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FLORA OF IRAQ (VOLUME NINE)
Written by C.C. Townsend; Evan Guest; Ali Al-Rawi; N.L. Bor.
Stock no. 1828941
Published by Ministry Of Agriculture Of The Republic Of Iraq. 1st 1968. Good condition.

Gramineae; the grass plant. Green cardwraps. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 588 pages. Covers are edge-worn and creased, split to spine. Name & postcode in ink to half-title page. Possibly SIGNED by N.L. Bor to half-title page with dedication to Mary McCallum Webster. Some corner creasing to contents. Contents are clean.

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THE OKEHAMPTON LINE: THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY ROUTE BETWEEN EXETER, TAVISTOCK AND PLYMOUTH
Written by John Nicholas; George Reeve.
Stock no. 1828900
Published by Irwell Press. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos & maps. iv and 236 pages. ISBN: 1903266130. SIGNED by the author, John Nicholas, (no dedication) to title page. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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HYBRIDIZATION AND THE FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by C.A. Stace.
Stock no. 1828889
Published by Academic Press. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

975 hybrids recorded from the British Isles are represented here. An authoritative source of information for field botanists who wish to discover hybrids in the wild, and for professional botanists who wish to use hybrids for both research and teaching purposes. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. xiii and 626 pages including index. ISBN: 0126616507. SIGNED and dated by author (no dedication) to front endpaper. Base of spine shelf-worn. Top front board corner lightly knocked. Text block lightly browned. Small black inked rubber stamp to front pastedown. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, heavily rubbed at edges with some wear, rear panel is grubby, front panel scuffed.

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AN ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF NORTH CYPRUS
Written by D.E. Viney.
Stock no. 1828879
Published by Koeltz Scientific Books. 1st 1994. Almost very good condition.

A comprehensive and fully illustrated Flora (grasses and sedges excepted). Cardwraps. Colour frontis and b/w line drawings. xxix and 697 pages. ISBN: 3874293645. SIGNED by the author with a gift inscription to title page. Pictorial cardwraps are a little creased and scuffed. Text block is browned. Joints are pulled but glued spine is tight. Inside front cover has ink scuffing from printing, small mark to frontis. Top corner of contents lightly creased else contents are clean.

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COLLECTED VERSE
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1828872
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

By the Chepstow historian. Limited to 100 copies of which 20 were signed. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 112 pages. ISBN: 0950007994. SIGNED & dated by the author (with best wishes) to front endpaper. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to text block and page edges. Front endpaper lightly creased. Contents otherwise clean. Plain light grey dustwrapper is slightly grubby, lightly creased across top edge, and browned to spine.

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INNS AND TAVERNS OF THE CHEPSTOW DISTRICT
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by T.T. Birbeck.
Stock no. 1828854
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 8 b/w illustrations plus plan of Chepstow Inns. 103 pages including index. 8.5 x 5.5". SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to front endpaper. Top corner of boards bumped. top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block & endpapers browned with some foxing. Grubby finger marks to page 14. The list of Chepstow Inns and their Landlords has some marked with a biro 'x' next to the name. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and edge-worn.

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A BURTON RAILWAYMAN
Written by David Fleming.
Stock no. 1828848
Published by David Fleming. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

Autobiography. Cardwraps. B/w photos. 388 pages. ISBN: 0955084709. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Covers edge-worn, creased at spine and rubbed to rear panel. Text block a little grubby. Last page has been taped back in with clear tape having come loose from the binding (neat).

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ERKS ON HERCS
Written by Andy Muniandy.
Stock no. 1828798
Published by Hercules Publishing House. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The workings of the Engineering Wing and Mechanical Transport Squadron at RAF Lyneham. Beginning with the very body of the Hercules, the author covers everything from the tip of the air-to-air refuelling probe to the end of the ramp. What makes an Engineering Groundcrew (ERKS) of the RAF a uinique breed within the Aviation Industry. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to front. B/w photos and drawings. Limited edition of 2000 copies numbered and signed by the author. 176 pages. ISBN: 0952260816. SIGNED by the author. This is copy 468 of 2000 copies. A lovely copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is a bit scuffed.

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THAT'S JENNINGS
Written by Anthony Buckeridge. Illustrated by Rodney Sutton.
Stock no. 1328460
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt titles to spine. Last of the Jennings books. Incorrect ISBN 0333611330 printed on publisher information page in some books. 121 pages. ISBN: 0333617932. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Red title to spine wrapper has slightly faded.

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POEMS
Written by Dorothy Frances Gurney.
Stock no. 1828626
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

White spine with title block. Blue/grey paper boards. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and uncut. xiii and 111 pages. SIGNED by the author with a gift inscription to her husband on the free front endpaper. Spine browned, title label peeling just a little. Boards browned and mark to rear board. Corners a little worn. Some foxing present throughout. Some pages unopened. Overall a decent working copy.

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MATILDA: HER LIFE AND LEGACY
Written by Joyce Stevens Smith; Joyce Savidge.
Stock no. 1828611
Published by Matilda And War Memorial Hospital. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of Matilda L. Sharp and the hospital she founded in Hong Kong. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 166 pages. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to title page. Top edge of text block slightly dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, slightly faded to spine, stained to rear panel. There is a second dustwrapper beneath the outer which is clean.

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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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