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DEEP SEA MOKEY
Written by Grace Couch. Illustrated by Grace Couch.
Stock no. 1323342
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format, 6.5 X 9". Green paperboards with pictorial front board. Orange cloth spine. Delightful colour illustrations throughout. The underwater adventure of a little toy donkey. Some light foxing to rear cover. Small white mark to lower edge of front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown marks to top edge of most pages. Stitching has been pulled causing contents to be loose. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tears, some light browning and foxing and verso very browned.

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READING AND RIGHTING
Written by Robert Leeson.
Stock no. 1323224
Published by Collins. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. The past, present and future of fiction for the young. ISBN: 0001844156. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Covers a little edge rubbed and unevenly browned.

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THE YELLOW WAGTAIL (NMN 4)
Written by Stuart Smith. Illustrated by Edward Bradbury.
Stock no. 1323183
Published by Collins. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first New Naturalist Monograph on a single species of bird. 11 b/w photographs taken by the author. Learned bibliography supports this splendid study. 26 paintings by Edward Bradbury. 4 line drawings and 4 maps. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumping to spine. Neat name in ink to front fre-endpaper. Some foxing, slight browning and old tape marks to endpapers. Contained in a later dustwrapper (printed price 90p) which has old tape marks to flaps.

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THE TALE OF THE CROW
Written by Henry B. Kane.
Stock no. 2140659
Published by Collins. 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth, black title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w photos. Fading to cover edges. Page browning. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing and chipping.

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CHENDRU: THE BOY AND THE TIGER
Written by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff; William Sansom.
Stock no. 2140561
Published by Collins. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Cloth spine. Colour photographic covers. Colour photos. Photographs taken by the author. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chips and tears; a little loss; some grubby marks.

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THE MARGARET TARRANT NURSERY RHYME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 2140075
Published by Collins. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Blue cloth. Large format. Beautiful colour and b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading/browning to spine and some cover edges. Bumping to page corners, especially corresponding to spine. Browning to outer page edges.

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HARE GOES SHOPPING
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 2139716
Published by Collins. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A story of Hare's adventures when he decides to take the "bright red, roaring, ramping, snorting kind of house on wheels" to go shopping. A delightful story about Grey rabbit and her friends. Lime green pictorial boards. Illustrated red & white endpapers. Full of wonderful colour illustrations. 63 numbered pages. Bumping and wear to top and tail of spine and corners. Some grubby marks. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning, with some foxing, but contents are generally very good. Wrapper is price-cut with creasing; tears and chips; piece of loss to top of spine/front panel.

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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHETLAND (NN 64)
Written by R.J. Berry; J.L. Johnston.
Stock no. 2139669
Published by Collins. 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive account of Shetland's plants and animals. Colour and b/w photos. New Naturalist No. 64. Green cloth boards. ISBN: 0002190419. A few pale foxspots to endpapers and outer page edges; browned. Wrapper has light edge-creasing; rear flap is creased.

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THE HISTORY OF SOVIET AIRCRAFT FROM 1918
Written by Vaclav Nemecek.
Stock no. 1823750
Published by Willow Books; Collins. 1st 1986. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1969, followed by a German edition in 1974. This English translation has been considerably revised and expanded to include newly released information, and additional updating on modern planes. B/w photos. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 460 pages including colour photos to rear. ISBN: 0002180332. Top edge of text block slightly dusty, contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and lightly scuffed.

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WOODLAND BABIES
Written by Margery Colman. Illustrated by Margery Colman.
Stock no. 2138055
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Pixie Book. Very small format 4 x 4". Pictorial boards. Colour text illustrations. Browning to endpapers, foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with couple of closed tears.

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MELISANDE
Written by Margery Sharp. Illustrated by Roy McKie.
Stock no. 2138022
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Memoir of a remarkable operatic soprano (a dog!). B/w drawings. Name in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning. Wrapper is in pieces, with loss in places.

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NATURE CONSERVATION IN BRITAIN (NN 49)
Written by L. Dudley Stamp.
Stock no. 1322837
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series. Green cloth. B/w photos. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and grubby with foxing to verso.

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