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THE ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOK 1880-1930
Written by Michael Felmingham.
Stock no. 2138629
Published by Wildwood House Ltd.. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. The history of book illustration. ISBN: 0704506270. Some light page edge browning.

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JOHN OGILBY AND THE TASTE OF HIS TIMES
Written by Katherine S. Van Eerde.
Stock no. 2138620
Published by Dawson. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Grey cloth with white titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0712906908. Page browning.

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WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON
Written by W. Heath Robinson; James Hamilton. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2138618
Published by Pavilion Books Ltd.. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green boards with title inscribed in gilt on spine. Illustrated end pages. B/w frontis piece. Valuable reference for collectors. ISBN: 1851457194. A few knocks along cover edges. Browning to outer page edges.

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THE ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOK 1880-1930
Written by Michael Felmingham.
Stock no. 2138615
Published by Wildwood House Ltd.. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. The history of book illustration. ISBN: 0704506270. Light page edge browning.

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COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT BOOKS
Written by Christopher H. Sterling.
Stock no. 2138571
Published by Paladwr Press. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

An Annotated Bibliography of Airlines, Airliners, and the Air Transport Industry. Green cloth with gilt titles. ISBN: 0962648396. Couple of corners are a bit bumped.

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ART OF THE NEW NATURALISTS
Written by Peter Marren; Robert Gillmor.
Stock no. 2135917
Published by Collins. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

The history of the artwork of the dustwrappers, describing the frantic workings behind the seemingly serene collection of illustrations that have shaped Britain's most iconic natural history series. Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. ix and 310 pages including index. Limited to 50 copies. Full leather. All edges gilt. ISBN: 9780007284719. This is Copy No. 17, SIGNED by authors to bookplate on front endpaper. Light wear to covers. Contents are excellent! Slip case is better than very good - light fraying at edges to cloth.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENGLAND
Written by F.J. Harvey Darton.
Stock no. 1320957
Published by Cambridge University Press. 3rd 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"Five Centuries of Social Life". Third edition revised by Brian Alderson. Brown boards, gilt title and vignette. Beige endpapers. B/w text illustrations. 398 pages. 10 x 7". ISBN: 0521240204. Spine slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine and just a little rubbed at edges.

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SIXPENNY WONDERFULS 6D GEMS FROM THE PAST
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320956
Published by Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations of the front covers of books first published between 1880 and 1914. ISBN: 0701139366. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, tiny indentation to top edge of front cover. Erased pencil markings to endpapers.

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A CHECK LIST OF BRITISH INSECTS
Written by Georeg Sidney Kloet; Walter Douglas Hincks.
Stock no. 1821268
Published by T. Buncle & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Red suede limp boards, gilt title to spine. All edges gilt. Printed on thin tissue paper. lix and 483 pages including subscribers list to rear. Spine slightly faded, boards a little grubby. Minor nibble to lower corner of text block. Book plate to front pastedown. Front hinge starting to pull but binding tight.

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DICTIONARY OF AVIATION
Written by David Crocker.
Stock no. 1820965
Published by Bloomsbury. 2nd 2005. Nearly fine condition.

Second edition. Over 5,500 terms clearly defined. White pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 0747572194.

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FRANK RICHARDS - THE CHAP BEHIND THE CHUMS
Written by Frank Richards; Mary Cadogan.
Stock no. 1319703
Published by Viking. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. A book about the life and works of Frank Richards. Full of photgraphs and pictures. 258 pages. 9.5 x 6.25". ISBN: 0670819468.

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