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MAPPING THE RAILWAYS
Written by Julian Holland; David Spaven.
Stock no. 2133557
Published by Collins. 1st thus 2013. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos and maps. The journey of Britain's railways through maps from 1819 to the present day. ISBN: 9780007506491. Cover corners are creased. Brown/sticky residue and some indentation marks to top corner of front cover, where a sticky label has been removed.

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OLD MANOR HOUSES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1319359
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

12 tissue-guarded colour plates plus tinted illustrations. Colour pictorial endpapers. Grey cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby with a few light marks. Front joint cracked, rear joint just starting to crack. Some light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean.

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ROADS MADE EASY IN PICTURE AND PEN
Written by Claude Johnson; Lord Montagu.
Stock no. 2133279
Published by The Car Illustrated. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Intended to enable the motorist to find his way over the great majority of the main roads in England and Wales without the necessity of reading direction boards in detail or making enquiries which are often half-heard or wholly misunderstood! Complied by Johnson and edited by Montagu. Small format. Blue cloth, black titles. Folding map frontis. B/w photos throughout. 186 pages plus adverts. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some grubby marks to covers. Page edges lightly browned else contents clean.

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HEALTH RESORTS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS
Written by Neville Wood.
Stock no. 1818173
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 2nd 1919. Good condition.

Second Edition. Health resorts and progress in Hydrology of the time. Cloth boards. B/w plates. xvi and 253 pages including index. Boards scuffed, title to spine faded, corners worn and bumped. Previous owner's 'ex libris' label to front pastedown (small). Browning to text block and a few margin marks. Hinges pulled but binding tight. All plates present.

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BEECHAM'S PHOTO-FOLIO VALLEY OF THE WYE, HEREFORD TO CHEPSTOW
No author listed.
Stock no. 2127008
Published by Thomas Beecham. Almost very good condition.

Small oblong format. Card wraps. 24 Choice Photographic Views. Looks like spine has been 'repaired' - white tape to it. Some creasing and browning.

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BETJEMAN'S BRITAIN
Written by John Betjeman; Candida Lycett Green.
Stock no. 2125433
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1999. Fine condition.

Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine, front board has five images in b/w imprinted. B/w photographic endpapers. Full of b/w photos. Contained in almost very good slip case that has some bumping to corners and wear and scuffs at edges. One edge has couple of inch split, now repaired with magic tape.

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THE WORTHIES OF YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
Written by Hartley Coleridge.
Stock no. 1208783
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

Being lives of the most distinguished persons that have been born in, or connected with, those provinces. Red embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. Portrait frontis plus one other b/w portrait plate. 480 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped. Covers soiled. Names and dates in ink on verso of front endpaper. Prelims very browned. Some margin marks and foxspots but contents generally clean.

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BRITAIN'S RARE FLOWERS
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 1814319
Published by T. & A.D. Poyser. Circa 1999. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poyser Natural History. Colour photos. ISBN: 085661114X. Title page is MISSING (half-title page present). Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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A NOBLE THING: THE NATIONAL TRUST AND ITS BENEFACTORS
Written by Merlin Waterson.
Stock no. 1814253
Published by Scala Publishers. 1st 2011. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781857596694.

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OFFA'S DYKE
Written by J.H. Hewlett.
Stock no. 2119733
Published by Simpkin, Marshall. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Beige cloth spine and brown boards. B/w photos. Browning to covers and pages. Wrapper is badly torn and chipped, with loss and scuffing and foxing.

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THATCHING AND THATCHED BUILDINGS
Written by Michael Billett.
Stock no. 2116989
Published by Robert Hale. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0709172052. Foxing/brown marks to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is price-cut with some foxing to flaps; faded to spine, with edge-creasing.

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