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LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword. 1st 2020. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.

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THE IMPRESSIONIST AND THE CITY: PISSARRO'S SERIES PAINTINGS
Written by Richard R. Brettell; Joachim Pissarro. Illustrated by Camille Pissarro.
Stock no. 1828603
Published by Royal Academy of Arts; Yale University Press. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name which ran during 1993 from various galleries. Pissarro's cityscapes. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. liii and 230 pages including index. ISBN: 0300053509. A few minor marks to boards. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a couple of tiny minor closed tears to lower rear edge.

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CLASSICAL PAINTING ATELIER: A CONTEMPORARY GUIDE TO TRADITIONAL STUDIO PRACTICE
Written by Juliette Aristides.
Stock no. 1828600
Published by Watson-Gupthill Publications. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Classical art training based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. xiii and 240 pages including index. ISBN: 9780823006588. Reprint. Light rubbing to corners of boards. Rubbing of colour front frontis onto title page (minor). Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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DAIMLER CENTURY: THE FULL HISTORY OF BRITAIN'S OLDEST CAR MAKER
Written by Lord Montagu; David Burgess-Wise. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1828599
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Celebrating the centenary of the Coventry company in 1996. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Endpapers feature Heath Robinson's point of view and finishing touches. B/w & colour photos. 304 pages including index. ISBN: 1852604948. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

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ROLLS-ROYCE THE HISTORY OF THE CAR
Written by Martin Bennett.
Stock no. 1828598
Published by Oxford Illustrated Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensively illustrated history of Rolls-Royce motor cars from 1904 to the formulation of Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd and the production of the Corniche. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvi and 179 pages including index. ISBN: 0902280198. Top & tail of spine and corners bumped. Text block browned and foxed. A few foxspots to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased, rubbed to top & tail of spine and corners and is lightly faded to spine.

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MAUD MULLER
Written by John Greenleaf Whittier. Illustrated by George F. Carline.
Stock no. 1828597
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Circa 1885. Fair condition.

A Ballad. Brown cloth boards with bevelled edges, no title to spine, gilt title to front with vignette. Floral endpapers. Colour plates. Corners of boards rubbed and worn, boards browned. Front joint has been amateurishly repaired with glue. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Joints pulled. Foxing and age related marks throughout. Binding is holding but feels fragile to touch.

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UNIFORMS OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1828596
Published by John Player & Sons. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition.

Cardwraps. Illustrations to inside covers. 24 pages with spaces for two or three cigarette cards to each page. Staple binding. Covers browned and foxed. Spine is worn and lower staple has rusted through to detach from cover. All cards present and glued in place neatly. Contents foxed and bleeding from staples.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1828595
Published by Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A board book for young children. Front cover shows young child in highchair wearing a blue gown and eating snacks, yellow background. Blue cloth spine. 12 colour illustrations with text below plus full pages of text. Text in green. Undated. Front board lightly rubbed at edges, rear board grubby and rubbed at corners. Spine a little browned and slightly worn at top & tail. A few grubby marks to contents but generally a nice example.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; M. Morris; et al..
Stock no. 1828594
Published by Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A board book for young children. Front cover shows young girl in blue & red dress, blue shoes, on swing with a flowering shrub and thrush singing to one side. Green cloth spine. 12 colour illustrations with text below plus full pages of text. Text in green. Undated. Board covers rubbed at edges, scuffed and grubby, stained to rear board. Board contents are slightly grubby at edges and rubbed at corner tips.

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MR GRIMPWINKLE'S HOLIDAY
Written by Joan Drake. Illustrated by Gordon Burrell.
Stock no. 1828592
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

When Mr Grimpwinkle and Prunella Pusscat were away on holiday with the Jiggle Woggle Bus, Ratus Ratus the robber rat put Honeysuckle Cottage up for sale. To pay him back, Prunella Pusscat thought out the cleverest battle plan imaginable, but even then Ratus only surrendered at pistol-point. Large clear type, lively stories, full of action. Yellow cloth boards, green title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. 88 pages. Second impression. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Text block lightly browned. Child's name in ink to half-title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners with very slight loss, and is lightly creased at top edge.

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MR BUBBUS AND THE RAILWAY SMUGGLERS
Written by Joan Drake. Illustrated by Biro.
Stock no. 1828591
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Why was the new railway track ripped up as soon as it was laid? Who was using Princess, the 2-6-2 locomotive, at dead of night when the whole village as asleep? Ambrose and Poppy began to investigate - and something very unexpected happened to them! Another mystery story about Mr Bubbus, Mr Deggas and all the Deggas children. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 87 numbered pages. ISBN: 0340196149. SIGNED by the author (TWICE). Once as a gift dedication to free front endpaper and once with no dedication to the top of the title page. Top of spine is bumped which means the contents are also creassed to top gutter edge throughout. Tape stuck to front pastedown and a small patch of surface paper loss where some tape has been removed. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, rubbed at corners, lightly creased and a little grubby to rear panel.

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MR GRIMPWINKLE
Written by Joan Drake. Illustrated by Stewart Irwin.
Stock no. 1828590
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1966. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

It was Prunella Pusscat's cleverness which, with the help of woodland neighbours, brought about Mr Grimpwinkle's glorious victory over the River Robbers. Lively, colourful pictures to encourage reading and stimulate the imagination. Yellow cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w and two-tone illustrations. 88 pages. Second impression. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Pictorial dustwrapper designed by Eileen Bradpiece is edge-creased and rubbed, a little loss to top & tail of spine.

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