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THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MINERAL KINGDOM
Written by Alan Woolley.
Stock no. 1601289
Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Hundreds of the most common and widely distributed minerals are described in detail. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Illustrated endpapers, numerous explanatory line drawings and colour photographs throughout. 240 pages. ISBN: 0600362639. Corners rubbed, contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is a little edge creased.

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THE SELBORNE PIONEER
Written by Ted Dadswell.
Stock no. 1802982
Published by Ashgate. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gilbert White as naturalist and scientist - a re-examination. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0754607496. A fine copy in a green pictorial wrapper which is slightly creased at edges.

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THE WHITE RIVER BADLANDS
Written by Cleophas C. O'Harra.
Stock no. 1601282
Published by South Dakota School Of Mines. 1976. Very good condition.

Light brown cardwraps. B/w illustrations. A revised reprint of South Dakota State School of Mines Bulletin No. 9, The Badland Formations of the Black Hills Region. Front cover and title page say: South Dakota School of Mines Bulletin No. 13 Department of Geology. Spine slightly faded. Contents clean and bright.

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A DALES NATURALIST
Written by Roger Nelson. Illustrated by Roger Nelson.
Stock no. 1802970
Published by Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd.. 1st 1993. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Week-by-week account of what to look for as a naturalist in the Dales. A personal chronicle of appeal to visitor and resident alike. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1855680580. A fine copy in a slightly scuffed dustwrapper.

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LOCUST
Written by Jeffery A. Lockwood.
Stock no. 1802966
Published by Basic Books. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier. Black paper spine with gilt title, light tan paper boards. xxiii and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0738208949. Top & tail of spine bumped, lower corners bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is lightly creased at top & tail of spine and a little scuffed.

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THE WHISTLERS' ROOM
Written by Paul Alverdes.
Stock no. 1203162
Published by Martin Secker. 1929. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with dark titles. Spine and cover edges browned. Name in ink to front endpaper. Reprint in same year as 1st.

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REVISION DER INDO-AUSTRALISCHEN OPIINAE
Written by Max Fischer.
Stock no. 1802933
Published by The Hague. 1st 1966. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Series Entomologica Volume 1. Text in German. Red cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. vi and 167 pages including index. A fine copy in a white pictorial wrapper which is a little grubby and worn at corners.

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THE EARTH DWELLERS
Written by Erich Hoyt.
Stock no. 1802932
Published by Mainstream Publishing. 1st 1998. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Adventures in the Land of Ants. Set in the nature reserve of La Selva in Costa Rica, this title illuminates the lives of individual ants, allowing them to lead us into their vivid and complex world. Green boards, silver title to spine. 318 pages including index. Colour plates & b/w illustrations. Original published in American by Simon & Schuster in 1996. ISBN: 1840180870. Overall a nice copy, but with some ink annotations to margins In a pictorial wrapper which is lightly edge-creased.

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THE BROADS (NN 89)
Written by Brian Moss.
Stock no. 1802930
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

New Naturalist No. 89. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour and b/w photos. 392 pages including index. ISBN: 0007124104. Lower edge of text block a little bumped to first section of contents. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Contents fine.

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THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Written by Jon Lake.
Stock no. 1601245
Published by Silverdale Books. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial glazed boards, white title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 256 pages. ISBN: 1856055353. Base of spine scuffed with some surface loss.

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1000 CIVIL AIRCRAFT IN COLOUR
Written by Gerry Manning.
Stock no. 1802883
Published by Midland Publishing. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition.

The aim of this book is to show the range of liveries to be seen on civil aircraft operating commercial or special services. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. 159 pages. Full of colour photos of aircraft. ISBN: 185780208X. Corners lightly rubbed, contents fine.

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AIR DATES
Written by L.G.S. Payne.
Stock no. 1802878
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A chronological survey of the principal events in the fields of military and civil aviation in Great Britain and abroad, beginning in 1783 with balloon ascents in Paris, and ending on 31 December 1956. The major part of this work focuses on 1939-1956. Pale blue boards, black title to spine. 565 pages including index. Base of spine lightly rubbed, light browning to endpapers. Contents clean. Price-cut yellow dustwrapper is faded at spine and grubby.

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