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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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TO THE GATES OF RICHMOND: THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN
Written by Stephen W. Sears.
Stock no. 1820521
Published by Ticknor & Fields. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

The Peninsula campaign of 1862 was the largest campaign of the Civil War and also one of the bloodiest. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps, photos & illustrations. ISBN: 0395701015. Small grubby mark from label to rear cover. A few light creases present. Text block a little grubby. Cigarette odour present.

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NAPOLEON AND BERLIN: THE NAPOLEONIC WARS IN PRUSSIA 1813
Written by Michael V. Leggiere.
Stock no. 1820519
Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was obsessed with capturing Berlin - this book explores this doomed campaign which ultimately derailed his plans for the domination of Europe and lost him the Napoleonic Wars. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and illustrations. ISBN: 0752423339. Browning to contents. Cigarette odour present.

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SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Martin Gilbert.
Stock no. 1820512
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Recounting the courage of soldiers, sailors and airmen, the courage of partisans and resistance fighters, and the courage of those who, starving, tormented and without strength or weapons, were murdered far from the battlefields isolated and alone. Black cloth boards, orange title label to spine with silver title. Orange endpapers. B/w maps and photos. ISBN: 029779616X. Small pinhole to dustwrapper spine and corresponding hole to board spine. Text block a little grubby. Dustwrapper spine is faded, rear panel of dustwrapper is scuffed.

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