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RUPERT ANNUAL 1946 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1325626
Published by Daily Express. 1946. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial card wraps - Rupert looking out through a window. 1st story - Rupert on Coon Island. 120 pages. 9.5 x 7 inches. This annual has not been reproduced in a facsimile edition. Some slight rubbing to cover edges and a few very small, light marks to covers but otherwise covers are lovely and bright. NOT price-cut or inscribed. Minimal foxing to textblock. Puzzle pages are clean. A super copy of this scarce annual.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1325566
Published by William Heinemann. 1910. Very good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book, one pair of plates are on facing pages. 62 text pages. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn, small split to top of spine. Some light marks to covers. Evidence of removal of a small label to front pastedown. Some light margins marks else contents clean. All plates present, one is lightly creased but the others are fine.

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FLEET AIR ARM FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT SINCE 1946
Written by Ray Sturtivant; Mick Burrow; Lee Howard.
Stock no. 1825961
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Detailed individual histories of all FAA aircraft flown from the beginning of 1946 until early 2000. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Colour photos. ISBN: 0851302831. Boards clean. Lower edge of text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased, slightly faded to spine, slightly scuffed.

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FLEET AIR ARM AIRCRAFT 1939-1945
Written by Ray Sturtivant; Mick Burrow.
Stock no. 1825955
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851302327. Boards lightly scuffed, spine faded from dark blue to light blue (not obvious as fading). Text block browned, contents clean.

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LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S PAINT-BOX
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1325537
Published by Collins. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. 64 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. SIGNED by the illustrator with an inscription to Sarah Mills dated 1964. Minimal bumping and rubbing to spine and corners. Covers and contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is rubbed at spine and corners.

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THOMAS TOMPION: HIS LIFE AND WORK
Written by R.W. Symonds.
Stock no. 1825939
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Thomas Tompion has been called the 'Father of clockmakers': without a doubt he was one of the finest horologists in history. This book is a definitive record of Tompion's life and work. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. B/w photos and several colour. Top edge blue. Text block lightly browned. Foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and worn at corners. Includes contemporary press release of the book

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MILES AIRCRAFT: THE WARTIME YEARS 1939-1945 (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Peter Amos.
Stock no. 1825900
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2012. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd / Miles Aircraft Ltd, Reading, South Marston & Doncaster, and Miles Aircraft (Northern Ireland) Ltd. Continuing the story with the trials and tribulations of Miles Aircraft during the war. Contains a fully comprehensive history of each individual aircraft built during the period. Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and illustrations. Includes The Appendices in cardwraps. ISBN: 9780851304304. DVD is MISSING. Else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at corners and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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ELEPHANT
Written by David Enderby Blunt.
Stock no. 1325506
Published by East Africa. 1st 1933. Good condition.

Brown imitation leather cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 260 pages + xxxv. B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped. Covers worn and marked. Gilt to spine faded. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Some grubby fingermarks to prelims. Endpapers lightly browned.

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MILITARY, NAVAL AND CIVIL AIRSHIPS SINCE 1783
Written by Daniel George Ridley-Kitts.
Stock no. 1825889
Published by The History Press. 1st 2012. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The History and Development of the Dirigible Airship in Peace and War. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9780752464718. Light scuffing to verso of dustwrapper else a lovely copy.

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THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MARITIME HISTORY (4 VOLUMES)
Written by John B. Hattendorf; et al.
Stock no. 1825866
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with black title labels to spine and front cover; gilt titles. Volume 1 covers Actium, Battle of, Ex Voto; Volume 2: Factory Ship, Navies: Japan; Volume 3: Navies: Portugal, Shipyards; Volume 4 Siebe, Augustus, Zheng He, Index. ISBN: 9780195130751. Minor scuffing to gilt title affecting 'A' of 'Maritime' to front of volume 1, minor scuffing of gilt titles to spines. A few minor grubby marks to text blocks. Contents are clean.

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QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEE GARLAND
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325429
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1887. Good condition.

Small, oblong format. Cardwraps held together with a silk ribbon. 4 colour plates. Covers are grubby. Silk ribbon has been replaced with silver paper(?). Some grubby marks inside covers but plates still bright and clean.

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SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT 1880-1969: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF THE ARTIST'S SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Written by Keith S. Gardner; Nigel D. Clark. Illustrated by William Russell Flint.
Stock no. 1825764
Published by Sir William Russell Flint Galleries Ltd.. 1st 1986. Nearly fine condition.

Title to spine is 'Sir William Russell Flint R.A. A Catalogue Raisonne'. This is the De Luxe Edition, limited to 1500 copies of which nos 1-500 are De Luxe. Large format. Blue leather binding, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Colour illustrations with facing text. End of volume is Flint's engravings. ISBN: 0951154818. Spine is very slightly discoloured/faded. This is copy 334 of 500 De-Luxe copies. Contained in blue cloth slipcase with blue signature label to one side, case is a little rubbed at corners and some glue which holds the cloth to the spineis starting to dry out.

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