). Frontis has tape repairs to verso.

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FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON SOCIETY 1870-1920
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134068
Published by Brentano's. 1st USA 1920. Good condition.

Cloth spine with title label. Brown mottled covers. American edition. SIGNED by Hamiliton Hadden (Polo player) to front endpaper, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Grubby marks to spine. Bumping and chipping along cover edges. Half-title page has a couple of inch tear next to spine at top. Page edge browning.

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BEYOND THE MOTHER COUNTRY: WEST INDIANS AND THE NOTTING HILL WHITE RIOTS
Written by Edward Pilkington.
Stock no. 2134064
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. This book examines an important missing chapter in the history of post-war Britain. ISBN: 1850431132. Page browning. Wrapper has some edge-creasing.

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FIFTY YEARS OF FIRE FIGHTING IN LONDON
Written by Jack While; Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 2134063
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1931. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Jack While was an unofficial Recorder of the London Fire Brigade. Foreword by Wallace. B/w illustrations. Ex-lib. with some markings and stamps. Heavy wear to covers; uneven fading, some scuffing and some fraying to cloth. Foxing.

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