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CAT O' NINE TALES
Written by Jeffrey Archer. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1506689
Published by MacMillan. 1st 2006. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The fifth collection of short stories from the master storyteller. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 254 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781405032575. A nice copy.

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THE GREEN LACQUER PAVILION
Written by Helen Beauclerk. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1506638
Published by W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

Brown cloth. Green title label to spine. Gilt titles, border and vignette. 9 b/w illustrations plus a portrait of the author. 319pp. 8 x 5.5". A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Slight surface paper damage to title block on spine. Some uneven darkening to covers. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Foxing to contents but otherwise very good.

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MANY INVENTIONS
Written by Rudyard Kipling.
Stock no. 2122455
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1893. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and gilt border to top of front cover and top of spine. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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TIDEWAY TACTICS
Written by L.M. Bates. Illustrated by Norman Mansbridge.
Stock no. 2122189
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with yellow title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. The hero of this book is a London River tug-boat. Her adventures in peace and war form the stories, some tragic and some humorous, but always full of the spirit of that waterway which is half river and half sea. Browning to endpapers. Some foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge=creased and browned, with a few tiny nicks to corners.

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WHITE EAGLES OVER SERBIA
Written by Lawrence Durrell.
Stock no. 1608631
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tan cloth boards, white title to spine. An espionage novel. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is a little grubby and edge creased and chipped with a little loss.

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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
Written by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn.
Stock no. 1506170
Published by T. N. Foulis. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth covers with gilt illustration to front cover, gilt titles to spine. 7 x 5.5". 8 Colour plates. Repetitive background illustrations to text pages. 123 pages plus book list. Spine and corners bumped and worn. A couple of bumps to cover edges. Browning to spine and cover edges. Some of gilt on front cover is rubbed. Two names in pen to front endpaper, one crossed out. Front joint starting to crack by frontis. Browning to endpapers and some page edges. Contents generally clean. All plates present.

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THE MABINOGION
Written by Sarla Mehta. Illustrated by Sarah Hopkins.
Stock no. 2121786
Published by Langdon Publishing. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. From Merlin's Box of the First branch of The Mabinogion. Comic book/story board style. ISBN: 1871887046.

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ISLAND NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Stock no. 1505925
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Nelson's Classics in Leather series. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp and The Isle of Voices. Green leather soft covers, gilt titles and circular vignette. Small format 6.25 x 4.25". Top edge gilt. B/w frontis. 281 pages plus book lists. Wear to ends of darkened spine with slight loss to top edge. Corner tip of rear cover missing. Faint light marks to covers. Name in pencil to prelims. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a little loss from ends of spine. Panels grubby, spine darkened.

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QUALITY STREET
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 1505881
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Comedy in Four Acts. Large format. Elaborately decorated blue/lilac cloth covers, large gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. 22 beautiful tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations.198 pages. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Faint stain, only visible at certain angles, to spine edges of rear and front cover. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown. Foxing and light browning to endpapers. Contents very good just an odd margin tear and fox spot. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with tears to ends of spine. Creasing to folds and sides of spine. Browning to spine and unevenly to rear panel. Browning and pink stains to verso corresponding with faint stains on covers.

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ROB LINDSAY AND HIS SCHOOL
Written by H.C. Preston MacGoun. Illustrated by Preston MacGoun.
Stock no. 1405214
Published by William J. Hay; Samuel Baxter's & Sons. 1905. Almost very good condition.

A Reminiscence of Seventy-Five Years Ago. Grey/buff pictorial boards, cream spine. Described as 'A simple chapter in the homelier life of Scotland'. 45 pages. 7 x 5.75". Lovely b/w illustrations. Spine bumped, browned and worn with 3"split to one side. Small part of backstrip is missing. Corners worn. Covers grubby. Couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. Some foxing to page edges. Page edges uncut.

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FISH AND CHIPS
Written by A.G. Street.
Stock no. 2120916
Published by Robert Hale. 1st 1964. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. A few faint marks to edge of textblock. Wrapper has small closed tear to top of spine and is very slightly faded to spine, lightly browned to rear and slightly creased at top edge of rear panel.

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THE HONOURABLE MR TAWNISH
Written by Jeffery Farnol. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 1405018
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1913. Almost very good condition.

A Romance. Beige cloth covers with gilt titles and border decorations, small circular onlay to centre of front cover. 8 colour plates. 118 pages. A little bumping to spine and corners. Couple of small marks to cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. A few hinges slightly cracked. One illustration is detached. Foxing throughout especially heavy to prelims and last few pages.

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