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THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1312249
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Dark blue boards. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 84 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine slightly darkened. Some purple paint(?) marks and a biro scribble to front cover. Child's pencil writing to front pastedown and address in ink to endpaper. Child's drawings and writing to four of the blank pages. Grubby fingermarks to contents. This is the third printing of the first edition.

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THE FIRE ANIMAL
Written by Gerda Rottschalk; Elvira Bonfield. Illustrated by Gerhard Preuss.
Stock no. 1312221
Published by Richard Sadler Ltd.. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

Set in China some 400,000 years go, vividly portraying primitive man's daily life and habits. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Translated from the German by Bonfield. ISBN: 0085410096. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents clean.

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TEDDY TAIL'S BOOK OF CHILDREN'S SONGS
Written by T.J. Hewitt. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1312188
Published by Ken Publications. Almost very good condition.

Large format, red card wraps. Popular nursery rhymes set to music. Illustrated throughout with two-colour illustrations surrounding music/text. Covers slightly grubby and edge rubbed. Page corner tips lightly creased throughout.

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THE MOTOR CAR 1765-1914
Written by Anthony Bird.
Stock no. 1710577
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The hsitory of the motor car in a continuous story from its tentative beginning in the mid-eighteenth century to the mechanical and aesthetic maturity reached by 1914. Green cloth, gilt title to spine with small vignette of steering column to front. B/w illustrations and photos. 256 pages including index. Bleaching of cloth to outer board edges. Text block and endpapers browned. Minor foxing and a lower corner crease to prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut dustwrapper edge-worn with a few tiny chips and a few closed tears.

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WILD SPORTS & NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS
Written by Charles St. John.
Stock no. 2113740
Published by James Thin; Mercat Press. 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Reprinted from the T.N.Foulis edition of 1919. Blue covers, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0901824615. Mottling to spine. Wrapper is faded to spine, with sticker residue to front panel and a little grubby to rear panel.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF THE USSR
Written by V.E. Flint; R.L. Boehme; Y.V. Kostin; A.A. Kuznetsov. Illustrated by Y.V. Kostin.
Stock no. 2113734
Published by Princeton University Press. Circa 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. B/w distribution maps and illustrations. ISBN: 0691024308. 3rd printing.

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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Written by Bruce Quarrie.
Stock no. 2113720
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0850599229. Wrapper is a little edge-creased and price-cut.

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FOUNDATIONS OF GLASGOW
Written by James White.
Stock no. 2113679
Published by The University Press, Glasgow. 1934. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green spine. B/w photo frontis. Bumping and wear to spine. Some foxing and page browning. There are some uncut page edges. Wrapper is plain, with some browning and wear.

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FOUNDATIONS OF GLASGOW
Written by James White.
Stock no. 2113678
Published by The University Press, Glasgow. 1943. Very good condition.

New Edition. Green spine. B/w photo frontis. Some browning and wear to spine.

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CAPITAL STEAM
Written by Hugh Ramsey.
Stock no. 1710519
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0860934128. Reprint in same year as first.

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THE YEOMEN OF YORE
Written by Jack Smith.
Stock no. 2113642
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1966. Very good condition.

Anecdotes and history of the Glamorgan Yeomanry 1794-1965. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. Some marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.

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