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WAR IN THE AIR
Written by Major Helders; Claud W. Sykes.
Stock no. 1813849
Published by John Hamilton. 1935. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and sundial vignette to spine. Part of the "Ace" series. 8 monochrome plates. Second impression. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is taped to book with now yellowed tape. Dustwrapper is marked to spine and has tape across top and bottom. Text block browned. A few hinges pulled but binding is tight. Cigarette odour present.

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THE RED CAPS OF LYONS
Written by Herbert Hayens. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards.
Stock no. 1315572
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

A story of the French Revolution. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Brown endpapers. 6 b/w plates. 302 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Joints cracked. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Small erasure mark to top corner of front free-endpaper. Pale foxing and fingering to contents which are generally clean.

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THE YOUNG BUGLERS
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by John Schonberg.
Stock no. 1403685
Published by Griffith Farran Browne & Co Limited.. circa 1905. Almost very good condition.

A Tale of the Peninsular War. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. 8 b/w plates. 10 battle plans. 346 pages. Spine and corners bumped and a little worn. Spine is browned. Bottom front corner is heavily bumped. Top of front cover is bumped. A few marks to covers. Front and back joints beginning to crack. Inscription in ink to front endpaper and a name printed in ink. 'Special Prize' written in ink to rear pastedown. Rear endpaper creased. Foxing especially to endpapers and fingering to page margins.

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AT ABOUKIR AND ACRE
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by William Rainey.
Stock no. 1403674
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.; William Briggs. 1st Canadian 1899. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 8 b/w plates and 3 battle plans. 352 pages + 32 page booklist. A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt. Spine is bumped, worn and faded. Corners are bumped and worn. Couple of marks to rear cover. Name and date to front endpaper. Transfer sticker has been stuck to half-title page with slight transfer of colour to opposite page. Endpapers a little browned. Foxing to prelims and page edges but most pages clean.

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BY ENGLAND'S AID
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse.
Stock no. 1403583
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1895. Very good condition.

The Freeing of the Netherlands. Red pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 10 b/w plates and 4 maps. 384 pages + 32 page booklist. Spine bumped and faded. Cloth on spine is split at the top and worn at the bottom. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Couple of marks to covers. Ex libris name plate to front pastedown. Neat name in ink to top of front pastedown. Some foxing mainly to prelims and a few page edges otherwise contents generally clean.

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FRANK FLOWER THE BOY WAR-CORRESPONDENT
Written by A.B. Cooper.
Stock no. 2112167
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth with orange/black titles. Bumping and wear to covers; some scuffing. Front cover is a little bowed. Foxing and some page browning.

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MAXIMUM EFFORT
Written by James Campbell.
Stock no. 1604962
Published by Allison & Busby. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Reprint edition. An exciting and revealing novel about what it was like to take part in thousand bomber raids over Germany in 1944. ISBN: 0850311276. Spine and corners bumped. Contents very good. Wrapper edge creased and scuffed.

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FOUR DAYS IN JUNE
Written by Iain Gale.
Stock no. 1803665
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

A battle lost, a battle won, June 1815. A fact based novel on the Battle of Waterloo. Pictorial cardwraps. x and 369 pages. ISBN: 9780007201051. SIGNED by the author as a gift inscription to title page. Text block slightly grubby.

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SQUADRON LEADER
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by Terence Cuneo.
Stock no. 1201131
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1946. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with dark blue titles to spine and front cover. 4 b/w plates, including frontis. 296 pages. SIGNED by author. Top and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners bumped. Bright pictorial wrapper is slightly edge-chipped. A very nice bright copy.

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THE KEEPERS OF THE NARROW SEAS
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 810256
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition.

A Story of the Great War. Originally published in 1918 with the title 'The Fritz Strafers'. Red pictorial binding. Colour frontis only. 380 pages. Fading to spine and a few damp fade marks to top and bottom of front cover. Corners are bumped, with some wear and a little fraying of cloth. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Reduced from £120.

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ROUNDING UP THE RAIDER
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by Edward S. Hodgson.
Stock no. 809695
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1929. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Naval Story of the Great War. Green boards with pictorial front cover and spine. Black titles to both spine and front covers. Colour frontis + 3 other b/w plates. 255 pages. Light wear to covers. Grubby marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Some foxing. All plates and frontis are present. Pictorial wrapper has a few edge-tears and chips, with some small bits of loss and grubby marks.

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UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by Edward S. Hodgson.
Stock no. 809682
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1928. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue pictorial cloth. Colour frontis and 4 b/w plates. 256 pages. A Naval story of the Great War. Bumping to corners and spine. Some browning and foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present. Dated from adverts. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut with edge-tears and chips and creases - now pasted to white paper, to keep it from getting more damage, faded to spine. Some chips of loss to edges.

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