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NURSERY RHYME RAG BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh; Gertrude E. Taylor; et al..
Stock no. 1315078
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. circa 1914. Slightly better than very good condition.

Produced for Suchard advertising their products in children's rhyme. 10 cloth pages/covers with colour illustrations. Extremely rare. Pale foxing to contents otherwise contents fine. A super copy. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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SANTA CLAUS
Written by Clement Clarke Moore. Illustrated by Harry Rountree.
Stock no. 1315066
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. circa 1920. Very good condition.

Dean's 2/6 Patent Rag Book Series 3, no. 208. 10 pages featuring colour illustrations accompanying the text of "Twas the Night Before Christmas". Lower corner tips lightly creased. Small, light stain to top edges of pages else contents lovely and clean. A super copy of a very scarce rag book. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE GOLLIWOGG'S FOX-HUNT
Written by Bertha Upton. Illustrated by Florence Upton.
Stock no. 1315017
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Cloth spine, oblong format. Glorious, humorous colour pictures. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Some light scuffing to covers. Light browning to endpapers, some light fingering to page margins. There is a strong smell to the contents of the book (not sure what it is). Overall this is a very nice copy of a very politically-incorrect book! This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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BIG ANIMAL RAG BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 1315000
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. circa 1939. Very good condition.

Rag Book 344. Very large, oblong format (11.5 x 14.5"). 14 cloth pages with colour illustrations of animals. The book has been folded in half for a period of time causing it not to sit flat. Corner tips lightly creased. Contents clean. A nice copy of a very scarce rag book. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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OSCAR THE GUARDIAN CAT
Written by Chiara Valentina Segre. Illustrated by Paolo Domeniconi.
Stock no. 2117940
Published by Ragged Bears Limited. 2015. Fine condition.

Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Oscar is no ordinary cat! He lives at Hope House; there are 73 bedrooms and a large park to play in. ISBN: 9781857144642. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE BIRDS OF OMAN
Written by Michael Gallagher. Illustrated by Martin W. Woodcock.
Stock no. 1811190
Published by Quartet Books. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. 120 superb colour plates. 310 pages. ISBN: 0704322161. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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OKLAHOMA BIRD LIFE
Written by Frederick M. Baumgartner; A. Marguerite Baumgartner. Illustrated by Wallace Hughes.
Stock no. 1811187
Published by University of Oklahoma Press. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

From water birds to birds of prey to the complex order of perching birds, Oklahoma is remarkable for the variety and extent of its bird life. Large format. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos and colour plates. xxxv and 443 pages including index. ISBN: 0806117923. Corners lightly bumped, contents fine. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE ART OF SCULPTURE
Written by Gary M. Radke; et al.
Stock no. 1607288
Published by High Museum Of Art, Atlanta; Yale University Press. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780300154733. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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SPACE & TEXTURE HERTL.ARCHITEKTEN
Written by Matthias Boeckl. Illustrated by Paul Ott.
Stock no. 1607163
Published by Springer. c. 2009. Fine condition.

Large format. Gernot Hertl is one of Austria's most successful young architects. This volume includes a subject overview and documentation that gives the reader an inspiring view of the architect's work. ISBN: 9783211791615. Still in original shrinkwrap. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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FOUR PERSONALITIES FROM THE FOREST OF DEAN
Written by Ralph Anstis.
Stock no. 1810905
Published by Albion House. 1st 1996. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Biographies of Sir John Wyntour, Catharina Bovey, Timothy Mountjoy and Sir Charles Dilke. ISBN: 0951137131. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE NEW NUMBER ONE
Written by Geoffrey Lewis.
Stock no. 1810904
Published by Sgm Publishing. 1st 2009. Fine condition.

1948: the reality of life on Britain's nationalised waterways is becoming apparent to the families who work the narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal. More change threatens as a post-war world raises new demands for faster, cheaper transport, and old ways become out-moded. The concluding tale of a popular trilogy. Cardwraps. ISBN: 9780954562489. SIGNED by the author with dedication to half-title page. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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TANNHAUSER
Written by Richard Wagner; T.W. Rolleston. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Stock no. 1314507
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. circa 1915. Very good condition.

Publishers full brown calf binding with gilt decorations/titles. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour and b/w mounted plates plus b/w illustrations. Very slight rubbing to cover edges. There is foxing to the contents (which affects the b/w plates but not the colour ones) but otherwise this is a lovely, bright copy. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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