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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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PRINCESS SULAMITH
No author listed. Illustrated by Jupo.
Stock no. 1319232
Circa 1943. Very good condition.

Square format. Black, red and white pictorial paperwraps. 10 pages. B/w text illustrations. Some light rubbing to cover edges and light page browning to contents.

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PETER THE DREAMER
No author listed. Illustrated by Jupo.
Stock no. 1319231
Circa 1943. Very good condition.

Square format. Black, red and white pictorial paperwraps. 10 pages. B/w text illustrations. Some light rubbing to cover edges and light page browning to contents.

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BOB AND THE PIRATES
No author listed. Illustrated by Jupo.
Stock no. 1319230
Circa 1943. Very good condition.

Square format. Black, red and white pictorial paperwraps. 10 pages. B/w text illustrations. Some light rubbing to cover edges and light page browning to contents.

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TEDDY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1319227
Very good condition.

A "Cuddly Cut" Book. A shaped booklet with pictorial paperwraps. 10 pages with colour pictures of Teddy's (the bear) adventures. Slight wear to cover edges.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1940 (FACSIMILE) - RUPERT'S ADVENTURE BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1319209
Published by Annual Concepts Limited. 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Facsimile of the 5th Rupert annual (1940), the first to be issued in full colour throughout. Due to paper rationing during the war this was probably the ONLY annual to be issued that year. Colour pictorial boards. ISBN: 1874507015. Spine is faded and slightly bumped. Contents fine.

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BIRD STORIES OLD AND NEW, TOLD IN PICTURES AND PROSE
Written by Harrison Weir. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 1319206
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Circa 1887. Good condition.

Cloth spine. Pale peach pictorial boards. 63 pages. B/w illustrations. Covers are edge worn and a bit grubby. Light damp stains to edges of front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed. Grubby fingermarks to some pages.

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MOTHER GOOSE AND HER FRIENDS TOMMY TUCKER'S STORIES
Written by Maude Radford Warren; Eve Davenport. Illustrated by Charles A. Federer.
Stock no. 1319204
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1925. Very good condition.

Stories based on mother goose nursery rhymes. Green cloth with black titles, pictorial onlay to front cover. Blue pictorial endpapers. 12 tipped-in colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 361 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Rear cover is just a little grubby from fingermarks. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Page browning to half title-page and to rear fly-leaf. Some fingermarks to page margins.

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THE MOTORING ANNUAL 1933
Written by Leonard Henslowe.
Stock no. 2133445
Published by Herbert Joseph. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

Motoring From The British Empire standpoint. Motoring is a 'wholesome thing, it takes people out of doors, far into the countryside...It fills their lungs with oxygen, they return home invigorated in mind and body...' Those were the days! Edited by Henslowe. Light blue cloth with blue titles. B/w photos and diagrams. 224 pages. Spine browned, Spine and corners rubbed. A few small marks to covers. Small bookseller sticker on front endpaper, previous owners address label to rear pastedown. Light browning to endpapers. Light dampstain vertically to last few pages. Page 213-214 has a 1.25" closed tear and crease to vertical edge of page. Contents otherwise clean.

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MOTORING MEMORIES IN PEACE AND WAR
Written by Tindall Harris.
Stock no. 2133442
Published by St. Catherine Press. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Memories of the author who in October 1914 joined a Red Cross convoy for France as a volunteer driver. Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. 5 b/w plates. 91 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine very slightly browned. Name and address in pencil on front pastedown. Contents bright and clean. Address label to rear pastedown. A very nice copy of this rare Great War account.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCOMOTIVE A POPULAR HISTORY 1803-1896
Written by Clement E. Stretton.
Stock no. 1820007
Published by Bracken Books. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile of the 1896 edition. ISBN: 1851702474. Browning to text block and page margins of prelims. Blue pictorial dustwrapper with yellow titles is lightly scuffed.

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