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FAMOUS SHIPS
Written by Frank C. Bowen. Illustrated by Frank Mason.
Stock no. 1324318
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 39. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w and colour lithographs throughout. Unpaginated. Foxing to covers. Covers slightly edge worn. Staples rusty. Pencil tick marks and other annotations to title list inside front cover.

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THE WONDER BOOK OF SHIPS AND THE SEA
Written by A.O. Watson; J.M. Palmer; David Shaw; Douglas Phillips-Birt; L.G. Pine; C.E. Ash; Walter Shepherd; Patrick Pringle; Edward Andrewes.
Stock no. 1323839
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1959. Very good condition.

Front board shows picture of two ships, rear board is gold with black decorations. Blue pictorial endpapers. Over 250 photographs and specially prepared drawings, 7 full colour plates. First item is The Ships of the Past. Spine and corners bumped and worn, covers edge rubbed. Some light staining to spine and a mark at top. Contents clean.

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THE BOOK OF SHIPS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1319234
Good condition.

Oblong format. Yellow pictorial cardwraps. 6 full-page colour illustrations, other text illustrations. 18 pages. Covers are slightly grubby and lightly creased. Staples have rusted away causing contents to be loose and detached from covers.

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RHYMES OF THE SEA
No author listed.
Stock no. 2131565
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition.

No. S.8. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations.

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RHYMES OF THE SEA
No author listed.
Stock no. 2131556
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition.

No. S.8. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations.

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STEAMBOAT BILL
Written by Charles Crowther. Illustrated by Charles Crowther.
Stock no. 2131197
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Circa 1949. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Collins Colour Book. The story of a paddle-steamer who goes up and down the Mississippi. Oblong format. Brown cloth. Colour illustrations. Damp staining to covers. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with tears and chips; some loss.

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LITTLE TOOT
Written by Hardie Gramatky. Illustrated by Hardie Gramatky.
Stock no. 2129670
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth with silver titles and vignettes. Colour & b/w illustrations. Little Toot is the name of a tug-boat on a river. Some brown spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; a few to page margins. Wrapper is torn and creased with some repairs to verso; top torn of rear panel has a couple of inch loss - with piece inserted to 'disguise' loss.

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THE SHIP BOOK 1844-1944
Written by J. Reason.
Stock no. 2115237
Published by The Livingstone Press. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial front cover. Includes stories, games, poems and models etc. A few marks to covers. Bumping to corners and spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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STEAMBOAT BILL
Written by Charles Crowther. Illustrated by Charles Crowther.
Stock no. 586786
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Collins Colour Book. The story of a paddle-steamer who goes up and down the Mississippi. Oblong format. Brown cloth. Colour illustrations. A few faint marks to contents. Stitching very slightly loose. Pictorial wrapper is torn at edges with slight loss at base of spine and a little grubby.

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC TERN
Written by Hugh Montgomery. Illustrated by Nick Poullis.
Stock no. 403534
Published by Synapse Gb Ltd.. 1st 2000. Very good condition.

An epic tale of seamanship told in verse. Red cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. (A rare edition, published prior to the trade edition). ISBN: 0953915905. SIGNED with inscription by author on title page, Also SIGNED by various people mentioned in the acknowledgements by the author. Corners bumped. Title-page and foreword pages detached (due to binding error). A really nice copy.

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