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GEOMETRY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
Written by Dan Pedoe.
Stock no. 1608090
Published by Penguin Books. 1976. Very good condition.

The effect geometry has on artistic achievement. Professor Pedoe takes a look at Euclid's Elements (an inspiration of modern geometry) and guides the reader through the discoveries stimulated by the theory of perspective and discusses form in architecture, projective geometry, and mathematical curves as well as the concept of space. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w plates and diagrams. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 0140551190. Pages browned. Some foxing, especially to endpapers. Else contents clean.

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NEW RHYMES FOR NURSERY TIMES
Written by Edith A. Steinthal.
Stock no. 1505879
Published by E.P. Dutton & Co.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board, stiff card pages each with a rhyme and colour illustration. Oblong format. Spine worn with nicks to cloth at ends and slight loss. Wear to corners of covers and pages. Cover edges rubbed. Covers a bit grubby and scratched with small piece of surface loss from rear cover. Contents grubby with some foxing and page edge browning.

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A TREATISE ON THE DYNAMICS OF A PARTICLE
Written by Edward John Routh.
Stock no. 1608082
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1st 1960. Very good condition.

Card wraps. An elementary textbook on dynamics. 417 pages, plus booklist at rear. Some scuffing and foxing to covers.

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THE BUMPER BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Written by Dora Percy Smith; Marjory Royce; et al. Illustrated by Ruth Cobb; Topham; Cicely Englefield; et al..
Stock no. 1505877
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. circa 1928. Slightly better than good condition.

Orange pictorial boards show circus pictures, two children and clown to front, lion in hat to spine, ringmaster and horse to rear. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 128 pages. 8.5 x 7". A chunky volume of stories and rhymes. First story is The Dancing Bear. Covers slightly darkened. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Clear tape stuck to corners. A few hinges cracked. Name in ink to verso of frontis and pencil inscription to verso of title page. Some foxing and an odd mark to contents. All plates present but one is detached and two are partially detached.

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THE BUMPER BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Written by Dora Newton; Dora Percy Smith; Olive Chandler; E.S. Duffin; Marjory Royce; et al. Illustrated by Cyril Cowell; Frank Adams; Margaret Tempest; Ruth Cobb; Hilda Cowham; et al..
Stock no. 1505876
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. circa 1927. Good condition.

Pictorial boards show children stroking horse to front cover, both riding horse to spine, yellow titles. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. First story is Joan Visits a Farm. 128 pages. 8.5 x 7". A chunky volume of stories and rhymes. Covers darkened and grubby. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Front edge of spine cracked. Large ink inscription to verso of frontis. A few hinges cracked so binding feels weak. Some light foxing and an odd mark to contents. One plate is MISSING and one partially detached.

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ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
Written by Stanley I. Grossman.
Stock no. 1608063
Published by Wadsworth Publishing. c. 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition. Glazed boards. ISBN: 0534027385. Spine bumped. Publisher sticker to front board. Foxing to outer page edges.

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TUBES
Written by Alfred Gray.
Stock no. 2121182
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1st USA 1990. Fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. This book is a revised version of notes for a course that the author gave during the spring of 1985 at the University of Santiago. ISBN: 0201156768.

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A FIRST COURSE IN PROBABILITY
Written by Sheldon M. Ross.
Stock no. 2121171
Published by Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc.. 1976. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Collier Macmillan International Editions. ISBN: 0029796202. Spine is faded. A few grubby marks to covers. Couple of cover corners are creased.

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INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR ALGEBRA
Written by Lee W. Johnson; R. Dean Riess; Jimmy T. Arnold.
Stock no. 2121150
Published by Addison-Wesley. 3rd 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed boards. Third edition. ISBN: 0201568012. Some uneven fading to spine and cover edges. Contents are excellent!

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JIMMY AT THE ZOO
Written by Neville Main.
Stock no. 2121138
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

A Strip Book. Pictorial card wraps with red spine. 124 frames. Rust marks to spine, from staples. Light damp mark to rear cover. Creasing to covers. Contents are very good; just a few light margin marks.

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MASTER BUNNY THE BAKER'S BOY
Written by Molly Brett. Illustrated by Molly Brett.
Stock no. 2121135
Published by Brockhampton Press. Almost very good condition.

A small oblong format Strip Book. Cardwraps. Blue and green pictorial front cover with price 1/-. Red linen spine. Red and black illustrations throughout. A few marks to covers. Heavy wear to top corner of front cover. Creasing. Dark mark to bottom edge of rear cover and to a few pages at rear of book.

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HONK FOR SALE
Written by Joy K. Seddon. Illustrated by Joy K. Seddon.
Stock no. 2121134
Published by The Brockhampton Press Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

A strip book. Small oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Two illustrations to each page with text below. Damp staining to covers and edges of some pages internally. Creasing.

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