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AUVERGNE, PIEDMONT, AND SAVOY: A SUMMER RAMBLE
Written by Charles Richard Weld.
Stock no. 1204133
Published by John W. Parker. 1850. Good condition.

Green cloth with embossed decoration and gilt title to spine. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners chipped. New endpapers. Ex-library with only one stamp suggesting thus. A little foxing. Name in ink to front pastedown.

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SUMMER DAYS IN AUVERGNE
Written by H. De K..
Stock no. 1703448
Published by Richard Bentley & Son. 1875. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 5 b/w plates including tissue guarded frontis. Covers edges worn. Covers grubby. Small amount of loss to top of spine. Two inscriptions in ink to prelims. All plates present.

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NOEL HOWARD MIDSHIPMAN
Written by E.R.G.R. Evans. Illustrated by Cuneo.
Stock no. 1703445
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1935. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis and b/w plates. 246 pages Covers scuffed, spine faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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THE MACMILLAN GUIDE TO BRITAIN'S NATURE RESERVES
Written by Jeremy Hywel-Davies; Valerie Thom.
Stock no. 1803767
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Accounts of the reserves researched and written by the authors. Colour & b/w photos. xii and 717 pages. ISBN: 0333353986. Wrapper spine faded and a few white spots to front panel.

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MONICA TURNS UP TRUMPS
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1304452
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1937. Almost very good condition.

Green, blue titles to spine and front cover. 223 numbered pages. Spine bumped and faded. Corners bumped. Cover edges slightly faded. Some pencil erasure marks to half title-page which also has a 1.5" closed tear at inner margin. A couple of hinges are pulled. It is possible that the free-endpapers (front and rear) are missing - or it may not have had any in the first instance? Contained in a photocopy dustwrapper.

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JACQUES VILLENEUVE A CHAMPION IN PICTURES
Written by Gianni Giansanti; Cedric Daetwyler.
Stock no. 1601562
Published by Goldstar Holdings. 1st 1997. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9768108126. Tear and chip to rear panel of wrapper.

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THE ADVENTURE OF ANN AND THE WHITE SEALS
Written by Harold Reckitt. Illustrated by Laurence Irving.
Stock no. 1703421
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

LIMITED EDITION of 365 copies. Large format. White boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Green and white pictorial endpapers. 5 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations throughout. 24 pages. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. SIGNED by author and illustrator. Copy number 155. Covers grubby with some scuffing. Silk tie a little frayed to ends. Contents nice and clean.

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PORTRAIT OF THE HIGHLANDS
Written by W. Douglas Simpson.
Stock no. 1703410
Published by Robert Hale. 1970. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth covers. 5.5 x 8.75". 288 pages. A book endeavouring to live up to its title and highlighting the difference between the highlander and the lowlander. Black and white photo illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0709104154. Wrapper torn with some loss.

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CONQUERORS OF TIME EXPLORATION AND INVENTION IN THE AGE OF DARING
Written by Trevor Fishlock.
Stock no. 1601536
Published by John Murray. 2004. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. 444 pages. ISBN: 0719555175. SIGNED by author (with dedication) in ink on title page.

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BRITISH AND IRISH ELECTIONS 1784-1831
Written by Peter Jupp.
Stock no. 1601534
Published by David & Charles. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Sources for social and economic history. 212 pages. ISBN: 0715361023. Wrapper faded at spine.

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FIGHTER COMMAND 1939-1945
Written by David Oliver.
Stock no. 1703348
Published by Ted Smart. 2000. Very good condition.

From the Battle of Britain to the Fall of Berlin. Eyewitness testimony and a lifetime's study of the Second World War in the air. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w and colour photos. 240 pages including index. ISBN: 0007629087. Small hole to front board. Relevant aeroplane illustration tipped in to one page.

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