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BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Bold.
Stock no. 2140154
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Cream/beige cloth spine with title label and gilt titles. Grey boards. Limited edition to 278 Numbered and Signed copies. B/w woodcuts. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 51.Spine is browned and worn. Title block is a bit faded and worn. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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A CHEPSTOW NOTEBOOK
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters; Bryan Woodfield.
Stock no. 2140000
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 100 copies. Black cloth. B/w illustrations. Street plans by Woodfield. ISBN: 0906134072. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded and foxed to spine and edges; some creasing; a few small nicks.

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AUTO-ARCHITECT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERALD PALMER
Written by Gerald Palmer; Christopher Balfour.
Stock no. 1823907
Published by Magna Press. 1st 1998. Fine condition.

A fascinating story told by this innovative and talented car designer including designing and building the Jowett Javelin. Additional material by Christopher Balfour. Large format. Pale brown glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Limited to 750 copies. ISBN: 0951942360. SIGNED by Gerald Palmer on label to front pastedown.

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MILESTONES IN A MOTORING LIFE
Written by Dudley Noble.
Stock no. 1823906
Published by Advanced Mile-Posts Publications Ltd. 1st thus 1969. Slightly better than very good condition.

This is an Author's Presentation Copy of which only 250 copies have been issued. The author's extensive and adventurous travels, in the 1920s and 1930s, in his motorcar and sometimes with caravan. Cloth boards, brown spine with gilt title, blue boards with brown oval portraiture to front. B/w photos. ISBN: 0362000409. SIGNED and dated (with compliments) by the author to verso of half-title page. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Text block browned. Contents clean.

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BARNEY THE PIRATE
Written by Jess Webb. Illustrated by Tony Kerins.
Stock no. 1323072
Published by Boisterous Books Ltd. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A picture book for anyone to read. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Limited edition of 200 copies. ISBN: 9780993093609. SIGNED by the artist to half title-page. This is copy no. 158.

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THE ITALIAN SOUTH ATLANTIC AIR MAIL SERVICE: 1939-1941
Written by Richard Beith; John C.W. Field.
Stock no. 2139828
Published by Richard Beith Associates. 1st 1993. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. Limited edition of 500 copies. ISBN: 0952067501. SIGNED by author to title page. This is Copy No. 298. A little wear along cover edges.

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THUNDER IN THE PARK
Written by Tom Wheatcroft.
Stock no. 1823846
Published by Live Wire. 1st 2005. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 5000. The story of Tom Wheatcroft and Donington Park. 280 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 0954286057. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. This is copy 4130 of 5000. A lovely, clean copy.

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BRANDS TO BEXHILL
Written by Max Le Grand.
Stock no. 1823843
Published by Bookmarque Publishing. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Cock the shutter, engage the gear...British motor racing really started here! Casebound edition, limited to 984 copies. ISBN: 1870519302. SIGNED and dated by the author to title page. Certificate of Authentication present. This is copy 652 of 984. Couple of small pin size indentations to lower edge of text block. Else a fine copy in a fine dustrapper.

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CROSSINGS A FAIRY PLAY
Written by Walter De La Mare; C. Armstrong Gibbs. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe.
Stock no. 1322975
Published by Beaumont Press. 1921. Very good condition.

Limited edition printed on hand-made paper. Grey cloth spine with gilt title. Holly decorated boards. B/w chapter headers. 131 pages, edges untrimmed. This is copy no. 163. Corners bumped. Spine slightly darkened. Contents clean.

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AN OBSESSION WITH CARP
Written by Dave Lane.
Stock no. 2139606
Published by Laneman Publishing. 1st 1998. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards with gilt title to spine. Limited edition. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 1901717038. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a little damp marking along bottom edges of covers. Foxing and marks to outer page edges, which are also a bit browned. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and a little damp to verso.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2139508
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Limited edition of 68 Signed and Numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to prelim page, this is Copy No. 59. Some light wear and fading to covers. There are some page edges which are ragged, with grubby marks and a few nicks/chips, where page edges were not fully cut. Marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and nicks and chips; grubby/marked to spine.

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INNS AND TAVERNS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE LOWER WYE VALLEY PART 4
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2139426
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wrap blue booklet. 500 printed. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278323. Light fading to edges.

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