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MY BROTHER'S GHOST
Written by Allan Ahlberg.
Stock no. 1329047
Published by Viking; The Penguin Group. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A touching tale of loss, love and endurance. Small format. Green boards with gilt titles and illustration to front. 87 pages. Red endpapers. ISBN: 067088779X. Minimal foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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KATE GREENAWAY'S BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Mrs. Sale Barker. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1329046
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1950. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Small square format. Pale green cloth with green borders and red titles. Full-page colour pictures, b/w text illustrions. Verses for each day of the year and spaces to write in names. Unused. Some light foxing throughout. Spine slightly bumped and browned. Dustwrapper has had something spilt on the rear panel (covering 99% of the panel) which has gone through to the rear cover and spine of the book.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945 (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Denis Richards; Hilary St. George Saunders.
Stock no. 1829253
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume I: The Fight at Odds. Volume II: The fight Avails. Volume III: The Fight is Won. Published between 1953 & 1954. Blue cloth boards, navy title block with gilt title to spine. Some fold out maps. B/w photos. Volume I is third impression 1954, Volume II & III are first editions 1954.Volume I has small white mark to front board, small patch of fading from sunlight to spine in same place there is a hole to spine of dustwrapper. Light browning and foxing to text blocks and endpapers. Contents are generally clean. Binding is tight. Blue dustwrappers are a little edge-worn with a few small closed tears, spines are faded and worn, a little browned.

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A CHINESE MIRROR: BEING REFLECTIONS OF THE REALITY BEHIND APPEARANCE
Written by Florence Ayscough. Illustrated by Lucille Douglass.
Stock no. 1829252
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Chinese life and language. Red cloth spine, gilt title. Red cloth boards with circular designs. B/w illustrations. 464 pages including index. Fold-out map to rear. Spine & gilt title browned. Boards unevenly faded, edge-rubbed and worn at corners, top rear edge a little bashed. Text block and endpapers browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few margin marks and the odd foxspot present.

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NUTSHELL LIBRARY
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1329045
Published by Harper & Row. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Set of 4 volumes - "Chicken Soup With Rice", "Pierre", "One Was Johnny" and "Alligators All Around". Pink cloth, brown titles and vignettes. Colour illustrations. Approx 30 pages to each volume. Small books being, 3.5 x 2.5". Contained in a pictorial slip-case. Books are fine. Wrappers are a little browned and the spine of One Was Johnny is rubbed. Wrapper of Chicken Soup has the small off-white band to base of spine. Slipcase is just a little rubbed at corners.

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THE PRINCES OF INDIA
Written by William Barton.
Stock no. 1829251
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition.

With a Chapter on Nepal. The question of whether the Indian States should join the rest of India in a Federation... Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front board. B/w plates. xvi and 327 pages including index. Spine browned and stained. Boards a little grubby. Foxspots to text block, endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present. Some browning to contents.

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FAVOURITE FABLES FOR TINY TROTS
Written by Aesop. Illustrated by Arthur S. Wilkinson.
Stock no. 1329044
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

Very small format (6.25 x 7.5cm). Green pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 130 pages, all edges gilt. B/w illustrations. Covers are edge rubbed. Inscription in ink to Xmas sticker which is stuck to front pastedown. Front free-endpaper removed. Tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Hinges cracked/pulled but binding still tight.

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BATTLE OVER PORTSMOUTH: A CITY AT WAR IN 1940
Written by P.E. Jenkins.
Stock no. 1829250
Published by Middleton Press. 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

During the tumultuous months of 1940, Portsmouth was mutilated by some of the fiercest air raids outside London and was subjected to the threat of invasion and the uncertainties of the Battle of Britain. Blue glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. 117 pages including index and publisher advert to rear. ISBN: 0906520290. Second reprint. Mark where price label existed to rear board. A few light scuff marks. Contents clean.

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LORRIES IN BRITAIN: THE 1980S
Written by Carl Johnson.
Stock no. 1829249
Published by Amberley Publishing. 1st 2022. Slightly better than very good condition.

In the 1980s Great Britain had steadily seen an influx of foreign manufacturers, a trend that was to eventually see the demise of all the major UK makes. However, it was still possible to see lots of interesting vehicles - some companies and individuals remained staunch users of British-built lorries. This volume brings back memories of how things used to be. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos throughout. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781398100800. Tiny crease to top corner of front cover and contents else a lovely copy.

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THE FIGHTING FIFTY-SECOND RECCE
Written by Carl Shilleto.
Stock no. 1829248
Published by Eskdale Publishing. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The 52nd (Lowland) Divisional Reconnaissance Regiment RAC in north-west Europe September 1944-March 1946. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. 192 pages including index. ISBN: 0953867714. A very nice copy. Green dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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FRIENDSHIP: THOUGHTS OF GREAT MINDS CONCERNING FRIENDSHIP
Written by Seneca; William Shakespeare; Socrates; et al.
Stock no. 1329043
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1905. Good condition.

Nister volume 1364. Very small format (6.5 x 8.25cm). Brown cloth, gilt title and red flower vignette to front cover. Lovely colour illustrations (chromolithographs). Short sayings by famous authors surrounded by illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Split to cloth on front edge of spine. Front joint is cracked. Name in ink to front free-endpaper, inscription in ink (dated 1905) to verso of front free-endpaper). Some foxing and light page browning but contents generally clean.

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BRITISH SECRET PROJECTS: FIGHTERS & BOMBERS 1935-1950
Written by Tony Buttler.
Stock no. 1329042
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Emphasis on unbuilt designs that competed with those that flew, and the aircraft influenced by World War Two - projects that were prepared from the mid-1930s in the knowledge that war was coming through to some which appeared after the war was over. Large format. Grey boards, silver title to spine. Mainly b/w photos & illustrations with a few colour photos. 240 pages including index. ISBN: 1857801792. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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