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HEREFORDSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1826350
Published by Penguin. 2001. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt titles. B/w photos. ISBN: 0140710256. Reprint. Tiny, minor brown spot to base of text block else a lovely copy. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded at front spine edge and has a damp stain to lower edges, a few small black misprints to front edge of spine.

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SHIPS
Written by R. Barnard Way; Noel D. Green.
Stock no. 1826344
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Almost very good condition.

Title to boards is 'The Modern Ship'. A book about Ship building. Cloth baords, gilt title to spine, blind title to front. B/w diagrams. Boards are very grubby and stained. Spine edges are rubbed. Text block and endpapers browned. '5p' in blue ink to top corner of front pastedown. Some grubby marks to contents. Hinges are pulled but binding is tight.

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ISLES OF GOLD: ANTIQUE MAPS OF JAPAN
Written by Hugh Cortazzi.
Stock no. 1826342
Published by John Weatherhill. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A selection of over 90 of the most attractive, remarkable, and historically significant European and Japanese maps of Japan. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Colour maps, some folding. ISBN: 0834801841. Foxing to text block, contents clean. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to half-title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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MOLD TOWN AND COUNTRY: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
Written by T.W. Pritchard.
Stock no. 1826341
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A full history of the county town of Flintshire from its earliest artefacts (which date from c.2,000 BC) to the end of the twentieth century. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations, some in colour. ISBN: 9781844940851. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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"... A FINER PLACE TO LIVE": A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF CRAWLEY IN HAMPSHIRE
Written by David S. Dunbar.
Stock no. 1826340
Published by Crawley Local History Group. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Crawley is a small village and parish some 4 miles west of Winchester. This book tells the story of its people and buildings, and ends with an extended look at the people of Crawley in the year 2000. A fascinating and readable insight into the evolution of a small community over two thousand years. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w and colour photos. SIGNED by the author (with best regards) to free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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THE IMAGE ON THE GLASS
Written by Laurence Whistler.
Stock no. 1826339
Published by John Murray. 1st 1975. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Detailed notes on the engraved glass and a complete check list of work by Laurence Whistler and his sons. Black boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. B/w plates. ISBN: 0719532752. Light browning to text block. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF SELECTED GREAT WESTERN STATIONS LAYOUTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME THREE
Written by Ronald H. Clark.
Stock no. 1826336
Published by Oxford Publishing. 1st 1981. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. B/w photos. Track layout diagrams. Bound as portrait format, printed as landscape format. ISBN: 0860931110. Light browning to text block else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly faded to spine.

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THE RICH DESIGNS OF CLARICE CLIFF
Written by Richard Green; Des Jones.
Stock no. 1826335
Published by Rich Designs. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The best of the "Bizarre" years. Every single one of Clarice Cliff's finest designed illustrated in colour. Large format. ISBN: 0952635410. Top of spine bumped. Glue which binds the free front endpapers to the contents has dried out and therefore the endpapers are unstuck inside the front hinge. Otherwise, contents clean and bright. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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BRITISH RAILWAYS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ALLOCATIONS
Written by Hugh Longworth.
Stock no. 1826334
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A comprehensive companion to Hugh Longworth's British Railways Steam Locomotives 1948-1968, this title provides a class-by-class/locomotive-by-locomotive allocation record of all steam locomotives that were in service on 1 January 1948, or built between that date and 1966. Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 528 pages. ISBN: 9780860936428. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Tiny pin-holes to front pastedown (do not pierce the board and not immediately obvious). Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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MADAME DOUBTFIRE
Written by Anne Fine.
Stock no. 1826329
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is a bittersweet, touching, and above all very funny book, about a family which has split up, yet finds its own way to function effectively. Cream cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0241120012. Boards browned at horizontal edges. Top & tail of spine have light shelf wear. Contents heavily browned and crinkled vertically. Slight musty odour. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and lightly creased at top edge of spine.

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THE PURPLE VALLEY
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Stock no. 1826327
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The second in a series of Secret Service novels. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 215 pages. Boards clean and bright. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, grubby to rear panel, and has surface paper loss to base of spine.

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CHILD OF FIRE
Written by Elizabeth Webster.
Stock no. 1826322
Published by Judy Piatkus (publishers) Limited. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of a Vietnamese boat-child and her family. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Originally serialised in My Weekly magazine under the title Bright Phoenix. ISBN: 0861882849. Text block browned, page browning throughout. A few pale foxspots to margins. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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