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CHESTERFIELDS LETTERS
Written by Philip Dormer Stanhope.
Stock no. 656640
Published by J. Dodsley; Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope. 1777. Good condition.

8th Edition. Letters written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his son Philip Stanhope. Four volumes in two. Three-quarter black morocco binding, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Leather worn and chipped. Name in ink to first blank page, pencil shorthand to frontis and title page of vol 1 & 2. Faded writing to title page and ink smudge to first chapter of vol 3 & 4. Else content clean and tight for a book of its age.

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AFLOAT AND ASHORE
Written by P.L. Waldron. Illustrated by David M'C Brown.
Stock no. 682532
Published by James Munro & Company Limited. Circa 1920. Good condition.

The reminiscences of a Marine Engineer. Green cloth, white titles. B/w illustrations. Browning to prelims. Spine faded with a 2" tear to rear edge and also a horizontal tear at base of the vertical tear. Fading to top edge of rear cover. Front cover lightly marked. Some light foxing, mainly to textblock and prelims but contents generally clean.

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CONQUEROR OF THE NIGHT
Written by J. Christiaens. Illustrated by Edward Mortelmans.
Stock no. 612543
Published by Abelard-Schuman. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the invention of Braille, the system of reading by touch. ISBN: 0200716301. price-cut wrapper.

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GATSO THE NEVER ENDING RACE
Written by Michael Allen; Maurice Gatsonides; Rob Wiedenhoff; Piet Philippa.
Stock no. 561922
Published by Gatsometer. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of the famous driving dutchman Maurice Gatsonides, Gatso to his friends. Large format. Cream cloth boards, green title blocks. Colour and b/w photos. 239 pages. ISBN: 9090062262. Top edge of text block dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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THE KATE GREENAWAY BOOK
Written by Bryan Holme. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 654911
Published by Penguin. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wrap edition. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0140045198.

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MR BOWLER OF BATH
Written by Ken Andrews.
Stock no. 677204
1st 1998. Fine condition.

Orange card wraps. B/w illustrations. The story of a Victorian entrepreneur and engineer. ISBN: 0953420108.

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WILHELM BUSCH
Written by Friedrich Bohne. Illustrated by Wilhelm Busch.
Stock no. 683878
Published by Emil Vollmer. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Four volumes. Colour frontis to each. Humourous b/w illustrations. German text. Wrappers have slightly faded spines and rubbed corners.

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CHARLES FENTON MERCER AND THE TRIAL OF NATIONAL CONSERVATISM
Written by Douglas R. Egerton.
Stock no. 800201
Published by University Press of Mississippi. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Circa 1989. Black and red dustwrapper. ISBN: 0878053921. Book in almost mint condition. Slight rub to edge of dustwrapper.

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EILEEN
Written by Eileen O'Casey.
Stock no. 613804
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Autobiography of the wife of the great Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey. ISBN: 0333134729. Ex-lib.

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ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT
Written by William Manchester.
Stock no. 613847
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st 1983. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. John F. Kennedy. ISBN: 0316544914. Contents very good. Covers slightly dampmarked. Wrapper edge-rubbed with slight loss.

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T.J. A LIFE OF DR THOMAS JONES
Written by E.L. Ellis.
Stock no. 564137
Published by University of Wales. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Thomas Jones was deputy secretary to the cabinet from 1916 to 1913. B/w photos. 553 pages. ISBN: 0708311385. Text block browned with minor foxing. Dustwrapper spine is faded, front panel a little marked.

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